Top 100 April fools hoaxes of all time.

[Jhill]

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

 

[Snapster]

Can't forget the old Spaghetti tree's You should have seen how we tried to eat pasta in the old fashioned well mannered way when it was first introduced.

 

[Tsaico]

Some of those were really good!

 

[Phokus]

Can the people who actually requested the 'left handed whopper' please get off my planet?

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Can the people who actually requested the 'left handed whopper' please get off my planet?

LOL I was going through the list and that was the first one that really made me sick. People are so fucking stupid it's pathetic.

 

[destrekor]

The one that worked the best (and I didn't see in the list), was more of a local thing.
About 9 years ago iirc, a Sandusky, OH local paper ran a story that the Cedar Point rollercoaster Magnum XL-200's foundations were sinking into the ground, and that Cedar Fair was going to sell off the coaster to another park in Ohio.
I never knew it was ran as a April Fools joke article, but I never bought into it anyway, believing it was just hearsay. But so many people in school (and their parents even!) believed it and I could never convince them it was a hoax. That was one of the most viral and uncontrolled hoaxes ever, because very few caught the brief article that stated it was only a joke, and everyone believed it.
Come on... a ride that was about only 8 or less years old, had foundation that was suddenly sinking? Did the bedrock suddenly change depth or disappear? :laugh:

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[waffleironhead]

#15 Ladies please show me your bras....NOW! <<<<<<Smack>>>>>>

 

[ChaoZ]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Can the people who actually requested the 'left handed whopper' please get off my planet?

Quiet righty.

 

[hellokeith]

Taco Liberty Bell FTW :thumbsup:

 

[DrPizza]

#9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
In its April 1995 issue Discover Magazine announced that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history.

Had me fooled for a month. I showed coworkers the article. Since I was looked upon as a credible source, not a single person picked up on it. Plus, since the April issue comes out in March, I was caught off-guard.