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Top 10 April Fools Stories
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ddelmonte writes with a link to a brietbart story on the top ten April Fools Day hoaxes, as determined by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes. Two great British examples: "In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home. In 1977, British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement for the 10th anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semicolon-shaped islands. A series of articles described the geography and culture of the two main islands, named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse."
Be back on April 2, although I'm not sure it'll be any different than a usual Sunday with Taco at the helm.
PONIES~~~! etc.
I LUV CUTE THINGS!
I Hate Allan
So in the little box, it says "slashdottit!".
/. turning into a porn site for AFD? Let the mammary-related jokes begin!
Let me break that up a little:
"slashdot tit!"
So is
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
Anyone else see the digg-like "slashdot it" box?
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
I expect another top-notch April Fools on Slashdot, just like last year with the subtly hilarious fool-articles.
Come on, Taco... Where are the Ponies? If I click that Slashdotit (tm) button enough times, can I at least get a pink background?
I buried this story because it doesn't contain any pink ponies.
Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.
Naw, i think i'll digg it instead or maybe i'll /. the digg story about this instead :P
Come on guys/gals...let's not make fun of Slashdottit! It's "scientifically perfect".
It may also be magically delicious, but that remains to be seen.
It begins.
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
Did anyone else notice that bumping this article's date to April 1st bumped all articles for the 31st to April 1st? Isn't there some rule about no April Fool's jokes until the actual goddamn day? It's like when Xmas took over Thanksgiving and then Halloween.
Tag this "omgponies" for no real reason?
A radio station near me, Greensboro, NC (NASCAR country) announced the April fools right after Dale Earnhardt's death that the Postal Service was issuing a stamp in his memory. Apparently alot of people flooded the post offices asking for the stamp. By the end of the show someone from Washington called the station and threatened legal action if they didn't stop.
When the launch of the new "slashdottit!" or should I say "slashdot tit!", does this mean we can all expect a "slashdot tit!" posted to our residence for the second half of the /. upgrade? This in reference to an input device that makes use of the new features, was it not?
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
Thanks for reminding me a bit early that the entire techno-hip tragically-leet intarweb will be a steaming pile of uselessness for the next 30 hours or so. I can just skip the inanity and catch up on anything interesting later.
And by the way, on Safari, the new voting doohickey completely and unavoidably obscures the left chunk of the story's blurb.
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In other news the Taco Liberty Bell has been captured by rats in New York City. President Bush upon being informed of this replied: "so what, it is just another piece of scrap iron" but when further informed that the rats had managed to get the hot sauce supplier switched to a New Jersey cannery Bush looked at Chaney and said "Get a rope".
Maybe this is slashdot's April fool's joke?
I mean think about it... it's almost april 1st, the page it links to makes no sense... anyone else smell a prank here?
SCO expresses regret for the ongoing litigation against IBM, characterizing it as "an April Fool's joke that got out of hand."
IBM responds, "GOTCHA!!!"
so happy April fools
To my surprise, it actually isn't a joke!
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
It seems that the April Fool's 2.0 strategy is to launch the joke a day early.
RichM
Data Center Knowledge
Some people say Pwned. Others say Powned. I say: Pownied. Simply because its easy to say, but I think Slashdot last year brought me the inspiration to pioneer in the field of l33t sp3@k.
God spoke to me.
Like we're really going to believe that "slashdot it" is going to be a new feature, and that /. is taking leads from Digg now. Stories, yeah, but leads? No. Never.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Meanwhile, Slashdot continues on its slide to oblivion.
That's odd. It started to decline just after I joined. Hmm... I should check on those SCOX stocks that I bought in 2004.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Oh god. It's April 1st again. On Slashdot. Prepare for a full day of agony.
Does anyone else get the joke? Click on the "slashdotit! (tm)" link and read the explanation for the new system. It's a not-so-subtle "dig" *ahem* at a few other sites.
Our stories will be hyper-accurate and scientifically perfect!
"We may face a scorched and lifeless earth, but they're accountable to their shareholders first."
New Discovery ! There ARE Linux Desktop Users !!!
April Foolz! you
I heard over the news that Microsoft announced that due to lackluster sales of Vista they are going to reduce the price by 75%... ...
Oh, you would have to be an April Fool to believe Microsoft would ever *REDUCE* the price of their software.
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WOW! You're a fucking genius!
Here's a medal. Stop eating it.
I mean think about it... it's almost april 1st, the page it links to makes no sense... anyone else smell a prank here? How long did it take you to figure that one out, Sherlock? (By the way it already is April 1st in more than half the world)
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http://reddit.com/goto?id=1edx1
The latest Slashdot meme.
Since at this point is 2007 April 1 and 0230 GMT I too suspect the festivities has begun. Let us hope they can surpass OMG Ponies.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
How DO you grow your own spaghetti?
What?
Since we're all nerds, we shouldn't forget the best nerd April's fool joke ever:
http://www.python.org/parrot.html
Read it. It is worth it.
What if one day all the rulers, leaders, kings, representatives, dictators, and so on just ceded power to the people?
After all, we do have the technology. Are we ready for wiki government?
"Oh, you would have to be an April Fool to believe Microsoft would ever *REDUCE* the price of their software."
...Yeah, Usually they just give it away!
therespooponyourshoe
Seems good enough for each and every April 1 crap story.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
My 0.02 cents
All people dissolve; charge government in leave.
I tell you, I never tire of seeing the exact same "news" every single year. It's a tradition!
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
Yeah! Next up Microsoft is now asking for donations to support the continued development of their software! Donate now to help Billy bring you the next incarnation of Microsoft BoB!
Leaves dissolve people; government charges all.
I had to think a little while about that 'slashdottit' box. For a second I thought the time had come what this site has been aching for a long time: Modded articles. I'd figure the article would have a similar score range (-1 to +5) to the comment system, and with Firehose in development I really thought the time had indeed come.
I guess I was fooled.
Or is it a joke......
In soviet russia, April fools YOU......err, um
In YOU, russia fools soviets with cheese sauce....
oh screw it.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
I am not so sure it is a joke, sometime during the last couple of weeks I saw a "slashdot it" link alongside a "digg it" link on some site I was visiting. Not knowing or caring much about digg I thought both logo's were peculiar to the site. When I saw the same/similar logo on the summary I thought to myself "oh, so it is slashdot's logo after all", yet I read the comments and find people implying the logo is a dig at digg (so to speak).
So basically I'm confused, is "slashdot it" a genuine logo? I have tried to find the "prior art" again to check the spelling but have had no luck.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Apple, Google join forces for 'ultimate phone' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/01/apple_goog le_mobile/
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - HGTTG
I think you meant "In Soviet Russia, April Foolz! you!".
Wikipedia going crazy...
Mmmm... full chested over-ladies...
So, I take it it's going to be the usual torrent of idiotic "funnies" this year?
Editors, I beg of you to ask yourselves: if it's not funny enough to be considered satire, yet so obvious that no one could possible be "pranked" by it, what on earth is the point?
Sigh, see you in 24 hours.
PS: MS buys Apple!! Teh lolz!1!
sic transit gloria mundi
Cartoon Network pulled a hilarious April Fool's joke a few years back.
Are those really the top ten, or is this just some sort of prank?
I got caught one year a few years back. CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp, ie Canadian public radio) had anounced that they had been bought by ABC out of the states and were now going to be called ABCBC, I was pissed, I grabed my phone and was about to start dialing the CBC when I saw the date ...
Naww, really? Gee, I wonder...
That's no April Fool's joke. That is one hell of a great idea. Wikipedia for government. Wikipedia would be the worst possible form of government. Except for all the others.
Once it was reported in Toronto that the CN Tower fell down in the seventies, not long after it was built. I also remember that in 1992 or 1993 CFRB in Toronto make a fake newscast saying that the then hated prime minister Brian Mulroney had changed his mind about retiring. They cut and pasted clips of Mulroney and got some impersonators to do the voice people like the former prime minister Pierre Trudeau for an interview.
What if one day all the people ceded power to dictators? Wouldnt that work out better for everyone?
Well, considering the tongue-in-cheek undertones in the thank-you message after you submit a "Slashdottit" click, I'd say it is pretty clearly a well-made April Fools joke:
"Only by requiring the contribution of every random user of the internet can we guarantee the most scientifically perfect numbers will be generated."
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We dont need useful information like that on a day like today! -1, troll!
This is the second time I've seen that comment. What's your purpose?
"Oh c'mon, I wumbo, you wumbo, he/she/me...wumbo, wumboed, womboing...wombology? The study of wumbo? It's first grade,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96vpA83GA5w
"Oh c'mon, I wumbo, you wumbo, he/she/me...wumbo, wumboed, womboing...wombology? The study of wumbo? It's first grade,
... can be found right here
http://www.google.com/tisp/faq.html
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
I almost crapped myself when i saw this!!!
The robotic overlord link was present at least yesterday. I clicked on the link to listen to (I think) the "ribena has no vitamin C" story.
"I think it would be a good idea!"
Gandhi, about Internet Security
Binsearch down
Politicians and Pedophiles: Two groups of exploitive bastards who are most dangerous when they're thinking of children.
Australian electronics businessman and philanthropist, Dick Smith, trying to solve Australia's water shortage with an iceberg....http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/iceberg.h tml
Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia seem to have exchanged front pages. Nice move.
Politicians and Pedophiles: Two groups of exploitive bastards who are most dangerous when they're thinking of children.
What would be nice is if only two or three stories would be pranks on april first. Now all editors will be falling over each other to get some childish and stupid prank trough.
The best would be to have just 2 or three great ones, instead of many, many, many bad ones. And the best ones are prepared way in advance.
This is just like if everybody telling you all day that your shoelaces are undone, and you wear shoes without laces. The first time you fall for it, The 50th time you hit somebody in the nose.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The first thing I do on April 1st is visit Google.com. Those people come up with the funniest jokes. Anyone like this years joke? If anyone falls for it. They get a complimentary swirlie on me.
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Posting it thrice ? (just presuming)
McCartney fans pay bus tickets. [...] Lennon fans too, with discretion.
I remember when I was at school there was an episode of the BBC show "Tomorrows World" where for an April Fools day prank they reported on the breakthrough invention of de-hydrated water tablets. You expose them to sunlight and they turned back into water. There was one particularly slow boy in class who had an argument with the chemistry teacher the next day, insisting that these things existed cos he'd seen it on TV.
So what I did was to take PowerPoint and then I made some off the edge fictional organization. On first glance it was really feasible! There were a few that fell for it and got upset. A manager later told me that it was a really good one!
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
I thought the joke was that I got mod points today. I mean, what are the chances that I'd get mod points on Apil 1st? But then it turns out that having mod points on April 1st really isn't all that funny or even useful.
steampunk web design
That was not a hoax either!
Ian Tresman plasma-universe.com
April Fools day jokes are wonderful.
Хубава идеа.
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Neat, but can it perform cunnilingus on a hardwood floor?
The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
What if all the people ceded power to the animals? Though then I suppose they may admonish us for all the slaughterhouses...
Needless to say, APD "hoaxes" from Slashdot will never make it on that list.
Best response ever.
- Museum of Hoaxes #35 (Google cache. Real site seems to be down today. One guess as to why.)
...from last year. Includes more on the San Serriffe thing.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,17
This prank got me an interview on CBC National: take over DNS services at your office, proxy the lottery web site, and change the numbers to match tickets for the office lottery pool. Nothing like getting all the staff on video running around totally foolish. haha
My school ( http://umbc.edu/ )has posted a new login announcement on our shell accounts: We will be terminating our Linux shell services as of the end of the semester and replacing them with servers running both HP-UX and SCO OpenServer. To comply with new federal wiretapping regulations, we will also be terminating "ssh"-based login services and enabling only "telnet" access at that time. lol I sincerely hope this is an April's 1st joke ...
Way back when (late 80's/early 90's), either KISW or KXRX had a great prank story one year: Queen Anne Hill was erupting like Mt. St. Helens. It sure seemed like they got some legitimately gullible people calling into the station, and the morning DJs (I think it was Crow & West) got seriously reprimanded from management... I think this led to most of the radio talent fleeing KISW at the time to KXRX (which, sadly, 3 or four years after that converted to a "new country" station).
Every few years someone in Seattle radio or TV does a story about the top of the Space Needle actually being a UFO and lifting off from the rest of the tower.
I can't believe they missed out on the spoof British documentry Alternative 3 about the 1970's brain drain of UK scientists being traced to plans to reseed Mars's atmosphere ready for colonisation because the Earth was dying fast.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil