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Hi there y'all,

The Yorkshire Post had a nice one about a rival County Cricket Club to
Yorkshire, being set up based in Sheffield.  A lot of good local colour in it
and it had a few of us up here going, I can tell you!!  Especially as they
had  another bit in about an ancient Alum works which was true but shouted
April Fool at the top of it's voice. They must have kept it deliberately for
April 1 as a smoke screen.

The other nice one was on Ceefax.  It was about the state of Queensland in
Australia, which has genuinely decided to cut links with the Royal Family.
This item said that the hard line republicans had demanded a name change for
the  State.  Suggestions ranged from the Sunshine State to The Banana
Republic, it seems that they grow a lot of bananas there.  It went on to say
that there was also a move afoot to sponser the state name, Fosterland had
been suggested. As well as the single page report there was a page 195 report
by 'Phil Windsor' !!!!!  which had 5 pages in more depth, including a report
on the cost of changing all the letter heads whenever the sponsorship changed
e.g. to XXXXland.   There was also a suggestion that the state parliament
building would have to change to 'Castle Maigne'.    Now there was no
guarantee that it was an April Fool but I saw nothing else which seemed to
meet the requirement.

Any more, anyone?

73.... Bill in Eldwick, West Riding of Yorkshire. G3RXS @GB7KLY.#19.GBR.EU
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Hi all,

Contrary to Mark G0OIW, I think it wasn't a bad year, here are sevral I
spotted

SB from an AP station (allegedly) with equipemnt to dispose of -
was in fact a rather clever reworking of the 'phone the zoo and ask
for Mr.Lion' one. It gave a number (In fact colchester zoo) and ask
for Mrs C(larrissa) Lion - I was nearly taken in!

In the Times, there was a pretty good Nissan one, advertising the vertical
take off Micra, the Micra with tv and radio, the submersible micra and the
micra with a swimming pool. They rather spoilt it by putting in another one
saying 'Nobody's fool'.

Superb half page spread in the Time about a sale of intelleuctal proprty,
including the rights to soap on a rope (let the buyer beware), the glue
compound for post-it notes and 200 episodes of the Archers. The auticoneers
were Everett, Beaney and Hadley, and you were instructed in very small type
in the bottom right hand corner to phone Ever. Bean. Had for more details!
I think that was the best.

So, all in all, I think it was one of the better Fools Days - but nothing can
beat the spagheti harvest!

73s, James
GW7NJJ at GB7ABC
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Invisible Submarine!

Hi

In  the Morecambe  Bay area  here in  the North  West a  new independent
radio station began at  the beginning of  March, called The  Bay. I was
listening on the  morning of  1 April  and kept  hearing them  refer to  the
submarine,  HMS Vanguard which was apparently on its  way from Barrow across
the bay to Glasson Dock and from there to St George's Quay in Lancaster,
which is where The Bay is based. There was great excitement as  the sub
apparently drew nearer the  city. The captain was on board and  in contact
with the radio station  giving details of how they  were progressing, between
records. At one  point the captain  was heard to say that they had reached
Glasson Dock and were now starting to go up the canal. He added that they
were  travelling backwards - to make it easier to get out again!  Well, at
this  time I knew  exactly where he was talking about, as just last weekend
we had been staying  in a caravan at a site right next  to the canal he was
referring to and I  knew  it was not  very big - hardly  wide enough for two
narrow-boats to pass, and  I don't think it will be very deep! I found it
hard to believe that something  as large as the Vanguard, which I  had also
seen on many occasions in Barrow-in-Furness, just 10 miles away from here,
could possibly  go down  this canal.  Anyway, I  continued listening  as it
was supposedly  approaching Lancaster.  By this  time it  was  reported  that
many people were starting to gather outside  of The Bay radio station at St
George's Quay waiting to  see the Vanguard  arrive! At last  the moment
arrived, and the captain was heard to say that he  could see the radio
station, and enquired  if the DJ could  see the sub.  The DJ replied  that he
couldn't and asked if there was a  reason.... The  captain then  said that
it could  be because  they were invisible! He then went on to say that  he
would have to go, as he had promised the crew  that he  would buy  a cake
for his  birthday which was on Saturday 3 April, adding that  if he had  been
born 2  days earlier he  would have been an APRIL FOOL!  At that  point, the
radio station  went straight  on to play some music while the  listeners were
left  to ponder on  what had just been said! It was then that I, and I am
sure  many other people, realised it had all been  an April Fool! It  was
certainly the  best one I  have heard for a good few years! Later we heard
that as well as many  people turning up to see it, a school  had even
organised a bus to take some of the children to see it too!

Well Done to The Bay radio station!!  They certainly had me fooled!

73, Helen G4FHA @ GB7ULV (Ulverston, Cumbria)