And, of course, today (April 1st) is the day when all the great hoaxers come out of the darkness.
There's a guy in the US (name escapes me now) who for years sent out fake press releases to all the newspapers and TV channels advertising the New York Annual April Fool's Day Parade... Which never existed. Gradually they began to catch on, and stopped printing the press releases.
And then one year the guy played a brilliant switch: he sent out press releases announcing that the Annual Aprill Fool's Day Parade had been cancelled at the last minute, leaving scores of would-be participants seriously out of pocket having spent a fortune on their floats. Most of the newspapers ran the story.
Anyway, I've compiled a comprehensive list of April Fool's Day hoaxes, which you can see by clicking on the link below...
Cheers,
Mike
Link: http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/qp/chargelist.htm" target="_blank">Mike's Huge List of April Fool's Day Hoaxes!