<VV> April Fools and Incredo Products

[peter koehler]

I want to toss in my observation on the current noise 
about our April Foolishness. Taking a historical 
perspective on this, I remember when the April jokes 
centered around silly ads for non-products offered by a 
non-existent company called Incredo Products. I think 
Larry Claypool and the late Pete Skony were the brains 
behind this good natured fun. I first saw these spoofs in 
the CCE newsletter, "the Airhorn". We even changed the 
name for the April issue to "The Airblast" just for grins. 
The Incredo Products ads were great. No one in the CCE 
ever sent any money to 1313 1/2 Lost in Mail Lane in 
Somewhere, NJ for this stuff. I always looked forward to 
the April issue to see what Larry and Pete had cooked up. 
Later on in my CCE career I was able to publish some 
Incredo ideas of my own, by the originals were the best. 
Maybe we shouldn't joke about products or services that 
the members might actually want to buy? As for me, I still 
want a can "Sludge-O-Matic" whatever that was supposed to 
do to or for your 'Vair. - Pete Koehler - sometime 
Communique Feature Editor