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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:25 am    Post subject: April Fools Reply with quote

Does anybody remember these?

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M3 Zebra Crossing
In 2000 early morning commuters travelling on the northern carriageway of the M3 near Farnborough, Hampshire encountered a pedestrian zebra crossing painted across the busy highway. The perpetrator of the prank was unknown. A police spokesman speculated that the prank, "must have been done very early in the morning when there was little or no traffic on the motorway." Maintenance workers were quickly summoned to remove the crossing, which was apparently not too difficult to do since the pranksters had used emulsion paint rather than gloss. The police noted that, surprisingly, they had received no calls from the public about the crossing.


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One-way Highway
In 1991 the Times announced that the Department of Transport had finalized a plan to ease congestion on the M25, the circular highway surrounding London. The capacity of the road would be doubled by making the traffic on both carriageways travel in the same direction. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays the traffic would travel clockwise; while on Tuesdays and Thursdays it would travel anti-clockwise. The plan would not operate on weekends. It was said that the scheme was almost certain to meet with the cabinet's approval, despite voices of protest coming from some quarters. One of the protestors included a spokesman for Labour Transport who reportedly warned that "Many drivers already have trouble telling their left from their right." Also, a resident of Swanley, Kent was quoted as saying, "Villagers use the motorway to make shopping trips to Orpington. On some days this will be a journey of two miles, and on others a journey of 117 miles. The scheme is lunatic." Thankfully, the scheme existed only in the minds of the writers at the Times.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I loved the flying penguins on the BBC. Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well i can't find them on the BBC - can on the Telegraph
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PaulB2005 wrote:
Well i can't find them on the BBC - can on the Telegraph


http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

it's a featured video

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BMW have always had a great line in April Fools gags in the press:

http://www.bmweducation.co.uk/coFacts/linkDocs/bmwCameraLies.asp

http://www.bmweducation.co.uk/coFacts/linkDocs/bmwWheel.asp

and my favourite:

http://www.bmweducation.co.uk/coFacts/linkDocs/bmwMarqueWiper.asp

As I recall, BMW had thousand of enquiries about this one, could it be retro-fitted, could they add it to the spec of a recent build order etc Laughing Out Loud
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i like last years: http://www.bmweducation.co.uk/coFacts/linkDocs/instantmessaging.asp

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've just got to have one of these:

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/office-toys/holo-screen/index.html
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe this is a joke too. Watch the video and see if you think the guy on the left is struggling to keep a straight face! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BBC Panorama, 1957, bumper Swiss spaghetti harvest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I worked for BMW we had adverts for self-washing cars, where the paint exuded detergent in the rain, an aerodynamic sunroof that could be left open in the rain, and a device called the UWAT which sat on the fromt bumper and read and translated foreign road signs.

You had to write for details to Hugh Felfrit, IIRC.

People who did write in used to get a leather-bound road atlas or somesuch.

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