April Fools

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April 1, 1998: The Left-Handed Whopper - In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."

April 1, 1996: The Taco Liberty Bell - In 1996, the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Naturally, hundreds of outraged citizens called up the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell is housed to express their anger. Things only calmed down when Taco Bell revealed a few hours later that it was just a practical joke.

1989: UFO Lands in London - On March 31, 1989 thousands of motorists driving on the highway outside London looked up in the air to see a glowing flying saucer descending on their city. Many of them pulled to the side of the road to watch the bizarre craft float through the air. The saucer finally landed in a field on the outskirts of London where local residents immediately called the police to warn them of an alien invasion. Soon the police arrived on the scene, and one brave officer approached the craft with his truncheon extended before him. When a door in the craft popped open, and a small, silver-suited figure emerged, the policeman ran in the opposite direction. The saucer turned out to be a hot-air balloon that had been specially built to look like a UFO by Richard Branson, the 36-year-old chairman of Virgin Records. The stunt combined his passion for ballooning with his love of pranks. His plan was to land the craft in London's Hyde Park on April 1. Unfortunately, the wind blew him off course, and he was forced to land a day early in the wrong location.

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April 1985: Sidd Finch in Sports Illustrated - In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton.
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I think the pregnant scam is perfect .. only you have to make it real. Not just a remark and then laugh about it.

When you two see each other, spend the first hour or so being really quiet, like you are very disturbed about something. Then when she finally pulls it out of you, start crying .. you're so upset, you don't know what you're goig to do because you know it's not your Capman's baby, and you're so upset ... how can you tell him? How can you abort?

Let her get all worked up for several hours ... then smack her upside the head and tell her she's a gullible fool.

Buy her a drink !!!!

Laugh your ass off !!!!
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""My 17yr old sister text me this morning saying she needed to talk to me and could she come down because she just found out she was pregnant.

I freaked out for like 5 minutes then it hit me - April bloody fools day.""



My best friend got me with the same prank a few years ago. Only it never dawned on me that it was April Fools. I, too, was not amused. I sat there and devised an entire plan of how she would transfer schools and get the assistance she needed in order to complete her degree, while constantly offering her soothing reassurance. I mean, it was a whole timeline I created!