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Having seen the [url= http://www.alpkit.com/special/beta/ ]Alpkit site[/url]i thought it would be nice for people to share other april fools they have found.
This from the times is i think their April fool.
[url= http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7083378.ece ]Hole sale robbery[/url]
😀
What else have you found.
i know its not real. but I want one anyway...
[url] http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade.shtml?icpg=Carousel_iCade_1 [/url]
Virgin / Absolute radio had a thing earlier about introducing Bull Fighting to the UK, with the organiser of the event on the phone trapping off about it. Had me for a minute to be honest!
[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/mandelson-to-take-over-at-the-beeb ]I found this.[/url], there's no link to the BBC or The Telegraph!
singlespeeddan, i thought i read about that a few weeks ago, might actually be true 🙂
I think this may be the guardians contribution.
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In an audacious new election strategy, Labour is set to embrace Gordon Brown's reputation for anger and physical aggression, presenting the prime minister as a hard man, unafraid of confrontation, who is willing to take on David Cameron in "a bare-knuckle fistfight for the future of Britain", the Guardian has learned.
Following months of allegations about Brown's explosive outbursts and bullying, Downing Street will seize the initiative this week with a national billboard campaign portraying him as "a sort of Dirty Harry figure", in the words of a senior aide. One poster shows a glowering Brown alongside the caption "Step outside, posh boy," while another asks "Do you want some of this?"Brown aides had worried that his reputation for volatility might torpedo Labour's hopes of re-election, but recent internal polls suggest that, on the contrary, stories of Brown's testosterone-fuelled eruptions have been almost entirely responsible for a recent recovery in the party's popularity. As a result, the aide said, Labour was "going all in", staking the election on the hope that voters will be drawn to an alpha-male personality who "is prepared to pummel, punch or even headbutt the British economy into a new era of jobs and prosperity".
Strategists are even understood to be considering engineering a high-profile incident of violence on the campaign trail, and are in urgent consultations on the matter with John Prescott, whose public image improved in 2001 after he punched an egg-throwing protester.
Possible confrontations under discussion include pushing Andrew Marr out of the way while passing him on a staircase, or thumping the back of Jeremy Paxman's chair so hard that he flinches in shock.
One tactic being discussed involves provoking a physical confrontation at one of the three ground-breaking TV debates between the candidates. In this scenario, Brown, instead of responding to a point made by Cameron, would walk over from his microphone with an exaggerated silent display of self-control, bring his face to within an inch of the Tory leader's, and in a subdued voice, ask "what did you just say?", before delivering a single well-aimed blow to his opponent's face, followed by a headlock if required.
The bloodied and bruised Cameron could then be whisked to a nearby hospital, where a previously briefed team of doctors and nurses would demonstrate the efficiency and compassion of the NHS under a Labour government.
Saatchi & Saatchi, the agency behind the poster campaign, are also considering reworked posters from classic movies, casting Brown as The Gordfather, the Terminator, and "Mr Brown" from Reservoir Dogs, or perhaps linking him to Omar Little, the merciless killer in the TV series The Wire, in order to burnish the prime minister's "gangsta" credentials. Another set of designs appropriates the current Conservative anti-Brown poster campaign, employing adapted slogans such as: "I took billions from pensions. Wanna make something of it?"
The Brown team has been buoyed by focus group results suggesting that an outbreak of physical fighting during the campaign, preferably involving bloodshed and broken limbs, could re-engage an electorate increasingly apathetic about politics. They also hope they can exploit the so-called "Putin effect", and are said to be exploring opportunities for Brown to be photographed killing a wild animal, though advisers have recommended that weather, and other considerations, mean Brown should not remove his shirt.
Labour further hopes to "harness the power of internet folksourcing", the aide explained, encouraging supporters to design their own posters, which could then be showcased online. The "design your own poster" initiative has caught the imagination of Downing Street strategists, the aide said, because it is cheap, fosters engagement among voters and, above all, nothing could possibly go wrong with it.
For their part, Conservative strategists are said to be troubled by internal research suggesting that several members of the shadow cabinet – including Cameron and George Osborne – would in fact not "come here and say that" if challenged by Brown, instead turning pale and running away, or arranging for an older brother to wait outside the Houses of Parliament to attack him when he is least expecting it.
I just texted my mum and told her I had leukaemia. She's not speaking to me now... Do you think she's trying to double bluff me?
West Ham to sex it up with new pink Ann Summers home shirt PICTURE EXCLUSIVE By Sportsmail Reporter
Last updated at 12:21 AM on 01st April 2010
Comments (0) Add to My Stories West Ham will brave ridicule next season by wearing pink on their home shirts as part of a saucy new sponsorship deal with erotic retailers Ann Summers.
The chain of high street stores, famed for sex toys and lingerie, are owned by David Gold, joint chairman of the Hammers.
Sportsmail can reveal a tantalising first glimpse of the new shirt, with pink flashes added to the traditional colours.
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It is the daily mail but linked from BBC
[url= http://celebrity.aol.co.uk/2010/03/25/craig-david-unveiled-as-un-goodwill-ambassador-seriously/ ]Craig David appointed UN ambassador[/url].
Oh hang on a sec, that was puiblished a week ago and is actually true.
That Alpkit site is fantastic. So much work must have gone into it.
There was a bit on the Today programme where they were trying to prove Shakespeare was French.
Has anyone googled anything this morning?
"[i](1.23 times the velocity of an unladen swallow)[/i]" is how long it took for my results 🙂
[url= http://www.wheelbase.co.uk/wp/?p=1213 ]Good news for Team Wheelbase[/url]
from todays metro
www.miracleshirt.co.uk
There was a bit on the Today programme where they were trying to prove Shakespeare was French
fell for that one but had just woken up 😳
radio this morning reported that most of londons mobile communications and internet had failed due to weather!
[url= http://road.cc/content/news/16067-boasson-hagens-tour-oman-toilet-break-was-planned-all-along ]Sky again...[/url]
I think this is Bike Radar's April Fool?
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/500g-barrier-shattered-by-groundbreaking-new-frame-25600
[url= http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/ ]http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/[/url]
Im hoping this is an April fools.
From Cycling Weekly. Tom Boonen's been training on cobbled rollers to simulate the spring classics races. Goes into some detail about the different cobbles for different races all fixed to the rollers with Quickstep (his team) tile adhesive. Can't find it on thier website to post up.
google, just took "2.00 shakes of a lambs tail"
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0.04 nanocenturies for me
Cycling journalists clearly don't have enough proper work to do, judging by the number of April fools they're putting out.
The [url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7541455/Ferrets-key-to-bridging-the-digital-divide-between-cities-and-rural-areas.html ]sign[/url] is the best bit in the Telegraph...
Wrocester Evening News's [url= http://http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/6242573.BALLOT__Malvern___s_new_attraction_unveiled/ ]contribution?[/url]?
Those physicists at the Hadron collider know how to have a [url= http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2010/100401.html ]laugh[/url]
google did me in 44.47 jiffies.
The STW April Fool on the home page seems a bit poor.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8598134.stm
I hope this is a poor taste one, but I fear that its not. Execute the twunt for being a con artist maybe, but not for being a sorcerer for ****s sake!
Quick Release stem anyone?
http://dirt.mpora.com/news/straitline-components-launch-%E2%80%98quickie%E2%80%99-stems.html
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Quick Release stem anyone?
urm, see front page?
[url= http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/lhc_fifth_dimension_incursion/ ]DIMENSIONAL PORTAL INCURSION AT THE LHC! OH NOES!!![/url]
[url= http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=-33.848374,151.203675&spn=0,359.966977&z=16&layer=c&cbll=-33.848722,151.203709&panoid=qceO45WXdmhEJkhUiBKBHw&cbp=12,138.56,,0,9.91 ]Google Streetview goes 3d[/url]
Click the little guy with the 3d glasses
From local paper
http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/Atomic-treasure-revealed-in-Coquet.6196530.jp
and my own
http://jpnwo.com/forum/index.php?topic=240.0
teaandbiscuits - Member
Quick Release stem anyone?urm, see front page?
Whoops! I see they've added more since the Pearl Izumi Uranus one (which was a bit rubbish).
Onza octapus tyres anyone?
Actually, the story in the OP is TRUE! I saw the German guy interviewed on TV a week or so back, they are actually selling off pot holes in the roads in their village.
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/apr/01/world-cup-left-hand-batsman ]Left handed batsmen to be banned from worldcup[/url] from The Guardian
Copper who hit woman gets off.
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It [i]is[/i] an april fool, right?