More 1 April business.........

Remember Hayden "Sidd" Finch? He was the famous yoga-master-turned-baseball pitcher discovered by the New York Mets in 1985. And he could throw the ball astonishingly fast -- 168 miles per hour, the article claimed.
The story, written by George Plimpton and published in Sports Illustrated magazine on April 1, 1985, caused a sensation. Many of its readers didn't get the joke -- nor did they apparently find anything wrong with a pitcher who took the field wearing a single hiking boot and was considering a career as a French horn player. Even the sub-head, which spelled out Happy April Fools' Day ("He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga -- and his future in baseball"), wasn't enough to tip many off.
But the famous prank is far from the only media hoax to be served up to the masses. Consider the Spaghetti Harvest Incident of 1957, when a BBC mockumentary about pasta farmers in Switzerland prompted scores of viewers to call the broadcaster to ask where they could buy their own spaghetti tree.
Another April Fools' Day prank in Europe involving the boob tube hit Sweden in 1962. It was a simpler time, of small black and white sets rather than 40-inch LCD screens, and the Scandinavian nation had just one television station. On the first day of April in 1962, the station's technical expert Kjell Stensson demonstrated during a national broadcast how viewers could convert their sets to color: All they had to do was stretch a nylon stocking over their television set.
Stennson recommended stockings with a 25 denier density -- he said 40 denier was too thick. Of course viewers at home took Stennson's word for it -- and set about trying to convert their own black and white sets.

Check oout this slide show from Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,30258,00.html