April Fool's Jokes .

[hamster8 at hotmail.com]

In response to Doreen's long and amusing post, I remembered a joke I 
heard tale of many years ago ...

Last time April Fool's Day fell on a Saturday, the people who present 
the Breakfast Show on London's Capital FM (which includes, sadly, the 
now infamous Chris Tarrant - responsible for giving Who Wants To Be A 
Millionaire? to a waiting world) decided it would be very funny if 
they all came in to work as normal, sent up the Flying Eye (traffic 
spotting plane) and told everyone it was Friday March 31st.  The 
production team said it would never work - people wouldn't fall for 
it ... but at seven a.m. on Saturday morning ...

... oh yes they did - rumour has it a systems analyst from 
Cricklewood drove 25 miles into the city centre, noted the traffic 
was unusually light, and spent an hour sitting in a deserted office 
before she realised she'd been had - because when the nice man on the 
radio says it's Friday, it's Friday.

Hook line and sinker!

*Al saunters vaguely westwards*