[Archived] What Is It?

[AlanK]

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[philipl]

Its 1 April.

[American Rover12]

Could be a governmental thing, or some programmers having a bit of fun.

EDIT: wow, good call Philip

[Wolverine]

Yes, we shall file that one with the flying penguins BBC are reporting on.

[AlanK]

Phillip! You ruined it!

[Cocker]

While it may not be a ufo as its in the sun it might be an Alian's Nipple for page 3

[Wolverine]

To be honest, most of what's in the Sun could be an April Fool, thier reporters are fools every day of the year...

[philipl]

Sorry Alan K!

We had a massive cloudburst in Malta this morning. This "picture" was taken just by my office.

[adopted scouser]

I know it's April 1st, but it's a lighthouse innit ?!

[modes98]

I know it's April 1st, but it's a lighthouse innit ?!

That was my first impression.

[Flopsy]

However the round object was just the top of a water outlet for a power station.

Has anyone ever fallen for a Media April Fool's joke?

To my shame I have once.

On the morning of the 2000 Calcutter Cup game at Murrayfield (England got stuffed), there was a report on the BBC Sports bulletin about how the scotts had decided to paint the whole of the Murrayfield pitch into a giant cross of St Andrew's, using the paint they use for the adverts on pitches etc. And showed the pitch marked out as such.

Then showed some footage of some players with paint on them after playing a practice game.

Muggins here, hungover and not really grasping what date it was, then told his mates on the way to the pub, and then couldnt understand why they'd cleaned the pitch up and turned it back to normal.

Ho hum

[philipl]

Here is an April Fool that really did work:

Malta's first porn TV channel. It helped with Maltastar releasing the story with their regular 20.00 news update the evening before 1 April but they must have been astonished to find 5% of the country's population registering to receive free porn!