Da Francesco Totti which ends the career of the English Eurosceptic in Latina Nigel Farage which supports the campaign to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union, up to the University of Oxford which invents a new verb dedicated to Leonardo DiCaprio. It's not "news" that social network goers are by now accustomed to finding on pages like Il Lercio, but some of the funniest April Fool's jokes.
Today is April XNUMXst and hoaxes could not be missing, especially on the net. Some have seen our own newspapers as protagonists: The print he placed three, from selfies with banned VIPs to the principal who declares war on bare ankles and the video of the boy who underwent 24 surgeries to become like Pope Francis. The newspaper also went online in the morning Letter 43, which with a quick negotiation closed in the night would suddenly become thehouse organ of the Movimento 5 Stelle: Gianroberto Casaleggio editor, Andrea Scanzi (currently at Il Fatto Quotidiano) in direction. Even believable, and someone on the net even fell for it.
Very few will have taken the bait instead of the fake news of Francesco Totti about to sign a one-year contract at the Latina, where he would end his glorious career. The news according to which the Giallorossi captain would have proposed to the Capitoline club to play another year even for free was not even true, but the president James Pallotta he would have refused: but this wasn't technically an April Fool's joke, so much so that the manager had to deny it. “This is absolutely not true, it is a lie and it never happened. Someone is trying to tarnish the name of the greatest ever,” Pallotta said. Someone else, on the other hand, with another April Fool's joke, wrote that at the end of the season Totti will launch into a coaching career (an intention that he has never expressed) and will replace Antonio Conte at the helm of the national team, leading the Azzurri to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
There was no shortage of pranks in other countries either, especially across the Channel, where the relentless hit thehumor British. oxford dictionaries claimed to have invented a new verb: or rather "to Leo", in honor of Leonardo DiCaprio, who this year finally managed to win the Oscar after several attempts. Naturally, the verb is used when we want to indicate the achievement of a goal after a long time. A Eurosceptic par excellence like Nigel Farage has instead, from his own profile Twitter, announced the historic change of course: he would in fact have decided to support the campaign to stay in Europe. Really unthinkable.
Instead, it came from Japan Proton PackTM, a machine with which ghosts can be captured. Sony's joke accompanies real news, namely the theatrical release of Ghostbusters 3D, a film directed by Paul Feig, which relaunches the 1984 version by Ivan Reitman, but this time with an all-female team of ghostbusters. The original April fool's Sony Corporation was announced this morning with an official statement, in which the company claims to have successfully perfected an exclusive product capable of capturing substances present in a parallel dimension.
Returning to the West, the Swedish clothing chain H&M announced the debut in the fashion world of one of the most influential personalities on the planet, Mark Zuckerberg. In fact, since this morning a site has been online that sees a collaboration between the famous low-cost brand and the founder of Facebook. The slogan is "One less thing to think about in a morning". In fact, the line includes a unique collection (in every sense) made up of 7 gray T-shirts, all the same and a pair of basic jeans.
Also Google and Samsung they made fun of their supporters. Google has announced the arrival of the feature mic drop for Gmail. Once activated, this feature would allow users to have the last word in discussions and quarrels made via email. But it's not talk: indeed, the Send+Mic Drop button has appeared in the mailboxes of some users. But for those who try it, a surprise arrives: a Minion who drops the microphone before turning on his heel and walking away. The Korean house has instead announced the arrival of the new smartphone Galaxy S8, complete with tweets.
But why is it called April Fool's? First of all, you need to know that it is a spring festival, that is, an excellent time to release repressed energies in the cold months. In Europe, April 1500st celebrations become customary around the end of the XNUMXs: a few years after the adoption of the new Gregorian calendar. Before the calendar was adopted in 1582, the New Year was celebrated between March 25 – the old date of the vernal equinox – and April 1. One of the most accredited hypotheses has it that after the change not everyone got used to it and were therefore singled out as the April Fools. Why fish? He's not an intelligent animal, and then… he takes the bait.
