april fool gags

David Beckham had just stunned the world by saying he was joining Australia's team, when he casually turned away from the phone and asked Posh if she knew where his knickers were.
We don't know Victoria Beckham's reply. She was probably too busy watching "Avatar II: Blue Mountain Love".

Or she could have been reading a yarn about Melbourne's "cage of shame" - a plan to lock louts in a see-through box in the city's CBD.
Yes, it's April 1 in Australia, with the "Golden Balls" story being the most successful in turning people into golden fools.
A Beckham impersonator, the Sydney Morning Herald and the ABC had some believing he'd just become the Socceroos' new assistant manager and would be lead Harry Kewell and the Aussie lads to World Cup glory in South Africa.
Those initially duped quickly noticed the date and twigged. But plenty were suckered.
"I've never taken much interest in him or his missus, but he sounds great," one listener told ABC Radio after it played the "Becks" interview announcing his appointment.

"I'm blushing ... I feel like an idiot," the embarrassed listener added.
The Herald reported it only took a gift of bananas, a pineapple and a get-well card from Football Federation Australian (FFA) chairman Frank Lowy to persuade the injured AC Milan midfielder to take the job.
That should have been enough to alert readers to the fact it was a big raspberry.
But the Becks gag wasn't the only April Fool's Day rib-tickler doing the rounds, with the media taking great delight in the traditional pranks.
"Avatar sequel to film in Tweed!" screamed the Tweed Daily News in an attempt to convince readers the second instalment of the ultra-successful James Cameron movie was being shot in northern NSW.
Naturally, it would be called: Avatar II: Blue Mountain Love, the newspaper reported, adding that Aussie actor Sam Worthington was pushing for the location so he could stay at home during filming.
Meanwhile, the Brisbane Times tried to convince readers of a toll to stroll plan, charging pedestrians and cyclists $1.50 to cross the Kurilpa Bridge, in central Brisbane.
"I can't believe they would consider such an extraordinarily foolish idea," the website quoted one local fool as saying.
Melbourne's Herald Sun tried the cage of shame gag - with drunks dumped in a fish tank-style box for onlookers to gawp at.
Hilariously, hundreds of readers realised it was a prank - but still supported the idea.
Melbourne pranksters also delivered a political punch, covering signs in Queens Street with those saying Republic Street.
City of Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle applauded the effort, saying the signs were "very cleverly and very creatively changed" to match existing signage.
"Whoever pulled this April Fool's stunt - very clever, very amusing," he told Fairfax Radio.
"They are coming down, I regret to tell you."
In other pranks, BMW tried to convince newspaper readers it had secured the rights to a new GPS navigation system that would lead motorists into a secret underground labyrinth of tunnels.
It would "allow BMW X1 drivers unfettered access to this traffic-free gateway to the beach and countryside", the firm's spoof advert claimed.
Pen maker Artline also ran print ads says it had invented a new pen that records everything written with it on a digital memory stick.
Ad firm BCM also ran a similar April Fools effort in 2009 for an Artline pen with satellite tracking so it could never be lost, generating $200,000 worth of free advertising for their client and duping many readers.
"It's unbelievable the amount of people that fall for this," BCM spokesman Simon Jarvis said.

(Source: http://www.smh.com.au/national/april-fool-gags-20100401-rgxg.html)