
Game for a Laugh
02/04/2008
So, what was the best April Fool’s joke from yesterday? The other day, we asked for submissions. You decide.
102.5 Clyde/Scottish Sun - Glasgow International Airport being renamed as the ‘John Smeaton International Airport’.
Daily Record - New super-fruit, poranges, being grown at Braehead shopping centre in Glasgow.
Kingdom FM - The Scottish Government has decided to reinstate the tolls on the Forth and Tay road bridges.
Metro - The pushmipullyu is facing extinction, with only six of the two-headed llamas remaining. Also, there’s a new BMW which gives dogs an electric shock if they pee on the wheels.
Real Radio - Space shuttle lands at Cumbernauld Airport in Lanarkshire, due to technical difficulties.
stv - broadcast the 's' in its logo back-to-front.
* Send your Scottish media news and gossip, in the strictest confidence, to info@allmediascotland.com
102.5 Clyde/Scottish Sun - Glasgow International Airport being renamed as the ‘John Smeaton International Airport’.
Daily Record - New super-fruit, poranges, being grown at Braehead shopping centre in Glasgow.
Kingdom FM - The Scottish Government has decided to reinstate the tolls on the Forth and Tay road bridges.
Metro - The pushmipullyu is facing extinction, with only six of the two-headed llamas remaining. Also, there’s a new BMW which gives dogs an electric shock if they pee on the wheels.
Real Radio - Space shuttle lands at Cumbernauld Airport in Lanarkshire, due to technical difficulties.
stv - broadcast the 's' in its logo back-to-front.
* Send your Scottish media news and gossip, in the strictest confidence, to info@allmediascotland.com
Or phone us on 07710 721 478.
comments
- "Were the Norman Macdonald plaudits written by Ann? (The journalist wife who taught him all he knows)"
Terrago 02/04/2008
report content as inappropriate - "Are we restricted to Scottish stories? i loved the Beeb's 'penguins flying to the Amazon to keep warm!'"
c.bartter 02/04/2008
report content as inappropriate - "I detect the hand - not to mention the silhouette - of the April Fool expert, Braehead's PR consultant, Norman Macdonald in the Record's hilarious Porange Tree AF. Macdonald, when Editor of the PDE created some of the best and believeable AF's; from non-slip ice, grass that cuts itself to cruise ships pictured berthed in the River Cart next to Paisley Abbey. It's a pity we will have to wait another year for his next one."
Desmond Barr 02/04/2008
report content as inappropriate - "The Daily Record's April Fool has to be tops for the amount of thought, believability and inventiveness put into its execution. It was also a great laugh which is what it's all about."
Cooper Black 02/04/2008
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