It's April 1st, so look for a few laughs today.
Via Alex Boese's Museum of Hoaxes, enjoy the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. Some of the best: "The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest," "The Taco Liberty Bell," and "Alabama Changes the Value of Pi."
Don't miss the 10 Worst as well. Sample:
#10: The Iraqi Ambassador's Final Joke On April 1, 2003, as thousands of American-led coalition troops stormed across Iraq, the Iraqi ambassador to Russia, Abbas Khalaf Kunfuth, held a press conference in Moscow. Many were expecting him to announce that Iraq conceded defeat. Instead Kunfuth chose this moment to hold a gag press conference. Holding up a piece of paper that he identified as a news flash from Reuters, he read aloud from it: "The Americans have accidentally fired a nuclear missile into British forces, killing seven." Immediately the room full of reporters went silent with shock. Then Kunfuth grinned and shouted 'April Fools!' Only a few days after this unexpected moment of levity, the Iraqi government completely collapsed.
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