GREAT APRIL FOOLS JOKES
The Swiss Spagetti Harvest
In
1957, the BBC News announced that Swiss farmers were having a huge
spaghetti crop thanks to removal of Spaghetti Weevil and the mild
winter. Swiss farmers were even shown pulling spaghetti
down from trees. Many people were wondering how they could grow their
own
spaghetti tree. The BBC replied, "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin
of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
Great
April Fools Jokes:
Metric
Time
In 1975, Australia's
This Day Tonight news program announced that the country was going to
convert to "metric time." There would
be 100 seconds to the minute, 100 minutes to the hour, and 20 hour
days. The
Adelaide town hall was even shown with a new 10 hour metric clock. They interviewed
Deputy Premier Des Corcoran who cheered the new time system. Many
people fell for the hoax.
One frustrated person wanted to know how he could convert his new
digital clock to metric time.
Great
April Fools Jokes:
Instant Color TV
In
1962 there was only one TV channel in Sweden, and TVs were only black
and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, said on the
news that it was now possible to turn a black and white TV to a colour
one by pulling a nylon stocking over the screen, and demonstrated the
process. Thousands of people tried :-)
Great
April Fools Jokes:
The Left-Handed Whopper
In
1998, Burger King announced a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed
Whopper", which was especially designed for left handed people. It had
all the same the same ingredients as the original Whopper, but they are
all rotated 180 degrees for left-handed customers. Thousands of
customers went into restaurants to buy the new burger. And that's only
the amount of left-handed believers!
Great
April Fools Jokes:
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
In
1995, the Discover Magazine reported that biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo
had discovered a new species in Antarctica - the hotheaded naked ice
borer. The top of the head of those animals could become so hot that
they could bore themselves through ice and so travel through the ice at
high speeds. She also found that they hunted penguins by melting the
ice beneath them. It was even suggested that hotheads were responsible
for the disappearance of the explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. It was
quoted "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin." Record
amount of mail was recieved - there was more response than to any other
article in the whole magazin's history.
Great
April Fools Jokes: Internet
Spring Cleaning
In
1997, an email message spread through the world saying that the
internet would be closed for cleaning for twenty four hours from
March 31 until April 2. During this period, people were told to
disconnect all
devices from the internet. This prank was an updated version of an old
hoax about the phone system. For many years, phone
customers had been told that the phone systems would be cleaned on
the 1st of April. They were recommended to put plastic bags over the
ends of the phone to stop the dust that might be blown out of the
phones during the cleaning.
Great
April Fools Jokes:
Tasmanian
Mock Walrus
In
1984, the Orlando Sentinel featured a story about a creature known as
the Tasmanian Mock Walrus, supposedly a popular pet in
Florida. The animal was said to be four inches long,
resembled a walrus, purred like a cat, and had the temperament of a
hamster. What made it such an ideal pet was that it never had to be
bathed, it used a litter box, and it ate cockroaches. A single
Tasmanian Mock Walrus could apparently entirely eliminate cockroach
problem in a house. Reportedly some Tasmanian Mock Walruses
had
been smuggled from Tasmania, and there had been attempts to breed them,
but local pest controllers were pressuring the government in fear of
running out of business. Many people rang the paper wondering
where
they could get their own pet Tasmanian Mock Walrus.
Great
April Fools Jokes:
Portable
Zip Codes
In 2004,
National Public Radio's All Things Considered announced that a new
'portable zip codes' program had begun at the post office. Just like
people are allowed to take their phone numbers with them when they
moved, they would now also be able to take their zip codes with
them. Assistant Postmaster General Lester Crandall was quoted
saying, "Every year millions of Americans are on the go: People who
must relocate for work or other reasons. Those people may have been
quite attached to their original homes or an adopted town or city of
residence. For them this innovative measure will serve as an umbilical
cord to the place they love best."
Great
April Fools Jokes:
Thomas
Edison Invents Food
Machine
In
1878, the New York Graphic announced that Thomas Edison invented a
machine that would turn water to wine and soil to food. Newspapers all
published the story and there were plenty of people believing that the
problem of world's hunger was solved forever.
Great
April Fools Jokes:
PhDs
Exempt From China’s
One-Child Policy
In
1993, The China Youth Daily
announced on its front page that the government had decided to exclude
Ph.D. holders from the one-child law. It would eventually reduce the
need of foreign experts. Despite a disclaimer beneath the story saying
it was a joke, the report was broadcasted as fact by Hong
Kong's New Evening News. The Chinese government responded to the hoax
by saying that
April Fool's Day was a dangerous Western tradition. The Guangming Daily
declared, "Put plainly, April Fool's Day is Liar's Day."
Great
April Fools Jokes:
Planetary Alignment Decreases
Gravity
In 1976, the
British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that
at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to happen
that people could experience in their homes. The planet
Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational
alignment that would lessen the Earth's gravity.
Moore said that if people jumped in the air at the exact
moment when this alignment happened, they would experience a
strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived,
hundreds of phone rang BBC2 saying they felt the
sensation. One woman even said that she and her friends had risen
from their chairs and floated around the room. (She was probably
running an April Fool back on BBC!).
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