8. Tricking Sarah Palin into thinking you’re the President of France
I’m not sure what’s more ridiculous here: that Sarah Palin’s staff didn’t know who Nicolas Sarkozy was or the way they ended the call with the Masked Avengers, a Canadian comedy duo.
Once she realized she was being pranked, Palin handed the phone off to an assistant, who said, “I’m sorry. I have to let you go. Thank you.”
That is not how you end a call after you’ve been pranked. You either try to trick the other person into thinking that they were the one being pranked, or you make a farting noise with your mouth and hang up. —Ryan O’Hanlon
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7. Convincing Brits that spaghetti grows on trees
Leave it to our colonial oppressors to both fall for and pull off the greatest news hoax of all time.
From Wikipedia:
The report was produced as an April Fools’ Day joke in 1957, showing a family in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland as they gathered a bumper spaghetti harvest after a mild winter and “virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.”
Yes, you see, spaghetti hangs from the branches like the willow tree, and when you stab the bark that’s where the tomato sauce comes from.
Oh, and have you seen our cow that can be milked for dollar bills? —ROH
Hey, only left-handed people are in their right minds!
On a day where every hack prankster in the world dusts off the old “funny prank muscle” and embarks on a journey of of hoodwinking, I implore you to choose the road less traveled, my dear impressionable readers
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