CR 7 TOES
"Did you hear about Cristiano Ronaldo?" Clive asked his best mate.
"What about him?" said Alan.
"About his feet."
"His feet?"
"Yeah, it´s just been announced that he has seven toes on each foot," replied Clive with a completely straight face.
"No way man!" Alan was having none of it.
"It´s true Alan, says so in Marca and it´s all over the internet."
"You´re totally pulling my leg."
"I´m not, I swear. They´re saying that the seven toes are the reason he´s such a good player."
"Are you serious?"
"Deadly serious man."
"You´re not having me on?" asked Alan, as he started to believe it might be true.
"It´s gospel Alan. Think about it, seven toes give him a massive advantage. Apparently it´s why he´s awesome at free-kicks, and it's the reason he's known as CR7"
"Yeah that does make sense."
"And have you ever seen his feet?" Clive asked.
"No."
"Exactly. I mean, Ronaldo will take his shirt off any chance he gets to show off his body but we´ve never seen his feet. Those golden feet. The feet which define him. And he´s never shown them to the world; suspicious."
"This is crazy," said Alan, "though I must say that I did always suspect something about him. Are the photos online?" he asked as he pulled his mobile phone out of his pocket.
"Of course they´re not, April Fool," shouted Clive laughing his head off, "you totally fell for it mate."
Alan went red in the face.
"What about him?" said Alan.
"About his feet."
"His feet?"
"Yeah, it´s just been announced that he has seven toes on each foot," replied Clive with a completely straight face.
"No way man!" Alan was having none of it.
"It´s true Alan, says so in Marca and it´s all over the internet."
"You´re totally pulling my leg."
"I´m not, I swear. They´re saying that the seven toes are the reason he´s such a good player."
"Are you serious?"
"Deadly serious man."
"You´re not having me on?" asked Alan, as he started to believe it might be true.
"It´s gospel Alan. Think about it, seven toes give him a massive advantage. Apparently it´s why he´s awesome at free-kicks, and it's the reason he's known as CR7"
"Yeah that does make sense."
"And have you ever seen his feet?" Clive asked.
"No."
"Exactly. I mean, Ronaldo will take his shirt off any chance he gets to show off his body but we´ve never seen his feet. Those golden feet. The feet which define him. And he´s never shown them to the world; suspicious."
"This is crazy," said Alan, "though I must say that I did always suspect something about him. Are the photos online?" he asked as he pulled his mobile phone out of his pocket.
"Of course they´re not, April Fool," shouted Clive laughing his head off, "you totally fell for it mate."
Alan went red in the face.
APRIL FOOLS' DAY AND THE MOST FAMOUS HOAX STORY EVER
The first recorded connection between foolishness and April 1st was made in Geoffrey Chaucer´s The Canterbury Tales in the year 1392, while further references can be found in poems and stories throughout the following centuries in various other European countries.
Since the 19th Century, the day has come to be known as April Fools' Day. A day for playing pranks and telling fibs to your family and friends. In the UK, this custom has also been adopted by the media and most newspapers and news stations will include one joke story in their April 1st editions.
Perhaps the most famous of these was put out by the BBC in 1957, when the BBC current affairs programme Panorama broadcast a piece on spaghetti farming in Switzerland. The news story showed a family harvesting spaghetti from spaghetti trees after a very mild winter. At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK and most people didn't know that it was made from wheat flour and water. The piece was so convincing that the BBC received hundreds of phone calls from people asking how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.
