01/04/2009

It's April Fools' Day!

I've been scanning the media for their prank stories:

'Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink'- an article detailing how the Guardian will now be exclusively published on Twitter. I particularly like the twitterisation of stories from the past, such as "OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5x6e for more" and "JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?"

The Times were a bit weak this year. They had a picture of sheep painted in rainbow colours to celebrte tartan week, or something like that. Clearly someone adept at photoshop had too much time. Nice pic though!

The Telegraph went for a story about how the Environment Agency have proposed that fish swimming up rivers could generate green electricity. Trials were being overseen by Gavin Roach for the Universite de Poisson d'Avril in Paris.
I very much like the Daily Mail's image of Jacqui Smith leaving a branch of Ann Summers, as ridiculous as it is. Unfortunately, that page has now been removed!

Metro went for an 18 room 'hotelicopter'. Not a chance!

And the rest... the Daily Mirror claimed to have conducted an interview with 'Deal or No Deal's' anonymous 'Banker', the Sun went down a football route, saying that the Ukranian national anthem is 6 minutes long and contained the lyrics "there is no such thing as chicken Moscow" (painful!) (England vs. Ukraine is tonight) and the Daily Express had an invisible car.

And that appears to be that! Oh, and I did stumble across this story, which I assumed was an April Fool, about a man foiling a bank robbery as he assumed it was an April Fool. I like it very much. I've also been enjoying procrastinating on this site of the top 100 April Fools' Day jokes of all time. Didn't know about the left-handed Whopper burger.

UPDATE: Just found out Youtube's featured videos all revolve around (geddit?) being upside-down. I believe the expression is 'lol'.

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