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Penguin, penguin flap your little wings! Chasing fish you swim all day, You can’t fly, but that’s OK.
Has anyone else seen the story today about the flying penguins? Andy & I saw it on the breakfast news this morning and concluded that it was an April Fools Day hoax. However, the BBC website is maintaining that it’s genuine.
I’m not convinced. Anyone else?
Jonny and I saw it too. For a second I thought ‘wow flying penguins’ then I realised it was the first of April. I think it’s a hoax.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7324127.stm
Looks like they’ve now said it is a spoof (go to the bottom of the page). I’ve been on a few newspaper websites today looking for them, but didn’t see any obvious ones. Going to have another gander now.
Hello.
I’m sick.
Just thought you all should know. Also - the best one I saw (cos I’m a geek) was Google Australia’s effort. I don’t know if it was this year or when it was… but it’s good! Also - I was dissappointed to find out that the BBC stole the flying penguin thing from Edinburgh Zoo in 2005.
I think it says a lot that Sian and Mat link to news.bbc.co.uk and I link to newsround.bbc.co.uk. Right - I’m off back to bed.
My cousin pulled off the best April Fools. He’s engaged and getting married in May this year. All his family and friends are on facebook.
He changed his relationship status to ’single’ and put his status as “Jordan is gutted”. Then he got a friend to write on his wall that he was “gutted for him, but in the long term it’s better to find out now rather than later”.
So, all his friends and family get notifications in their feed to say that Jordan and Naomi have now ended their relationship - they are no longer engaged.
Brilliant.
(at least it is brilliant if it’s an april fools. If not, I’m going to look really bad for the message I sent them!)
I saw a tv commercial about the flying penguins last night on BBC 2, I was like wow, coz it looked real as they were setting off, like planes do, but then it was clear that they had been pasted in by some computer bod, when they were flying in to a rainforest. I mean do penguins even go to the rainforest? Ive never heard anything like this in my life and I don’t like it that the BBC can lie this easily to us, esp about animals!!!
On the other hand being a trickster myself I do like the idea of the joke and it will have ‘got’ loads of people….but aside from this, the BBC lied!
I saw that trailer too and would just like to stress that I hadn’t seen the full thing when I posted the original comment, so didn’t know that it ended with the claim that the penguins flew thousands of miles to bask in the tropical sun. I think even I would have realised at that point that it was a hoax!
A possibly went too far with a couple of april fool’s jokes.
Caroline (she’s at best dizzy, at worst - braindead) keeps calling my friend Rick (he prefers ‘Rich’ and gets pretty annoyed that she keeps doing it. I was hanging my coat up and she called him Rick again. Without me correcting her, she realised her mistake and said “gosh - I need to stop calling him Rick”.
So I said, “yeah, he had a twin brother called Rick who died when they were little”. I turn round, having finished hanging up my coat, and she’s crying. It didn’t help when I pointed at her and yelled “April Fool!”
It also didn’t help that everyone in the room fell about laughing.
Oh - in a different April Fool prank, I convinced Marie & Rebecca at work that one of the consultants had died. I possibly left it a little bit too long before I told them the truth. I decided to confess when I overheard a couple of nurses talking about how he’s passed away.
Jonny!
I don’t know why anyone ever believes you about anything. You’re one of those people who, if someone says “I can’t tell when he’s joking and when he’s serious” I’d reply, “if his mouth’s moving, he’s joking”, possibly even considering saying “lying” in the place of “joking”…!
Apparently the BBC breakfast sports guy did a report on greyhound racing…on ice-skates. He got a load of emails saying how cruel it was to make dogs ice-skate.