Post by Daz Madrigal on Apr 2, 2007 17:42:23 GMT
1. For nine years, an urn of ashes found on the Tube has sat unclaimed in the lost property office, the Observer reported. But now an amateur genealogist has tracked down the family who were robbed of the urn on the way to scatter their father’s ashes.
2. And an army of the undead took over Brisbane's streets, the BBC News website reported. It was an annual Zombie Walk in which horror film fans spattered with fake blood staggered across the city. Its website explains that it was not an April Fool's joke "but serious, in a flippant sort of manner".
3. Gromit the Plasticine dog is to be the new face of HMV, replacing Nipper the terrier on the music store’s logo. The Sunday Times quoted Gromit’s creator, Nick Park, as saying: "It's a great honour to be stepping in the same paw-prints of an icon as big as Nipper." All true, said HMV's press office.
4. Also genuine was the paper’s report that the moat around the Tower of London could soon be re-submerged, 177 years after it was drained. True, says the Royal Palaces' press office.
5. Musical lederhosen equipped with built-in MP3 controls were among five contenders highlighted in the Independent on Sunday’s Spot the April Fool contest. But the hi-tech leather shorts were unveiled at the annual CeBIT trade fair earlier in the week.
6. And the "Bill of Rights for abused robots”, an ethical code to prevent humans from exploiting machines, also reported in the Indie? South Korea drew up the proposal in early March, as reported here.
7. South Korea has also unveiled robots equipped with machine-guns that can tell the difference between humans and trees, that it may use to patrol its border with North Korea, says the Times. On 2 April.
8. Sheep, the European Union, electronic tagging – perhaps the April Fool’s story that has everything? But this snippet in the Observer’s news in brief column is genuine. Asked about the European Union proposal for an electronic identity system for sheep, the Welsh MP Mark Williams said in a parliamentary question: “We already have a robust system of identifying a species. If it's woolly and goes ‘baa’, it's a sheep.” The proposal has been on the cards for several years to track livestock movement.
9. Fascist leader Oswald Mosley was so upset at suggestions that he mistreated his pigs that he wrote irate letters to the Home Office to try to clear his name. Records released by the National Archives on 1 April show that he attempted to extract an apology after he was charged with over-crowding and under-feeding his pigs in 1945.
10. Cosmetic surgery is ripe for a send-up, but there are few limits to the lengths some people will go to in order to look youthful. The Indie on Sunday carried a double-page spread on how demand for hand lifts - either plumped up with fat from elsewhere in the body or by injecting cosmetic fillers - is up by at least 300%.
..which stories printed were true and with were april 1st jokes?
2. And an army of the undead took over Brisbane's streets, the BBC News website reported. It was an annual Zombie Walk in which horror film fans spattered with fake blood staggered across the city. Its website explains that it was not an April Fool's joke "but serious, in a flippant sort of manner".
3. Gromit the Plasticine dog is to be the new face of HMV, replacing Nipper the terrier on the music store’s logo. The Sunday Times quoted Gromit’s creator, Nick Park, as saying: "It's a great honour to be stepping in the same paw-prints of an icon as big as Nipper." All true, said HMV's press office.
4. Also genuine was the paper’s report that the moat around the Tower of London could soon be re-submerged, 177 years after it was drained. True, says the Royal Palaces' press office.
5. Musical lederhosen equipped with built-in MP3 controls were among five contenders highlighted in the Independent on Sunday’s Spot the April Fool contest. But the hi-tech leather shorts were unveiled at the annual CeBIT trade fair earlier in the week.
6. And the "Bill of Rights for abused robots”, an ethical code to prevent humans from exploiting machines, also reported in the Indie? South Korea drew up the proposal in early March, as reported here.
7. South Korea has also unveiled robots equipped with machine-guns that can tell the difference between humans and trees, that it may use to patrol its border with North Korea, says the Times. On 2 April.
8. Sheep, the European Union, electronic tagging – perhaps the April Fool’s story that has everything? But this snippet in the Observer’s news in brief column is genuine. Asked about the European Union proposal for an electronic identity system for sheep, the Welsh MP Mark Williams said in a parliamentary question: “We already have a robust system of identifying a species. If it's woolly and goes ‘baa’, it's a sheep.” The proposal has been on the cards for several years to track livestock movement.
9. Fascist leader Oswald Mosley was so upset at suggestions that he mistreated his pigs that he wrote irate letters to the Home Office to try to clear his name. Records released by the National Archives on 1 April show that he attempted to extract an apology after he was charged with over-crowding and under-feeding his pigs in 1945.
10. Cosmetic surgery is ripe for a send-up, but there are few limits to the lengths some people will go to in order to look youthful. The Indie on Sunday carried a double-page spread on how demand for hand lifts - either plumped up with fat from elsewhere in the body or by injecting cosmetic fillers - is up by at least 300%.
..which stories printed were true and with were april 1st jokes?
