http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=april-fool The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:13:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45778#post-131689 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:11:22 +0000 Reg Herring 131689@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>April Fool’s day celebrations are to be moved to the first Monday in May the government announced today, in a bid to quietly slip in some bad news following Bradley Wiggins’ riding a bike fast good news.</p> <p>The move is designed to increase the nation’s output and transfer the traditional pranks to a public holiday where people can play jokes on each other in their own time.</p> <p>Statistics show there is a tangible dip in worker productivity on the morning of April 1st when the date falls on a working day. The most popular prank is supergluing a colleague’s mug to the desk.</p> <p>Newspapers and all other media outlets, including internet sites, will be prohibited from running spoof made-up stories on April 1st, with a minimum fine of £250,000 and the disconnection of services from their ISP.</p> <p>David Cameron said: “I know this may not be a popular idea in some quarters, but we must jolly well get this deficit down using all measures possible. It was all Nick Clegg’s idea anyway, as are all the coalition’s unpopular policies.”</p> <p>Ed Milliband said: “This is just another example of out-of-touch incompetent posh boys piling yet more misery upon hard-pressed working people. I for one will be gluing Ed Balls’ mug to his desk and advise the great British public to do no work at all next April 1st and spend all morning playing jokes on each other.”</p> <p>John Prescott said: “I tell thee, the UK has gone right down the pan since the three public schoolboy stooges of Cameron, Osborne and Johnson got in – a right bunch of comedians and another right royal fine Eton mess they’ve gotten us all into.” </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1857#post-5422 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:48:41 +0000 Alban 5422@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>More soon... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5348 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:20:09 +0000 jp1885 5348@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Re Oxbridge: Tchoh! I never noticed that one - just thought it was a particularly unfunny headline from back in the day.</p> <p>I saw something on Yahoo news about the clocks being put forward yet another hour to compensate for the crap weather. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5341 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:51:19 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 5341@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dya48uhnLeI&amp;feature=channel" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dya48uhnLeI&amp;feature=channel</a></p> <p>Google translate for animals. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5334 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:09:09 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 5334@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Then there was the one in Repubblica about Berluscosa's mausoleum being converted into a B&amp;B for British tourists; the photoshop had Basil Fawlty and Manoel setting up the rat in the dining room.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5333 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:07:09 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 5333@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.rtl.fr/fiche/5937528115/des-archeologues-decouvrent-l-entree-d-un-tunnel-reliant-la-corse-et-l-italie.html">Archeologists discover a tunnel linking Corsica to Italy</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5325 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:48:16 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 5325@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Richard Attenborough ought to do a clip on the philosophical sayings of marmouset monkeys for us to remember him by. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5323 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:42:47 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 5323@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://download.mac4ever.com/ipad_2010/detente_avec_ipad.php">iPad for grumpy old gits</a></p> <p>Hint: it comes loaded with a library of Tino Rossi's Great singles and sermons given by Monsiegneur Barnabé (not in Latin, though). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5322 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:41:41 +0000 theumpire 5322@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I expect that I am one of the very few members here who actually saw <strong><em>Richard</strong></em> Dimblebey's BBC report on the failure of the Italian spaghetti harvest, many, many years ago (Panorama as I remember). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5320 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:39:46 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 5320@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1559540565?bctid=75208828001">Dail Mail about the AAA crews</a>. Edifying. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5318 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:35:31 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 5318@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html">Google April 1</a>...summat about a yellow brick road. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5263 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:26:02 +0000 Peter 5263@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In Wikipedia's news section there was one about a Japanese company investigating how they accidently sent some customers back in time. </p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5254 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:54:42 +0000 Zadok the second 5254@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/01/labour-gordon-brown-hard-man">Guardian's attempt.</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5250 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:28:29 +0000 malgor 5250@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Spot on, Oxbridge, re the reverse April Fool FP 01/04/07. One of the funniest FPs ever. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5246 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:49:15 +0000 curry muncher 5246@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There is usually one in the Daily Mail but it would be hard to pick out. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5242 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:40:11 +0000 edward hack 5242@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Was a bit dubious about that 'Lego Art' feature to start with....but if it is for real, then it's magnificent.<br /> I know we are supposed to be cynical right now (get a life gags etc) but can't help but admire the man immensely.<br /> Please be real or i nominate myself as TOTW </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5237 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:22:09 +0000 Des Custard 5237@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://walkit.com/2010/04/londons-waterloo-and-city-tube-line-to-be-pedestrianised/">I saw this on walkit.com.</a> Sounds a good idea actually. Walkit is an excellent website for getting about London etc on foot. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5234 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:07:48 +0000 Oxbridge 5234@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The One from the Archives today must be a sort of reverse April fools in that it is a straight news story from long ago? Not a knob gag in sight. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5233 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:06:27 +0000 brownpaperreporter 5233@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2916235/93-of-Labour-candidates-leave-Gordon-Browns-picture-off-leaflets.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2916235/93-of-Labour-candidates-leave-Gordon-Browns-picture-off-leaflets.html</a></p> <p>looks a likely candidate </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5231 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:59:17 +0000 MADJEZ 5231@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I will have to check out the Sun, there's are usually so blindingly subtle that even the densest reader twigs imediately.</p> <p>BMW used to do some good newspaper ads for April 1st, like an automatic washer for the badge on the grill. They used to get tons of calls from people wanting them.</p> <p>My favourite was Autosport magazine did an article that there would be a touring car race at Heathrow Airport(because Sunday afternoons where quiet). They had plans of grandstands next to the runway and everything. They had everyone right up to the point where they said cars would qualify one at a time on Saturday in between jumbo jets landing, which would be ok because touring cars could go faster than the planes. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5230 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:57:55 +0000 brownpaperreporter 5230@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Vodafone's internal website announced the launch of a new left-handed phone model </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5226 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:37:24 +0000 allmyownstunts 5226@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's a lame one in the Telegraph about ferrets. Cute picture though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5225 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:37:10 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 5225@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sorry PM, couldn't resist. ........ "PM for PM" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5224 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:36:15 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 5224@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There was the one on here briefly about Plucky getting a FP story. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5219 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:27:14 +0000 PluckyMunky 5219@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There is one on the Google front page about animal translation. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5216 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:16:00 +0000 Scroat 5216@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Today programme carried a story about Shakespeare being half French. Haven't seen anything else. The Indy normally does one. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=1823#post-5208 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:54:24 +0000 riesler 5208@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rather than trawl the internet I thought I would try the power of Newsbiscuit. </p>