When I was in college, so this would have been 1985-1989 -- and I'm pretty sure it wasn't 1989, the University of New Mexico Daily Lobo produced their annual hoax filled edition with the note that one story was real. A couple of days later they had to run an apology to the subject of the one real story, since nobody recognized it as a hoax.
Another year, purely by coincidence, April 1st happened to be the day that Bloom County featured the revealing of the Billy and the Boinger's world tour: one stop at the Motel 6 in Albuquerque; just a few blocks North of the UNM campus. A major front page article was on the upcoming concert.
Of course this also reminds me of the guy I worked with for a few years in college. He was the ad manager for the Lobo, and got the idea to run a page of vintage ads for existing businesses on April 1st, and did very well by both the paper and the businesses.
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Another year, purely by coincidence, April 1st happened to be the day that Bloom County featured the revealing of the Billy and the Boinger's world tour: one stop at the Motel 6 in Albuquerque; just a few blocks North of the UNM campus. A major front page article was on the upcoming concert.
Of course this also reminds me of the guy I worked with for a few years in college. He was the ad manager for the Lobo, and got the idea to run a page of vintage ads for existing businesses on April 1st, and did very well by both the paper and the businesses.