* A few years ago when I was listening to NPR, they did a long story about changing the Boston Celtics (seltics) to the Celtics (keltics), to be culturally sensitive to the Irish. They interviewed players, people in Ireland and Boston - giving all points on both sides. I was shocked - Can they change the pronunciation of such an institution? It wasn't until the next day that I realized that I had been snookered [other yearly spoofs include last year's iBod, federal health care for pets (2002), and advertisements projected onto the moon (2000)].
* Today I was checking in with one of my regular reads - Tim Ferris and his 4-Hour Workweek. Part of his regular message is smart workflow and outsourcing pretty much everything (he has even outsourced his dating - seriously). Yesterday, which he reasoned was April's Fools somewhere in the world, he wrote a post about how he was confessing to have outsourced the writing of his blog for the past year. People were outraged and disappointed - until he fessed up today.
* In 1996, Taco Bell announced it had bought the LIberty Bell, renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. A White House spokesman furthered the joke by stating that the LIncoln Memorial was now the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.
* In 1998, Burger King introduced a Left-Handed Whopper. It had the same ingredients, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of left-handed customers. They received thousands of requests for specific handed Whoppers.
* In 1957, BBC made an extensive report on spaghetti trees, which remains one of the most well-known April pranks.
4 comments:
Good one! The rubberband trick just never grows old. I wanted to call Tim and play a joke on him since he is out-of-town, but it was ruined by the fact that the battery really did die on the van!
Nathan did the rubber band trick on me. I was in the middle of dinner, I did not find it funny, until I changed my shirt. lol.
Have you followed the GMAIL April's Fools gags? Very clever.
American Idol tried to say they were pre-empted by some other boring program on 4/1. Good thing I was changing the channel anyway! I have heard of the whopper joke, but not the spaghetti tree one. I like it.
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