The Best April 1 Fool's Day Hoaxes

[Michaelangelica]

Can you beat these ten?
Ten of the best April Fool's Day hoaxes: US museum
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In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home.

[LJP07]

April Fools' Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia has some great ones listed also!

[ronthepon]

Seen Google's hoaxes?

TiSP (Beta)

And a few others here...

[HappytheStripper]

Okay.. so I dont normally go for the Hoax of April 1st.. I normally go for the practical Joke.. and this year was no exception..

In a world thats often boring (we discovered most of it) its hard to find ways of entertaining ones-self.. however.. one could spend a whole year thinking about whats next for April the first..

This year.. I put an ad in the local newspaper.. the ad was to advertise the 2 newest Gay Guys in Town (my best friends are not really gay lmao) however because April Fools was a Sunday.. the ad went in on a Saturday.. the ad reads:

Two Gay Guys.. new to town.. available in the privacy of your own home.. or you can come to us.. Phone Dan 0273196184 or Angus 0276072280 (yes its their real phone numbers)

Lmao.. Angus was awake first on Saturday morning.. texting furiously to Dan.. go get the paper.. which he made me go and get lmao..

Then I sat back and watched all weekend at the amazing amount of phone calls and text messages they received..

They still dont know it was me.. hahahahahaha

Before I go.. lmao look what I found..

Originally Posted by hypography

See this? It means you have no freaking pictures in your gallery to show!

um Mods.. I dont think you wanna see naked pics of me lmfao so can I just have the smileys instead please hahahaha

Ashley

[LJP07]

Here's one of the best, had me too :

http://hypography.com/forums/space/1...tml#post168474

....wish it was true!

LJP07

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

...In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees...

I saw that hoax on television --black & white TV-- when I was a kid. Perhaps 50 years ago. (That's right, FIFTY) I remember seeing it on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. That's before Johnny Carson. My mother thought the "documentary" was fascinating and could not understand why my father was laughing hysterically. I understood!

Flash from the Past
Pyro

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by ronthepon

Seen Google's hoaxes?

TiSP (Beta)

And a few others here...

The google thing was great. It looked so real! I got it through 'stumble'.

Here is a report on it

Google guffaw: A high-speed Internet john-The United States-World-NEWS-The Times of India
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Originally Posted by HappytheStripper

Okay.. so I dont normally go for the Hoax of April 1st.. I normally go for the practical Joke.. and this year was no exception..

You are a bad (if funny) person.
I would suggest you take holidays -out of the country- before next April 1 !

[TheBigDog]

This one happened at our Neenah plant in the shipping department this year...

Planning your April Fools prank over breakfast with your cohorts in crime... $32...

Having your friends and family save styrofoam peanuts for a year... free...

Having the computer guy store the peanuts in an empty office for the last six months... free...

Having your co-workers give up three hours to help fill your boss's office on a Saturday... free...

Having to buy more peanuts when you run out before completing the job... $56.25...

Having a boss that appreciates a good April Fools prank (and won't hold it against us)... priceless...

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

Having a boss that appreciates a good April Fools prank (and won't hold it against us)... priceless...

One photo. . .priceless
LOL MY GOD what did he do with it all.

I remember some many years ago when the local radio station was; and not owned by some multi-national media conglom. They did an Aliens have landed "War of the Worlds' type broadcast.

Started with a little news item that something had fallen in local lake from out of the sky.
A little later "eyewitness" reports started to come in. . . .
The object seemed to be round and floating. . .
A little later it looked like a lid was moving from the top.
By this time some hundreds of people had gathered at the foreshore 'near' the "strange object"

It was when it opened and Prince Charsles emerged singing "Rule Britannia" that most (Not ALL) people realized they had been had; and looked at the date.
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Speaking of the "War of the Worlds' original broadcast. (1938) Have you ever listened to it? It is so well done! No wonder so many thousands panicked and fled. Especially if you were only half listening to the radio as many do..

Good old Wikki

Many people missed or ignored the opening credits of the program, and in the atmosphere of growing tension and anxiety in the days leading up to World War II, took it to be a news broadcast. Contemporary newspapers reported that panic ensued, with people fleeing the area, and others thinking they could smell the poison gas or could see the flashes of the lightning in the distance.

Professor Richard J. Hand cites studies by unnamed historians who "calculate[d] that some six million heard the Columbia Broadcasting System broadcast; 1.7 million believed it to be true, and 1.2 million were 'genuinely frightened'". (Hand, 7) While Welles and company were heard by a comparatively small audience (Bergen's audience was an estimated 30 million), the uproar that followed was anything but minute: within a month, there were about 12,500 newspaper articles about the broadcast or its impact (Hand, 7), while Adolf Hitler cited the panic, as Hand writes, as "evidence of the decadence and corrupt condition of democracy." (Hand, 7)

[TheBigDog]

I know the guys involved, which made it even funnier. What was great was that the joke itself was a joke. They taped plastic bags to the inside of the doors and filled just enough packing material to cover the windows. Mark took nearly 30 minutes to build up the nerve to open the door. The material stuck in the door was a nice touch.

Paul (the guy who did it) is a genius.

Bill