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- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+163FTA " -- 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. "
lol McCurry rolls with it, that's fantastic. - pdxa4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+105What? A politician with a sense of humor. That's awesome.
- iconoclast7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+71nor was it a joke
THE MARTIANS ARE COMING!!!! - mizzrym, on 10/12/2007, -2/+67except that wasn't an april fools joke
- humpy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58nor was it in april
- c5mjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+53A couple of years ago I got tricked by NPR covering the "exploding maple tree crisis" in New England.
It was very convincing. I am obviously retarded.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4571982 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47Theres NOTHING funny about ebaum's world!!
- 4tygames, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45My favorite April Fool's Joke is when Google announced a free Webmail and POP3 e-mail service called GMail (April 1, 2004)
The real kicker was that you got 1GB of space and it was by "invitation only" ;-) - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35In 1890, a few states decided to make pi equal 3.0 because they said the irrational number is against natural law...
- CigarJack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Still disgruntled that none of your friends gave you an invite?
- Worktruck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33I'm surprised that the South Park April Fool's prank that happened back in 1998. Where they ran Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus instead of the conclusion of the who is Eric's father story line. Apparently people were pissed about that one.
I remember the horrible Cartoon network one where they ran the same episode of some old cartoon about a squirrel for 12 hours straight. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33"We" - ?
So this was a "group session" - ductoogle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Sonic in SSBM
I hate you EGM - knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Aeris dies? You *****!
- mrdimn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33One of the better April Fools day pranks took place here in San Diego. One of the local radio stations during the morning announced that the Space Shuttle could not land in Florida or Texas due to weather, and their best bet was to land in California, at a local San Diego airport used by smaller airplanes, called Montgomery Field.
The DJs had some great sound effects, did the whole bit of listening in to the chatter between the Space Shuttle and Houston Control, and how Houston was recommending to land at Montgomery field. This whole process took a long time. They drew it out. Thousands of people from all over San Diego headed to the air field to watch the Shuttle land. It caused massive traffic jams, people were late to work, It was well done.
Near the end of the bit, the chatter between the shuttle and Houston was great. The Shuttle pilots were saying "We see the airport, and we are preparing to land, speed being reduced, preparing touch down... and Houston we have one more thing to say.... April Fools!"
Everybody was in shock. It was hysterical! - InfinitySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Remember the April Fools where they said the Pope was dead, but he really wasn't and hung on for one more day just to mess with us?
- FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -5/+351998 - Opie and Anthony got canned for saying Boston's Mayor Menino died in a fiery car wreck. So long WAAF
- kickcows, on 10/12/2007, -21/+45bill clinton era ftw
- CptCancer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23At least you're right about the idiot part.
- MrWhistler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19EGM's fake nude cheat for DOA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball was the most frustrating of the April Fool's jokes. We stayed up for half the night trying to see some cartoon boobies...
- cairo140, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21" -- 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."
*cough*achem* New Mexico. - onidraky, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Or the many "Here's how to bring Aeris back in Final Fantasy VII."
- jennamalia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1630 October, 1938, the night before Halloween.
- cougar618, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Last year [Adult Swim] played all their episodes w/ a fart track. It was pretty ***** funny because they sync'd up with the show.
- archlich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Patrick Moore plays the xylophone.
- SlipStream89, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19The funniest was when Suprnova went Japanese for a day.
Ahh the good ole' days. - tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12http://www.purplemath.com/modules/bibleval.htm
They dispel that myth (that the Bible says pi=3). - AoiTakuma, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Think Geek got me so good last year. I was so psyched to buy a 1up mushroom that was grown in a Japanese basement
- azzageddi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I remember that issue--that was back in the days when it was a good magazine and I subscribed. The accompanying picture was of a naked mole-rat with a big red tumor on its head.
A followup to that: A couple years later, some dingbat published a book called something like "The Science of the X-Files." I picked it up in a remaindered sale. The author had bought the "hotheaded naked ice-borer" joke hook, line, and sinker, and included it as an example of new, weird animals that are still being discovered today. I thought at first that she was joking, but after reading that chapter three times, I had to conclude that she actually believed there were naked mole-rats melting ice tunnels all over the Antarctic, devouring penguins and unlucky explorers like little ice-piranas. Astonishing. - skooma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Excuse me, where the hell is EGMs Sheng Long trick?
I do not want to admit how much time I wasted on trying that infernal lie.
good job EGM - anotherlawyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10NPR always has an April Fools Day story. One year the United States Post Service announced it was creating "portable zip codes" which like your cell phone numbers, you could take with you when you move. I was listening incredulously until the "USPS spokesman" commented that the service was a part of the new "Go Postal" campaign. At which point I nearly drove off the road.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1805651 - jennamalia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Here are the other 90 April Fool's Day Hoaxes from the list:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
I'm partial to #23: Guinness Mean Time... - mysticalone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I heard Fox News was going to show something decent finally on April 1st...
- Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11In 2006 in the Netherlands, one network station was broadcasting that they will broadcast Mission Impossible 3
It was also in all television guides.
Stupid enough, many didn't notice it was to be broadcasted on April the 1st... and that Mission Impossible 3 wasn't even in the cinema's yet. :D - JDoggqx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Are you trying to pull a fast one on us?
- ChillHomie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8April 1st is my birthday... It sucks, nobody ever believes me
- Okari, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I was ready to go out and buy an Xbox just for that. Yes, I'm that desperate.
- KMye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8They're missing "play as Sheng Long" of the mid-90's. Should be at least in the top 3 ;)
- xAXISx, on 10/12/2007, -13/+19OMG PONIEZ
- KiwiHopeful, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How about Scientific American announcing it was giving up?
"There's no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don't mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming. We resisted their advice and pretended not to be stung by the accusations that the magazine should be renamed Unscientific American, or Scientific Unamerican, or even Unscientific Unamerican. But spring is in the air, and all of nature is turning over a new leaf, so there's no better time to say: you were right, and we were wrong.
In retrospect, this magazine's coverage of so-called evolution has been hideously one-sided. For decades, we published articles in every issue that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his cronies. True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it. Where were the answering articles presenting the powerful case for scientific creationism? Why were we so unwilling to suggest that dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago or that a cataclysmic flood carved the Grand Canyon? Blame the scientists. They dazzled us with their fancy fossils, their radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles. As editors, we had no business being persuaded by mountains of evidence."
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=8E45B3E6-2B35-221B-6E9314D45FCAD2B2 - r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Jeeze, there's two of you morons?
- MrStabby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5puh-puh-puh-puh-puh Patrick!
- DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5 -- Discover Magazine announced in 1995 that a highly respected biologist, Aprile Pazzo (Italian for April Fool), had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. The creatures were described as having bony plates on their heads that became burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speed -- a technique they used to hunt penguins.
Simply awesome. - belgar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good one -- but it was a stolen idea from 1986.:)
Funny, I was reminded of the original joke that took place in Vancouver by the article at Breitbart, and decided to blog it today:
See here:
http://www.vitaluna.net/archives/000134.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6God bless Kansas eh?
- gonzo1773, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That was an awesome list. Made for a good laugh while I work the night away.
- naughtyboy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11"They dispel that myth (that the Bible says pi=3)"
Who cares XD The bible itself is a myth. In two two thousand years, when we're back in the stone age. Ragnaros from the Molten Core will be the God of the long forgotten cyberworld of the past... and people will be beheaded for not believing. - Contico, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3then I guess they wont be happy to hear that I killed him about 45 times... woops
- ZippidyDoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Damn, I forgot I actually spent hours trying to do that haha.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heh, I remember that one of their April 1 products was a transmitter/receiever for wireless AC power, composed of two microwave antennas that beam power to each other as long as nothing got in between them.
And then some tech magazine claimed they bought one and posted an actual review about their expirences in using it., everyone was laughing at them. -
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