Here we go – year 5 of the April Fool’s Round-Up
Links are just in the order I found them, and I’ve put some of my favourites in bold if you only have a few minutes!
- Ben & Jerry’s on tap in pubs nationwide
- Google Maps: Pokemon Challenge
- NotOnTheHighStreet selling art painted by animals
- Stylfile launches a one direction only nailfile
- Daily Mail: Secret government papers reveal the Union Flag without the blue
- Daily Mirror: Man Utd’s new away kit is Man City blue
- The Guardian: Scotland to drive on the right
- Youthwork and Childrenswork magazines to merge
- The tricky thing with Firebox is working out what’s a fool and what’s not – for example, the Sushi Bazooka is apparently real?! But here are the ones that are real fools this year:
- The Telegraph: Alexander Salmond to appear on Scottish currency
- Daily Express: 3000 year old teddy bear found in Tutankhamun’s tomb
- ThinkGeek also have a new load of products
- The Metro: Ant & Dec split – I’m really not sure this is funny, I’m kind of upset even though it’s not real!
- Daybreak: chicken laying square eggs
- Vegemite launch an energy drink
- The Sun: Fracking to begin in the grounds of Buckingham Palace
- BT: Corrie set struck by sinkhole
- Giraffe launch new giraffe staff uniform
- Groupon New Zealand: Meet the Royals
- Bdaily: Putin buys stake in the Royal Mail
- GMail launch the Shelfie
- The Independent: David Moyes to have dugout chair fitted with direct line to Alex Ferguson
- TFL cancel all tubes and suggest jetpacks instead
- Kings College Choir to only have adult members, and so to use helium to hit the high notes instead
- Technet: Microsoft launch SmartClippy
- Glow in the dark Skittles
- Bread that won’t fall butter side down from Sainsburys
- KFC Australia mouth expander
- Kim Jong-un insists on One Direction getting haircuts if they wish to enter North Korea
- KitKat The Lazy Bar – prebroken for you
- Tetleys: Biscuit flavoured tea
- Marmite doughnuts… doughmites
- The Times: German Duke would be King of Scotland
- Huffington Post: Piers Morgan recruited as Lib Dem media advisor for 2015 election
- The Independent: UN draws up Peace Keeping plans in case of Scotland “Yes” vote
- Virgin Trains rename Wolverhampton Station to Wolverine
- Daily Record: Scottish bakery uses drones for deliveries
- Amazon Kindle Paperscent case
- Domino’s edible pizza box
- Daily Mirror: Six legged lambs to increase food yield
- Square Toblerone
- Warburtons bread shapes skyscraper London offices
- Specsavers: Mona Lisa wore contact lenses
- Samsung Fli-fly. Internet Wifi routers to be attached to pigeons
- Mini powered by tea
- Hotels.com – all rooms 95% off as long as you clean them yourselves etc
- Royal Albert Hall to have retractable roof
- Shark spotted in canal in Birmingham
- Tesco Cudl: The first tablet for two
- Banana dessert Subway
- Volkswagen and RSPCA team up to teach rescue dogs to drive
- The Independent: Scientists discover eighth colour of the rainbow
- Metro: Government to ban selfies
- BMW launch cot that simulates being driven around
- National Trust announces scone scented perfume
In related news, I really hoped this was an April Fool but it seems not….
Nick Griffin says foodbanks are for indigenous Brits only
as the tweet was done in march
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You mean my ostrich eggs didn’t make your list?