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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 31, 2007 @01:36PM from the true-history-in-the-making dept.

SlashRating^© 10 slashdottit! ^tm 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."

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OMG PONIES!!! by Red+Cape · 2007-03-31 13:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

I LUV CUTE THINGS!

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I Hate Allan
"slashdottit!"? by Dirtside · 2007-03-31 13:41 · Score: 3, Funny

So in the little box, it says "slashdottit!".

Let me break that up a little:

"slashdot tit!"

So is /. turning into a porn site for AFD? Let the mammary-related jokes begin!

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1. Re:"slashdottit!"? by Zeebs · 2007-03-31 13:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "slashdottit!"
  
  This must be the slashdot equivalent to farks "boobies". I for one welcome our new full chested over-ladies?
  
  --
  
  Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
2. Re:"slashdottit!"? by Psycosys · 2007-03-31 13:47 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Isn't it obvious that the April Fools day theme this year is to pretend to be digg?
  
  slashdott with 2 t's, digg with 2 g's...
  
  How am I supposed to slashdott down though? It seems like I can only add to the number of slashdotts and never subtract from it.
  
  Also when are they going to announce a slashdottNation videocast?
3. Re:"slashdottit!"? by metlin · 2007-03-31 13:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I for one welcome our new full chested over-ladies?
  
  Don't you mean, hairy geeks with man-boobs? Given that this is Slashdot and all that? :-\
4. Re:"slashdottit!"? by Zeebs · 2007-03-31 13:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I renounce my previous post and am now going to gouge my eyes out in an attempt to stop the burning.
  
  --
  
  Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
5. Re:"slashdottit!"? by GrumpySimon · 2007-03-31 13:57 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I'm looking forward to fanboy posts about what Kevin Rose had for breakfast, and the turning off of threaded comments mode. Yay!
  
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  henry -- the human evolution news relay
6. Re:"slashdottit!"? by Falladir · 2007-03-31 14:16 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Have you read the comments on digg? We don't want them here anyway. It's better that they leave.
7. Re:"slashdottit!"? by cyphercell · 2007-03-31 14:18 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  I don't really care.
  
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  Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
Re:And so it begins... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 13:42 · Score: 5, Funny

I want OMG Ponies for a second year! BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!
Re:And so it begins... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 13:44 · Score: 4, Funny

You will be greatly missed.
Buried It by dduardo · 2007-03-31 13:44 · Score: 3, Funny

I buried this story because it doesn't contain any pink ponies.
Ponies by jibjibjib · 2007-03-31 13:46 · Score: 4, Insightful

Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.
1. Re:Ponies by Johnny_Law · 2007-03-31 14:27 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason. Please, mod this comment Informative, also for no particular reason.
2. Re:Ponies by David_W · 2007-03-31 14:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.
  Please, mod this comment Informative, also for no particular reason.
  
  Woohoo, free karma! But funny mods don't earn karma, do they...
Re:And so it begins... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 13:49 · Score: 5, Interesting

I know. What's Slashdot without Anonymous Coward?

And, actually, removing Anonymous Coward for a day would be an amusing joke.
Slashdottit! by DaveM753 · 2007-03-31 13:51 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:And so it begins... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 13:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Inverting the function of the "Post Anonymously" checkbox would be funny
My new word I've been using by CrazyJim1 · 2007-03-31 14:15 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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That's odd... by camperdave · 2007-03-31 14:19 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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Re:And so it begins... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 14:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Would that make it Ars Slashdotica?
Re:And so it begins... by Ponies_OMG · 2007-03-31 14:30 · Score: 5, Funny

BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!

Only if you promise to be good and give me 5 billion dollars.
Re:And so it begins... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 14:38 · Score: 5, Interesting

At this point, the best joke that could be played on slashdot's users would be to just make April 1st a normal day. We'd end up spending the whole day trying to figure out what was up.
The actual Museum of Hoaxes link by hey+hey+hey · 2007-03-31 14:49 · Score: 4, Interesting

Yes, there really is such a site (lord only knows if there is actually a museum), and you get 100 hoaxes instead of just a paltry 10 for the price of a click...
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
Re:Best I've heard around me by gmack · 2007-03-31 15:06 · Score: 5, Funny
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:
- 2 offers for help
- 1 plea to scrap the project immediately in the name of all things good in this world (man I wish I still had that email).
- A thread debating the validity of my post
- Someone telling me that he hopes I used a scratch monkey
- Someone used my post to back up his bug report
- 12 days later someone posted a report on their lug's mailing list.
- Two YEARS later someone referenced it on the linux advocacy newsgroup
The sad thing is I'm never ever going to top that prank
Re:New Discovery ! There ARE Linux Desktop Users ! by gardyloo · 2007-03-31 15:25 · Score: 4, Funny

I think you meant "In Soviet Russia, April Foolz! you!".
Re:And so it begins... by grub · 2007-03-31 15:50 · Score: 5, Funny

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.

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Trolling is a art,
Comment removed by account_deleted · 2007-03-31 16:26 · Score: 3, Interesting

Comment removed based on user account deletion
Re:And so it begins... by Anpheus · 2007-03-31 18:33 · Score: 4, Funny

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.