April Fool!

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Do you remember any classic April Fool's jokes that had you, your family and friends and perhaps even the whole nation fooled? Let's hear them.

This is a classic Swedish April fool's joke.

On April 1st 1962 Swedish National TV presented a news feature that had women all over the country defending their stock of nylon stockings with life and limb. According to Swedish scientists if you cut a piece out of a nylon stocking and taped it over the TV screen then you would be able to see colour TV. It had to be the right type of stocking with a very fine denier. Tests had shown that the holes in a string vest were too big and so that would not work. Unfortunately there are no statistics to show how many people actually carried out the experiment.

I decided to add the clip. Even though it's in Swedish and you probably won't understand a word of what he's saying the seriously scientific way he presents the whole thing is hilarious.

 

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A commercial radio station ran a news line in the 1970's that informed listeners that the movement of the clocks forward and backward during the daylight saving hours had resulted, over time, in an additional 48 hours. The report went on to say that the government had decided that to get back in kilter, the last two days of July would be deleted from the calendar. It then added some very plausible but totally spurious "government official" explaining why we need to do this.

The result was absolute pandemonium. The radio's switchboard went into melt down, people were furious. "I've got two weeks booked for a sunshine break at the end of July, does this mean I only get twelve days instead of fourteen?" "Will my surgery, booked for July 31st, be cancelled?" And so on and so on. The radio was forced to announce the April Fool gag.
 

One 1st of April, I was told that if you have a leaky bladder, then wearing your underpants back to front cures the problem, well, it didn't work for me, and now I've got 87 pairs of underpants with pee stains on the bum part. :)
 
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Our local newspaper ran a story saying that the ground under the communal water tower - which supplies a large area with fresh water - had subsided and that the tower was now leaning at an angle of about 5 degrees. The council had however decided not to do anything to get the tower upright again but would instead start marketing the water tower as a tourist attraction to compete with the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Loads of local residents drove there to take photos of the new attraction.
 
From Time magazine

"The Left-Handed Whopper"

Burger King cooked up a whopper of a different sort in 1998, but that didn't mean fast-food customers were any less willing to swallow it. In a full-page ad in USA Today, Burger King announced a solution for the 1.4 million left-handed customers visiting their restaurants every day: the Left-Handed Whopper. Burger King said all the condiments were rotated 180° to suit the left-handed burger connoisseur. Southpaws eagerly tried to order the burger the next day, but they had to wait in line behind right-handed folks equally caught up with making sure they got the correct Whopper. The thought that a burger is basically, you know, a circle apparently never crossed their minds.
 
Dachshunds on duty
Anyone who’s been through airport security is used to seeing German shepherds and labradors donning the uniform, but South Australian police on Thursday announced sausage dogs were joining their dog squad.

“We’re … going to be able to attach them to drones and that’s really a game-changer for us. They can be tactically deployed from that – you know, dropped down into people’s yards,” Sgt Simon Rosenhahn said in a promotional video featuring the policeman cuddling up to the new recruits.




“It’s been really hard work lifting those 40kg shepherds, especially above your head, into ceiling spaces,” Rosenhahn said while demonstrating lifting a dachshund towards an air vent.
 
Years ago. the reactor in Three Mile Island , PA. melted. That occurred in late March. At that time I lived about 25 miles from the reactor. Everybody was watching the news to see if were about to become nuclear toast. The bartender, at a local watering hole, was just so on edge. He packed his car, and had extra gas for his escape. He was glued to the TV news. About 3 AM ,April 1, 1`978, a bar buddy called and shouted, " It's gonna blow". That's all the bartender needed to hear. He was over the New York border, when he noticed there weren't thousands of cars on the road. He turned on the radio.
(I know some are going to say that was a cruel joke. But you have to understand local bar culture. Everybody was friends. And that meant you had a license to tease one another. By being so edgy about the reactor was like a red flag, You couldn't pass it up And the bartender laughed like hell.)
 
We were pretty boring in our family.

I remember putting a piece of tape inside of the salt & pepper shaker tops to keep them from working.

Also the tired old classic of switching the sugar and salt.

I think that these stickers or something similar would be fun. Maybe a Hey Siri prank.

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timoc said:
One 1st of April, I was told that if you have a leaky bladder, then wearing your underpants back to front cures the problem, well, it didn't work for me, and now I've got 87 pairs of underpants with pee stains on the bum part. :)
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The same mate who told me about the underpants thing, also told me that if I wanted to remove a wart off the back of my hand, then the way to do it was to put a big blob of ice-cream on the wart and count to 100. Alas, the ice cream started to melt and I licked it all off, so I still have the wart. :)
 
This was the first year that I didn’t see any April Fools jokes. There were some inane lies in the middle of a topic on the local FB group, they were no different the norm from some of these people.
 
East Midland Railways came up with a good one:
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In preparation for our upcoming timetable changes, from today our brand new Tandem Bike service will replace some Regional and Intercity services. Please show your tickets to a member of the team to arrange your replacement travel bike.
 

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