The Best April Fools Day Hoaxes

I’ve already fallen for one – see here – and so here are a few more good ones that fooled people like me, who don’t look at calendars nearly often enough.

Google Mars Colony

Last year Google topped everyone with their offer of internet connections via your toilet. This year they had a plausible time shifting thing – letting you create “custom time” and send emails into the past. That would be cool.

They also had Virgle. A collaboration between Virgin Galactic – the space airline – and Google to set up a private Mars colony. Virgle is damned cool and you have to check it out if also damned obvious. There’s a pioneer question form that’s kind of fun to take too.

Westjet’s Sleeping Compartments

This is funny, because it’s something that I’ve thought about before. I just flew westjet last week, and my neck is still killing me from being propped up against the window. I was thinking - wouldn’t it be great if they had bunks?

“WestJet now offers scheduled service to 47 destinations, continuing on our strategy to be Canada’s favourite airline,” said Bob Cummings, executive vice-president guest experience and marketing, in the joke release. “Our leather seats and live satellite television are a great part of WestJet’s guest experience however, by offering our existing overhead bins as sleeper cabins, guests will now have the opportunity to lie down for a period of time and arrive at their destination refreshed, rested and ready to go.”

Stetching Sarko

I first saw this stretching thing in Gattaca, I was kind of surprised to find out it’s real. But they do it all the time in China. They cut your legs in half and pull – a few months in a painful metal contraption and you come out 2 or 3 inches taller.

The Sun newspaper in London had a ’scoop’ on French President Sarkozy and a certain surgery:

The 5ft 5ins leader has contacted a leading Swiss laboratory because he has become so paranoid about his frame.

Doctors reckon they will be able to add an amazing FIVE INCHES to his height in just over a year.

When surgery is completed he will be an inch taller than his stunning ex-model wife Carla Bruni

They even have a cool picture. It’s funny because it’s plausible.

Flying Penguins

I don’t know if it’s my own anti-BBC bias, but this was lame. Everyone’s talking about it, but it sucked so hard. It’s too obvious. It’s like a nerd trying to swear – it’s just pathetic.

But there’s a stupid video, so if you’re easily entertained:

The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said: “We’d been watching the penguins and filming them for days, without a hint of what was to come.

“But then the weather took a turn for the worse. It was quite amazing. Rather than getting together in a huddle to protect themselves from the cold, they did something quite unexpected, that no other penguins can do.”

Liberal Party Leadership Candidate to jump from one loser team to another

The Leafs aren’t exactly a step up.

CTV News has learned that Liberal MP Ken Dryden has accepted the position as General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Dryden will replace current interim GM, Cliff Fletcher, who will remain with the organization as an executive.

Dryden is expected to assume his new duties as general manager in late July, when Fletcher’s six-month term ends.

His decision to bow out of politics comes at a time when Liberal fortunes have hit an all time low in Quebec under Liberal Leader, Stephane Dion.

“For the Liberals, they are in a worse position than they were in the middle of the sponsorship scandal,” political commentator Jean Lapierre told CTV last week.

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