I Pity The Fool…

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Where do I begin?

Thought I might briefly highlight some of the most interesting April Fools on the web – feel free to contribute ones you’ve seen in comments…

There’s the sponsored funerals:

The Guardian publishing on Twitter – http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

The Sun’s one is average – http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2353120.ece

The Economist is opening a theme park – http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13395767&source=features_box4

The Irish Times one actually has a lot going for it… http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0401/1224243795000.html

And Gmail autopilot is a brilliant idea!!! http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html

And Boards.ie have been taken over by Facebook… http://www.face.boards.ie/


Strangely, this story appears to be real…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/apr/01/newcastle-united-alan-shearer-manager

Any more really, really good ones?

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  2. David
    April 1, 2009 at 11:49 am

    Cough cough… ;)

  3. Paul Anthony
    April 1, 2009 at 11:51 am

    Hi Rick,

    I’m updating this post as they are found..

    http://blog.webdistortion.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-day-roundup/

  4. Rick
    April 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    Peter, one of the genuine all time greats… Wonder would Panorama get in trouble for wasting licencepayers money were they to do the same today?

    Paul, they’re mega!!

    David, that’s a nasty cough you have there…

  5. TheChrisD
    April 1, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    I’m just avoiding the Internet today. And spending all my time on Google’s hoaxes Wikipedia page.

  7. Peter
    April 1, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    rick, i wonder if they’d apologise after :)

  8. Ian
    April 2, 2009 at 7:37 am

    I could have swore the Alan Shearer one was an April Fool’s, obviously not.

    Jaysis!

  9. Ruairi
    April 2, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    Pat Kenny leaves RTE to join SpunOut.ie
    http://www.spunout.ie/about/Blog/Pat-Kenny-leaves-RTE-to-join-SpunOut.ie!

  10. Derry
    April 3, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Wales v Ireland 6 nations match to be replayed
    http://europeansportsnews.com/
    clever bit of marketing too

  11. Paul Anthony
    April 3, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    http://www.bbcsportnews.co.uk/harte-shocker.php

    Again, clever viral.

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