April Fools!

[LoveMyDobe]

Anybody get fooled or fooling someone today?
Gave one of the local bar owners that is been trying to sell her bar a phone number to call of someone interested in buying her bar. The number is a funeral home and the person interested is Myra Mains. Old prank but still is funny, probably not for the funeral home tho. Right up there with calling a bar to page someone by the name of Mike Hunt!!!!!Now gotta think of one to play on Hubby, any suggestions? But what comes around goes around, gotta be careful on this.
The best joke today would be if it dumped a foot of snow, not gonna happen. Mother Nature has played that trick all winter on us.
Now to trick the dogs, impossible, they are too smart!!!

 

[Dsbasecamp]

Going to put $1-bills in the ATM today,,,

 

[gary_in_neenah]

Here's a few I found from over at the Museum of Hoaxes...

On 1 April 1957, the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.

Burger King published a full page advertisement in the April 1st edition of USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich.

On 1 April 1975, Australia's This Day Tonight news program revealed that the country would soon be converting to "metric time." Under the new system there would be 100 seconds to the minute, 100 minutes to the hour, and 20-hour days. Furthermore, seconds would become millidays, minutes become centidays, and hours become decidays.

1933: The Madison Capital-Times solemnly announced that the Wisconsin state capitol building lay in ruins following a series of mysterious explosions. The explosions were attributed to "large quantities of hot air, generated through many weeks of verbose debate in the Senate and Assembly chambers." Accompanying the article was a picture showing the capitol building collapsing. In 1985 The Science Digest named this as one of the best hoaxes ever.