April Fools

[mlteenie]

I think i just heard one on R4 about deporting siskins to Scandinavia. Any others?

[lozzyloz]

The study concludes that numerous national problems - including the decline of Britain's railway infrastructure, the collapse of Northern Rock, and the scourge of binge drinking - could all have been more successfully addressed had politicians and bureaucrats demonstrated "a certain je ne sais quoi".

[SeanMacGabhann]

good spot loz - The Walworth Rd was suffering badly from traffic this morning when I read that and had a good chuckle

As ever with these things tho', I did worry it might be true as well

[mockney piers]

Is there a straight news story on the Mash today?

Scouring the independent, this one is ridiculous enough to be plausible, otherwise no luck so far.

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/airline-hiring-actors-for-flights-faces-fine-803156.html

[Ant]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/npenguin101.xml

Flying penguins? Ace. :)

[LizzygotDizzy]

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[LizzygotDizzy]

Oops sorry bout that, was just telling of a really good April Fools thing our firm did in relation to really ugly new uniforms for us all and my boss walked past and stopped behind me just at that moment complaining about people being on the internet all the time and not doing enough work! Had to erase!

[Ladygooner]

There was one in the Metro about dogs peeing on the wheels of BMWs and getting electrocuted - but I guess it may be true?!

[jumpinjackflash]

haha I actually fell for that dog one and was thinking it was quite cruel! doh!

[mockney piers]

Me too :-$

[Brendan]

I?m half expecting to the see the headline:

Mugabe Secedes Power Graciously

[mockney piers]

great stuff from youtube uk's featured videos on the front page

http://uk.youtube.com/

helps if you've heard of rickrolling

[Ant]

I'm surprised that august enterprise hasn't yet appeared on our very own forum.

[mockney piers]

I've been tempted once or twice.

[mockney piers]

A nice Londoney one from Londonist.

http://londonist.com/2008/04/piggyback_plan.php

[Ant]

So that's how new planes are made. Am embarrassed to admit that even at my advanced age I still believed that old story about the factory.

Next you'll be telling me the cabbage patch one isn't true either.

[Ladygooner]

Story in the Evening Standard (sorry I can't do that link thingy) about how a Stone Age dog track has been uncovered at the 2012 Olympics site!

[Ant]

Virgle - a joint Virgin/Google project to colonize Mars.

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

[citizenED]

Nice one about Boris Johnson being ahead in the polls for London Mayor....

[snorky]

citizenED Wrote:

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> Nice one about Boris Johnson being ahead in the

> polls for London Mayor....

hahahaha

Oh, wait there, this as on the 31st........oh dear

[spadetownboy]

there was a cracking one in the irish news several years ago, it was all to do with the orangemens right to march down the garvaghy road in portadown and the local residents not wanting them to, its pretty much died down now but in the mid 90s there was a fair bit of trouble about the whole right to march etc. anyway the april fool in the irish news that year was that to resolve the problem there was going to be a tunnel built under the garvaghy road so that a)the orangemen could march and b)local residents would not be disturbed. judging by the indignant callers to local radio stations and various tv interviews there was more than one who fell for it.

[mockney piers]

This one was rather nice http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/defendius/

[Floating Onion]

Am I sad for actually checking that it was solvable?

mockney piers Wrote:

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> This one was rather nice

> http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/defendius/

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Not at all, FO, I did it too.