Phat Humor

April Fools is a great day! It occurs on April 1st, every year. We have generated a great list of the Top 5 Best April Fools Pranks Ever!


5. The Taco Liberty Bell

1996: Taco Bell announced back in 1996 that they bought the Liberty Bell and they decided to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundereds (Wow, only hundreds huh? I guess people liked the idea...) of pissed of citizens called the National Historic park in Philedelphia to express their pissyness. They were only one step away from blowing a fuse when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The real puncher is when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. He responded by saying that the Lincoln Memorial had been sold and renamed as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial (and ZING!)

4. Nixon for President

1992: National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon was again, running for President of the United States. Get this, his slogan was "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again!" With this announcement came an audio speech of Nixon announcing his candidacy. Many listeners flooded the show with expressions of outrage and shock. During the second half of the show they announced it was fake. Nixon's voice was impersonated by Rich Little.

3. Flying Penguins

2008: The BBC announced that it's filming crew for the show Miracles of Evolution had captured a video of Adélie penguins flying in the air. (They were probably like, "HOLY SHIT!") They even offer a video of the penguins. The announcer on the show explained that the penguins fly to the rainforests of South America to escape the harsh winters.

2. Bombs Away!

1915: On April 1st, 1915, in the midst of WWI (Or as we like to say it, World War FUN!), the a French plane flew over a German Camp and dropped something that appeared to be a bomb. The German soldiers immediatly scattered like little bunnies. After they realized there wasn't a boom, a soldier went to go check on the object. They found a large football with a note attacthed to it saying "April Fools!" (Damn, the French were so cool back then...now...we don't even want to go there.)

1. 15th Annual New York City April Fools Parade

2000: A News Release sent to the Media said that the 15th Annual New York City April Fools Parade was scheduled to begin at noon on 59th Street and would proceed down to Fifth Avenue. There were many floats the depicted world hoaxes, according to the report. CNN and the FOX affiliate WNYW sent news crews to cover the parade. They arrived at 59th Street but there was no sign of a parade. They then knew they were pranked (Seriously, who didn't see that coming?) This hoax was the work of proffesional pranker, Joey Skaggs . Skaggs had been issuing press releases advertising the nonexistent parade every April Fool's Day since 1986.

Source for all of these from: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/