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April Fools?
Do you celebrate April fools day?
It’s a day over here where you play tricks on people and say “April fools” and everyone laughs. There is some history behind it, but I don’t remember all of it so I won’t bother trying to explain it.
So I got my partner at work this morning. I work at 6 and he shows up at 6:30 so I had half an hour to get him.
First I turned his computer monitor backwards, took the wheels off his chair, and took all our work orders off the desk and hid them. I also took the phone and made it so it rang but was dead when you picked it up.
I then hid in another office when he showed up and told someone to let him know I called in sick. I then kept calling him until he figured out what was wrong with the phone. I figured it would be about 30 seconds, but after 20 minutes he still didn’t know how to fix it. It was so funny.
After we went to break later in the day I took a bunch of packaging “peanuts” and filled his desk with them. :lol1:
-Marek
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I remember years ago when the local TV News company (Look North i think) did a story about spaggetti trees. Amazing how many people fell for it
Iain
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Many years ago, we had a well known businessman, D!ck Smith from D!ck Smith Electronics fame, let it be known that he was going to take a ‘jumbo’ under the Sydney Harbour Bridge. All the radio stations picked up the story about a week before, and for days, everyone was wondering how he was going to pull a stunt like it off, because a Jumbo jet is so big, and the space under the Sydney Harbour Bridge is so low. Plus, it is llegal. It was discussed on morning TV and radio, as well as in the papers, at considerable length. Pilots were interveiwed expressing opinions on the difficulty involved, just about every day.
When he was interveiwed on the radio in the week leading up to the event, he claimed that it was going to be a very serious attempt to take a ‘jumbo’ under the bridge, legal or not, and urged anyone that wanted to see it, to be on the shoreline just before lunch. Claiming it would probably be the last time someone attempts to do such a thing.
On the day, thousands of people lined every vantage point, TV crews were everywhere.
Someone saw a qantas jumbo heading toward the bridge just before mid day, and everyones attention turned to the sky. Suddenly it turned away at what seemed the last minute. It was only then that everyone noticed the ‘jumbo’ elephant on a pontoon slowly gliding under the bridge.
Easily one of the best april fools joke in recent history.
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I remember the Spaghetti trees
That was a few years ago
Mark
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That’s a good one dsi. What’s the story on the spaghetti tree?
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The spaghetti tree was Jonathan Dimbley or someone like that. They basically set out a spoof film of the spaghetti harvests in Italy, where hundreds of peasant farmers would pick spaghetti from the trees, package it and send it all over the world. It was shot in black & white, usual for the day, but it was such a serious looking report that hundreds of Britons really did believe that spaghetti grew on trees! :lol1:
I mean come on, we all know it grows underground! How could ppl have been so silly? :lol1:
Cheers, Dewi
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