The Top 100 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time

[william_brasky]

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/

[sanantoniosooner]

I'm not falling for that.

[william_brasky]

I'm not falling for that.

**** off dip****

[william_brasky]

I remember falling for the Sidd Finch article hook, line, and sinker. That was pure greatness.

[william_brasky]

many of you f'in hillbillies need to look at #24.

[BajaOklahoma]

The Spaghetti tree cracks me up. They showed it on the news last night.

It really makes you wonder about the IQ of some people.

[william_brasky]

#59: Nat Tate
A lavish party was held at Jeff Koons's New York studio in 1998 to honor the memory of the late, great American artist Nat Tate, that troubled abstract expressionist who destroyed 99 percent of his own work before leaping to his death from the Staten Island ferry. At the party superstar David Bowie read aloud selections from William Boyd's soon-to-be released biography of Tate, "Nat Tate: An American Artist, 1928-1960." Critics in the crowd murmured appreciative comments about Tate's work as they sipped their drinks. The only catch was that Tate had never existed. He was the satirical creation of William Boyd. Bowie, Boyd, and Boyd's publisher were the only ones in on the joke.

[OUDoc]

#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.
People, man. :rolleyes:

[william_brasky]

I chuckled at that one too Doc. The power of suggestion.

[william_brasky]

The Spaghetti tree cracks me up. They showed it on the news last night.

It really makes you wonder about the IQ of some people.

I had never heard of the Spaghetti tree. That is pure genious.

[william_brasky]

Here's the entire Sidd Finch article. I re-read it. I forgot how hilarious it was.

http://www.bostonbaseball.com/whitesox/baseball_extras/sidd.html