Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 3, 2010 14:40:22 GMT 2
I've been out and about and everywhere in between over the last week, so I didn't even REALISE it was the first of April until, alas, it was too late. Bummer. So no tricks this year (my personal favourite being when my mum first got the net she began downloading some old songs from Limewire, so I contacted her pretending to be "Joseph Kerr", work it out, from the Federation Against Copyright Theft, warning her that if she continued to download illegally her internet access would be switched off. She deleted all of the songs from her hard-drive before I told her it was a joke).
Spare a thought, though, for the people of Iraq. For living under a ruthless dictator wasn't bad enough, because it turns out old Saddam had a bit of a sense of humour whilst he was in power. Set your sides to split for these rib-ticklers.
On the first of April 1998, Saddam announced through the Babil newspaper that Clinton had lifted all sanctions against Iraq. You can imagine the relief and joy that swept through the people of Iraq only to be later told that, yup, it was an April Fool's joke. Har de har.
In 1999 he went one better, announcing that food rations would include Pepsi, bananas and chocolate. Awesome, right? Of course, wrong - April Fools! Man, what a comic genius.
But it gets better - in 2000 he did the same joke from 1998, and in 2001 tried the new rations wheeze again. I know it's customary for comedians to re-use tried and tested material but jeez. Given the hilarity of his April Fools gags, you almost expected him to have been hung with a fake noose and to pop back up with a clown nose on.
So, happy belated April Fool's day, everyone. Better luck next year.
Spare a thought, though, for the people of Iraq. For living under a ruthless dictator wasn't bad enough, because it turns out old Saddam had a bit of a sense of humour whilst he was in power. Set your sides to split for these rib-ticklers.
On the first of April 1998, Saddam announced through the Babil newspaper that Clinton had lifted all sanctions against Iraq. You can imagine the relief and joy that swept through the people of Iraq only to be later told that, yup, it was an April Fool's joke. Har de har.
In 1999 he went one better, announcing that food rations would include Pepsi, bananas and chocolate. Awesome, right? Of course, wrong - April Fools! Man, what a comic genius.
But it gets better - in 2000 he did the same joke from 1998, and in 2001 tried the new rations wheeze again. I know it's customary for comedians to re-use tried and tested material but jeez. Given the hilarity of his April Fools gags, you almost expected him to have been hung with a fake noose and to pop back up with a clown nose on.
So, happy belated April Fool's day, everyone. Better luck next year.
