[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: April Fool's Jokes .
Doreen
nera at rconnect.com
Tue Mar 20 07:40:30 UTC 2001
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*
Reminiscent of Orson Welles, isn't it? That is really funny!
One of my teachers played an April Fool's joke on my classmate. He had the
boy leave on an errand; told us he was going to tell a joke when the boy
came back and that we were to laugh when he said, "Jeronimo." The boy came
back, he told the joke with the Jeronimo line, we laughed, the boy stood
there, looking totally confused, we laughed even more. The teacher repeated
the joke... we were on the floor by now... finally the teacher let him off
the hook by explaining.
Doreen
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