http://news.com.com/2100-1001-874686.html
> Gates duped by Canadian radio hosts
> By Tiffany Kary
>
> Staff Writer, CNET News.com
> April 3, 2002, 8:55 AM PT
>
> Gates gets April Fooled
>
> Bill Gates fell silent when he heard what he thought was the Canadian
> prime minister insulting his Windows operating system.
>
> Could the Microsoft chairman actually have agreed with the
> sentiment, or was he onto the fact that he'd just been had in an
> elaborate April Fools' Day joke?
>
> Gates, the world's richest man, was taken in by a couple of
> Canadian radio show hosts who imitated Canadian Prime Minister
> Jean Chretien to dupe Gates for April Fools' Day.
>
> It took Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel, of
> French-radio station CKMF-FM, a month just to set up the phone
> interview with Gates, who declined several offers to attend a
> fake economic summit. Once the pair got through to him, Audette
> did a convincing imitation of Chretien's heavily accented English
> and managed to keep Gates on the line for a full 14 minutes.
>
> "It was about the Canadian economy and all--it wasn't interesting
> to us," said Audette, who chose to air a more exciting 3-minute
> clip from the conversation, in which Audette invited Gates to a
> famous Montreal strip club, Chez Pare. Gates was oblivious to the
> reference but agreed to meet Chretien sometime during his August
> trip to Canada.
>
> "Damn computer," Audette said, pretending to schedule a date on
> his computer to meet Gates. "Who's the idiot that invented that
> s***?"
>
> Gates was silent but didn't hang up. Audette then asked Gates if
> he knew what day it was, and revealed that he was not Chretien.
>
> "Yeah, I thought so," said a somber Gates. The conversation was
> recorded April 1 but aired April 2.
>
> A Microsoft spokesman on Wednesday acknowledged the "pretty
> elaborate hoax."
>
> "They were persistent," the spokesman said. "We're glad they
> didn't call collect."
>
> Canadian celebrities taken in by the radio show duo have included
> chanteuse Celine Dion and race car driver Jacques Villeneuve.
>
> For Gates, the prank may have been the latest opportunity to get
> Windows "on the air." He appeared last fall on the "Frasier" TV
> show, where he sat in on a mock radio interview and plugged
> Windows XP.
audio clip:
http://www.radioenergie.com/ckmf/audio/JUSTICIERS%20MASQUES/justiciers_bill_gates_3_avril02_5m40.mp3
(not super funny, could have been much better)
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Gerald Oskoboiny <
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