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April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:12 am
by shredphones_Archive
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:16 am
by tommydski_Archive
That Google Mail one is my favourite so far.
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:25 am
by The Code is Almighty_Archive
Rotten Tanx wrote:I know a few people who were gobsmacked at
this story.
Are you kidding me? I was pretty excited about this, even had a conversation about the logistics involved with someone the other day. Making jokes all week before April Fools' Day is bullshit.
Anyone know if the pregnant man thing was declared a prank yet?
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:51 am
by Colonel Panic_Archive
Google always has good April Fool's Day pranks.
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:55 am
by Linus Van Pelt_Archive
Stuff White People Like bought by Target.
“We are thrilled at the opportunity,” says Ennis Blentic, Senior VP of Marketing at Target. “It’s a great chance for us to connect with some of our most valued customers and let them know about our great product line for 2008 and beyond.”
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:04 pm
by Foldyourarmsandsaynah_Archive
www.si.com had a pretty good lengthy (8 pages) story on a kid who could throw a baseball 163mph. The picture gallery was hilarious, 1 foot shoeless, the other in a hiking boot. Awesome.
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:06 pm
by vockins_Archive
Who are the humorless sadsack beardos that flagged my $450 TB500 on craigslist? Losers.
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:08 pm
by Colonel Panic_Archive
A few of my favorite websites have done some good pranks over the past couple days.
One bittorrent tracker/forum announced that its oldest and most beloved administrator had been caught embezzling from the donations fund to help ease his own "family financial problems" and had been summarily banned. It was shocking and disturbing how quickly the majority of that community turned against him.
Another organization replaced its online forum with a splash page announcement that its forum membership would now require monthly dues, "starting at the end of March".
Check out the
Apple iPhone Developers Portal.
2600: the Hacker Quarterly, organizes an annual conference called HOPE ("Hackers on Planet Earth"). Its Internet domain,
www.hope.net, has been redesigned to look like a hacked Obama campaign webpage, and linked to Hillary Clinton's campaign website. This fake hack received coverage on
The Raw Feed.
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:10 pm
by andyman_Archive
April Fool s Day Summary Thread
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:33 pm
by Ike_Archive
Foldyourarmsandsaynah wrote:www.si.com had a pretty good lengthy (8 pages) story on a kid who could throw a baseball 163mph. The picture gallery was hilarious, 1 foot shoeless, the other in a hiking boot. Awesome.
Classic. Like the aluminum bat Baseball weekly episode in the late 1970's. Sidd Finch is the name of my new band.
George Plimpton, for his other douchebagery, is in classic, fine form here.
I got zinged at work today in a BIG way. First time, too!
Ike