Post 127: April Fools' Day!

Happy April Fools' Day all! I've got no 'just kidding' or 'April Fools' jokes for you I'm afraid. And it is hard to top some of the one's that have already been done. Which is why I want to dedicate this post to all the April Fools' Day jokes that cannot be topped (both fictional and real). Starting with the Spaghetti Tree.

1: The Spaghetti Tree. In 1957, BBC ran a 3-minute feature talking about how Spaghetti grows on trees. Some people took it so seriously, they called the network asking how they could grow their own Spaghetti tree. They also got less than enthusiastic calls from housewives who had gotten into argument with their husbands, because their husbands didn't believe them when they said pasta was made from flour.

2. On the show Family Guy, there was a fake dooms day joke. The local lews station reported that a meteor was hurtling towards Earth and they would all be dead in less that 24 hours. The joke itself was cruel. There were suicides and people quit their jobs and broke the law, but there was an interesting message to the whole thing. Though, perhaps, I am reaching. It was a local news show. If anyone had checked any other news station, ANY OTHER, they would have none it wasn't real. So, an extreme example of what happens when you rely solely on one source for the news.

3. The Mirror claimed that Fernando Torres was going to perform the ritual of “Dia de los Inocentes”, which would include him leading a goat around the Stamford Bridge pitch and then defecating in the goalmouths, to keep evil spirits form blocking his shots on goal. 

4. The iPhone. Yes, that's right, the iPhone was an April Fools' joke at one point. In 2004, Pocket-Lint announced that Apple was going to be making their iPod's into phones. In 2007, they did. Though, not exactly as was announced. Maybe that is where the idea came from, though I'm guessing it had been floating around for awhile.

5. CNET announced proof of the Force, as in the Force from Star Wars. They even quoted Ben Kenobi of the University of Mos Eisley, Tatooine. I wonder if anyone fell for this one like they did for the Spaghetti Tree.