Friday 9 April 2010

April Fools Day is still alive.

April Fools Day lives on. Many of the more mature readers will remember a famous BBC broadcast, back in the days of black and white pictures, of the spaghetti harvest with scenes of orchards of trees festooned in bunches of pasta laces ready for harvesting. Broadcast on 1st April 19??.
Rumour has it that a well-known Rotary club secretary devised a new Rotary Logo for a novel ‘friendship’ group, which was to promote the idea of Rotarians cycling to meetings. It consisted of two Rotary roundels/wheels being used as wheels of a bicycle with a free-drawn frame superimposed.
This was sent by email to RIBI marketing department. The response was immediate and ‘reprimanding’, pointing out that the logo contravened all accepted RI rules on the use of Rotary emblems etc. “Please redesign the logo so that it abides by the constraints of RI rules”.
When it was pointed out by someone else, that the email was sent on April 1st, the recipient humbly apologised and agreed that he had been “had”.
Who said that there is no fun in Rotary and that we cannot accept when we make mistakes?

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