Since we have (at least) one April Fools thread at Funtrivia, for those who haven't read it try the America goes Metric thread in Controversial Issues, I thought we could tell of any good tricks you have come across today, perhaps in your local media.

Our local newspaper did an article on the forthcoming naked surfing competition which will be taking place in the summer, it is thought that lots of Australians will make the trip to little old Jersey in order to take part! The prizes are trips to Hawaii.

I have just watched a news item on the local television news programme, apparently when surveying one of our medieval castles they discovered a tunnel which goes all the way to France, it is being kept a secret as to exactly where in France as it opens out into a huge wine cellar. Even some of the politicians joined in by allowing themselves to be interviewed about the wonderful find.

So what do they do in your area?

Well, I'm still dubious about Ren's Hokey Pokey one!

This one is a from years ago when the local paper said a Japanese corporation wanted to change the old Post Office clock, that looks over the town, to digital. Caused a bit of an uproar with the old clock holding so much historical value to the town.

Over the years we have had some good, and some not so good ones from the local newspaper. This is the first time I can remember the television station going anything elaborate.

The most famous one of all has to be the old BBC one about the spaghetti harvest, it showed all these trees draped in spaghetti.

Some local ones have included a gadget to be attached to the underside of all vehicles which would emit a bleep if you parked illegally, a German soldier who had been in hiding since the war as he didn't know that it was over, a huge leisure complex built on our north coast without anyone noticing - there have been many more over the years.

Apparently the nude surfing contest is taking place in Jersey as it has been banned in Bondi.

We have two radio stations here that are housed in the same building and I think are owned by the same company. One is 94.5 FM which caters to those who fondly remember the 60s, 70s and 80s. The other is 92.9 FM which caters to today's teenagers with head-banging stuff that has appalling lyrics.

Needless to say, I listen to 94.5 and my 12-year-old listens to 92.9.

After her shower, she burst into the dining room accusing me of changing her radio from 92.9 to 94.5, which I had not done. I thought her father did it as an April Fool's joke before he went to work.

Apparently, the radio stations swapped frequencies, so people tuned to one station got the other instead. It confused all the listeners. Even the guy in the helicopter who does the traffic reports didn't know what was going on when he tried to broadcast a traffic update.

Re - America goes Metric (April Fool!)
There was in fact one incident where The US famously used the Metric system for an engineering project. It was in the Joint Space Mission with Russia. The US built their half using Imperial Measurements, Russia built their half using Metric Measurements and where the two were to join up the US compromised and used Metric. Here in the UK which is supposedly using the Metric System we still use both systems in engineering.