Everything from a simple peck on the cheek to a passionate French kiss can now be experienced through a lip-like attachment, he said. Professor Wolf said the best April Fool's jokes were the ones that just could be true. There has to be some intellectual element in it. There has to be plausibility in it.
Most people are only confused for a few seconds before the penny drops.
But one of Britain's most respected newspapers, the Financial Times, was truly taken for a ride this year. On Tuesday, the drinks giant Guinness put out a spoof press release intended for publication as an April Fool joke. It claimed Greenwich Mean Time was to be renamed Guinness Mean Time in a sponsorship deal. But the FT took the story to be true and printed it in Tuesday's edition. Chancellor Kohl 'turns vegetarian' The German press were just as gullible.