Top 10 April Fools Stories

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."

Comments

OMG PONIES!!!

[Red Cape]

I LUV CUTE THINGS!

Re:And so it begins...

[Anonymous Coward]

I want OMG Ponies for a second year! BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[Zeebs]

"slashdottit!"

This must be the slashdot equivalent to farks "boobies". I for one welcome our new full chested over-ladies?

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[metlin]

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? :-\

Re:And so it begins...

[Anonymous Coward]

I know. What's Slashdot without Anonymous Coward?

And, actually, removing Anonymous Coward for a day would be an amusing joke.

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[Zeebs]

I renounce my previous post and am now going to gouge my eyes out in an attempt to stop the burning.

Slashdottit!

[DaveM753]

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...

[Anonymous Coward]

Inverting the function of the "Post Anonymously" checkbox would be funny

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[GrumpySimon]

I'm looking forward to fanboy posts about what Kevin Rose had for breakfast, and the turning off of threaded comments mode. Yay!

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[Falladir]

Have you read the comments on digg? We don't want them here anyway. It's better that they leave.

Re:And so it begins...

[Ponies_OMG]

BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!

Only if you promise to be good and give me 5 billion dollars.

Re:And so it begins...

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Ponies

[David_W]

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:Best I've heard around me

[gmack]

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:And so it begins...

[grub]

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.