April 01, 2006

April fools jokes and hoaxes of 2006 (so far). (via)
posted by Kro-Bar 18 years ago
  • The rest of the year is an April Fool's Joke by April 1st.
  • A true Zen saying, nay?
  • Google doesn't appear to have done anything. Or am I missing something subtle?
  • Look again, it's not obvious!
  • Too many April Fools jokes are lame. Like the slashdot annual crapfest. Ugh. I think we should just to from March immediately to May.
  • I'm not the only curmudgeon :)
  • Here's what I'd like as an April Fool's joke today. I'd like all links to point to pictures of goatse. Every single one on the internet. Or just replace every picture with a goatse. Or both! Then, perhaps around mid afternoon when I lay down for my nap I can rest all the more deeply knowing that soon everyone will be so completely jaded to this over played tired joke that no one will care and we can just move along in our collective juvenile senses of humor. We all will never speak of g****e again! The beauty of this is that most April Fool's jokes are hardly jokes at all much as un-'s link has pointed out. So lamely replacing the whole internet with Goatseland will fit perfectly with tradition and perhaps run the "holiday" forever.
  • I rage against lame with Goatse intensity.
  • it's forty years to the day since we lost flann o'brien :-( we also lost john mcgahern this week :-(
  • A sad day it is, to be sure.
  • However, the Google thing is actually rather funny.
  • ummm, bone, you might want to look at un-'s post....
  • I sort of liked what Quirks and Quarks (CBC Radio's science show) did this year: a pretty good fake animal story as the last segment. It ended with the researcher eating his only specimen. Should be up as a podcast by now.
  • April fools day, like christmas, is for children and the IQ impaired.
  • Oh man, I'm so conflicted after reading all of this. Am I allowed to enjoy April Fool's Day or not?
  • Endure, via our Contextual Dating option, thematically appropriate multimedia advertising throughout the entirety of your free date. quick! someone tell Capt. he can look for love on Google!
  • And by the way, since we (well, most of us) have to set our clocks ahead tonight, it means you can begin drinking one hour ealier than usual.
  • The cocks have no impact on my drinking schedule Mr Dog. Medusa I meant to say clocks.. you knew that.
  • On the outer edge of the cloud of wonder that was gathered in the head of Trellis, there was an outer border of black anger. He brought down his lids across his eyeballs until his vision was confined to slits scarcely wider by those in use by houseflies when flying the face of a strong sun, videlicet, the thousandth part of an inch stature. /ho! drunk again on the bliss-giving bubbly of the immortal Flann
  • OK, Techsmith, help. I can't see it for looking. Waz with google?
  • April Foolz! Sorry BH, it was too good to pass up! I promiss from now on, I got your back!
  • OK, somebody tell me: a friend told me about a Simpsons Movie teaser trailer being shown before 'Ice Age 2' on some theathers. Premiere to be on july 27, 2007. Please tell me it's not a joke!
  • It's not a joke. A friend of mine working on the production told me about it on Friday. They somehow have managed to keep it a secret even though they've been working on the script since January.
  • I agree Koko - this is no "joke". A joke - just for your future reference, Flagpole - is a short fictional anecdote told by a "joker" ending in a surprising, humorous climax, which causes the listeners (the "jokees", if you will) to emit piercing, hiccupping exhalations of air that I call "cachinnation". As an example of this kind of "humorous tale", let me present the following, which was created in laboratory conditions by the famous Professor Comedicus of Guffour College, University of Bristle. "A gentleman perambulates into a public house, being an establishment wherein alcoholic beverages are imbibed - yet whose demotic nomenclature is morphologically equivalent ("homonymic") with the term used for a pole of metallic (either elemental or - more usually - alloy) constituents. The self-same gentlemen then utters a pronouncement of sudden pain. The proprietor of the establishment inquires of the gentlemen why his face is abnormally elongated." I am assured that the above example is one that would be adjudged statistically "funny" when told to a normally-distributed data set of jokees (assuming a standard deviation of 0.6).
  • The Guardian one, in which Chris Martin was supposed to have come out as a supporter of David Cameron's Conservative Party, was particularly well done. The basic premise has a slight believability, and I didn't recognise it for what it was until about halfway through the article.
  • Yeah! I just read that headline and thought "fucking coldplay, how typical of those wankers .." - completely taken in.
  • Not the April Fools of 2007.
  • Via reading around at pleg's link:
    I would just like to report an incident that happened at work yesterday. One of my colleagues, in an incredible act of sucking up, creating a page on Wikipedia on our boss. Can anyone beat that?
    Gareth, Tokyo, Japan
    Chortle.