Everyone tries to think up a good trick for April Fool's day and I am no exception. I remember growing up trying to "fool" my family into something that I saw in the sky or something that I did.
April Fool's Day started back in 1539 because of a hilarious poem by Flemish who wrote about sending his servant on a series of wild-goose chases on April 1st. Since the start with this poem people all over the world have been attempting to fool people around them on the first day of April.
In the list of "Top 100 April Fool's Jokes" you get to read all about some of the larger scale hoaxes that were played on many people.
Swiss farmers were viewed on television harvesting spagetti pieces from trees while the broadcaster boasted "Swiss farmers harvesting spagetti from the spagetti tree." Viewers were captivated and call the television channel to which there reply was simple: "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."
Taco Bell announced that they had purchased the Liberty Bell and had renamed it to be the "Taco Liberty Bell." This caused an outrage from the general public in which later Taco Bell admitted to their false information and apologized.
In 1989 in London many people gathered around a field to see the much talked about UFO that was circling the city. When it landed and the police came up to it they ran after seeing a small man in a tin suit come out of the UFO. Turns out the 36-year old inventor of this UFO-looking hot air balloon was forced to land after being drifted off course making his April Fool's joke come one day early.
Burger King anounced in 1999 for the first time ever a left-handed whopper. This ad was published in USA today and Burger King had to rebuttle there statement telling of it's falseness.
So what would be your best idea of an April Fool's joke? Get on this website for a list of practical jokes that would surely be for a good laugh.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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Wow. I can't believe I never heard about these April Fool's pranks...interesting...
ReplyDeleteI love it..Here at work they tried to play a prank on the only other guy that works here, but I let him in on it and we turned the tables!!!
ReplyDeleteTopeka has been trying to get it's name changed to Google to coax Google into coming to their town. So on April 1st if you noticed, the Google page said Topeka. Google even changed the sign on their building to Topeka as an April Fools prank. Now this either actually happened, or Bill and Dillon got me on April Fools.
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