The Poor April Fool's Thread

[andygrif]

Not that I wish to be seen as the stick-in-the-mud, but I don't care much for poor April Fool's jokes.

Here's the place to list the ones played on you today or the extremely lame attempts at jokes by the great media of this land.....

I'll start:

I was listening to TalkSport late last night/early this morning. The presenter was saying that in 2007 all right hand drive cars will be banned from the rest of Europe and France are trialling it by banning all British cars between July & September this year.

And what's even worse than the joke was that people were phoning up to moan about it!!

Over to you.....

[Dave Stones]

philip.j.fry in the gypsy thread
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oh, and look at the front cover of this paper.... http://www.dailystar.co.uk/

just enough second thoughts there to make it true *or* false

[Stuart]

Well, the Capital Radio breakfast show had one that had over 700 people (almost including me) fooled. They broadcast an advert for a fake voice over company which asked people to phone in for an audition. It was funny listening to the kinds of things they were getting the people to do though.

[Paul]

How about This one

[punky]

How about this one?

[Aragorn]

Originally Posted by andygrif

I was listening to TalkSport late last night/early this morning. The presenter was saying that in 2007 all right hand drive cars will be banned from the rest of Europe and France are trialling it by banning all British cars between July & September this year.

Andy,

Have a look in the papers (esp the Times) and you will see other references to this quite decent April Fool.

Indeed, BWM even have a website for it - http://www.uninventthewheel.co.uk/utw/index.htm

Quite amusing I thought, esp the 'Dr Bitt-Fischi' name

[Paul]

Originally Posted by punky

How about this one?

Was about to post that too

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

philip.j.fry in the gypsy thread

[BBKing]

I heard on the radio that Paul Wolfowitz had been made head of the World Bank. Now that's a sick joke, whoever thought that one up should be ashamed of themselves.

[TheBlueRaja]

I heard Alan Shearer was to sign up to Newcastle for another year today - could be another one..

Google have also lauched the "Ridefinder" which sounds like a cracking idea only its to locate Taxis apparently - shame!

http://labs.google.com/ridefinder

[Paul M]

Also on Google > http://www.google.co.uk/googlegulp/

[Paul]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Also on Google > http://www.google.co.uk/googlegulp/

Best not look at the all things Gmail thread then

[TheBlueRaja]

LMAO,
Check the privacy statement at the bottom of that...

Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlexâ„¢, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear.

[Marge]

Made me think of the joke I played on BB31 (even though it wasn't April Fools Day) when I convinced her that her house was to be given to asylum seekers and she'd be evicted. I'd found some spook website where you could make false news headlines, certainly worked a treat

[Paul]

Ikea gets new boss!
Well I suppose he whould be in charge of producing something cheap and useful for a change