Square dartboards from the News of the World sports team. Simple yet effective.
And the Scottish Pheonix Honda Record Rocks (a basketball team in Scotland) said they were switching their name to include all the names of the cars sold by the manufacturer that is one of their sponsors - which initially caught me out, albeit because it had been sent out two days ago...
the best one today was on Real radio Scotland where there Pretend it was Monday morning and a lot of People where fooled!
with people thinking I slept for 24 hours! arrragh!
I got done by BBC Sport - but in my defense they're the fools for doing it after 12noon. I assume their plans to make the audience at home the video referee for today's rugby league - voting through their remote - were a hoax.
T4 did a Grandstand style scrap when Steve Jones interviewed Hollyoak's Tom Cunningham and asked a few questions which weren't appropriate for a 7 year old - with his chaperone then bursting on to set to challenge Steve, thumping him off the sofa!
P.S. Apparantly it's not the first time the BBC have done the Smell-o-vision hoax - back in 1965 they did it and had people phoning up saying they could smell what was being transmitted over the airwaves.
P.P.S. 50 years today since the Panoram Spaghetti spoof. Can't imagine them doing anything like that today! If they've still got it though, would have been good for them to air it for the occassion.
And yet, the April Fool one says Gromit is replacing the dog, but this one just says "for three months". Is it the same joke?
But this one is making me excited and sceptical at the same time: Beatles and iTunes
I like the idea of Gromit replacing "Nipper" on the HMV logo, would make for an interesting set of ads, for example when it's for an McFly album Gromit can show his displeasure of it
the best one today was on Real radio Scotland where there Pretend it was Monday morning and a lot of People where fooled!
with people thinking I slept for 24 hours! arrragh!
It's been done before - Chris Tarrant and his weekday breakfast team at Capital FM went on air on April Fools' Day 1995, which was a Saturday, fooling listeners into thinking it was still the previous day, Friday 31st March.
