Bill Gates April Fooled by Radio Station

[thisbechuck]

Bill Gates April Fooled by Radio Station

April 4, 2002 8:51 am EST
MONTREAL (Reuters) - He may be the world's richest man, but that didn't prevent Bill Gates from falling for an April Fool's Day joke by two Quebec radio comics pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.

Montreal French-language station CKMF-FM said on Wednesday that staffers Marc-Antoine Audet and Sebastien Trudel had a 10-minute telephone chat with Microsoft Corp. boss Gates on Monday, April 1. The broadcast was aired in their nightly show on Tuesday and repeated on Wednesday.

"We were happy. We had been calling Microsoft persistently for four weeks," an ecstatic Trudel told Reuters.

Trudel said he and his colleague had already fooled Canadian pop diva Celine Dion and Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve on their show.

"We do that often," he said. "This time, we wanted to give ourselves a challenge with somebody more difficult to reach," Trudel said.

He said he was surprised that Gates's aides did not check to see if it was really the prime minister's office on the line.

Trudel said they imitated Chretien's heavily accented English, talking about the economy, insulting Microsoft's Windows operating system and inviting the multibillionaire to visit a well-known Montreal strip joint.

The radio host said that Gates, the founder of software giant Microsoft and reportedly worth more than $40 billion, was not amused by the fake interview.

"He did not seem angry but he did not find it so funny," the comic told Reuters.

[divibisan]

LOL

The funny thing is that nobody bothered to check whether it really was the PM. You'd think that Bill Gates would have caller ID or at least a secretary who would make sure the caller really was who they said they were.

[xoot]

I like that.

Gates should be fooled once in a while...

[dricci]

Originally posted by xoot
Gates should be fooled once in a while...

God knows he does enough of it every day

[Matrix Agent]

Gates just wasn't fooled, he was enticed.

So much for survival of the fittest.

[BlingBling 3k12]

is there a website for this radio station?

[BlingBling 3k12]

http://www.radioenergie.com/ckmf/aud...ril02_5m40.mp3

CLICK THAT TO HEAR THE PRANK!!!!!

go to 2:22 in the MP3 since everything before that is french