http://www.ktar.com/?sid=1279757&nid=6 I hope this link works. For April 1st a news radio station here in AZ pulled this April Fool's Day joke & got some feathers ruffled. It's not about hs but I thought I'd share it as it pertains to ps & would not have affected me HAD it been true. Just in case the link doesn't work it was a "news report" about saving money by sending kids with last names A-L to school Mon/Wed/Fri 10 hours a day while the M-Z kids go Tue/Thur/Sat 10hours a day. You can imagine how this would have really gone over. "Official" spokespeople were names like Buzz Driver,Tex Bookman, and Chuck Board. This info was brought to us by the AZ Dept of Education & Fishing! And people were not getting it. They were calling the schools & superintendents.
That is funny. A radio station here once told, over the air, that the telephone company was going to drain the phone lines because we had been getting a lot of rain and the lines were waterlogged. They said to please place the receivers in a waterproof container like a plastic bucket so it wouldn't make a mess. Phone lines were so messed up that they had to announce to hang up your phones that it was all a joke. The phone company couldn't even call the radio station so they sent someone to tell them to do something! This was back when the operators connected the calls on the old cord boards and it caused a huge problem. You couldn't call the police or an ambulance or anything. My grandmother thought it was a real thing and left me a note to go hang up her phone once the lines were drained. We laughed over that for many years.
As teens, my brother and I had a fearsome reputation for playing jokes on April 1. We'd plan them in advance. The one everyone remembers to this day was played on our aunt (who, at over 90, still remembers it). She lived in a very very old house and shared a wall with a church built around 1100 AD. In the wall were these holes, which a local historian once told her were ancient bee-boles (a precursor to beehives). She was so proud of her "bee-boles." One April 1, I called up as the producer of a planned BBC documentary series called "The Living Past" (we invented the name). In the background, my brother hit random keys on a typewriter so it sounded like an office. Someone had informed the producer of her bee-boles, and would she mind appearing in one of their episodes? Being a typical country villager, this was the chance of a lifetime! Of course she didn't mind. An hour later, I called again - this time pretending to be David Attenborough (who was famous even back then), thanking her for her willingness to help. As luck would have it (as she would tell people later), it was a bad line, and she really thought it was him. "Yes, Mr. Attenborough. Of course, Mr. Attenborough. My pleasure, Mr. Attenborough." My brother was rolling around the floor laughing. What happened next was so funny (at least, it was funny because she has a sense of humor). She called everyone she knew in the village and told them she was going to appear in a documentary with David Attenborough. They immediately told their neighbors, and soon everyone knew. We couldn't call my aunt back to tell her it was a joke because her phone was tied up for ages. When I did eventually get hold of her (again as Sir David), I quoted the supposed Latin name for bee-boles: "Aprilus Foolatum." After a few seconds, it suddenly clicked - and I was called all the names under the sun, followed by minutes of laughter.
