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We all love a good joke especially on April Fools day so I’ve put together some of the best pranks of all time but I’d love to know what April Fools jokes you’ve ever played or had done to you?

Top April Fools Day Pranks:

1. Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
   On April Fools Day in 1957 Panorama aired footage of Swiss Spaghetti Farmers picking spaghetti from trees. The fake footage was aired as a joke, but viewers called in to find out how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. Instead of coming clean, the BBC replied, “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”
2. YouYube Rickrolls Everyone 
   All over the internet links were being posted that claimed to be something else, but actually lead to the music video for RIck Astley’s hit Never Gonna Give You Up. This act was known as Rickrolling and YouTube took it to a whole other level on April Fool’s Day 2008. YouTube made every featured video on their site a link to RIck Astley’s famously cheesy music video.
3. Man Runs 26 Day Marathon
   The Daily Mail reported that a Japanese man had entered the 1981 London Marathon and due to a mistranslation thought he had to run for 26 days, not miles. A man was spotted running outside of London and wouldn’t stop when people tried to get his attention. The whole story turned out to be a hoax and the man that people saw was just another piece to the elaborate prank by The Daily Mail.
4. Left-Handed Whopper
   The April 1st 1998 edition of the USA Today featured a full page ad by Burger King announcing the creation of their latest twist on their most popular sandwich, The Left Handed Whopper. The ad stated that the condiments on the burger were rotated 180 degrees for easier consumption by people who were left handed. The following day Burger King released a press release that confirmed that the Left-Handed Whopper was not real and that thousands of people went into various Burger Kings asking for both left and right-handed Whoppers.
5. Whistling Carrots
   Tesco ran an ad in The Sun that announced that they had developed genetically modified carrots that grew with tapered air holes in their sides. When the carrot was fully cooked the carrot would use these air holes and whistle. Unfortunately for many disappointed customers, Tesco made the whole thing up, but most likely sold more carrots than usual.
6. Google: Mentalplex
   The first time Google pulled a prank was for April Fool’s Day in 2000. Google announced it’s new Mentalplex Technology which claimed to be able to read a user’s mind so they didn’t have to enter their search query. A person using Mentalplex would have to stare at a revolving shape and then would be treated to a Google Results page for April Fool’s Day.
7. BBC’s Flying Penguins
   The Daily Mirror and Telegraph both believed a documentary about flying penguins on the BBC was true. Even with ex-Monty Python, Terry Jones presenting the documentary didn’t give the game away.

If you are in the mood for a bit of fun then make sure you take part in our April Fools Bingo games today from 6-11pm.

Have a great day; we hope you only have good surprises today!

Hi all!  I hope everyone had a fun April Fools’ Day and a great Friday overall.  Just to be 100% clear, the post yesterday claiming we had a winner for our blog naming contest was purely a jest and all in good fun.

Truth is, there isn’t a contest for naming the blog, we have not decided on what it should be named, and the player “Loof_Lirpa” (April_Fool) does not exist nor received a prize of fertilizer (animal or other) and grass seed.

Hope I didn’t get anyone too badly this year.

Have a great weekend!!!

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In just four short days, we will be running into the day of the year where thousands of wives announce pregnancies, millions of the employed proclaim they’ve been fired, and a trillion children’s gags will all be heard with the same punch line:  “April Fool!”

Yes, that often-forgotten-about-until-the-day-of informal holiday, April Fools’ Day is just around the corner.   Besides this being the day which most of us think, “April finally/already?”, we also find ourselves the marks of public trickery and silliness.

So garb yourself with armor of rationalization and arm yourself with a sharpened spear of logic as we take a look at some noteworthy (at times, nerdworthy) April Fools’ Day pranks to give you some idea of what we’ll be up against in less than 84 hours.

The Left-Handed Whopper

Back in 1998, Burger King trolled the world by advertising the new “Left-Handed Whopper” in a full-page ad in USA Today.  Claiming that this new burger would cater to the niche of millions of left-handed customers by rotating all condiments 180°, Burger King had successfully completed what all pranks like this are supposed to achieve: to get at least one person to believe the story.  And people did believe; southpaws and right-handeds alike started asking for their non-ambidextrous sandwiches.

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

In an amazing display of accidental success from an unexpected idea, techie toy and gadget online store, ThinkGeek.com had thousands of visitors clambering to buy what was meant to be a joke item.  The Tauntaun Sleeping bag, a sleeping bag fashioned to resemble a beast in Star Wars, was an immediate ‘must-have’ item for their audience.  Just how great was demand?  Enough customers stated their interest in buying the joke sleeping bag that ThinkGeek.com has introduced it as a real item.  Check out the Youtube video to see it’s greatness!

Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune

These two Merv Griffon productions have had their share of April Fools’ Day fun.  The fun started in 197 when Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak switched their roles and hosted the opposite respective gameshows.  Then again in 2008, both hosts pranked their audiences – this time with Pat Sajak wearing a wig and baldcap, and Alex Trebek wearing a false mustache.  Last years’ fun continued with many small changes in the show and general silliness of the productions.  Be sure to watch these shows this year, as I’m putting my money on their being some further April Fools’ Fun.

Do you remember any remarkable, funny, or memorable April Fools’ Day pranks?  I’d love to hear about it -  join us over at our Facebook fan page and add to the fun by sharing your stories!