Ten best April Fool's Day hoaxes

Now THIS one was funny:

 

My fav...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Apr 1 2007, 11:16 PM) [snapback]416320[/snapback]</div>

Sweden in 1962 had only one television channel, which broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to receive color pictures by pulling a nylon stocking over the screen. In fact, they had to wait until 1970.


I wonder if they still fit after taking them off the TV?

Wildkow

p.s. After being on the TV for eight years? I don't think so.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Apr 2 2007, 11:34 PM) [snapback]416870[/snapback]</div>

I remember the very first generation of home videogames (yes, kids, we're talking about PONG here! None of this fancy Wii garbage! When I was your age we had a single joystick, no buttons, and WE LIKED IT, Dagnabbit!) Anyway, I remember some of them came with neat plastic overlays you could put on your TV screen because the games, of course, were only in black and white.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Apr 2 2007, 11:01 PM) [snapback]416892[/snapback]</div>

OMG! You're older than dirt! Just like me. :lol:

Wildkow

 

Heard about this one back in the 80's, and always thought it was a good gag. A radio station (I think it was in Kentucky or Tennesee somewhere) started out their Monday morning show an hour early. Every time they gave the time, the DJ said "If you set your clocks forward ahead one hour last night, it's 6:30." and so on throughout the morning.

Naturally, people got up, assumed they had forgotten about daylight savings time, and rushed through the morning to get to work on time. The DJ failed to mention until the end of the show that there was no reason to set your clocks ahead an hour, because daylight savings time wasn't supposed to start until later in the month.

Apparently people all over the city were showing up for work an hour early.

Dan

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Apr 2 2007, 10:01 PM) [snapback]416892[/snapback]</div>

Was that the Odyssey? I remember getting one of those for Christmas (probably about 1972?). The overlays were incredibly cheesy, and never actually worked like they should (the dots on the TV screen rarely lined up properly with the overlay). The system didn't even come with joysticks, but this was probably before anyone actually realized what a joystick was! Instead, it had big clunky boxes with potentiometers on each side.

Here's are some good history links:

http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm

http://www.magnavox-odyssey.com/

http://www.ralphbaer.com/odyssey_ad.htm