When BBC convinced viewers that spaghetti grows on trees "Thankfully, they soon joined in the fun and left with smiles on their faces.What is common, however, is that these pranks can always be enjoyed as they were in good humour - something that needs to be noted.įrom BBC, which appears to be a repeat prankster, to an Australian millionaire from the late 1970s, here are some of the funniest pranks ever. Initially, "the police didn’t see the funny side of it and threatened to arrest us for wasting their time," Branson wrote. costume walked out. "The police surrounded us and then sent one lone policeman with his truncheon across the field to greet the alien," Branson wrote. Police were mobilized and the army had been alerted, Branson said in a blog post from 2021. When it landed – the day before April Fools' Day because of weather, The Christian Science Monitor reported – a door opened and someone wearing an E.T. His most famous one: the 1989 flying of a "UFO," actually a hot air balloon with flashing lights, over London. The billionaire and founder of The Virgin Group, who in 2021 got to travel into space, has enjoyed April Fools' pranks for years, too. Sir Richard Branson outfitted for Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Mission, which flew into space on Jfrom Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico. The feature made "it easier to have the last word on any email," Google said, by adding a GIF of a yellow animated minion (from the animated "Despicable Me" and "Minion" movies) dropping a microphone.īut a bug added the Mic Drop to many emails unintentionally and it had to be turned off. "We love April Fools jokes at Google, and we regret that this joke missed the mark and disappointed you," the company said at the time. The company may have wished it hadn't introduced a new Gmail feature called the Mic Drop in 2016. Historically, Google has been an active participant in April Fools' pranks, but it hasn't launched any since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tech news site 9to5Google noted.
TACO BELL APRIL FOOLS PRANK FREE
The free publicity generated by the incident was worth $25 million in advertising and sales at Taco Bell increased by $500,000 and $600,000, on April 1 and April 2, compared to the prior week, according to the Chicago Tribune, which also ran the ad. After Taco Bell admitted the whole thing was a hoax, the company offered to donate $50,000 towards preservation of the bell. The park service held an impromptu press conference to deny the deal, too. Members of Congress called the National Park Service to confirm the deal was not real, The Washington Post reported. The Liberty Bell in view of Independence Hall on May 5, 2016, in Philadelphia.
Taco Bell cooked up an April Fools' surprise in 1996 running full-page advertisements in The Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers including The New York Times and USA TODAY about its purchase of the Liberty Bell – and its renaming to "the Taco Liberty Bell" – to "help the national debt." The Taco Liberty Bell: April Fools' prank rang true, for awhile Volkswagen's prank is an example of one that went too far, said Columbia Business School professor and corporate strategy expert Rita McGrath, who talked to USA TODAY in 2022 for a story about April Fools' pranks. "(It) was a mistake," she said. After the company's stock began to rise, and VW's communications teams and journalists wasted a lot of time, the company confessed the whole thing really was a joke. While some Volkswagen officials in Germany were telling The Wall Street Journal the announcement was an early April Fools' Day joke, other officials maintained the plan's veracity. Two years ago, ahead of April Fools' Day, German automaker Volkswagen published on its website what was thought to be a draft press release about plans to change the name of its American division to "Voltswagen," the swapping out of the "k" for a "t" as a commitment to electric vehicles. Elon Musk ApVolkswagen gets a new name – not
Palo Alto, California, Ap- Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt.
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