to spot a fool

The ever keen-eyed Oh spotted the April's Fool fake article in the ST today. It's on page 4 of the main section. Just the title "Visitors going ape over Zoo's new primate exhibit" itself is enough to arouse suspicions. If you read the article, you'll realise that what it reports seem unlikely and almost nonsensical.

But the dead giveaway has to be this paragraph:

A spokesman for the previously unheard of animal activist group Free Orangutans Only Legion (Singapore) said: "It is inhumane to place our cousins in captivity, and we will be picketing on behalf of this indignity."

because:

1. Even if an organisation is not well known, it is unlikely a news article will say it is "previously unheard of". It's obvious they say so because no one would have heard of it.
   
2. The acronym of the group is FOOLS. Ha!

Happy April's Fool to all of you. :)

(I won't bother with lame prank attempts like this.)