Nixon for President

　　尼克松复出

　　1992: National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in asurprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't doanything wrong, and I won't do it again." Accompanying this announcement were audio clips ofNixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement,flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of theshow did the host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon'svoice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little。

　　1992年愚人节，全国公共广播之声宣布，尼克松又要竞选总统了，他的竞选宣言是：我没做错事;我也不会再做错事。新闻中还穿插了一段尼克松的讲话。愤怒而惊讶的听众纷纷打电话来质问。随后主持人承认这是假的，尼克松的声音也是一个喜剧演员模仿的。

　　Alabama Changes the Value of Pi

　　圆周率值的修改

　　1998: The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained anarticle claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of themathematical constant pi from3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Soon the article made its wayonto the internet, and then it rapidly spread around the world, forwarded by email. It only becameapparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds ofcalls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody oflegislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by physicist MarkBoslough。

　　1998年愚人节：New Mexicans科学技术杂志宣称阿拉巴马州要立法改变圆周率pi的值，很快这事被传上网，通过电子邮件传遍全世界。阿拉巴马立法机构因此接到无数抗议电话。

　　The Left-Handed Whopper

　　左撇子大汉堡

　　1998: Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introductionof a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the sameingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc。)，but all thecondiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The followingday Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was ahoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich.Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed'version."

　　1998年愚人节，汉堡王在今日美国报纸上发布了真个版面的广告，介绍他们的新食物：左手汉堡，据说是专为左撇子人士设计，啥都没变，就是全部旋转了180度(小编好奇：转了180度有区别么?)成千上万的顾客因此前来品尝，而且有人要求设计“右手汉堡”。

　　Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers

　　热性裸体凿冰虫

　　Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer1995: Discover Magazine reported that the highly respected wildlifebiologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had found a news pecies in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer.These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels,could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used thisability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sinkdownwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr.Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearanceof noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked likea penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this articlethan they had received for any other article in their history。

　　1995年愚人节。探索杂志著名野生动物学家Aprile Pazzo博士在南极洲发现了一种新生物：热性裸体凿冰虫。这种生物的头上有盘状骨头，血液丰富，温度很高，因此能够穿透冰层。他们以此来捕食企鹅。Pazzo博士同时声称，经过详细调查，这种动物与1837年南极探险家Philippe Poisson的失踪有关：“对这种虫来说，他可能长得像企鹅。”探索杂志上还从来没有哪篇文章得到如此多的读者反馈。

　　Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity

　　万有引力消失

　　1976: The British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM an once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their veryown homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitationalalignment that would counteract　　and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listenersthat if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, theywould experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receivehundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman evenreported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room。

　　1976年愚人节，英国天文学家Patrick Moore说，早上9：47时，一个千载难逢的天文现象就要发生：冥王星会从木星后面经过，导致暂时的重力失调，抵消并消减地球上的万有引力，因此人们能体会到一种奇妙的漂浮感觉。9：47，BBC之声接到无数电话，人们声称感到自己漂浮起来了。一个女人甚至说，她和她的朋友从椅子上飘起来，在房间里荡来荡去。

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