April Fools!

BevVincent

Stephen King is famously said to have invited childhood friends into a leech-infested pond. The "Stand by Me" author tells Webster Hall's Baird Jones: "I'm not sure how true that leech pond story really is, but I'd sure like to still do that to pesky journalists who keep showing up uninvited at my home."

BevVincent

The Trustees of the Nobel Foundation today announced they were awarding noted American writer Stephen King the Nobel Prize for Literature - they acknowledged his creative genius and neglect by the literary committee. They also said the award was held in absentia due to a fatwa against Mr King from JK Rowling for purloining her 'sneetches' for his Dark Tower series.





http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/04/01/102030.php

sunny99

Not exactly an April's Fool joke because this really happened:



BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview



LONDON (AFP) - A red-faced BBC apologised for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago.



BBC Three, one of the public broadcaster's digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit song "No Woman No Cry".



It said the project would involve Marley -- who died of cancer in May 1981 at the age of 36 -- "spending one or two days with us", and that "it would only work with some participation from Bob Marley himself".



In a statement, the BBC said: "We are obviously very embarrassed that we didn't realise that the letter to the Marley Foundation did not acknowledge that Mr Marley is no longer with us."



Marley would have been 60 last February 6, a date that was celebrated with great fanfare by his legion of fans worldwide.



A BBC press officer, contacted by AFP in London on Friday, confirmed that the gaffe was not an April Fool's joke.

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How the hell did BBC goofed up a thing like that in the first place?