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Post by CMF Newsman on Mar 29, 2007 8:55:54 GMT -5
NEW YORK (AFP) - From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool's Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history. Here are 10 of the top April Fool's Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped. complete story |
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joedog
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Post by joedog on Mar 29, 2007 17:35:09 GMT -5
Burger King and the planetary grav shift are the best in "MY" book
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Post by gridbug on Mar 29, 2007 17:43:59 GMT -5
Don't forget the Chattanooga Classics:
Redioactive gravel used while repaving the ridge cut.
The B-2 Bomber that came to Lovell Field.
It is a shame WGOW can't do any more tricks...
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Post by Sherry on Mar 30, 2007 9:45:05 GMT -5
I don't remember the radioactive gravel prank, but I do remember the bomber at the airport. And, after that one, I THINK it was 98.1 that said "Eminem" was going to give a free concert in the parking lot of Sir Gooneys... I knew it was a prank, but sadly, curiousity got the best of me that day and I HAD to go check it out. - Twas entertaining though after the cops got there  |
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Post by Gary on Mar 30, 2007 9:48:43 GMT -5
Back when I was doing mornings at Star 98, we had a classic prank where we changed the format of the station to "Garth 98 - All Garth, All The Time" and spent the entire day playing nothing but Garth Brooks tunes. We had new liners recorded, the label gave us 78 tracks to use, and we even made the radio trades as if it were a true story. It was fun.  |
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Post by Sherry on Mar 30, 2007 10:07:38 GMT -5
My daughter pulled a good one on me a few years ago.
She took a screen shot of my desktop, hid my real icons, used that screen shot as my background then sat back and watched while I was trying to figure out why my computer was frozen.
...and later that night, I had discovered that all of my canned goods had the wrong labels on them!
;D
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Post by gridbug on Mar 30, 2007 11:23:32 GMT -5
My daughter pulled a good one on me a few years ago. Now I wonder where she learned dirty tricks like that (but not really...) |
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Post by el Gusano on Mar 30, 2007 22:05:21 GMT -5
I need some good ones to play on my family.
Most of the ones I can come up with are either too grandiose or too mean.
Or both.
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