Will Get Fooled Again
Apr. 1st, 2012 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steepholmI dislike practical jokes that are aimed at individuals, but have always been a sucker (in every sense) for the elaborate spoofs that broadcasters and newspapers get up to on April Fool's Day. The fact that they are aimed at everyone dilutes the humiliation to acceptable levels.
This morning I woke to a rather nice story on Radio 4's Sunday programme, based on the recent fashion for using real donkeys at Palm Sunday services, which has led - so the story went - to a spate of rustling, and in some cases the substitution of donkeys with llamas (because the prophecy of Zechariah, which Jesus was fulfilling, can be translated as referring simply to a "pack animal").
I've come across several more since - the first email in my inbox this morning was an ad for a machine that would print photographs onto toast - but I'm bound to miss most of them. So, if you've seen a really good April Fool this year, feel free to link to it here, or (if it's not linkable) describe it. I'd like to read it.
Meanwhile, no one knows how to do Relaxed like Jessie.
"As swimmers into cleanness leaping..."
This morning I woke to a rather nice story on Radio 4's Sunday programme, based on the recent fashion for using real donkeys at Palm Sunday services, which has led - so the story went - to a spate of rustling, and in some cases the substitution of donkeys with llamas (because the prophecy of Zechariah, which Jesus was fulfilling, can be translated as referring simply to a "pack animal").
I've come across several more since - the first email in my inbox this morning was an ad for a machine that would print photographs onto toast - but I'm bound to miss most of them. So, if you've seen a really good April Fool this year, feel free to link to it here, or (if it's not linkable) describe it. I'd like to read it.
Meanwhile, no one knows how to do Relaxed like Jessie.
"As swimmers into cleanness leaping..."
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Date: 2012-04-01 07:24 pm (UTC)(not a newpaper or broadcaster so i'm not sure if it's what you wanted?)
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Date: 2012-04-01 12:18 pm (UTC)Also, the front page of Wikipedia on April 1st is always very clever.
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Date: 2012-04-01 02:04 pm (UTC)I don't actually think that. With newspapers, I read them for facts and am furious when they print stuff that isn't true, even in fun. On sites like Facebook, I hate it when people who think they're your friends try to make you feel and look stupid. i admit this may be because I'm quite slow to "get" jokes. But I loathe !st April and usually avoid looking at the internet until 12.
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