Favourite April Fool

[Hellyon]

Everyone always cites the Spaghetti Harvest and the fact that over 50 years later people still refer to it shows how good it was.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI

My other favourite was a small piece in the TImes during the construction of the Channel Tunnel saying that the civil engineers had realised the 2 halves of the tunnel were going to miss by 150 odd feet because the Brits had used feet and inches and the fremch had used metres.

What's your favourite?

[dot.hawkes]

The Rock FM one when the DJ said the Tall Ships were coming into Preston Dock!! apparently Preston was chocka block that day cos of it!

[Hellyon]

Oo I should try that here - we could do with some visitors in our village today!

[dundurn]

The Guardian special supplement on San Serriffe in 1977. Page after page on the Indian Ocean republic celebrating its tenth year of independence together with a map and its future commercial prospects. The following year there was nothing. The entire newspaper was avidly scoured to no avail until we noticed, buried in a sort of Court Circular item the fact that HM The Queen would be greeting the new ambassador from San Serriffe. The map on its own was a giggle - every feature related to printing in some way or other - e.g. a marsh in the centre of the island was The Woj of Type and the capital (on the island of Upper Caisse) was Bodoni.