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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."
I LUV CUTE THINGS!
I Hate Allan
I want OMG Ponies for a second year! BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!
You will be greatly missed.
"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!!"
Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.
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?
Don't you mean, hairy geeks with man-boobs? Given that this is Slashdot and all that?
I know. What's Slashdot without Anonymous Coward?
And, actually, removing Anonymous Coward for a day would be an amusing joke.
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!!"
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
I'm looking forward to fanboy posts about what Kevin Rose had for breakfast, and the turning off of threaded comments mode. Yay!
henry -- the human evolution news relay
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.
Have you read the comments on digg? We don't want them here anyway. It's better that they leave.
Would that make it Ars Slashdotica?
BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!
Only if you promise to be good and give me 5 billion dollars.
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.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
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
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,
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.