Steve Pike

APRIL Fools jokes somehow manage to catch people unawares even when the nonsense reaches preposterous heights of frivolity.

An uncharacteristically jocular jest even came from the Presidency when it announced new cabinet posts such as Social Cohesion and Nation Building.

In the bitchy cyberways of surf media, Kelly Slater bought Firewire Surfboards (actually that IS true), “resigned” a multimillion-dollar deal with Quiksilver, and launched a bizarre new surf-