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Providence fools: A 2002 grand opening ceremony for the Fool's Ball Studio, incubator for costumes for the annual event at Providence art space AS220. That's a Big Nazo puppet in your face.

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(Their demographic is 98.3 percent male, so they want to entice me with "OMG Ponies!")

There's no fool like an old fool . . .: Glorious Hoaxes from the past, in the Cambridge (U.K.) evening news. The first few:

Hundreds of Panorama viewers were duped into thinking spaghetti grew on trees in 1957, with Swiss farmers expecting a bumper crop following the elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil.

n The 3000-year-old village of cartoon hero Asterix had been found, The Independent told readers in 1993. The expert opinion of an Oxford academic was used to back up the hoax.

n Three years ago, the Cambridge Evening News reported Cambridge scientists had come up with a way of growing 'chips' in potatoes. Readers were told that Cambridge Research Initiatives and Special Projects (CRISP) expected the worldwide market for their product to be worth $30bn.

Wikipedia is collecting the pranks: April Fools hoaxes in 2006