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So quite a few of you fell for one this morning Re Sunningdale.. Anyone else?

I did, a work based one! A client of mine stuck out a press release saying they were building a new datacenter underground in the netherlands in some caves which i now know are made up. Fell for it hook line and sinker emailing their CTO asking for a meeting to discuss..
 
I was involved in one about 30 years ago about a non-championship F1 race round the streets of Woking. We even had a picture of a McLaren parked in the High Street that we got done around 6am one morning as they were fully in on it. By 11am on April 1st when the paper had come out, there was already a protest group being formed to stop it happening. When we found out these people were for real, we invited them down to the paper and offered to put their pictures on the front page showing how they had fallen for it, hook, line and sinker. They slunk away very quietly whilst we all howled with laughter in the office for the rest of the day.
 
One of the best I have ever seen was a Scottish paper. They did a full colour centre spread with artist impressions of a new hotel complex that was to be built on top of Ben Nevis, complete with tarmac road leading up. It caused uproar because they would have to level off the top and reduce it's height meaning it would no longer be the highest mountain in the UK.
 
I think they are stupid and immature and anyone who plays an April fools joke should be banned from all golf for six months

As a side note d4s done me up like a kipper:o
 
My mate's club in Surrey did one a couple of years back that had them going into the four-team challenge with Isleworth and the other mega-rich Florida courses and wanting to know who would be available for the week of golf in the sun competing against the pros and being on TV. They got a fair few with that one.
 
When I was a kid the local radio station at the time (Radio City?) did a piece about the River Mersey either drying up or freezing over. That got a load of people out looking:D
 
years ago Capital Radio got the mid week breakfast show presenter, Chris Tarrant to host the 1st April broadcast that fell on a Saturday and a fair few listeners called in stating they had gotten ready for work without realising the day and date
 
Years ago at work we did a good one.

We said that the R&A were trialing a new handicap system based on golf ball velocity.
All handicaps would be equal and the current system would be broken down into four handicap sections... lowest handicap would have poor velocity golf balls---highest...highest.
Our club had been chosen along with six others in England.
List put out for members to sign up to trial. 25 names in the first two hours.
Highlight was two assistant pros having a full on argument about the merits of the system.
 
wasn't an April fools joke as such.

But was out walking the dogs last night and cut up the side of Torvean and picked up a few golf balls in the side the quarry. walked at the back of the 7th and there was a guy on the tee. I asked him if he wanted the balls id found, which he was quite pleased to have.

So i asked him if he minded if i had a go? which he agreed too as i said i was thinking of taking it up. its 160 ish yard hole from a raised tee, he gave me is 7 iron, so had a couple of swishes took one of the balls off him dropped it on the floor and hit it pretty sweetly to about 5 feet, you should have seen his face as i walked off saying "that was easier than i thought":rofl:
 
Subject: Announcment of County Merger - 1st April 2016

Following confidential negotiations between small working parties, the
executives of the Lancashire Union of Golf Clubs and the Yorkshire Union of
Golf Clubs are pleased to announce their merger to form the Northern Rose
County Union. The new organisation will represent over 300 golf clubs and
more than 100,000 golfers.

The county teams will play under the merged symbol "The Pink Rose".
Spokesperson for the new body, Avril Foujour, commented "This is a very
exciting time for us all, the Pink Rose is a symbol we can all unite behind"

The merged body will be affiliated to the Golfing Union of Ireland.
 
patricks148 said:
wasn't an April fools joke as such.

But was out walking the dogs last night and cut up the side of Torvean and picked up a few golf balls in the side the quarry. walked at the back of the 7th and there was a guy on the tee. I asked him if he wanted the balls id found, which he was quite pleased to have.

So i asked him if he minded if i had a go? which he agreed too as i said i was thinking of taking it up. its 160 ish yard hole from a raised tee, he gave me is 7 iron, so had a couple of swishes took one of the balls off him dropped it on the floor and hit it pretty sweetly to about 5 feet, you should have seen his face as i walked off saying "that was easier than i thought":rofl:
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Did you buy the 7 iron ? lol.
 
SaintHacker said:
When I was a kid the local radio station at the time (Radio City?) did a piece about the River Mersey either drying up or freezing over. That got a load of people out looking:D
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Back in the mid 90's a DJ on Radio City's breakfast show announced "Steps " would be at St George's hall at 11am that morning, about 1000 people with kids turned up expecting to see the group Steps and not the actual steps of the historic building:D

There was absolute chaos and the DJ got a right rollocking.
 
Rooter said:
So quite a few of you fell for one this morning Re Sunningdale.. Anyone else?

I did, a work based one! A client of mine stuck out a press release saying they were building a new datacenter underground in the netherlands in some caves which i now know are made up. Fell for it hook line and sinker emailing their CTO asking for a meeting to discuss..
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OHH can I come audit it? Whats the redundancy infrastructure like?
 
SaintHacker said:
When I was a kid the local radio station at the time (Radio City?) did a piece about the River Mersey either drying up or freezing over. That got a load of people out looking:D
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Yes it was radio city, they said that the Mersey had dried up and you could walk over to the Wirral.

Another one by Billy Butler (everton supporting local dj) - He said that the Kop had caught fire and was burning down, and people started turning up with buckets of water.
 
Liverbirdie said:
Yes it was radio city, they said that the Mersey had dried up and you could walk over to the Wirral.

Another one by Billy Butler (everton supporting local dj) - He said that the Kop had caught fire and was burning down, and people started turning up with buckets of water.
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It wasn't water in the buckets mate, it was petrol 😃
 
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