April Fools

I love April Fools Day. Unfortunately, this year I took the day off. I usually like to pull some pranks on my family or those I work with; however, my wife and I returned from vacation very late on Saturday night (actually Sunday morning). As a result, I was running at less than half speed on Sunday (April Fools Day).

But my spirits were lifted when I read a list of some of the greatest April Fools Day jokes ever. Here is one of them:

Instant Color TV

In 1962 there was only one TV channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, all viewers could now quickly and easily convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their TV screen, and they would begin to see their favorite shows in color. Stensson then proceeded to demonstrate the process. Reportedly, hundreds of thousands of people, out of the population of seven million, were taken in. Actual color TV transmission only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

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