Wednesday 1 April 2020

April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day is an annual custom on April 1st of playing practical jokes on people  ...  all in the name of fun.

In 1978 a millionaire business man reportedly towed an iceberg all the way from Antarctica to Sydney Harbour, Australia. Only when it started to rain was the so called iceberg revealed to be made of shaving cream and firefighting foam :-)

In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of the new "Left-Handed Whopper".  According to the advert, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original, but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. 

But here are my two absolute favourites, both produced by the BBC.

2008 - Flying Penguins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hd25_XjIs

1957 - The Spaghetti Harvest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

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