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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."
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
I want OMG Ponies for a second year! BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!
You will be greatly missed.
I buried this story because it doesn't contain any pink ponies.
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.
Inverting the function of the "Post Anonymously" checkbox would be funny
Where I live it *is* April fools day you insensitive clod!
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".
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.
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.
Displaying scores in roman numerals would be fun.
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!
Would that make it Ars Slashdotica?
BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!
Only if you promise to be good and give me 5 billion dollars.
Woohoo, free karma! But funny mods don't earn karma, do they...
A few years back I registered apfbiolectronics.com (APril fools bioelectronics. Made up a name and had a friend design a website about affordable medical devices for the masses
I took an arm crash dump at random from google and then posted a complaint to linux-kernel and linux-arm about how linux crashed and killed my test monkey and could they hurry up and fix it so we could move on with human trials.
The result:The sad thing is I'm never ever going to top that prank
In soviet russia, April fools YOU......err, um
In YOU, russia fools soviets with cheese sauce....
oh screw it.
oh wow I totally didn't it until you pointed it out!!!
Here's another riddle for your super genius brain: Crack this code:
"So this Nherlock"
I think you meant "In Soviet Russia, April Foolz! you!".
What's Slashdot without Anonymous Coward?
Slashdot without Anonymous Coward is like Crackwhore without AIDS: you still come around but the reduced risk makes it boring.
Trolling is a art,
Emacs and Vi are too bloated. If you must use a utility to compose text files in unix, there is a perfectly usable and full featured word processor right there in /bin on every POSIX compliant system.
I speak of the Computer Aided Text processor
It has a few command line options depending on whether you want your lines numbered, reduce unnecessary whitespace, and other conveniences. Each line is fully editable until you commit it by hitting the enter key. If something happens while you're typing it, not to worry: it autosaves after each line of text. Just use the -a (append) option when you run it again to finish the file.
You only need to remember one control sequence. Unlike those wannabe window managers like emacs and vi with their scores of non-mnemonic commands. When you're done typing in cat, hit ctrl-d (for done, of course) and that's it.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
You see his user ID? He doesn't have much long left.
Hush now and respect your elders, even if they are hell bent on self-destruction.
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.
That was not a hoax either!
Neat, but can it perform cunnilingus on a hardwood floor?
The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
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
48 entire hours?! Why, with that kind of time frame, you might even have time to step away from your computer, or even go outside! We eagerly await your safe return.