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April Fools of All Time
The Taco Liberty Bell
"In 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought
the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it
the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called up the
National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell is housed
to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco
Bell revealed that it was all a joke a few hours later. The best
line inspired by the affair came when White House press secretary
Mike McCurry was asked about the sale, and he responded that the
Lincoln Memorial had also been sold, though to a different corporation,
and would now be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial."--From
Top 100
April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. More "news" from
this hilarious site includes Swiss spaghetti harvest produces bumper
crop, Alabama changes value of pi, and the left-handed Whopper from
Burger King.
Origin
of April Fool's Day: History and Background
Google Pranks
Google's dynasty is growing with
its launch of a sports drink for the brain. The giant search engine
company just announced its beta of Google
Gulp, a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize
your web surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent and less
thirsty. I'm drinking a bottle of Glutamate
Grape right now and it's delicious.
Job hunting? Google posted an exciting announcement
for their Copernicus
space station: "This unique opportunity is available only
to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for
an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are
capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences
as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen."
How does Google do it? The
Technology Behind Google's Pagerank
Here in Nashville: Thailand, Tennessee
True or April's Fool?
It's true . . .
"We move the world," international shipping
concern DHL boasts in its ad (March 15, 2004 issue of Sports
Illustrated) depicting Nashville as a backwater province. Turns
out DHL moves the world with more than packages. The ad depicts
a four-wheel drive navigating a flooded mid-Tennessee road and the
caption: “For 35 years, we’ve delivered despite language
barriers, unpaved roads and lack of street addresses. Try us to
Nashville.” While there are on occasion flooded roads in Tennessee
and while some of us speak with a southern accent and permit our
paint-peeling street addresses to fall off our ramshackle mail boxes,
in this particular case, the picture was not of a Nashville scene,
or even of a Tennessee locale. The photo was taken in a rice paddy
in Thailand. Way to move us, DHL! Nashvillians love to travel and
like it even better when such a beautiful part of the world comes
to us.
Nashville's
City Paper gives the full details.
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