h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just wondering if anyone has seen or been subjected to any good April Fool jokes/pranks. Here's one I received by email:

Learn to speak dog with Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone Dog will change the way humans interact with dogs forever!

The green party

This one A87851343

Er, I think the idea is to make them untrue. This one's the only factual one in the series.

one... I think... but I can't link to it... due to ... its content err... a website... selling products... and as one does I noticed a link, cliked on to it... and found.... world campionship results for ... people using err.. things winning events based on their use... - It took me a worringly long time to figure out it was an april fools; even the dates being years ahead, didn't click in my brain straight away err... I might add someone made me to go the website... not by my choisce.... it was... for... err... accademic research pruposes.... honest...

If Shakespeare had written instructions for the Hokey Pokey in sonnet form:

O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke — banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.

http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/articles/hokey_pokey_brechlin.htm

Tesco announced it was installing trampolines in the aisles between shelves so that customers could reach products on the top shelf.

I routinely go to the cleaners & detergents aisle to get brooms or mops so I can use them to reach top shelves in other aisles.

One for Bluebottle:

http://www.wightlink.co.uk/pressrelease/wightlink-ferries-introduce-water-ski-crossings/

For £300 per person I would want a steak dinner with several bottles of wine and a taxi to my 5 star hotel

It won't be long before that's the standard price of a car day return...

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You've heard of ice hotels? Well, there are ocean-themed hotels now, including some five starfish ones.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g51947-d648063-Reviews-Starfish_Manor_Oceanfront_Hotel-Lincoln_City_Oregon.html

Pah - see: http://www.isleofcowes.webeden.co.uk/home/4588082163

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Isle of Couwes?

I love cows?

Dairy ask why?

They've been building a breakwater outside the towns of Cowes and East Cowes for the last year, and yesterday there was a news story that it was going to be an offshore tax haven and hotel, when in fact it is little more than a pile of rubble.

The other Isle of Wight news story was how the Island's bus service, Southern Vectis, was introducing new triple-deckers to meet increased demand.

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That daft idea if it goes ahead has/will thoroughly rollocksed the unique nature of the IOW. When are the arabs going to move in

What the island needs is a tunnel

I don' know much about Arab transportation. Are they fond of triple-decker buses?

Well, there's Humphrey the three-humped camel...

The BBC had a list of things which "sounded like April Fools' but were actually true."

What I would like would be a list of old April Fools that have since become true. I can remember, for example, when it used to be a joke to look at your watch to see what the date is.

OK - so there'll never be spaghetti trees, but many others surely have come true...