What do you do for Aril Fool's Day? Do children do things at school? We adults don't seem to do much anymore.
However, major product brands do things every year, and we reported on them last year. This year I found an April Fool's Quiz from the Guardian, and it is most entertaining.
Here's my favourite question:
In 1972 researchers claimed to have found the body of the Loch Ness monster. What, in fact, was it?
A dead bull elephant seal
A prop left over from filming the Doctor Who Terror of the Zygons serial, which was set around Loch Ness
The results of a local school craft project
A giant eel
This particular April Fool's joke has been told a number of ways - the first is via News:
DUNFERMLINE, Scotland. April 1 1972 (AP)—The director of an English zoo said a young scientist explained today that a private joke had set off police chase through Scotland in search of the Loch Ness monster.
Don Robertson, director of the Flamingo.Park Zoo in Scarborough, reported that the zoo's education officer, John Shields, had given him statement saying that he had tried to hoax a few friends on April Fool's Day, which happens to be Mr. Shield's 23d birthday,
The joke was to dump frozen bull elephant seal in Loch Ness for seven monsterhunting colleagues to find, the statement said.
But it got out of hand yesterday when the team tried to rush their discovery back to the zoo on England's northeast coast. The police chased their truck, slopped it and brought the “monster” to this Fifeshiro County town where two scientists identified it as a),South Atlantic seal.
The second version is a much longer and more entertaining rendition HERE.
Our picture today was taken at the Ringling Museum - it was a beautiful wall mural of all the famous clowns.
