Any good April Fool stories?

sweetpotatoboy · Post by **sweetpotatoboy** » Mon April 4th, 2011, 1:11 pm

Just came across this one published by The Bookseller on Friday about British bookshops facing quotas on the number of foreign authors they can stock.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/gover ... thors.html

Anyone else seen any good ones?

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Mon April 4th, 2011, 1:22 pm

Its sort of April Fools, but it would make sense any day of the week - at a Borders in Chicago that is closing, sign on a store window: No Public Restrooms. Try Amazon.

sweetpotatoboy · Post by **sweetpotatoboy** » Mon April 4th, 2011, 1:52 pm

And how about this one from one of our own?
http://susandhigginbotham.blogspot.com/ ... aster.html

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Mon April 4th, 2011, 2:29 pm

My blog stats went sky high on April 1. Wordpress.com uses a bar graph to show views and here was this mountain, which puzzled me to no end. When I hovered my cursor over the bar, it showed a normal number and the message "April Fools." Personally thought it was a bit lame and unprofessional. I wasn't doing any happy dance over my inflated bar, just thought it was a software glitch on their part, until I noticed the message.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Mon April 4th, 2011, 2:35 pm

[quote=""sweetpotatoboy""]And how about this one from one of our own?
http://susandhigginbotham.blogspot.com/ ... aster.html[/quote]

That was a most excellent April Fools, wasn't it?

boswellbaxter · Post by **boswellbaxter** » Mon April 4th, 2011, 3:15 pm

Thanks, Sweetpotatoboy and Misfit!

Gmail had a good one:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Mon April 4th, 2011, 6:46 pm

One of my cousins posted a fake ultrasound picture on her Facebook profile.

And some very cruel people put out fake articles about Netflix (and others) getting licensing to produce new episodes of Firefly.

Elysium · Post by **Elysium** » Mon April 4th, 2011, 9:39 pm

One radio station told that there is new law that censors all finnish and english swearing in songs. Like ass, ****, rape.... That there would we be this beep-sound when there is swearing. Gotta tell that Rape Me by Nirvana sounded pretty interesting

It was little too early when I heard that and it took longer than I care to admit before I realised what day it was