Just a little heads-up about tomorrow. It is April Fools' Day. The one day a journalist can finally not let the facts get in the way of a good story. History -- at least modern history -- is full of examples of the news media using...
Byline: Ted Cox Daily Herald TV/Radio Columnist If it's April Fools' Day, and it is - unless the newspaper is playing an April Fools' Day joke by calling it April Fools' Day when it's not, and what kind of a mind-bending prank would that...
STOCKHOLM AFP ? Tech-crazy Swedes nearly choked on their morning coffee on April Fools' Day when the country's largest newspaper reported that billions of dollars had been unnecessarily invested in next generation mobile phone technology since old mobiles aimed at TVs could show movies. The April Fools Day joke...
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Be skeptical There are people who will try to make you feel April foolish today; be on your guard April Fools' Day has been a running joke for centuries, dating back in various forms to days of general silliness in ancient Rome and India. ...
Byline: Ted Cox TV/Radio critic Remotely interesting: BBC America celebrates April Fools' Day weekend with the highlight special "20 Years of Monty Python's Flying Circus," with host Steve Martin, at 7 p.m. today. A "Monty Python" marathon follows through 3:50 a.m. Sunday. ...That...
Sometimes raising the bar requires a look in the mirror. Here is what I see today on this April Fools' Day, a sampling of some bizarre legal machinations. See if you can tell which ones really happened. 1.A minister and his wife once sued a guide dog school...
(This article originally ran in the Daily Record, Baltimore, MD, another Dolan Media publication). Sometimes raising the bar requires a look in the mirror. Here is what I see following April Fools' Day, a sampling of some bizarre legal machinations. See if you can tell which ones really...
NEW YORK -- Has Paris Hilton dumped rocker Benji Madden for disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer? Why are they rendezvousing at Grand Central at 8:00am? And did Amy Winehouse finally get her visa? What is she doing with Nicole Richie's baby daughter? Did she trade vodka bottles for baby bottles? ...
SYDNEY AFP — Two Australian thieves were labelled "a pair of fools" by a judge Tuesday as he jailed them over a bungled restaurant robbery in which one shot his female accomplice in the buttocks. Donna Hayes was shot by her former boyfriend Benjamin Jorgensen during an attempt to...
No one really knows the deep origins of April Fools' Day. There are striking similarities to the Hindu festival of Huli, the five- day celebration of fertility that ends on 31 March with a day of pranks. The first European records don't appear until 16th-century France, after the calendar changed...
Funny Things In Washington Washington, D.C., is a peculiar place. They do things differently. Every day is April Fools' Day. Want proof? Consider the following saga: After months and months of heated debate, both houses of...
WASHINGTON, March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Planned Parenthood Federation of America PPFA advocacy Web site SaveRoe.com will take on a familiar but surprising look for April Fools' Day. It's going to be a carbon copy of the White House Web site home paWASHINGTON, March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ --...
BRUSSELS AFP — Flanders is preparing to ban speaking French on mobile telephones in Belgium's northern Dutch-speaking region ... at least for April Fools, television channel RTL reported on Tuesday. The spoof news report said that the Flemish city of Meise, just outside of Brussels, had already banned speaking...
Byline: Aaron Siegel NEW YORK - It is no April Fools' Day joke: Television personality Suze Orman is slated to speak during the first in a series of Avaya 401k days April 1. Avaya Inc., a...
MR. MEAKIN IS AFFILIATED WITH LIM SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL IN VOORHEES, N.J. STOCK RESULTS ARE PROVIDED BY THE FIREMARK GROUP IN PARSIPPANY, NJ. April took investors on a wild nail-biting ride that stretched from April Fools' Day to May Day. The market and, in particular, a number...
HARRODS BEGAN libel proceedings against Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, yesterday over an article in which the Knightsbridge store was equated with the disgraced American firm Enron. The dispute was triggered last year when Harrods issued a press release the day before April...
