Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time

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Some of you might know this, but anyway...

Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time

Here's the first one.

1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Check out the actual broadcast archived on the BBC's website (You need the RealVideo player installed to see it, and it usually loads very slowly).
 
My vote for the greatest (home-grown, no less!) April Fools' Day Hoax of All Time is this whole "CIC Complete" thang. :D
 
The CIC Complete hing was pretty good, but the the number one for me was last year on theforce.net. They changed it to like nsync.net for the first visit for you that day. They said they did it because of the failing Star Wars community so they decided to do an N'Sync community thing. Boy it scared the shite out of me and many others.
 
I will admit that when a long time ago I was taken in easily (like when I first started getting into the internet like 4 years ago), but now I just don't trust anything I see on a website on April 1st.
 
Originally posted by TC
Wow, you're really gullible, aren't you?
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I 'member back in High School a person like that used to be called a "fish"

Example USAGE:
"You believed that?...you're such a fish!"
 
Crazy conservative university to begin with. All that stuff shows up in the editorial section of my university paper every day.
 
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