angrynorth

Anybody do or see any good fools day pranks today?

SiPie

Smacked my boss hard in the mouth when I walked into work this morning

Then told him it was an April fool

... I wish

NACRO

My local Subaru tried to charge me €70 for some plastic centre caps for my alloys.

Unfortunately it wasn't an April fools.

So no, I haven't.

ClassicScoobyJay

GMTV did a story on Yorkshire Water developing a weight-loss version of tap water. Apparently it has negatively charged ions that attach to your positive fat cells, which then come out when you have a p!ss.

They did a live broadcast from someones house where they had a 3rd tap fitted which supplied the special water, a so-called 'scientist' from Yourkshire Water explaining how they developed it and a nutritionalist in the studio.

They played it well but I knew straight away this was utter bollox lol.

SiPie

You mean this ain't true

I'll need to cancel my order of 95,000 litres of the bottled stuff

ClassicScoobyJay

hehe - I'd love to hear from those who really fell for it.


Don't be shy - we can forgive you - it was early in the morning

Fatman

p8 of The Times, a BMW advert.

angrynorth

Man United's new Lear Jet on the front page of the Evening News got me

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/sp...ory=86038.html

Reffro

This was my favourite.

http://file.sugarqube.com/Cards/jblo...wf?PL=L400x300

angrynorth

ew

Boss Hogg

PMSL at Ryanair's ad on Pg 3 of the Telegraph -

"Kids fly free on Ryanair.....

(Pic of kid hanging off front of plane)

....for as long as they can hang on"

Poor Guy

science teacher sent one of the young uns for a "long stand"

douglasb

Radio 2 had a news item that an announcement from Paris and Berlin might come out this afternoon. As the French and German economies had been performing badly recently, they had decided that the Euro was an experiement that had failed and had decided to withdraw. They wanted to adopt the Pound as their new currency.

kelvin

I'm still trying to decide whether this is a wind up or not?!

Heard it on the radio this morning and immediately thought so it was an April Fool, but I thought they'd have owned up to it by now...

K.

Chris L

Also in the Telegraph. Full page add on pg 7. BMW's new SHEF technology (Satellite Hypersensitive Electromagnetic Foodration) - or put another way - a microwave oven in your dashboard

Chris

Edit to say that they've even setup a website

Markus

Seen a few about. Something about using chickens with a nuclear land mine! lol Chappy asking about his Open Source Missle Guidance project. Macintouch's front page is some dating site, things like "geek" looking for "geek" searches lol.

Dream Weaver

Nice touch - Made up by BMW (GB), 1 April, 2004.

JackClark

Got suckered by the BMW ad, sat there thinking only a BMW owner would choose that as an option.

imlach

The fool is on you boyo!!!
That one is actually true!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465.stm

Did you also know that racing pigeons were used in UK missiles during the 2nd world war. They were apparently good at operating some kind of rudimentary guidance system. No doubt that'll appear next year and you'll not believe that either, but it is TRUE!

imlach

PS follow the link to confirm it is not a fool

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3589239.stm

jerryh

I manage a restaurant and bar. When the veg delivery came this morning the delivery driver told me that they'd had an early visit from a young plumber from one of the local companies who'd been sent over to look for a leak (leek!).

PiNkEyE69

Didn't Coke Cola do that Mineral Water thing???
Oh wait, you mean that wasn't an April Fools!!!

JackClark

My favourite http://macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_...fm?NewsID=8326

Big C

Another good one in the local rag, backed up in print with a nice picture.
EK News

C

MJW

Sent our trainee welder to the butchers for half a pound of fallopian tubes. Ah, the naivety of youth ...

john_s

iTrader: (1)

I swapped the "m" and "n" keys round on someone's keyboard, then swapped the "m" and "n" letters round in a couple of common fonts. He was well puzzled as to why things looked right on the screen, but were being flagged as spelling mistakes in word

John

Buzzer

PMSL @ john s

Busy in the office, was it mate

john_s

iTrader: (1)

Well the "victim" made the mistake of having the day off on the 31st of March, so it would have been rude not to really...



John.