Your best April Fool?

I remember yrs ago phoning Edinburgh zoo asking to speak tome G Raff caught them out every time

Squiffy: I remember Potters Museum , it used to fascinate me too as a child. It later was moved to Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, and eventually sold to America where it was broken up.

One April Fools’ Day when our (not well liked) Headteacher was out on a course, Assembly was led by a senior teacher in a Hall with four points of entry/exit. The classes were delighted when told to file in one door then straight out of another!

The senior teacher had the last laugh, however, when it came to the time to pray. Having requested the usual, “Hands together, eyes closed,” he quietly slipped out of the nearest exit!

That evening there was a governors' meeting at which I amused the attendees by relating this to them, much to the discomfort of the Headteacher. 😉

Grandma2218, I love that one!

Brilliant Grandma2218!! I wonder if you kept a straight face.
Wasn't it Gorm the old? first king of Denmark

Poor friend Marydoll . That could count as cruelty.

My best April Fool was on a class of Year 9 secondary pupils that had always been a difficult class with terrible behaviour. I told them they had to do an important test given out by the government in silence and gave out papers with impossible questions like 'Who was the first King of Denmark?' 'Why did the shoe industry start in Nottingham? 'Explain how the combustion engine works' and many more. The paper started with 'Read all the questions before you start,' which of course none of them did as the last one said 'You don't need to answer the questions. April Fool!' It took a good ten minutes and a lot of shocked faces before some of them realised and started smiling, even though I had written the date on the blackboard for them to copy down. They were much easier to teach after that!!

I once sent amy very prudish teaching friend, a letter from the LA, saying that she had been selected to go on sex education training and would be delivering a course to Primary Seven boys in our cluster schools.

She was an infant teacher, who spent her career avoiding P7.
She was incandescant with rage and marched to the head teacher to vent her anger.
She was not amused when she found out it was an April Fool.

One of the first things I saw when I woke up yesterday was Ocado’s advert for the Kimchi and Cheese Smelt. Just for a minute until I read the comments underneath I was taken in . And yes, I’d buy it!

The cheddar cheese and funky kimchi are bound together by a toasted piece of bread that keeps all the oozy goodness packed in. So, the next time you fancy a kimcheese toastie, simply light your candle and enjoy the aromas of the cheese as it melts away; all that's left to do is tuck in

We were expecting Ofsted around that time and one of the teachers sent in a letter to the head supposedly from a new government department called Insted, which had been set up to shadow and inspect the Ofsted inspectors and would be coming in at the same time. He’d gone into great detail about what the Insted team would do at the inspection, and included some clever puns and heavy hints that it was a joke. But somehow the cleverly mocked up letter looked so official that the head fell for it hook, line and sinker. After ranting to his senior management team, he called a staff meeting to discuss the Insted inspection. The teacher was horrified that it had gone so far and really nervous when he went in to confess!

I got married to my second husband on 1 April Fools' Day. Does that count?

Rather liked the Ant and Dec statement, released on Twitter, that they were in talks with the James Bond movie franchise concerning roles in the next film.

🤣M would have loved the chance to cut someone’s hair😳😂

I can just imagine all those gullible parents patiently trying to grow their hair. Brilliant!
Susan

Definitely a prank Grammaretto!

I remember enjoying the Esther Rantzen programme's Lirpa Loof zoo animal which produced purple poo.

The best for me will always be the Panorama spaghetti trees, even though it was after midday, which should be the cut-off point.

There was one from America once that reported contact had been made with extraterrestrials. I so wanted it to be true!

Very funny

My DH is quite the one for April fool and has played some awful tricks.
One year he had to work on a Saturday and it was April fool's day. Work was a flutter because a famous actor was making a film nearby. He told someone they had ,had a phone call and the actor was coming in for Emergency treatment. She started to prepare and it was only when he heard her talking to Senior management about possible Police security he actually fezzed up. Luckily they all saw the joke and took it well. She did try to get him back the next year but he was on his guard and rumbled her,

Are you quite sure the haircutting badge was a prank. Susan?

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I think my favourite was the invention of an idyllic island. Apparently lots of people tried to book holidays on San Seriffe despite all the place names being puns or fonts.

There was a very elaborate and clever one on a political page I follow involving Boris Johnson being adopted as parliamentary candidate for Yarmouth. Due to boundary changes in the area. it detailed where the existing MPs would be standing, and said they looked forward to welcoming Mr & Mrs Johnson to all the best that Great Yarmouth could offer . It was very well put together, using facts and local knowledge.

DP did a gotcha on me this morning, I’d forgotten what date it was.He said dentist had rung and needs to see me today, had checked my last xray and I needed 4 teeth removed!!
I had to laugh afterwards but for a few mins was horrified.

Very good Susan56 🤣

I saw our newspaper on April Fool's Day in 1990 and told DH the main story was an elaborate joke! Unfortunately we soon realised the pictures of smoke, flame and general chaos in Trafalgar Square were in fact the Poll Tax Riot.

I share a birthday with this date so i have had every joke under sun for my birthdays lol