April Fools gags that WORKED

[Easy 10]

I heard of 2 today.

One was apparently on Southern Sound a couple of years ago, when they said in a new bulletin that a fully reconstructed, life-sized scale model of the Titanic had been built, and was sailing round the coast of Britain. It would be passing St Leonards/Hastings at around 10am. A woman at workadmitted today that she DROVE there from Lewes with her husband to see it, and they apparently wern't the only ones standing around staring out to sea for it....till it suddenly dawned on one of them what date is was, and the penny dropped.



The other one I heard of was done by GMTV, when they said that a special "slimming water" was being piloted in certain areas in the UK, and they showed on a map where is was available. This water was simply available through peoples TAPS at home. They had a "before" and "after" picture of some bloke who'd been drinking this special slimming water from his tap supply, and he'd gone from bloater to waif within a month. They got loads of calls from people "trying" this new water, and even more from people asking when it'd be available in their region.

Class

 

[Everest]

There'll be an April fool later this afternoon when Magoo says we were unlucky to get beaten 5-0. He'll blame it on the deliberate handball for the penalty to make it 1-0, then argue that the offside law shouldn't apply to teams whose 2 strikers have 6 names between them.

What am I thinking of? That's NO April fool.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Spaghetti growing on trees fooled a few people, apparently.

 

[pasty]

Spaghetti growing on trees fooled a few people, apparently.

That is number 1 in the top 100 all time April Fools pranks.

Top 100 April Fools


Love number 8 - A left handed Whopper at Burger King. "Thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, many others requested their own 'right handed' version."



Even better. Just found this. Link to the actual Panorama broadcast from 1957 about the Spaghetti trees. Poor quality, but hey, I guess tv wasn't advanced back then!!

Spaghetti Trees

 

[bhaexpress]

I was around one in Chattanooga whereby one of the popular local stations annouced that Emenem was making a personal appearance at their station. The whole centre of the city was clogged for hours. The DJs that started the whole thing ended up being arrested and had to do 100 hours of cummunity service.

 

[Yorkie]

That is number 1 in the top 100 all time April Fools pranks.

Top 100 April Fools


Love number 8 - A left handed Whopper at Burger King. "Thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, many others requested their own 'right handed' version."



Even better. Just found this. Link to the actual Panorama broadcast from 1957 about the Spaghetti trees. Poor quality, but hey, I guess tv wasn't advanced back then!!

Spaghetti Trees

I like number 5

#5: San Serriffe
image In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement in honor of the tenth anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that then gripped the British tabloids in the following decades.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

I remember when i was a kid they did a feature on Blue Peter about a chocolate plant, with actual lumps of chocolate growing from it.

It didn't occur to me, or half of my classmates the next day, that it had been a complete wind up by the Blue Peter team - eventually though the class 'geek' went and spoiled it

 

[jevs]

Has any of the national rags run any dodgy stories today....i know they're always fond of a wind-up.

Mind you, i don't believe a single word any of those arse paper rags say so it could all be an april fool as far as i'm concerned

 

[blockhseagull]

I remember on that 5 live did a few years back when they claimed Brian Lara had used a bat 10% too big when he made his record breaking innnings... therefore 10% of his runs where being deducted !!

 

[pasty]

There was good one a few years back in the Telegraph. A big report on how on nearing completion of the channel tunnel, it was discovered that the French builders working from the French side had been using metric measurements, and the British had been using imperial measurements. As a result, they missed the point they were supposed to meet.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Andy naylor,there's an all year round fool.

 

[pasty]

There was good one a few years back in the Telegraph. A big report on how on nearing completion of the channel tunnel, it was discovered that the French builders working from the French side had been using metric measurements, and the British had been using imperial measurements. As a result, they missed the point at which they were supposed to meet.

Oops - hit quote not edit

 

[Woodchip]

There was a April's Fool a couple of years back in the local paper, where a Swedish town was going to take Seaford Town Council to court for copyright. This was because people pronounce Seaford as Seafud, a town in Sweden (think it was Sweden anyway).

 

[sir danny cullip]

I think i remember that GMTV one, 2 years ago me thinks! Quality!

 

[Marc]

My mates and I got our friend a few years ago with this BEAUTY:

We faked a letter from the MOD (Ministry Of Defence) saying he had been called up to go to Iraq, we made it look mega-official, even got one of those Bump Stamp thingys (from Southwick FC no less) and had a meeting time at Hove Town Hall.
On the morning he rang around all his mates asking if they'd got one, I of course went along with it and said yes as did others. His mum was so worried she came home from work at which point we thought "we've gone too far" so we eventually hinted at it around midday...needless to say he was'nt impressed but it worked like a TREAT! got him panicking and EVERYTHING!

Come to think of it, it may of just been a prank as it was nowhere near April Fools day

 

[sir danny cullip]

My mates and I got our friend a few years ago with this BEAUTY:

We faked a letter from the MOD (Ministry Of Defence) saying he had been called up to go to Iraq, we made it look mega-official, even got one of those Bump Stamp thingys (from Southwick FC no less) and had a meeting time at Hove Town Hall.
On the morning he rang around all his mates asking if they'd got one, I of course went along with it and said yes as did others. His mum was so worried she came home from work at which point we thought "we've gone too far" so we eventually hinted at it around midday...needless to say he was'nt impressed but it worked like a TREAT! got him panicking and EVERYTHING!

Come to think of it, it may of just been a prank as it was nowhere near April Fools day

Thats brilliant!

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

I was HMS Victory in 86 and BBC south did a piece about the Victory sailing for the first time in 150 years. The fact the ship was in dry dock didn't seem to register to the hundred or so people who came down to see her sail

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

The Sun's annual one today is about a Penguin in the Thames!

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Has any of the national rags run any dodgy stories today....i know they're always fond of a wind-up.

Mind you, i don't believe a single word any of those arse paper rags say so it could all be an april fool as far as i'm concerned

The Sun has a penguin in the Thames. And the Mail says that Tony has painted the door to No 10 socialist red. Rather tame really.

 

[Jam The Man]

I convinced my mum i'd found some Kryptonite in the garden