Best April Fool's Day Story?

[DTCwordfan]

This one from the DT? (some credibility to it)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/03/31/polar-bears-spotted-scotland-animals-flee-melting-arctic-ice/

Your favourite or in the past?

[Tilly2]

Spaghetti trees.

[pixie374]

The only one I can remember was the giant panda laying (black and white) eggs.

[Jackdaw33]

I remember the spaghetti trees. Narrated by Richard Dimbleby in 1957. As an 8 year old I totally believed it

[DTCwordfan]

fr you, tilly.

[Peter Pedant]

compendium here in case you can be fagged to buy all the papers

liked the National Trust

I think Geo Osborne's new job should have been dinner lady

the one I fell for as a student was the radio 4 prog on rare wax recording including Queen Victoria on the subject of knicker elastic.....

[DTCwordfan]

another try.....

[Peter Pedant]

compendo here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/31/april-fools-day-2017-best-fake-news/

[DTCwordfan]

I'll try another

[melv16]

There was a good one on here this morning, posted by minty.
A certain retired teacher from Bedford absolutely wrecked it:-)

[shoota]

Not Miss Tilly Goodbody by any chance was it?

[DTCwordfan]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1545828-2.html

[melv16]

She should hang her head in shame, shoota.

[jourdain2]

Still the Spaghetti harvest - I remember it well.

Tilly - are you also a retired teacher from Bradford? My last school (over 10 years there) was Rhodesway.

[roopower]

Had one in a promotion e-mail from local Flaming Grill, new Scratch and Pick menus. Customers protected by revolutionary coating called Sani-Safe.

[roopower]

Should read Scratch and LICK menus

[Tilly2]

Stop picking on me!

[DTCwordfan]

Mine was the old London Marathon that could clash with Fools Day and, also, not finishing in the Mall as now. Footage had 2 Oriental runners going through the finish and down over Westminster Bridge towards St Thomas's, running down the lactic acid.

The Beeb reported that these two Japanese had mistakenly thought that they were in a week's endurance race to cover as much distance as possible (this does happen over there) and that their English was so poor that they hadn't realised it was just a marathon and that they needed to be stopped.

Result, orientals out running on Hampstead Heath or wherever across London were being accosted by mad Brits, waving their arms, and shouting 'stop, stop'.....

[Hopkirk]

BMW did a good one once that there were fake BMWs on the road.

Excellent copies, but the fraudsters had got the blue and white segments of the badge reversed. Of course they described the badges on the 'fakes' as the the true layout.

Apparently a few people were ringing up saying their car was a fake.

[Caran]

We had a good one in the local paper. We have a problem with wild boar in our forest. There are thousands of them and they don't stay in the forest now. They come into the towns and villages, ruin gardens, parks, sportsfields and cemeteries. The mess is indescribable. Anyway in the paper they said bears were going to be released in the forest to help exterminate the boar. Quite a realistic article but I realised it was a spoof when I saw the name of the person organising this. Floral Spoi. That gave it away.