April Fool Jokes

The following April fool jokes are from a web site listing many from newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television, and various network sites. There are many sites and if you want a good laugh, dial into one.

April 1998 The newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason contained an article by physicist Mark Beslough claiming the Alabama Legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant of pi.

April 1998 Burger King ran an ad in USA Today saying customers could now order left hand Woppers with condiments designed to drip out the right side. Customers not only ordered left hand Woppers, but many asked the 'old' right hand Woppers.

April 1996 Taco Bell took out a full page ad in the New York Times announcing the purchase of the Liberty Bell, to help reduce the country's debt and renamed, Taco Liberty Bell. When the white house press secretary, Mike McCurry was asked about the sale, with tongue-in-cheek said that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold and would now be known as "The Lincoln Mercury Memorial".

April 1950 The Dutch TV news reported that the Tower of Pisa had fallen over. Many shocked people contacted the station.

April 1980 The BBC reported a proposed change to the famous clock tower, known as Big Ben, would go digital. England was shocked.

April 1908 NPR, (National Public Radio) reported that the IRS, in order to assure rebate checks were actually spent, would ship consumers products instead of checks. It also ran false sponsor mentions such as The Soylent Corp that manufactured protein rich foods in a variety of colors with the slogan, "Soylent Green is People".

April 2008 CBC Radio interviewed a Royal Canadian Mint spokes person announcing plans to replace the Canadian five-dollar bill with a three-dollar coin. The coin, dubbed a 'threenie' in line with the nicknames of the one-dollar coin called a 'loonie' due to the depiction of a loon on the reverse, and the two-dollar coin called a 'toonie'.