Is it typically a UK thing? Or do other countries have to suffer idiot co-workers with their hilarious practical jokes on this day!?
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: 1st April - 29/03/2003 11:03
It's in the US, too. It's based on something from fairly ancient France (Edit: okay, that's overstating it -- I think it was the 16th Century; do a search on ``april fool gregorian'' and you'll get some ``useful'' data), so I expect that it's widely European, and the US has is because it was there before we came from England and elsewhere.
Posted by: mtempsch
Re: 1st April - 29/03/2003 11:05
Well, here in Sweden it's mostly newpapers and TV news that are involved. Phony ads in the papers are pretty common too.
A classic (from many years ago) was that you could make a B/W TV show colo[u]rs by stretching a nylon stocking over the tube...
/Michael
Posted by: Anonymous
Re: 1st April - 29/03/2003 11:17
I wonder of Donald Rumsfeld will play a joke at a 4/1/03 press conference. "Saddam's dead!" or "We nuked to Baghdad."
Posted by: muzza
Re: 1st April - 29/03/2003 17:15
Yeah, that'd go over a treat.
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Posted by: wfaulk
Re: 1st April - 30/03/2003 10:34
Don't you remember when Ronald Reagan declared that ``we will being bombing [Russia] in five minutes''?
That went over like gangbusters.