The best April fool's joke ever

Today is one of my friends Birthday. He is also a chess.com member. I texted him this morning

Me: Happy bday

Victim: Thanks man

Me: Did you here chess.com is closing down??

Victim: WHAT?

Me: APRIL FOOL'S

Victim: April fool's hahaha

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Here's another one I pulled of against one of the teachers at my school. He is also a chess.com member

Me: Hey, Mr. Kennedy. Did you hear chess.com is closing down?

Mr. Kennedy: No, Why is that?

Me: Because April fool's like you!!

Mr. Kennedy: And I didn't fall for a joke all day long! Dam* you, David...haha

here is one

"Mom, gabe is drowning?

"OMG, where is he, i must call 911"

"Ok, tell the cops this... "APRIL FOOLS"

1996: The Taco Bell Corporation announced it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell was housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed, a few hours later, that it was all a practical joke. The best line of the day came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale. Thinking on his feet, he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold. It would now be known, he said, as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.

1998: Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."

1978: A barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders were expecting it. Dick Smith, a local adventurer and millionaire businessman (owner of Dick Smith's Foods), had been loudly promoting his scheme to tow an iceberg from Antarctica for quite some time. Now he had apparently succeeded. He said that he was going to carve the berg into small ice cubes, which he would sell to the public for ten cents each. These well-traveled cubes, fresh from the pure waters of Antarctica, were promised to improve the flavor of any drink they cooled. Slowly the iceberg made its way into the harbor. Local radio stations provided excited blow-by-blow coverage of the scene. Only when the berg was well into the harbor was its secret revealed. It started to rain, and the firefighting foam and shaving cream that the berg was really made of washed away, uncovering the white plastic sheets beneath.

1981: The Daily Mail ran a story about an unfortunate Japanese long-distance runner, Kimo Nakajimi, who had entered the London Marathon but, on account of a translation error, thought that he had to run for 26 days, not 26 miles. Reportedly Nakajimi was now somewhere out on the roads of England, still running, determined to finish the race. Various people had spotted him, though they were unable to flag him down. The translation error was attributed to Timothy Bryant, an import director, who said, "I translated the rules and sent them off to him. But I have only been learning Japanese for two years, and I must have made a mistake. He seems to be taking this marathon to be something like the very long races they have over there."

1915: On April 1, 1915, in the midst of World War I, a French aviator flew over a German camp and dropped what appeared to be a huge bomb. The German soldiers immediately scattered in all directions, but no explosion followed. After some time, the soldiers crept back and gingerly approached the bomb. They discovered it was actually a large football with a note tied to it that read, "April Fool!"

1933: The Madison Capital-Times solemnly announced that the Wisconsin state capitol building lay in ruins following a series of mysterious explosions. The explosions were attributed to "large quantities of gas, generated through many weeks of verbose debate in the Senate and Assembly chambers." Accompanying the article was a picture showing the capitol building collapsing. Many readers were fooled—and outraged. One reader wrote in declaring the hoax "was not only tactless and void of humor, but also a hideous jest." Nevertheless, in 1985 The Science Digest named this as one of the best hoaxes ever.

1959: The residents of Wellingborough, England woke to find a trail of white footprints painted along the main street of their town. At the end of the trail were the words, "I must fly."

Wolfleader,that's a horrible joke. MY name is Gabe!

I know I can fly! All I gotta do is jump abord aer lingus and fly to anywhere I want to in Ireland...lol

Aer lingus is an aerline in Ireland. Kind of like Southwest aerlines or Jet Blue.

One can only hope Bill Gates won't allow such tomfoolery here now that he bought chess.com

Bill Gates did not buy chess.com nor is he running for FIDE president. If you look all the way at the bottom of SonOfPearl's artical it clearly states, "APRIL FOOLS TO ANYONE WHO COPIED AND PACED THIS ARTICAL TO THEIR OWN WEBPAGE"

article. pasted. It was a joke David-Neff, too subtle I guess...

I really like the Taco Liberty Bell. I also like the war one- WWI was such a violent affair and to hear all of the crazy things they did in order to relieve the tension.

David Neff, if you do not have a sense of humor you should not be in an April Fools' thread. For that matter, if you do not have a sense of humor, you should also not be responsible for fighting (or declaring) any major wars.

brilliant