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April Fools

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RO
rob Founding member
I sincerely hope not.

This is the best one I've found...

Greyhound Racing On Ice

Note that Blue Square did a prank last year with a square dartboard as seen here
RO
rob Founding member
For the love of...

Digital Spy, please stop...
NS
NickyS Founding member
The Penguins have made it on to YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qDl1aH9l4
RM
Roger Mellie
Alexia posted:
A hilariously Rolling Eyes old idea from the Mail - looky-likeys.

Alistair Darling buys a scratch card


I thought something such as Breathing In Oxygen Increases Your Risk of Cancer! (And guess what-- you are paying for it) would be their idea of a joke at the DM Wink
RT
rts Founding member
I hope this is an April Fools Laughing
GA
Gareth Founding member
Well although not exactly TV orientated.... BBC Radio Suffolk this morning were going on and on about their Breakfast presenter being selected for the GB Archery team to the Beijing olympics! The 9am news then started with a story that households in Ipswich would be getting a fourth "red" bin - specially for materials that might cause allergies in binmen!
MA
madmusician
I must admit that I half fell for the penguins this morning. I thought "that can't be real", but the way they packaged it as an iPlayer advert was so convincing.

And the amount of Licence Fee money spent on that... Well worth it I think!
DD
DarkestDreams
As soon as it came on, I thought 'April Fool', but with all the proper branding like you said, i had myself thinking 'Wow, how fantastic! I must go to BBC iPlayer now.

I don't care how much money it cost, imo it it the best April Fool thing on TV up to now!
MI
Michael
There's a rumour going round that Barcode has posted a grammatically correct, perfectly spelled post around here somewhere.
DD
DarkestDreams
No, no. That can't have happened Very Happy
PE
Pete Founding member
I when they swapped round ITV and BBC in the swear filter on here a few years back.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
Hymagumba posted:
I when they swapped round ITV and BBC in the swear filter on here a few years back.

I nearly repeated this earlier this morning, and in fact did for a couple minutes. Then I remembered how annoying it becomes after a while of having that filter in place. Smile

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