April Fool's Day Jokes

April Fool's Day Jokes and Stories that Amuse Will and Guy

There is something special about April Fool's day morning.  Get into the mood, review past master-pieces, get ideas for a really good Joke.

• 2010 April Fools Hoaxes
• 2009 April Fool's Day Hoaxes
• April Fool's Day Hoaxes
• April Fool's Day Pranks
• April Fool Jokes
• History of April Fool Jokes
• Spaghetti Joke
• T.V. Joke
• Piltdown Man (Joke but not on April Fool's Day)

Examples of Will and Guy's April Fool's Day Jokes

Spaghetti Bushes

What made this April Fool's Day joke convincing was that it was put on the BBC.  This was a time when the BBC was the pillar of society, no-one could believe that even on the first of April, that the BBC would put out a fake program about the manufacture of spaghetti.  This is how they pulled off the hoax.

War of the Worlds

Watch out for alien hoaxes on the first of April.  However, the first alien hoax was on the 30th of October 1938.  This famous 'War of the Worlds' Joke caught millions by surprise.  See what actually happened.

Turn a Black and White TV into Color

Will and I choose this Joke because it illustrates the naivety that you get when any new technology hits the masses.  This is how Kjell Stensson tricked thousands of Swedish viewers.

Space shuttle Discovery lands at Montgomery Field, San Diego

Following the broadcast, thousands of locals, rushed towards the landing site. The result was traffic tailbacks of over 10 miles.  See what else Dave Ricards said on April 1st 1993.

F-15 Plane Hoax

While this did not happen on April Fool's day, nevertheless this is an interesting hoax.  Will has prepared a PowerPoint Presentation explaining this hoax.

Piltdown Man

How could a part man, part ape skull fool so many for so long.  This true story has the extra ingredient that no-one has conclusively solved who carried out the Joke.  Investigate Piltdown Man yourself

Human contact spreads computer viruses (April Fool Day Hoax)

The well respected PC Magazine published an article by 'A.C. Feafunnoll' on April Fool's Day 2005. It stated that:

'The federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Science Foundation (NSF) have issued a stunning joint announcement: PC viruses, worms, and spyware can now be transmitted via human contact. Researchers at St. Paul's College in Virginia have isolated roughly 100 cases of systems infected by human contact, the two agencies said at a press conference at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia...

One researcher, Avril Hidokwon, said she investigated a case where the Netsky.P virus spread to 10 systems by sneezing'

The story then gave a link: 'For instructions on how you can decontaminate yourself and your PC and also avoid infection.'  This URL took gullible readers to an April Fool announcement. 

Ten Funny, Interesting and Thought-Provoking "April Fool" Quotes

1. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. - Chinese Proverb
2. If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. - Welsh Proverb
3. We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
4. Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. - Irish Proverb
5. Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment. - Horace [65 BC - 8 BC]
6. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. - Anatole France [1844 - 1924]
7. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Winston Churchill
8. What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. - Spanish Proverb
9. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope
10. A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still. - Antoine Rivarol

This final quotation from Abraham Lincoln probably deserved inclusion: You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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See more April Fool's Day jokes, hoaxes and funny stories:

• April Fools 2010 Hoaxes   • 2009 Hoaxes   • Classics   • April Fool's Day pranks   • Spaghetti Tree

• April Fool's Day jokes   • Pictures of hoaxes   • Aliens   • F-15 Hoax   • TV Color   • Piltdown Man