April Fool's Day 2026

FighterJock said:
Oh dear, wonder whatever happened to him?
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International fame....

Residents of Sitka, Alaska woke on the morning of Monday April 1, 1974 to a bright, clear day. They could see right across Sitka Sound to Kruzof Island, where the familiar sight of Mount Edgecumbe, a volcano dormant for 400 years, loomed. But today something was different about the view. A menacing plume of black smoke was rising from the crater. It looked like the volcano was preparing to blow!
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https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_eruption_of_mount_edgecumbe

This second article has a second photograph of the smoking volcano that didn't spread as widely as the one usually seen.

Residents of Sitka, Alaska were alarmed when the long-dormant volcano neighboring them, Mount Edgecumbe, suddenly began to belch out billows of black smoke. People spilled out of their homes onto the streets to gaze up at the volcano, terrified that it was active again and might soon erupt. (Today, you can safely explore the crater's edge via local Sitka outdoor adventures). Luckily it turned out that man, not nature, was responsible for the smoke. A local practical joker named Porky Bickar had flown hundreds of old tires into the volcano's crater and then lit them on fire, all in a (successful) attempt to fool the city dwellers into believing that the volcano was stirring to life. According to local legend, when Mount St. Helens erupted six years later, a Sitka resident wrote to Bickar to tell him, "This time you've gone too far!" Read the rest of the story below...
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https://www.sitka.com/porky/
 
Karl Stefanovic has been pranked on the Today show after being told there was going to be a major shakeup in the iconic Bunnings sausage sizzle.

The hardware store hosts a fundraising barbecue every weekend for different groups, organisations, and charities, and Rotary International has been involved in this for decades.

But the organisation's head of membership, Andrew Best, told Karl and Sarah Abo with a straight face they would be moving away from meat sausages and could pull their support from Bunnings altogether.
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Karl Stefanovic left fuming over Bunnings sausage sizzle prank on Today: 'I'm not happy about this'
 
Michel Van said:
This old April fool but what for one !
https://twitter.com/x/status/2039383874724405354
View: https://twitter.com/lucyshow11/status/2039383874724405354
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Fun fact.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/community/threads/lightoller-and-his-pranks.18985/
Hi! I havent posted in awhile and I read someplace about how he set off an old canon when he was younger or something like. It that true?

Jul 12, 2006
Yes.

The incident took place during the Boer War period, when the Medic was on the Australia run. Lightoller arranged to raise the Boer flag and fire the gun on top of the Martello Tower on Fort Denison - a tiny little fort in the middle of Sydney Harbour. You can read about the incident in some detail in the Stenson biography and Lightoller's own autobiography.

Charles Lightoller later became Second Officer of the Titanic - and that wasn't the last of it. He had quite an eventful life.
 
A conspectus of April Fool jokes in 2026 from the UK.

It’s April Fool’s Day! Some of the country’s best-loved brands including Tesco, Dole and Zizzi have embraced the silliness, with other unlikely tales popping up on several news feeds. Here are some of the best jokes for 2026.
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April Fool’s Day 2026: All the best jokes and pranks
 
Another 2026 April Fool retrospective article.

April Fool’s Day 2026 is here, which means brands are once again rolling out their weirdest, wildest and occasionally believable PR stunts in a bid to win the internet.

Marked every year on 1 April, the tradition dates back centuries, with many theories surrounding it and confirmed origins unclear. Roots are often linked to calendar changes in 16th-century Europe that left some people celebrating the new year on the 'wrong' date – and becoming the butt of jokes.

Fast forward to today, and April Fool’s Day has become a major moment in the marketing calendar, as companies compete to create the funniest, most viral (and sometimes most convincing) pranks.

From absurd product launches to surprisingly plausible innovations, here are the best April Fool’s Day stunts of 2026.
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The best April Fools' Day pranks 2026 from Dyson to Subway
 
April Fool’s Day is always a fun reminder of how creative people can be with jokes and surprises. Harmless prank ideas and funny apps can make the day more entertaining when they are used responsibly. Tools like call sms bomber can be part of playful moments between friends as long as everyone is comfortable and it stays within the spirit of a simple joke.
 
The best April Fools jokes are the ones that get turned back on the joker.

For example, in 2012 5.11 Tactical announced the Tactical Duty Kilt as a preorder item on their store.

They had so many people preorder that they now had a business case to make the kilts! (something like 10,000 orders that day alone)
 

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