League_Girl wrote:
MotherKnowsBest wrote:
ikorack wrote:
daspie wrote:
ikorack wrote:
This is f**ked up.
What do you mean?
It's a sick joke, not even funny.
For once, I actually agree with you.
April fools joke are supposed to be about getting people to believe daft things, like the flying penguins or spaghetti trees, not delivering awful news and then mocking people for believing it.
I didn't mock anyone. And everyone knows penguins can't fly or there isn't such thing as spaghetti trees so who would fall for that? Only a child of course.
That's the whole point. When it's done well, and the penguins were done very well, people do believe them. The BBC ran a trailer for a documentary on this previously unreported species. You can watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4
(Sorry I don't know how to get it to show in my post)
Here's the spaghetti trees, another BBC one (bear in mind spaghetti was a strange exotic foreign food at the time);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ
I fell hook, line and sinker for an April Fool in a national newspaper a few years ago. Their article claimed that Tony Blair had had the door of Downing Street repainted from it's 100s of years old traditional black to the colour of the labour party, red. Flouting all sorts of planning and conservation laws. They even had pictures of it being done. I was completely outraged and was fuming about it. It was only later when they were laughing about it in Parliament that I realised I'd been had.