Ten of the best April Fool's Day hoaxes

[VOR]

Ten best hoaxes article

My three favorites:

-- 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.

-- In 1996, American fast-food chain Taco Bell announced that it had bought Philadelphia's Liberty Bell, a historic symbol of American independence, from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell.

Outraged citizens called to express their anger before Taco Bell revealed the hoax. Then-White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale and said the Lincoln Memorial in Washington had also been sold and was to be renamed the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial after the automotive giant.

-- In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexicans for Science and Reason carried an article that the state of Alabama had voted to change the value of pi from 3.14159 to the "Biblical value" of 3.0.

[DiabloTX]

Hehe.

Good stuff.

[BlckMgk]

this is my fav.

Burger King, another American fast-food chain, published a full-page advertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the "Left-Handed Whopper," specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new burger included the same ingredients as the original, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees. The chain said it received thousands of requests for the new burger, as well as orders for the original "right-handed" version.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Originally posted by BlckMgk
this is my fav.

Burger King, another American fast-food chain, published a full-page advertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the "Left-Handed Whopper," specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new burger included the same ingredients as the original, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees. The chain said it received thousands of requests for the new burger, as well as orders for the original "right-handed" version.

That could have worked as a marketing trick actually. It's criminal to let retards keep their money.

[FiLtH]

My dad was sitting in his office one morning (Apr 1) and an employee walks in. My dad, reading the paper is shaking his head. The employee asks "Whats up." (Each Apr 1 the local paper has a bunch of fools jokes made to look official) My dad says "I cant believe they are going to relocate the pond, to build on, and put the pond a couple miles south."

  I entered about this time and the employee, a good bud of mine, is dumbstruck. "Well why in &^*% would they move a pond? Who the *&** is going to pay for it?!" He went on and on.

  Boy did he feel stupid.

[midnight Target]

One of the best ever was the article in Sports Illustrated about the pitcher who could throw 160mph fastballs.



Sidd Finch

[GtoRA2]

I worked in a support department that produced FAQs, we had to run them all by the Eng team.


On April fools we did an FAQ that said,  "Q: Why does your product suck so bad, are your Engineers retarded?"

A: Most of our Engineers are not retarded, when asked, they feel the customers does not understand the special features they are complaining about. "



A few didnt get it but most laughed, the head engineer did his own FAQ on retarded tech support lol.

[68ROX]

Having done radio for 23 years, April 1 was my FAVORITE DAY!  People are the biggest suckers on the planet....and because they heard it on the radio--it just HAD to be true....

1) "The Lame Telephone Scam"  Tell people in a "news" type announcement that the phone company is "cleaning out the lines" by using high pressure air compressors at their HQ....to avoid finding a mess of dust and gunk around your phone when you come home from work, simply place your phone reciever into a plastic bag and secure the bag with a rubber band.  Any dust an gunk will be trapped inside the bag for easy disposal.

The phone rings off the hook at the radio station studios with idiots wanting to know how to attach the plastic bag.


2) (My Favorite) "The Stealth Bomber Is At The Local Airport"  (This was Pre 9/11, BTW...I wouldn't pull this one now)  Beginning at 6:20 AM, I start telling everyone that the stealth bomber is at the local airport on it's way overseas...I have one guy in an unmarkerd car at the airport, giving free CD's and concert tickets on the sly to any one there who will say, on the air, just how AWESOME it is to see the stealth bomber at the airport.  (BTW: it just lucked out that it's the foggiest morning anyone can remember)

After the dust settled from this one...over 3,000 people...dads with mini-vans full of kids toting video cameras and moms with cameras and kids all triple-parked at the airport to catch a glimse of the "invisible" plane....I had 9 complaint calls from the FAA....THOUSANDS of people on a foggy as heck morning with their faces pressed into the chain link fence....cuz the stealth bomber...is...well......"invisible".


APRIL FOOL!





SUCKERS!


68ROX

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