What's the best April Fool's joke/prank you saw or heard in the media this year.
By jend80
@jend80 (2071)
United Kingdom
April 6, 2010 1:53pm CST
The Guardian had a great one, they claimed that the Labour Party's new election strategy was to try and portray Gordon Brown as a tough guy / fighter willing to challenge David Cameron (to a fight!) - they even had mock up posters with Gordon looking rough and the slogan "step outside posh boy".
One Tory blogger (and councillor) thought it was true 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/01/labour-gordon-brown-hard-man
Also BMW had a mock advert for a clip on badge to go over the car logo badge to show the colour of your chosen party - the "The BMW Political Roundel Attachment Tag" aka Prat, Radio 4 apparently had a totally deadpan report, complete with expert, revealing evidence that William Shakespeare was actually French, and google uk's animal translater was a laugh (but not as good as their old classic revealing the 'truth' behind site rankings - it's all done by pigeons.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/01/labour-gordon-brown-hard-man
Also BMW had a mock advert for a clip on badge to go over the car logo badge to show the colour of your chosen party - the "The BMW Political Roundel Attachment Tag" aka Prat, Radio 4 apparently had a totally deadpan report, complete with expert, revealing evidence that William Shakespeare was actually French, and google uk's animal translater was a laugh (but not as good as their old classic revealing the 'truth' behind site rankings - it's all done by pigeons.)2 responses
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
6 Apr 10
I thought it was pretty funny when my publisher sent me an e-mail with a sale coupon for ordering more copies of my book, telling me that my book was now available as a scroll. LOL I remember thinking that would be a neat idea, wondering how many I wanted to order, and then I looked closer, and saw it was a flippin' April Fools joke. LOL
@macdingolinger (10386)
• United States
6 Apr 10
I think the funniest one I heard of this year was someone put a sign up over a printer at work and said it was now "voice activated." People kept talking to the machines all day even though they were the same old machines! 
