Before we find out if there are any amazing April Fool's Jokes today, let us revel in the past.
Here is the link at CNN telling us their top ten April Fool's jokes of all times. Number 1 on the list is pasta growing on trees. It is a BBC joke from 1957 showing the Swiss spaghetti harvest. This has been ranked Number 1 by the Museum of Hoaxes. The Museum's listing is HERE. This is the pinnacle of the year for this website and its day to shine. At this site you can read the top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of all time, or find out the early modern hoaxes from 1500 - 1700, Hoaxes of the 1990s, Television hoaxes, Journalists hoaxed, and so on. They are listed by decade - all kinds of listings and stories.
After the Swiss spaghetti harvest, the Instant Colour TV of 1962 is the second joke - tv viewers in Sweden were advised to pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen and the images would appear in colour.
I liked the Taco Liberty Bell hoax of 1996, in which the Taco Bell Corporation took out a full-page ad that they had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it to the Taco Liberty Bell. "The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known, he said, as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial".
Look out for our hoaxes today - and all completes by noon.
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