04-01-2011, 05:16 AM | #1 |
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April Fool Pranks... or reality?
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04-01-2011, 05:38 AM | #2 |
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Reminds me of the iPad arcade cabinet that thinkgeek had as a prank. So many people thought it was real and wanted to buy it that they eventually made it into a real product.
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04-01-2011, 06:07 AM | #3 |
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This has always been my favorite hoax. The ABC rolled it out over and over again.http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&so...WWYy6wJbQKeKTA
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04-01-2011, 06:10 AM | #4 |
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Translate for animals? I'd prefer translate for wives! Plenty of real life options in that one.
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04-01-2011, 07:06 AM | #6 |
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My favourite ThinkGeek "joke becomes reality" April Fool's is the Canned Unicorn Meat.
They actually got a for-serious cease and desist letter from the National Pork Board for that. And then they eventually made it into a real product. Possibly the entire kerfuffle provided inspiration for this year's Angry Birds Pork Rinds? ETA: Archive of past ThinkGeek April Fools. I kind of want those Tribbles 'n' Bits. And a Monolith (in)Action Figure. Last edited by ATDrake; 04-01-2011 at 07:11 AM. |
04-01-2011, 07:12 AM | #7 |
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Another "joke that became reality" happened in the UK a while ago. There was a comedy series in the 1980s called "Not the Nine O'Clock News" - a parody news programme with Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, and Pamela Stephenson. They did an item about lorry (truck) drivers, in which the pleasure of squashing hedgehogs was touted as a major benefit of the occupation . Not too long after that, hedgehog-flavour crisps (chips) appeared on the market and were very successful .
As a follow-up, though, these crisps were actually flavoured with pork fat, and the manufacturer were prosecuted by the UK's Office of Fair Trading on a charge of false advertising. They had to change the packaging to specify that they weren't actually made from hedgehogs. Last edited by HarryT; 04-01-2011 at 07:16 AM. |
04-01-2011, 07:25 AM | #8 |
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Also, genetic engineers are still diligently working on those spaghetti trees.
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04-01-2011, 07:29 AM | #9 |
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04-01-2011, 08:35 AM | #10 |
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Personally, I would like to have a few bags of hedgehog crisps.
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04-01-2011, 10:24 AM | #12 |
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04-01-2011, 11:28 AM | #13 |
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04-01-2011, 11:35 AM | #14 |
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search for "comic sans" on google.
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04-01-2011, 03:48 PM | #15 |
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