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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
I buried this story because it doesn't contain any pink ponies.
Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.
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.
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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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?
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.
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!
http://reddit.com/goto?id=1edx1
The latest Slashdot meme.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
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.
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.
I think you meant "In Soviet Russia, April Foolz! you!".
Cartoon Network pulled a hilarious April Fool's joke a few years back.
Goddemmed Newfies!
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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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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
- 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