In Today's Issue

Fool by Sharon Shields
Question Impossible
Top 5 April Fool Pranks
Random Joke of The Day
Finish with a Song

This is a poignant Poem and I'm sure will strike a chord with many of you out there !

Fool

And I think I'm entitled to love

Fool!

It bypasses me

takes detours

stops at other places

other hearts

and leaves me

alone

wandering

looking in the wrong places

at the wrong people

in the hope that one day

I won't be that fool

Sharon Shields

Question Impossible

This is where I ask you a tough question, in fact it's nearly impossible.
What was voted as the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016?

Answer below

Top 5 Best April Fool Jokes of All Time

The Taco Liberty Bell

In 1996, Taco Bell announced they had bought the naming rights to the Liberty Bell.

Henceforth it would be known as The Taco Liberty Bell.

Outraged citizens jammed the phone lines in protest.

That Floating Feeling

In 1976, the BBC aired an interview with an astronomer. He told listeners that at precisely 9:47 AM the planets Jupiter and Pluto would be in a rare alignment that would briefly diminish the earth’s gravity.

He further said that if you leapt into the air at that exact moment, you would experience a fantastic floating sensation.

Hundreds of people called in to say they felt it.

Reset Your Clocks!

In 1975 Australian television announced the country would be converting to metric time. There would now be 100 seconds to a minute, 100 minutes to an hour, and 20 days in a month.

The town Hall was shown with a 10-hour metric clock face. The deputy premiere played along with the prank and extolled the virtues of the new system.

The Dud

In 1915 a French World War I pilot flew over the German lines and dropped what appeared to be a huge bomb. The German soldiers scattered, but nothing exploded.

When they cautiously approached the bomb, what they found was a football.

Attached to it was a note that said, “April Fool!"

Grow Your Own

Here's a great one. Stodgy old BBC informed their viewers of some good news. Great weather and low numbers of the dreaded "spaghetti weevil" meant farmers in Switzerland were harvesting one of their best spaghetti crops ever.

The BBC even manufactured some film footage of Swiss farm workers pulling spaghetti noodles from trees.

They got huge numbers of callers wanting to know how they could grow their own.

BBC told them to plant a piece of spaghetti in a bowl of tomato sauce and see what happened.

Random Joke of the Day

I've been diagnosed today with a morbid fear of giants, I have FeeFi Phobia..

Question Impossible - The answer

I asked - What was voted as the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016?

Comedian Masai Graham won with the gag: "My dad suggested I register for a donor card, he's a man after my own heart."


Finish with a Song

Given the theme this is Chris Rea with 'Fool if you think it's over' released in 1978