April Fools

There were some good pranks pulled by the media yesterday, here are some of my favourites...

Cat and Girl got its own syndicated comic strip...

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Google changed its name to Topeka...

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Gmail had a v.w.l ..t.g.

Vowelfail

In The Independent we learnt the Circle Line on London's Underground is to be used as the next Large Hadron Collider..

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and my local paper, The Evening Gazette, told the story of a failed plan to build a main line railway between Middlesbrough and London in the 1830s, this was the prototype of the locomotives to be employed...

Middlesbrough Millipede

I'm sure there were many more but these amused me, please add your favourites in the comments.

Comments

[Ann]

I particularly enjoyed this one - Starbucks cup sizes change