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Help me add to the April Fool’s Day Archive!
This is a plea for help!

If you see an April Fool's Day story in a paper or magazine, especially if it has a picture with it, could you either scan the article or take a photo of it, and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) it to me. That way I can add it to my April Fool's Day Archive, so that it's saved for posterity. It's just part of my eccentric effort to archive the history of April 1st!

I'm particularly interested in the British papers, since they produce lots of April Fool's Day stories, and I don't have any easy way of getting copies of them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Categories: April Fools Day
Posted by Alex on Thu Apr 01, 2010		 Comments (20)
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Check out this link from New Scientist for some of this years April Fool jokes -
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/04/a-day-of-april-fools-science.html
Posted by Bob Kirk  in  Thailand  on  Thu Apr 01, 2010  at  08:24 PM
More from Yahoo News; spot the fakes -
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/38/20100401/tod-did-you-get-april-fooled-045b8e8.html
Posted by Bob Kirk  in  Thailand  on  Thu Apr 01, 2010  at  08:49 PM
Evidence mounts for water on the moon: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100401.html
Posted by Captain Al  in  Vancouver Island, Canada  on  Fri Apr 02, 2010  at  03:38 AM
"Savage butterfly attacks" is priceless.....
http://www.lionsdenu.com/april-fools-around-the-internet/
And a list from the Toronto Sun:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/2010/04/01/13435581.html
Cheers,
Posted by Canadarm  in  Toronto  on  Sat Apr 03, 2010  at  03:28 PM
not sure if this counts or not but in this video the guy shows some of the internets april fools day pranks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkIjzmsmWFs

he starts about 2 mins into the video
Posted by mysticx0  on  Sat Apr 03, 2010  at  06:02 PM
ok but i think
Posted by kelis48j4i  in  india  on  Wed Apr 07, 2010  at  03:11 AM
someone told me google pulled a prank saying it had exchanged names with topeka, KS with google and visa- versa..............
Posted by Jake Jacob  in  Tucson  on  Wed Apr 07, 2010  at  05:17 AM
huh???
Posted by Jake Jacob  in  Tucson  on  Fri Apr 09, 2010  at  02:57 PM
This statement purporting to come from "Alumni for Responsible Speech" came out on April 1, 2008 after attempts were made to ban Israeli Apartheid Week. The statement says that students need a 'safe learning environment' and that therefore the university has to protect them from ideas that confuse or offend them. It says that such ideas should be identified as 'thought crimes' and dealt with severely.
See http://www.connexions.org/SafeLearning.htm
Posted by Ben  in  Canada  on  Sat Apr 10, 2010  at  08:41 PM
Google do hundreds of little easter eggs and April fools jokes each year, the best one was the one about the sentient computer that had an obsession with pandas
Posted by timstyx  on  Mon Apr 26, 2010  at  06:13 AM
Severl years back a one of the newspapers in the county (maybe Avon Lake Press) ran a story of a bridge from Lorain Ohio to Canada. It was a great story that a lot of people thought was real.
Posted by Jim  in  Lorain Ohio  on  Wed May 12, 2010  at  10:48 PM
this guy goes into a magician's bar and says "Make me a lime rickey", so he did
Posted by Hairy Houdini  on  Fri Jun 04, 2010  at  03:35 PM
It's vary curious to see that in america you celebrate teh "aprils fools day" Here in Sapin there are "el dia de los inocentes" at the end of December..and the news always try to say some stupid notice to make the joke...
Posted by samuel secreto  in  Spain  on  Thu Jun 17, 2010  at  08:27 AM
ok but not sure
Posted by Naz  in  toronto  on  Mon Jun 21, 2010  at  03:24 PM
Lots of jokes during april fools day.
Posted by stephaniechua2010  on  Tue Jun 22, 2010  at  09:11 PM
April fools day jokes, hmmmm.... bring back old memories.

Here's a prank, hope it helps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-HNsd_mcuY&feature=fvst
Posted by Snooples  on  Sun Aug 01, 2010  at  03:26 PM
Starting to think the idea that there will be more additions to the museum, is in itself an april fools joke wink
Posted by a  on  Wed Aug 04, 2010  at  08:21 PM
You don't need actual physical newspapers; almost every newspaper in the Western world and many beyond have a website. Just visit the ones with a reputation for April Fool's jokes in the last week of March through to April 1st.
Posted by edwardBe  in  California gold rush country  on  Fri Sep 24, 2010  at  08:57 PM
april fools day. hehehehe
Posted by lionfish28  in  http://www.ebooks-land.com  on  Mon Nov 15, 2010  at  12:03 AM
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Posted by brian hook19  in  delhi  on  Fri Mar 25, 2011  at  04:27 AM
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