John Mallinson Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Cameron asks Shaun Ryder to advise on class and help to detox Tories: Observer Amnesty for hosepipe owners as drought bites: Independent on Sunday *James Bond and The Queen to open The Olympic Games: The Sun Gmail Tap - the future of smartphone emails The 10 best April fools: The Observer …and more: The Telegraph * maybe this one's true! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 BMW do it again: http://www.nickburcher.com/2012/04/bmw-april-fools-day-2012-ad-bmw.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I've posted that on Twitter - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Anyone know the Daily Mail one this year? They had me utterly fooled a few years ago with the joke that Tony Blair had painted 10 Downing Street's door. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 Looking at the Mail's home page I think they're all April Fools - and not just today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Anyone know the Daily Mail one this year? They had me utterly fooled a few years ago with the joke that Tony Blair had painted 10 Downing Street's door. :-) There's a story in The Mail on Sunday about a proposed tax on chilled champagne which is reasonably believable until they mention Babycham! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Ah, I wondered about that one! I know what you mean John, the Mail and its readers' attitudes towards disabled people are so shocking, I sometimes wonder if they are joking... :-s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 This is a very special day. It is the one day on which I am not the only fool. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I sometimes wonder if they are joking... :-s No, just ignorant. And they're by no means the only ones: I wonder about Guardian readers too, sometimes, and ... Thanks for the above, everyone. I was bemoaning the fact that, it being Sunday, I wasn't going to be able to read them in the papers. My favourite BMW one is I think still the one with the BMW badge which is provided with its own "windscreen wiper" (I think that's "windshield wiper" to you, Anjuli?), although there was another really good one many years ago which escapes me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Yes, Alison - windshield wiper it is. However, I've been studying "Brit speak" for a while now. My American friends sometimes think I'm a bit strange, but nothing new there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 And I'm studying "US automobile-speak" A bit late now, but did anyone see these? http://www.google.co.../multitask.html https://mail.google..../tap/index.html Best of all, there's http://www.w3schools...ml/lastpage.htm Oops, sorry, just realised the Google Tap one seemed familiar: John posted it above! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 BritHotelSpeak (as spoken in NZ - on the way to Oz) landed me in a lot of trouble when I called ahead and asked for a cot to be added to our room arrangements and we found a infant crib waiting for us. My ten yr.old son was not amused. And, I do have to say that you lot (y'all) have ruined my spelling. So I'm going to get that sorted during the spring hols. But first I need to put in a supply of bisquits and crisps so when I go to the ballet and sit in the gods, I can munch with the best, pon my honour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Nice work on those links, Alison - the final one is, indeed, something truly special. And I hadn't realised that I was getting in early on Gmail Tap at Nav School, circa 1965. All pretty much gone now, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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