April Fools Here!

Mr E

Post any April Fool's jokes/articles/websites here..... (just for the day thats in it!)

silverside

apparently the govt are looking into setting up alcohol free zones in pubs (Irish Indo Online - but it's disappeared when I went to link it!)

Gurgle

They were discussing a total ban on smoking in Ireland on 98FM, to be phased in by the end of 2004.

Gardai checkpoints and tobacco breathalyzers (how the hell do you spell that).

People were apparently getting very upset about the police state.

Hee Hee


here's the link about the alcohol free zones in pubs.

This may not actually be a joke (in the traditional sense of the word), just some more muppetry from our elected 'representatives'(leaders ? nannies ? dictators ?).

Scruff

The Gerry Ryan show are doing a story at the moment that the spire is rusting. Its actually very well done, they have a "consultant" on describing in a very scientific and believable way how the fact that the spires foundation being below the water table is causing a charge to be built up on the copper cap and this in turn is inducing an ionising current on the alloy of the spire istelf. That coupled with osmossis by the spire sucking water up from the water table is causing it to rust,. Apparently is going to to cost €250,000 is set up a system using d.c. current to stop the rust and another €200,000 a year to maintain it.
Charlie McCreevy is on the line now arguing with the consultant, saying its his fault.
very funny and well done.
didn't cop that today was april 1st so was actually fooled by it myself for about 5mins :rolleyes:

Mercury_Tilt

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Scruff

lol!

Lump

www.bold-lumpy.ie


They have one on.


John

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aoifejane

Anyone know if that whole story about Fine Gale Justice spokesman being sacked over smoking in the Dail is an AF joke???????

Lump

I think not, as it was knocking around yesterday.... or last night any way.


John

Unexpected

I have got the best April Fools joke.

What you do is get a bag of marshmallows and a litre of milk

Chop the marshmallows up real fine into small pieces and put them into the litre of milk.

Leave it for a while to settle.

Come back, in front of everyone, get "THE" litre of milk and poor it out in a glass. Everyone will say "what the hell? Its gone off. Do not drink it".

hehe proceed to drink it and then say how good it is.

The weak stomached people will feel very weak and do not tell them until they proceed to drink it themself.

It works like a charm but keep a straight face for the ultimate shock. lol

Frank Grimes

Originally posted by aoifejane
Anyone know if that whole story about Fine Gale Justice spokesman being sacked over smoking in the Dail is an AF joke???????

That's real afaik, I saw it first on the news last night.
There a story here about it too.

Frank Grimes

The one here is good: www.ryanair.ie

Genghis

Ian Dempsey on Today FM had one going this morning. They announced that Ronan Collins had won the lottery. They kept mentioning it during the show (probably over-egged it a bit tbh), and read out listeners texts etc - 'thats a disgrace', 'fix', 'he shouldn't be allowed to win it', 'fair play to him', etc.

Don't know if they actually admitted later on to it being an AFJ or not though.

magpie

The one here is good: www.ryanair.ie

That's actually quite believeable as a new Ryanair policy.

tman

Originally posted by Unexpected
I have got the best April Fools joke.

What you do is get a bag of marshmallows and a litre of milk..............

/me cackles
can't wait to get home & try that one out:D

sceptre

The picture on the Ryanair site is pretty funny.

Cabaal

Reading sites likle slashdot.org and theregister.co.uk is just a waste of time today
oh also cdfreaks.com

Earthhorse

www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

LegacyUser

The Connacht Tribune have a story about people in Connemara having aloophole in the smoking law. Because of a dispensation granted by queen Victoria in 1880 to the people of Connemara who treated her kindly on a visit there, she allowed them to continue a tradition of smoking turf, despite banning it elsewhere in the country. Apparently, there was no provision made for that dispensation in Micheal Martin's laws.

What makes it funnier, is I have a friend who works for the paper, and he said the Irish Times was onto him this afternoon asking about the story ... stupidly, he told yer wan that it was an April Fool. Would have fairly sickened the Times!

Cabaal

Originally posted by Earthhorse
www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Last years one was better
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

Cabaal

Originally posted by Gurgle
here's the link about the alcohol free zones in pubs.

This may not actually be a joke (in the traditional sense of the word), just some more muppetry from our elected 'representatives'(leaders ? nannies ? dictators ?).

Unisson.ie sucks, can't access that story without registering with there **** site!!!!

Badly Drunk Boy

Well, it's free to register so what's the problem?

Here's the story....

"The Government is apparently considering plans to offer grants to publicans who introduce alcohol-free zones on their premises. An inter-departmental working group is believed to be studying the proposals, which would form part of the Government's efforts to tackle the culture of excessive drinking in Ireland. The initiative will apparently be tried on a pilot basis at a number of locations throughout the country."

AdMMM

The one on Today FM was funny tbh! Ronan winning the lotto! They even had an impersonator on!

The RyanAir one is brilliant though

byte

Originally posted by Scruff
The Gerry Ryan show are doing a story at the moment that the spire is rusting. Its actually very well done, they have a "consultant" on describing in a very scientific and believable way how the fact that the spires foundation being below the water table is causing a charge to be built up on the copper cap and this in turn is inducing an ionising current on the alloy of the spire istelf. That coupled with osmossis by the spire sucking water up from the water table is causing it to rust,. Apparently is going to to cost €250,000 is set up a system using d.c. current to stop the rust and another €200,000 a year to maintain it.
Charlie McCreevy is on the line now arguing with the consultant, saying its his fault.
very funny and well done.
didn't cop that today was april 1st so was actually fooled by it myself for about 5mins :rolleyes:

LOL, that had me going for a while too as I didnt realise today was the first of April. It was well enough done.