Most people know that April 1st is called April Fools Day because people often play partical jokes on each other. You're not just have to beware of ur fam or friends, but also the big companies, some kind of media like newspaper and TV stations. They also do their best with a smart way to fool the public.I'm going to share u an article. Now, we're talking about April Fools day, not gonna celebrate it because that day has passed on this 2011. Here it is!
Watch out!
1. In 1998, Burger King published an advert in USA Today; announcing a new item for their menu. It's called the left handed-Whopper. Apart from one thing, the burger itself was rotated 180 degrees so that the ketchup would drip out of the right side of the burger instead of out of the left.
2. In 2002, the British supermarket chain, Tesco advertised A Whistling carrot; carrot which had been genetically engineered to grow with air holes down the side so that it would start whistiling when it was fully cooked. (?)
3. In 1957, the BBC documentary series; Panorama, showed a Swiss farm workers pulling spaghetti from "Spaghetti Trees". The programme told viewers that the farmers were enjoying an excellent spaghetti harvest due to a very mild winter. As spaghetti wasn't very common in the UK at that time, many people believed the report. and even hundred of viewers phpned up to ask where they could buy their own spaghetti trees! LOL.
4. In 1962, the Sweden local TV programme has announced on the news that it had become possible to watch colour programmes on black and white TVs, if they pull a Nylon Stocking over the screen. Since almost everyone in Sweden had a black and white TV in those days, hundreds of thousands of people tried to do this, even though the news was broadcast on the morning of April 1st.
You might think people in those were more easily fooled back. Nevertheless, you should be careful next April 1st! :DD
