Do you think that Meh will do something special/unusual for April Fools’ Day, as they have done on occasion in the past? If so, what might that be, aside from maybe a weird Mehrathon?
Hard to beat one of the old classics: The great spaghetti harvest
In 1957, the BBC pulled off what still ranks as one of the most famous April Fool’s Day gags of all time. Eight million people tuned in to watch Panorama’s three-minute feature on the ‘Swiss spaghetti harvest’.
After an unseasonably warm winter brought an end to their dreadful spaghetti weevil pest control issue, the region of Ticino near the Italian border was said to have yielded an ‘exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop’. The footage showed people picking strands of spaghetti off trees and bushes before tucking into their home-grown feast.
The prank occurred long before pasta became a staple in the average British diet, making the audience ripe for the picking. When viewers phoned in to find out how they could purchase their own spaghetti trees, the BBC told them to ‘place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best’.
When I was little my friends mom would do a bunch of stuff for us on April 1st. Just little kid stuff, move chairs and switch stuff around. One year we decided to get her back, we thought we had the best idea ever and it was gonna be epic. We plastic wrapped the toilet bowl so she couldn’t see when she went to the bathroom. All day we waited, and then we heard her scream and we laughed so hard, until she came out to scream at us for doing it. She was so mad, like irate mad. Now that I’m older I still laugh about it bc we were little shits but I can only imagine his mom going to the bathroom and peeing all over the place bc of that dam plastic wrap. I would have been so pissed too.
Hard to beat one of the old classics:
The great spaghetti harvest
In 1957, the BBC pulled off what still ranks as one of the most famous April Fool’s Day gags of all time. Eight million people tuned in to watch Panorama’s three-minute feature on the ‘Swiss spaghetti harvest’.
After an unseasonably warm winter brought an end to their dreadful spaghetti weevil pest control issue, the region of Ticino near the Italian border was said to have yielded an ‘exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop’. The footage showed people picking strands of spaghetti off trees and bushes before tucking into their home-grown feast.
The prank occurred long before pasta became a staple in the average British diet, making the audience ripe for the picking. When viewers phoned in to find out how they could purchase their own spaghetti trees, the BBC told them to ‘place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best’.
@chienfou The original Pasta Drop
When I was little my friends mom would do a bunch of stuff for us on April 1st. Just little kid stuff, move chairs and switch stuff around. One year we decided to get her back, we thought we had the best idea ever and it was gonna be epic. We plastic wrapped the toilet bowl so she couldn’t see when she went to the bathroom. All day we waited, and then we heard her scream and we laughed so hard, until she came out to scream at us for doing it. She was so mad, like irate mad. Now that I’m older I still laugh about it bc we were little shits but I can only imagine his mom going to the bathroom and peeing all over the place bc of that dam plastic wrap. I would have been so pissed too.
My niece is super excited about April Fools this year!! Asked my mom yesterday if she can sneak her a whoopee cushion, she wants to prank her mom 🫢