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Life on Mars?

In the UK people celebrate the first day of April by playing jokes on each other and sometimes TV programmes and newspapers join in the fun! There have been some very clever jokes over the years which people believed because they were in the paper or on TV.

One that I remember vividly from when I was young was on a programme called “Tomorrow’s World”. This programme looked at unusual scientific inventions and stories. It was on every week, and was very popular. Well, this particular April 1st the programme started off looking at the number of “missing people” in Britain over the last year. They then went on to “prove” that the USA and Russia were starting a colony on the planet Mars and this was where all these people had gone! They showed photographs of the planet with heat rising from the ground. Apparently the people were living under the ground in specially designed homes.

I believed this story completely! It seemed so real and so possible. That was until I got to school the next day and realized that the whole thing was a joke! But it was a very clever joke and one that I have always remembered.

1. On 1 April

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Life on Mars?

In the UK people celebrate the first day of April by playing jokes on each other and sometimes TV programmes and newspapers join in the fun! There have been some very clever jokes over the years which people believed because they were in the paper or on TV.

One that I remember vividly from when I was young was on a programme called “Tomorrow’s World”. This programme looked at unusual scientific inventions and stories. It was on every week, and was very popular. Well, this particular April 1st the programme started off looking at the number of “missing people” in Britain over the last year. They then went on to “prove” that the USA and Russia were starting a colony on the planet Mars and this was where all these people had gone! They showed photographs of the planet with heat rising from the ground. Apparently the people were living under the ground in specially designed homes.

I believed this story completely! It seemed so real and so possible. That was until I got to school the next day and realized that the whole thing was a joke! But it was a very clever joke and one that I have always remembered.

2. “Tomorrow’s World”

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Life on Mars?

In the UK people celebrate the first day of April by playing jokes on each other and sometimes TV programmes and newspapers join in the fun! There have been some very clever jokes over the years which people believed because they were in the paper or on TV.

One that I remember vividly from when I was young was on a programme called “Tomorrow’s World”. This programme looked at unusual scientific inventions and stories. It was on every week, and was very popular. Well, this particular April 1st the programme started off looking at the number of “missing people” in Britain over the last year. They then went on to “prove” that the USA and Russia were starting a colony on the planet Mars and this was where all these people had gone! They showed photographs of the planet with heat rising from the ground. Apparently the people were living under the ground in specially designed homes.

I believed this story completely! It seemed so real and so possible. That was until I got to school the next day and realized that the whole thing was a joke! But it was a very clever joke and one that I have always remembered.

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