As usual on april 1st, i forgot. and got a bit confused by certain reported stories. then woke up and went looking for the best of the april fool's articles.
The Guardian got me til i spotted the author's name. because let's face it, this is actually just the sort of thing you would expect after last week's madness.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/apr/01/7
The Metro reported BMW waging war on dogs who pee on their cars
(quoting one Lola Forpi - read it and weep anagram lovers)
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=130296&in_page_id=34
The Sun take the Apr 1 classic UFO story and bring it up to date with a Google earth twist:
http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article985644.ece
Speaking of Google, they really upped the ante by creating a whole site and inviting us all to join them on mars ("the open source planet").
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
That's all for now, as i guess i should really get *some* work done this morning.
If thats not enough for you, here's an article listing some of the best April Fool's jokes from previous years.
http://www.metro.co.uk/home/article.html?in_article_id=130213&in_page_id=1
**ADDED**: Penguin related BBC April Fools. hurrah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qDl1aH9l4
1 comment:
:D Thanks for sharing those little snippets. Big smiles all round for the penguins! K x
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