What is the best april fools joke you have ever heard of?
Saddam’s son (may be burn in hell), kept doing something pretty funny for April Fool’s Day back when he was in power. The Iraqi newspaper run by Uday (son of Saddam) Hussein, announced to the beleaguered people of Iraq on April 1 that meat and chicken rations would be substantially increased this year — then took it back on the last page. Rationing has been in effect in Iraq since U.N. sanctions were imposed following the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. He wasn’t very creative after that though. He continued to play the same joke on them for several years running, which I find hilarious. In 1999 they were promised bananas, soft drinks and chocolate. In 1998 they were told that at President Clinton’s behest, U.N. sanctions were to be lifted altogether.
