Three-Year-Old Wants To Be Governor Of New Jersey - Parents Shatter His Dream

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A fire fighter maybe? Or a doctor or an actress? Or how about a sports star? OK, how does the Governor of New Jersey grab you?

Well, we can all dream when we are kids, but, sadly most of us never follow those passions (and that is probably for the best too. After all, we cannot have a world full of cowboys, can we?).

But some of us have other aspirations, and three-year-old Jesse wants to become the Governor of New Jersey.

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Google Is Fooling No One With "Gmail Motion"

Google is no stranger to April Fools gags - and this year is no exception. 

This morning the search giants announced the launch of "Gmail Motion" - a new feature for their Gmail app that allows you to open, type, delete etc, without having to touch a thing.

It is claimed that experts in motion technology and semiotics have been consulted to develop the product that uses your computer's internal camera to track your movements in the same way as the XBox Kinect and Playstation Move do.

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YouTube Celebrates 100th Anniversary With New Flashback Feature

YouTube has also been on the buffoonery bandwagon today with the release of a new feature to celebrate their "100th anniversary".

When viewing any YouTube video today you will be able to transform it into a 1900's cinematic feature, complete with piano.

Simply click the  button on the bottom right of any video to get the full treatment.

YouTube has also revealed the four most viral videos of 1911 (below), which include "Buggy Intruder", the original Bed Intruder, and "Swing Flummox", a 1900's #fail.

You don't need to use the new feature with these!

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Drunk Old Guy Teaches Young 'Uns How To Dance To Led Zeppelin

Now here is one guy that knows how to give a Whole Lotta Love to Led Zeppelin.

While the rest of the pub sits idly by munching on their hamburgers and salad dips, this old guy shows them just how to dance to Canadian Led Zeppelin tribute band The Crunge.

And boy does has he got the kind of energy that would put some youngsters to shame. Not to mention the moves. 

There's a lot to admire, but our favourites are "The Chicken" and his show-stopper "The Beer Tap and Wipe".

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Talking Sheep and Flying Penguins: The Top 10 Most Popular April Fools Videos

It's that time of the year again when people try to make you believe stuff that isn't true.

No, we are not talking about the elections - we are talking about April Fools Day. And if you have only just realised it's April 1, chances are you have fallen for some wicked prank already.

Of course, falling for one of your friends' or colleagues' wicked tricks is one thing, but falling for one created by a brand is another thing altogether.

After all, when a company like the BBC is pranking you, you just do not know who to trust anymore. But which are the greatest April Fools video of all time?

Well, here at Meme Machine we are always trying to come up with answers to the most pressing questions of the day, so we felt it was only right to come up with a chart to show which April Fools campaigns are the most popular of all time.

To see the full the list, click here, but you can watch the top 10 below. We have ranked the videos according to the amount of shares of Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere, not the number of views.

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Here's The Top 10 Rebecca Black Parodies - Just Because We Love You

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In case you have not heard, Rebecca Black's "Friday" is officially the most hated video of all time.

The video has now been disliked 1,307,667 times (and probably a lot more by the time you read this), beating previous frontrunner, Justin Bieber's "Baby", to the not-so-coveted top spot.

So, to celebrate this massive, um, 'achievement', Meme Machine have put together a list of our favourite parodies, remixes and covers of her hit song.  

Strangely enough, many of these have improved the original tenfold - and transformed it into marginally less of an aural torture. 

If you would like to know what the top 20 Rebecca Black videos are, then by all means take a look at the Viral Video Chart.

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