The Italian championship of telling Lies
August 1st at Le Piastre (province of Pistoia, in the mountains) is the 34th annual “Campionato Italiano della Bugia” – Italian championship of telling lies. Appropriately, this takes place on a Sunday afternoon (at 4:30pm).
As the town of 300 expects 100,000 visitors, at the visitor center you can buy, for 300 euros, a “pedestrian’s kit” complete with portable “strisce” (crossing stripes), a portable underpass with easy installation, various other types of road signs, and a GPS finder of porcini mushrooms.
Last year’s winner was Calogero Armato who published this text in the newspaper Il Metato:
da oggi nei bar ma anche in altri locali pubblici si potrà richiedere l’acqua minerale biodinamica. Grazie all’utilizzo del pesciolino blu chiamato Gonfietto che vive in un anonimo affluente del Rio Negro in Amazzonia, sensibile alla colite ittica e capace di produrre “gas” dalla propia pancia in modo rapido e biologico dopo aver mangiato soltanto tre fagioli.
Don’t worry, if you can’t go, you can send your lie by email to info@labugia.it. (I’m serious, and there’s a prize for it too.)
