I want glass bottomed planes, dammit! Who cares about the acrophobes? It’d be COOL!
I wish Sidd Finch had been real.
OTOH, I’m glad Google Nose is an April Fool’s joke. At least, I hope it is.
Really? This is what came to mind when I saw the thread title. I’d think it’d be interesting/neat.
Not very useful…but fun to play with.
George Takei posted on Facebook that he was going to star in the next Star Wars movie. That would be AWESOME. 
Yup. 
My husband told me about that this morning and I was all “no it’s April 1 so everything you hear today is a lie and it suuuuucks!” And I’m really mad that this isn’t true.
The toilet-based internet might be handy. And I wouldn’t mind having a spaghetti tree in the backyard.
Here in Austin, a local rock radio station played two April Fool’s jokes that I sort of wish had been on the level.
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In the mid-Eighties, they announced that a huge free concert was going on in the park. They used blatantly phony sound effects to make it seem as if a DJ was up in a helicopter decribing the scene. They even claimed Jimi Hendrix would be performing. There were STILL hundreds of people showing up at the park, looking for the show.
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One year, around 1992, they pretended that a time warp had happened, and that somehow, it was 1971 at the radio station. The regular DJs were all using the kind of phony names that DJs at a free-form FM radio staion would have used in the hippie era (Zig Zag, Apache, et al.). And they were playing a lot of really LOOOONG prog rock songs, like “In the Court of the Crimson King.”
I wish Hendrix WAS alive and still doing shows.
And I wish there really WERE radio stations playing the long prog rock songs I used to love.
April Fools - WestJet introduces child-free cabins - Kargo Kids - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4SkoJy3D0M
If it were only true.
Unless the story itself is an April Fool’s Day joke (and it specifically denies this) then Cracked’s description of Uday Hussein’s 1998 prank has to take the prize. On April 1, 1998 he ordered Iraqi newspapers to report that economic sanctions against Iraq were being lifted and food rationing was at an end.
Then Iraqis turned to page 2 and read that this was just an April Fool’s Day joke. Ha ha, just kidding, no food for you.
I know that ThinkGeek has actually produced several items that were originally April Fool’s jokes, including the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag.
All politicians missing.
Yeah, the George Takei Star Wars thing would be mine. That would be cool.
The one that’s floating around today on Doctor Who FB groups saying that David Tennant would be back to play the Doctor after Matt Smith, based on something going wrong during the regeneration that results in a “reverse regeneration.” I like Matt Smith just fine and I’m in no hurry to see him leave, but to have Tennant back after Matt steps down…mmm, yeah. 
I still want to read
Yes, their gag items sometimes strike enough of a chord that they end up offering them as real items. I think the Personal Soundtrack Shirt was the first, but I’m not sure. I didn’t see anything particularly compelling this time, but you never know.
Sadist.
(For the record, I was once on a transatlantic flight with the screen on the seat-back in front of me stuck on the view from the plane’s belly-cam. It was one of many, many reasons that trip sucked.)
Guardian goggles - “because life’s too short to think for yourself” 
Microsoft’s “Do Not Tracksuit”:
Google Treasure Map.
Someday I’ll get to Switzerland for the spaghetti harvest:
