First april jokes (1 Viewer)

[mikhail]

Back in the 50's, the Guardian newspaper in England printed a supliment on the ten-year anniversery of "Sans Serif", an archepelago in the Indian Ocean. The main islands were "Upper Caise" and "Lower Caise".

People wrote in wondering if they could go on holiday there.








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[sallyinzaghi]

Oh wait fabi, it wasn't venezuela I read about, it was mexico :

+ Mexico's counterpart of April fool's day is actually observed on December 28. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by King Herod. it eventually evolved into a lighter commemoration involving pranks and trickery.

top 10 april fool hoaxes of all time:

#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 a respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from the trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best". Check out the actual broadcast archived on the BBC's website.

#2: Sidd Finch
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168mph (65mph faster than anyone else has ever been to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch has never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa". Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their team's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton.

Too tired now, more to come..

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by sallyinzaghi ] ++
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 a respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from the trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best". Check out the actual broadcast archived on the BBC's website.

Yeah, read about that yestarday. Great prank. You've got to laugh at the gullibility of some people.

 

[sallyinzaghi]

true. your Island thing got number 5

 

[Dragon]

++ [ originally posted by sallyinzaghi ] ++
Oh wait fabi, it wasn't venezuela I read about, it was mexico :

+ Mexico's counterpart of April fool's day is actually observed on December 28. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by King Herod. it eventually evolved into a lighter commemoration involving pranks and trickery.

Here we celebrate it on dec 28th too, because of that. Its called "Innocents day". I guess all latin america celebrates it that date...

 

[Vicky]

Fabi ,
you go girl !
let me know how it went lol

 

[sallyinzaghi]

#3: Instant Color TV

In 1962 there was only on TV channel in Sweden, and it broadcasted in black and white. The station's techincal expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, all viewers could now quickly and easily convert their existing sets to display colour reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their TV screen, and they would begin to see their favourite shows in colour. Stensson then proceeded to demonstrate the process. Reportedly, hundreds of thousands of people, out of the population of 7 million, were taken in. Actualy colour TV transmission only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

#4: The Taco Liberty Bell

In 1996 the Taco Bell Corp. announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called up the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell is housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed that it was all a practical joke a few hours later. The best line inspired by the affair came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale, and he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold, though to a different corporation, and would now be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.

 

[gray]

especially #3 :LOL:

 

[sallyinzaghi]

#5: Sen Serriffe

In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special 7-page supplement in honour of the 10th 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 phone 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.

#6: Nixon for President

In 1992 National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again". Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the show did the hoest John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon's voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.