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Although my morning off on 1st April to collate and blog all the April Fools I can find on the Internet has become something of a tradition (for me, at least), I’m sorry to report that tomorrow I’m on a training course all day and so had to cancel my morning off 😦

I may try to collate in the evening but I know it’s not the same.

See you next year!

This is becoming a bit of a regular thing! in 2010 and in 2011 I’ve done April Fool’s posts to list the ones I’ve found that day. I confess I don’t think this will be up to my normal standard as the research didn’t even start ’til after midday and I can’t imagine people put in the same effort when it’s not a weekday, but here’s what I’ve got for you this year!
Sadly one or two were too offensive, and several weren’t funny enough to list – seems like people have been a bit slack this year!
Thanks to The Poke too for their research 🙂

• Innocent Smoothies/Marmite: – Mango and Marmite flavoured Smoothies.
• Google:
  • Gmail Tap
  • Google Maps – Quest
• IKEA – left handed Allen Key product recall
• Worship Central – sponsored by Wella
• New Statesman – Banking in Space
• Sainsburys – Non Slip Bananas
• Virgin Volcanic
• YouTube – the YouTube collection, on DVD
• The Independent: Hosepipe Amnesty
• Walkers: DIY Crisps
• Peugeot: Paint that changes with your mood
• Sunday Mirror – Cowell & Walliams Bromance
• Mini – The Mini Caravan
• Lynx: Spray App
• The Sun – James Bond to open the Olympics
• Firebox
  • One
  • Two
  • Four
  • Five
• Think Geek – iPad Hungry Hippos (amongst many others!)

Not as good a year as some but there are some gems in there – my favourite, probably the mini caravan, I’d totally buy one!

Have you seen any good ones I’ve missed?

So last year I brought you a list of all the April Fools pranks I found (sadly several links have now broken), and intend to do the same again this year!

• Hawkin’s Bazaar: – Pet Chat
• Google: –
  • GMail Motion
  • Helvetica search (also works for comic sans)
• Chrome AdBlock: – Freedom
• Unibet: – Reindeer Racing
• Firebox: –
  • Cardboard Bike
  • Kate & Will Bandz
  • Windup Olympic Countdown Clock
  • Bacon Inhaler
• xkcd: – xk3d
• The Independent: – Portugal Sell Ronaldo to Spain for €160m
• Youtube: – Top 5 viral videos from 1911
• Romsey Advertiser: – Olympics to include Angling in the River Test
• ThinkGeek: –
  • Angry Birds Pork Rinds
  • Arsenic Based Sea Monkeys
  • Bonsai Kitty Plush
  • Chocolate Zombie Bunny
  • De-3D Cinema Glasses (I totally wish this was true!!)
  • Edible Gummy iPhone Cases
  • Minecraft USB Desktop Nether Portal
  • Playmobil Apple Store Playset
  • Shirt Plate
  • Star Wars Lightsabre Popsicles
  • Super 3DBoy iPhone Gamy System
• Daily Mail: – Kate Middleton baby shopping and smoking…. they could have used a better look-a-like
• Radio4 Today Show: – 3D Radio
• The Sun: – Gorilla’s given iPads
• Daily Express: – Yellow Quickseal Pothole Solution
• BMW: – New M3 Royal Edition
• Telegraph: – Ed Miliband Wedding Street Parties
• The Guardian: – Royal Wedding Live Updates
• Marmite Vaseline
• Metro: – Edible
• Bath Chronicle: – Navy Sub in the Weir

Let me know if you find any I’ve missed! …Or if any of these are actually true!

Some I missed are here, including:

• BBC: – Dad’s against mumsnet
• Daily Mirror: – Tax on Fresh Air
• Virgin: – Richard Branson buys Pluto and reinstates as planet
• Daily Express: – Zimmerframe skateboard
• Clegg to compete in Olympic Archery
• IKEA Dog Highchair

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Added in the evening, other thing’s I’ve been made aware of this afternoon!:

• BBC Radio 2: – Rob Brydon poses as Ken Bruce for a whole radio show
• Smarta: – Pill that guarantees business success
• The Good Book: – Prethumbed bible
• Landrover: – Self levelling tax disc holder
• Google Chrome: – Chromercise

And again this year, the BBC has published a list of 10 stories that could be April Fools pranks but aren’t

I’ve seen some really quite good April Fools stuff this morning, so I thought I’d list them below! Not sure how permenant the links are, but hopefully they’ll last at least for today.

BMW

IWOOT 1
IWOOT 2
IWOOT 3

YouTube – Example here

Google Animal Translate

unixkcd

The Guardian (make sure to click through all the images)

Firebox x7

Ben & Jerry’s

The Telegraph

The Independent

The Sun

Daily Express 1
Daily Express 2

BBC Radio 4

Starbucks

Some random blog takes the rip of Apple

Shakeaway: this was in email form, so have pasted it below!

Radical change to ShakeAway Flavours! 1st April 2010

*Regular Single Flavour MilkShakes

And 10 things that could be April fools, but aren’t!