april fool heads up

mukki

as opposed to the april fools ideas threads, point out in this thread any april fools tricks you hear on the radio, tv, or read in the paper, etc, also let us know if you fell for it.

super_furry

Bernard Dunne's fighting Paul O'Connell according to Newstalk - plenty of mentions of boards in the story too.

mukki

98fm say one of their dj's is going to do the late late show next year

ch2008

http://www.rte.ie/sport/racing/2009/0401/jockeys.html

oeb

For online, thinkgeek.com has it's ususal april fools goodness.

mukki

gmtv have a story about how a pc program can make you look younger

tbh

the guardian is now going to publish exclusively via twitter.

All stories in 140 characters or less. "Germany invades Poland. WTF?"

Quazzie

mukki wrote: »

gmtv have a story about how a pc program can make you look younger

Isn't that called photoshop?

MagicMarker

The Recession.... really had me there for a minute!!

mukki

photoshop lol, no they say its using uv rays from the screen that reduce wrinkles on the outside of your skin.

jkl

Today FM presenters doing show in nude

thebigcheese22

Is the story about Alan Shearer taking over at Newcastle an April fools? Seems fishy to me...

Quazzie

jkl wrote: »

Today FM presenters doing show in nude

Thank fcuk its a radio show.

jkl

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Thank fcuk its a radio show.

the promos they're running are saying that its for nude paintings for charity, and can be watched on webcam.

Chong

Faceboards is all.

Chad ghostal

U2 playing blackpool shopping center (I'm assuming)? - RedFM Cork

Indie18

Aparently Trapittoni belives Ireland can get something out of the game tonight. Sounds suspect to me.

Das Kitty

Stupid 2fm Breakfast show did a thing where they "forgot" their Mikes were live and had an argument on air. It was a gammy way of announcing that we're in for a second dose of the godawful HomeRun rubbish.

Hopefully that was an April Fool as well

listermint

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzif0K-bNAM

This one!!

Gauge

I thought 2fm's april fools joke was them ringing the child who then got into her mam's car and tried to drive it.

Aldebaran

I thought 2fm's april fools joke was them ringing the child who then got into her mam's car and tried to drive it.

And I thought it was the woman who won Jim Jims Dad on the first day of the competition.

jasonb

I reckon at least 1 of two stories on Today FM was an April Fools.

1. The story about Paul McLoon doing his show on Thursday night nude and being painted while doing it, and then all the other Presenters on Friday being painted nude as well, all for an 'unnamed charity'

2. The story that Dublin Airport is to be renamed after Gay Byrne. At least, I hope that's a joke!

J.

JJJJNR

I think this is a very very good april fools.

http://www.hotelicopter.com/

dontcallmecrazy

98fm news said that the Gov. want to make people get a license for all pets the way we have one for dogs,to 'claw' back some cash, sounded like a joke to me.

although nothing would surprise me with that lot.

Agonist

JJJJNR wrote: »

I think this is a very very good april fools.

http://www.hotelicopter.com/

roflcopter?

Blarney92

96fm in Cork had a story about how NASA were meant to be landing their shuttle in Cork airport tomorrow morning because their regular landing place wasn't available.

lucylu

On the RTE website

http://www.rte.ie/sport/racing/2009/0401/jockeys.html

Splainc

red fm in cork said u2 playing secret show from the roof of blackpool shopping centre. they keep cutting to a crappy tribute band too

miaowsky

Wales V Ireland 6 Nations Finale to be Replayed.
http://europeansportsnews.com/

it links back to paddypower http://blog.paddypower.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/31/wales-v-ireland-to-be-replayed/

BeatNikDub

Dont ask me why I was awatching it but Ireland AM saying Mark Cagney was off today because he is in talk for the late late show gig.

:mad::mad::mad:
Not even funny tbh

Indie18

104 had a story on the news this morning about the number of bank holidays in the year being cut. It was stupidly obvious.

Mr. Incognito

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0401/1224243795000.html?via=mr

Terry

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0401/1224243795000.html?via=mr

Yeah. They should really do that to bono. That'll teach him and so forth.

Guru Maith Agut

This is a definite one, just on TodayFM:

http://www.trackwithmobile.com

Check the source code of the page and it's quite obvious its been thrown together yet when he was told that people were finding his site was down he said to Darcy "that's the cost of fame I guess".

Apparently you can track anyone through their mobile to 1.4 mtrs..

Get a life! :pac:

Guru Maith Agut

listermint wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzif0K-bNAM

This one!!

And coincidentally her name is April Murphy. :rolleyes:

kildara

Mickey Harte leaves Tyrone for Man Utd...

http://www.bbcsportnews.co.uk/harte-shocker.php

Quazzie

Guru Maith Agut wrote: »

And coincidentally her name is April Murphy. :rolleyes:

lol. I'm sure her parents had this exact moment in mind when thinking of a name.

whiskeyman

Herald AM front page splash about Obama popping into Moneygall in Offaly in a secret visit last night while en route to London for G20 meeting.

Was a good one that might have a few folk I reckon!

monkeyfudge

New Scientist Magazine:
Masturbation could bring hay fever relief for men

Mr. Presentable

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/apr1c.html

Amauri opts for England

Terry

monkeyfudge wrote: »

New Scientist Magazine:
Masturbation could bring hay fever relief for men

Brilliant.
I'll get a few friends with that one.


On a serious note, I'd like to point people ot the charter re: links. Don't start rick rolling or whatever. It's lame.

Guru Maith Agut

monkeyfudge wrote: »

New Scientist Magazine:
Masturbation could bring hay fever relief for men

Roll on the summer!! Cum to think of it, I don't need a reason..

BuddhaJoe

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/698817/faster-way-to-populate-select-with-javascript

Keep clicking 'Cornify'

Kiera

I just got banned from my own forum and i'm the only fúcking mod. This better be a joke :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Quazzie

Kiera wrote: »

I just got banned from my own forum and i'm the only fúcking mod. This better be a joke :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Admins can I get access to SaG. I don't know what its about but I'm pretty sure I have a wayward opinion about it

Kiera

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Admins can I get access to SaG. I don't know what its about but I'm pretty sure I have a wayward opinion about it

Over my dead body you can. Infact thats the only way to shut me up about this!

RATM

+1 on the Metro front page that said Obama was on the piss in Offaly last night. Loved the bit where it said he snubbed Cowen by not telling him he was going to show up and that he downed a few pints and left with a pack of Monster Munch !!!

+1 on the Irish Times story about electronic tagging for tax exiles, oh if only it were true :pac:

evil_seed

my cuz works for 96FM cork. they are saying the govt is going to start charging for water usage per litre. "people are freaking out". lol:pac::D

AnonoBoy

I really fell for this one:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0401/liveregister.html

Unemployment set to rise! :rolleyes: Yeah right.

Hells Belle

the Munster Express are running a story about a new birth tax of €500 payable before you are allowed leave the hospital, I was outraged for a minute lol

ibarelycare

Das Kitty wrote: »

Stupid 2fm Breakfast show did a thing where they "forgot" their Mikes were live and had an argument on air. It was a gammy way of announcing that we're in for a second dose of the godawful HomeRun rubbish.

Hopefully that was an April Fool as well

Gauge wrote: »

I thought 2fm's april fools joke was them ringing the child who then got into her mam's car and tried to drive it.

Aldebaran wrote: »

And I thought it was the woman who won Jim Jims Dad on the first day of the competition.

They did all of these plus a couple more, including a quiz at 6.20 where the caller got all the answers wrong and was told they were all right and Colm got all the questions right and was told they were wrong.

Way too much IMO! If they'd left it at just one it would have been way more believable. I liked where they left the mics on but it was a bit far-fetched as they were talking normally again after the "argument." Could have done it a lot better, bitching about their RTE colleagues or something like that.