April Fool

It appears that most newspapers print a startling story on April 1st, have you ever been caught out by their joke?

Today's treat in our local paper stated that there was a plan to build a 200 ft high statue of Long John Silver, costing £10 million, in Bristol's Docks! It even had his raised leg resting on top of the art gallery

It was about an hour before me and hubby twigged what day it was!

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/...l/article.html

Have you any April 1st gems to share with us?

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Not a newspaper but a news item. A bit technical but a few were taken in by it;

http://techie-buzz.com/foss/microsof...canonical.html

Convincing ..but for those who aren't technical, this would be about as likely as snow falling upwards.

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Lol they seem to be getting worse as well (as in more people doing them!) I can't remember it being this bad before

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I came across another one that said Google was thinking of changing the name to 'Topeka'.

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GMTV always have an April Fools news item on their news each year. It said on today's news that there was a new European Law that you had to be the right height to be able to feed giraffes They even had a zoo keeper manager on there talking so seriously about it! I didn't realise until hubby said "that's an April Fool." I'm so gullable I wouldn't have noticed

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Haven't see any today but a few years ago the Daily Record had on it's front page a photograph of Ben Nevis with a massive restaurant built on the summit, . . the story went on to say that a rare mineral had been found at the base of the mountain, . . the mineral was called Lirpa Loof, . . . . that's when the penny dropped for me.

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I don't think I would have got that either Nero.

My hubby said this evening that if you do April Fools after
12.00 pm it's back luck, is this true?

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As far as I know the tradition goes that after 12.00 noon you can no longer play tricks. In the afternoon, whoever does play a trick becomes the fool.

Children used to sing a song if anyone attempted an April Fool trick after that time ....

April Fool is dead and gone,
You're a fool to carry it on.

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I used to be an April Fooler-back around 1970 or `71 I forget now, me and a friend prepared for days.

We wrapped some plastic poodles we had found thrown away and included a spoof message from the Bedfordshire Times implying that the winner who could complete the limerick I had 3/4 written would win a prize.

We boxed up rotten fruit with a message it was from Fyffes.............

We set off at just before midnight and had covered three local villages when a police car picked us up at about 03.00hrs.

At first they were sceptical and thought we were out with intent to steal but after a tour of our `adventure` they drove us five miles away and said

"Ok lads-you can get out and walk home from here -April fool!!

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On Radio 4 they had a stunt to ask was Shakespere French...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/8598291.stm