April Fool's

• April Fool's by Scott on 01 Apr, 2008 23:00
• Ok bros, gotta share this April Fool's Day prank that a local radio station pulled this morning... always jam while I'm getting ready for school and heard about it and thought it was pretty funny....
  
  The local top 40 station in Louisville KY, 99.7DJX announced this morning that Gov Steve Beshear's office had announced late last night that as a way of boosting revenues in other cities around the state, that starting next year, the Kentucky Derby would be held in Lexington, not Louisville, the Derby's official home for 134 years.
  
  You should have heard the ranting and raving of the locals here... I mean Louisville takes the Derby very seriously.  There's like a million activities planned and alot of people have these lavish parties on Derby day.  There's millions of dollars that are pumped into the local economy - hotels, restaurants, catering companies, florists.... it's like Kentucky's version of Mardi Gras pretty much.
  
  Anyway, Lexington and Louisville are natural rivals (UK and UL) so people were livid that the newly-elected Gov would deny Louisville its annual week-long stint in the national spotlight. 
  
  Once the station announced (several hours later apparently) that they were just trying to have some fun with April Fool's since many people forget about it, people were even more upset.  Apparently the Gov's office was upset, the Conv & Vis Bureau, the Mayor, the Metro Council, the state legislature, and of course Churchill Downs mgmt.  It's all people talked about today - even at the culinary school I attend people were upset - our school caters a lot of events during Derby week.
  
  Me, not being from here, knew something was up, but I thought it was quite creative and funny.  The rest of Louisville?  Not so much
• #1 by Timmay on 01 Apr, 2008 23:04
• That was a good prank lol...I would have loved to hear all the grumbling from people LOL
  Timmay
• #2 by jusbnme on 01 Apr, 2008 23:25
• Good one.
• #3 by Argyle on 02 Apr, 2008 06:04
• We have the most gullible girl in our office who succumbed to no fewer than two pretty obvious ones yesterday!
  
  I was having a chat with her in the morning and she mentioned April Fool's day.  In the same conversation I said that as it was a leap year that it actually took place on  the 2nd this year.  She then proceeded to announce this to the whole office.  A few minutes later she started talking about a feature on breakfast tv, as a follow up to Dancing On Ice, which i guess you guys have over there, they were about to start auditioning for Dogs on Ice!!  Both of these came in the space of about five minutes!!
  
  I do wonder about our recruitment policy sometimes!
• #4 by hawkerhino on 02 Apr, 2008 06:21
• Boy I wish i could of heard the louisville people bitching, bet they were red.... 
• #5 by schro on 02 Apr, 2008 06:27
• Hey Scott & Argyle, both stories are very, very funny.
• #6 by warhawk on 02 Apr, 2008 06:55
• scott...that was hilarious
  
  argyle...was she blonde?
  
  WARHAWK
• #7 by Argyle on 02 Apr, 2008 08:09
• Not blonde, but geordie which in this part of the world equates to roughly the same thing!