Top 5 April Fools’ Day pranks
April 1, 2011 | Andie Hutner Senior Cadenza Editor
The best thing about April Fools’ Day isn’t the pranks that people pull; It’s the fact that people believe them. Here are five of the best pranks from the last 20 years.
5. In 1995, Euro Disney was having some financial trouble and told the world that it would be moving Vladimir Lenin’s body to its Disneyland Paris theme park. The kicker? Russians campaigned to fill Lenin’s mausoleum with Tsar Nicholas II’s body.
4. Burger King declared in 1998 that it would be making a new product—the Left-Handed Whopper. It would be exactly the same, but with condiments rotated 180 degrees for easy access. Righties were offended and tried to order a Right-Handed burger. Oops.
3. On NPR in 1992, “Richard Nixon” announced that he would be making another run for the presidency, claiming he never did anything wrong. Viewers were shocked and appalled, and many called in to share their outrage on-air. They should have waited until the second half of the program, when the program host announced that he was a lying crook—Nixon would not be running again.
2. In 1998, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that the Walt Disney Company had bought the university. It was reported that the campus would be moving to Orlando to open new programs like the Donald Duck Department of Linguistics. This announcement even showed up on the university’s website. At a school like MIT, you should expect that students would be able to break into the server, so of course this was just a prank.
1. Taco Bell publicized the knowledge that they bought the Liberty Bell on April 1, 1998. They would be renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Sounds yummy. Too bad it was a hoax.
April 1, 2011 | Andie Hutner Senior Cadenza Editor
The best thing about April Fools’ Day isn’t the pranks that people pull; It’s the fact that people believe them. Here are five of the best pranks from the last 20 years.
5. In 1995, Euro Disney was having some financial trouble and told the world that it would be moving Vladimir Lenin’s body to its Disneyland Paris theme park. The kicker? Russians campaigned to fill Lenin’s mausoleum with Tsar Nicholas II’s body.
4. Burger King declared in 1998 that it would be making a new product—the Left-Handed Whopper. It would be exactly the same, but with condiments rotated 180 degrees for easy access. Righties were offended and tried to order a Right-Handed burger. Oops.
3. On NPR in 1992, “Richard Nixon” announced that he would be making another run for the presidency, claiming he never did anything wrong. Viewers were shocked and appalled, and many called in to share their outrage on-air. They should have waited until the second half of the program, when the program host announced that he was a lying crook—Nixon would not be running again.
2. In 1998, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that the Walt Disney Company had bought the university. It was reported that the campus would be moving to Orlando to open new programs like the Donald Duck Department of Linguistics. This announcement even showed up on the university’s website. At a school like MIT, you should expect that students would be able to break into the server, so of course this was just a prank.
1. Taco Bell publicized the knowledge that they bought the Liberty Bell on April 1, 1998. They would be renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Sounds yummy. Too bad it was a hoax.