Barack Hussein Obama. Now THERE’S a hoax for ya!
The real Congressional switchboard became overloaded with calls to representatives to stop this bill from becoming law.
The WSJ had a history of April 1st columns -placed on page 1 in the center.
Eventually, global warming/global cooling/global climate change (a.k.a., the 4 seasons) will be listed.
In 1996, I believe, there was a full page ad in USA Today stating that Taco Bell had bought the Liberty Bell from the U.S. Parks Department, and it would be known as “The Taco Liberty Bell” from then on. The Taco Bell logo on the ad had been modified to have the iconic Liberty Bell crack on it.
There were a lot of very angry people over that one.
And they say the Brits have no sense of humor. I have always loved the spaghetti trees and the BK ad still is a hoot
Back in 1976 a Kansas City radio station broadcast an ad for a Beatles re-union concert with the Moody Blues as the opening act for APRIL 31stt. This was about 7pm.
Dang near slagged the telephone exchange as I recall
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Many Southern California Freepers tune into KRLA, “intelligent conservative talk radio,” at 870 kilocycles on the AM band. However, between 1959 and 2001, a different station using those call letters broadcast rock and roll music to Southern California at 1110 kcs.
On the first day of April—I believe it was 1989—I tuned to KRLA and noticed a significant change in the usual programming. The songs were all “oldies” from the early 1960’s, yet the disc jokeys spoke of them as though they were current hits. Many of the ads were for businesses or products that no longer existed or used jingles and slogans in vogue decades before. I was beginning to think that I had passed through a time warp.
During the news broadcast, the biggest news event being reported on was a powerful rainstorm that was battering Southern California that afternoon (the weather was dry as I listened to the broadcast). Since I vividly recall the storm, I realized that the broadcast was from April Fool’s Day, 1963.
I remember seeing this on an American news show. It was one of the funniest hoaxes I’ve ever seen. One thing that made it so funny is that it was the way our classroom films about other countries sounded at the time. (More recently “The God’s Must Be Crazy” narrator sounded like these documentaries.)
I think that the events from November 4, 2008 to now have been one long April Fools joke...
Obama...
Hope...
Change....
No more business as usual...
New Washington culture...
All jokes!