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April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day is an annual custom on April 1, consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. The player of the joke or hoax often exposes their.
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DeviantArt released a news article stating that the Help Desk was going to become a pay-only feature. Letters in the article were bolded which spelled out "April fools" and some punctuation, when clicked, linked to an image announcing the joke. The Independent reported that a "Grow-your-own Viagra craze" was occurring, because the active ingredient could be extracted from winter heath. Ryanair's website has a picture relating to Ryanair space travel, which when clicked went to a "GOTCHA" page with an offer of free flights.

The Sunday Telegraph ran a story about the organisers of the Olympics in London considering the possibility of sharing the Olympics with Paris due to lack of funding. Also, in the section where the newspaper normally profiles a well-known figure, the well-known figure of the week was Satan. The newspaper also contained an advert for "ParkUp", a new vehicle technology that allowed cars to park up walls to save urban parking congestion. The Sunday Times Travel section reported the launch of Filipino budget airline "QuikAir" which offered "the world's first commuter service" with middle and aisle seats removed to provide standing room on flights.

Google announced several new services including: Gmail Paper, a free paper archiving service for any and all Gmail messages. Google TiSP beta , the Toilet Internet Service Provider, a free in-home wireless broadband "via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. BBC - As part of its promotion of the new BBC iPlayer, the BBC showed alleged video footage backing up the claim that one of its wildlife documentary teams had secured never-before-seen footage showing penguins flying in the Antarctic skies.

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Daily Express: published a story that the clock faces Big Ben were being taken down and repaired, and a digital clock would stand in its place. It even showed a picture of this. Daily Mail: published a picture of the British chancellor, Alistair Darling, playing a National Lottery scratchcard in a newsagent. Guardian: announced Carla Bruni, France's First Lady, was to head a government initiative to improve style amongst Britons.

The Sun: reported that Nicolas Sarkozy was to enter surgery to make him as tall as his wife, Carla Bruni, after being subject to ridicule over his height during his trip to London. Google introduced CADIE a "Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity" stating that "For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.

Which looked at first glance like a regular toaster, but with the front panel sporting a 7" x OLED display. YouTube invited some users to look at a new "viewing experience", which actually caused the whole layout including the video they were watching to flip upside down.

The Guardian announced that it was shutting down both its print edition and Web site, turning instead to a Twitter-only format. Car manufacturer BMW announced that it had developed "Magnetic Tow Technology," an ingenious new system that locks on to the car in front via an enhanced magnetic beam and once your BMW is attached you are free to release your foot from the accelerator and turn off your engine.

The Taipei Times, one of three English-language dailies in Taiwan, fooled many readers with a report that two pandas donated by China to the Taipei Zoo were, in fact, brown forest bears dyed black and white. She had recently been embroiled in a scandal after her husband downloaded two pay-per-view adult films, the cost of which Smith then included as part of an MP expenses claim. The London Telegraph revealed a plan to generate electricity by harnessing the power of fish migrating upstream.

Research found that a typical salmon, which zips through waters at a top speed of 12 metres 40ft per second, can over a m ft stretch generate enough electricity to make 18 cups of tea, while the more shy rudd will only trigger enough power for three cups. Multiplied many times over by the millions of fish that thrive in rivers and waters across England and Wales, the Environment Agency scientists estimate the amount of electricity generated could power around 30, homes a year.

British supermarket chain Waitrose placed ads in newspapers announcing the availability of a new fruit, the pinana a combination of pineapple and banana. The text of the ad read, "Pinanas. Fresh in today and exclusive to Waitrose. Cork radio station RedFM reported that U2 sould play live on the rooftop of a shopping centre in Cork: Hundreds of U2 fans rushed over, only to find a tribute band called U2opia. This was supposed to be a joke, but no one was laughing. The Sun revealed a "revolutionary new printing technique," which allows newspapers to print "the world's first flavoured page", using "hyrdocolloids," which allegedly "collide with each other to spread over your tastebuds".

The tabloid then invited readers to lick a blank section of the paper page 17, if you fancy trying it out and email in their "taste test results". The Independent carried a fake advert on page 5, for a "New Miracle Shirt" developed to combat body odour. The garment purportedly contained a "unique neutralizing agent" — "Slip it on and Bang! Although quite subtle, a clue that the advert was not entirely sincere was given by the apparently random decision to get the male model to wear an eyepatch.

There was even a professional looking website that still exists, hosted by Gillette anti perspirant. Try clicking on it. And in the Independent again, there was a report that the Circle line was to become "Large Hadron Collider II", saying "London Underground is in talks with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research Cern about the possibility of using the 23km tunnel of the Circle Line to house a new type of particle accelerator similar to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. The Daily Telegraph carried a story on page 3, and on its website, that ferrets were to be used to deliver broadband to rural areas.

The animals had supposedly been used by Virgin Media for more than a year to help lay cables for its broadband service, by wearing little jackets fitted with a microchip able to analyse any breaks or damage in the underground network. Quote: "For hundreds of years, ferrets have helped humans in various jobs.

Our decision to use them is due to their strong nesting instinct, their long, lean build and inquisitive nature, and for their ability to get down holes. We initially kept the trial low-key as we wanted to assess how well the ferrets fitted into our operations before revealing this enterprising scheme. Ferrets have been used to run cables through hard-to-reach places in the past. Events organisers in London used them to run television and sound cables outside Buckingham Palace for the wedding of the Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Google announced new notification plans for Google Wave, promising that the company would send a human to tell you when there was a new wave in your inbox. Bob Lefsetz, an American music industry figure, published a letter that Apple had bought the Beatles. BBC Radio 4 ran a story about how Shakespeare was French, claiming a locket given to him carried aFrench inscription from his mother, Marie Ardennes, including a lock of Mary Queen of Scot's hair, found in the excavation at his last home in Stratford.

New evidence unearthed at the site of his Stratford home suggests that the mother of England's most famous son was French. The French Ministry of Culture has told the Today programme that it wants to honour the playwright as a member of France's own pantheon of great writers. Finally the BBC website carried a page of stories that could have been April Fool hoaxes, but weren't. According to The Sun, animal behaviour experts had given gorillas iPads to stay happy and alert. The Daily Mirror exposed the latest plans for the Coalition cuts — a tax on fresh air.

Rural areas were due to be taxed more under the Air Tariff Control system, designed to fund air quality improvement initiatives. The Lake District was due to be in the highest tax bracket, while Manchester, Birmingham and London were earmarked for tax rebates because of high pollution levels.

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A 'senior air technician' at the Environment Agency said of the plans: 'Air is natural but, just like water, it is a finite resource that we have to manage sensibly. This zimmer-frame-meets-skateboard was purposely built for adrenaline-seeking pensioners. A mock BBC News site reported that a coalition of fathers' groups were taking legal action against online parenting network Mumsnet for gender discrimination and breaches of the Human Rights Act.

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In the report, written by Tok Enmale, fathers were revealed to be launching a class action in response to the prominent position of Mumsnet in the media. A 'spokesman' for the group, Fathers Against Discrimination FADs , said: ' It seems grossly unfair that mothers are constantly asked their opinion and dads are not, purely on the basis of gender. YouTube Cease and Desist order. YouTube celebrated its centenary. They changed the logo to infer that the website was founded in , and users were given the choice to change the look of videos to make them silent and sepia-toned.

A collection of spoof videos from that year that mimiced popular viral videos of today was also posted Google got in on the act too, by saying they had found a way of combining your webcam and Gmail to dispense with outdated technology such as a keyboard and a mouse. By standing a safe distance from your computer, you were supposedly able to issue commands by using different body shapes. With a helpful motion guide, Google said that "movements are designed to be simple and intuitive for people of all skill levels".

Leaning to your left meant you went to your inbox, while bringing your right arm up to your head with a closed fist replied to the email. When you clicked to try Gmail motion, you got the message, "Gmail Motion doesn't actually exist. At least not yet Sir Richard Branson released information about Virgin's latest tourism-based business venture. Virgin news announced that the company had bought Pluto and would attempt to have it reinstated as a planet. Sir Richard said: "Virgin has expanded into many territories over the years, but we have never had our own planet before.


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This could pave the way for a new age in space tourism. Called "The Aurors" it is about an elite unit of wizards fighting the most dangerous magical criminals across America. This clever little prank was quite easy to fall for after seeing some of the quirky Royal Wedding memorabilia which surfaced in the run up to the April event. In the press release, the classic M3 logo had been turned upside-down to read "Will". Anyone interested in the car was asked to contact BMW via email at pauline.

Hubby and I fell for this one. Readers of The Sun on Sunday reported that Arsenal football club was releasing its own fragrance, which took its aromas from the Emirates Stadium, including the unmistakable odour of Arsene Wenger's leather seat in the dugout. YouTube launched The YouTube Collection, taking the site off the internet and bringing it into users' living rooms.

Marketing it as "the complete YouTube experience completely offline," they offered, "a way to literally hold YouTube in your hand". He has buck teeth, but unlike Timmy Turner 's teeth, his incisors seem to be the only teeth on his upper jaw. You can also bribe him with Spearmint Gum.

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His gift to Timmy were some Groucho Marx comedy disguise glasses, which were later used by Timmy to hide his identity from Mr. His latest appearance was The Fairly Oddlympics from Season 6. He attempts to box with Head Pixie , however, the Head Pixie put gold into his boxing glove, which knocked the April Fool into a torch and the scoreboard. Needless to say, he lost the match. Sign In Don't have an account?

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