Top 10 April Fools Stories

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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."

And so it begins...

[by Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:And so it begins...

[by Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:And so it begins...

[Ponies_OMG (965954)]

BRING BACK THE PONIES!!!

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

Re:

[MonkeyDluffy (577002)]

Mod this up!!!!

Re:

[coolgeek (140561)]

Make sure to click the "slashdotit" link to get the full effect...

Re:And so it begins...

[by Anonymous Coward]

You will be greatly missed.

Re:And so it begins...

[by Anonymous Coward]

I know. What's Slashdot without Anonymous Coward?

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

Re:And so it begins...

[by Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:And so it begins...

[by Anonymous Coward]

Would that make it Ars Slashdotica?

Re:And so it begins...

[grub (11606)]

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.

Re:And so it begins...

[liquidpele (663430)]

shit... you live far to dangerously for my tastes.

Re:And so it begins...

[Anpheus (908711)]

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.

Re:And so it begins...

[by 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:

[nmb3000 (741169)]

Regardless, I'd say we tag every story put up today as omgponies.

Ever since last year, OMGPONIES == April Fools for me. Bring back the pink!

Re:New Discovery ! There ARE Linux Desktop Users !

[gardyloo (512791)]

I think you meant "In Soviet Russia, April Foolz! you!".

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[linvir (970218)]

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.

OMG PONIES!!!

[Red Cape (854034)]

I LUV CUTE THINGS!

"slashdottit!"?

[Dirtside (91468)]

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!

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[Zeebs (577100)]

"slashdottit!"

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

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[metlin (258108)]

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:"slashdottit!"?

[Zeebs (577100)]

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

Re:

[DaveM753 (844913)]

While you're at it, would you mind taking care of my eyes, too?

(bleehhhhh....)

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[Psycosys (886125)]

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?

Re:"slashdottit!"?

[GrumpySimon (707671)]

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 (1026636)]

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

Re:

[cyphercell (843398)]

I don't really care [google.com].

That's odd...

[camperdave (969942)]

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.

Re:

[Dunbal (464142)]

Meanwhile, Slashdot continues on its slide to oblivion.

      Actually looking at those graphs slashdot is pretty constant, and not sliding anywhere. Digg is experiencing growth, but slashdot is not decreasing.

      Personally I hope most of the idiots leave us for Digg, and then this site might just go back to what it was before. Oh and they can take Roland Piquepaille with them!

Re:"slashdottit!"? -- April fool's joke?

[p_trekkie (597206)]

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?

Re:

[fbjon (692006)]

Yes, there's something non-regular about it. However, I thought this text at the top of the main page was another joke since I hadn't seen it before: "Slashdot stories can be listened to in audio form via an RSS feed, as read by our own robotic overlord. [feedburner.com]"

To my surprise, it actually isn't a joke!

Where are the ponies?

[leonbev (111395)]

Come on, Taco... Where are the Ponies? If I click that Slashdotit (tm) button enough times, can I at least get a pink background?

Buried It

[dduardo (592868)]

I buried this story because it doesn't contain any pink ponies.

Ponies

[jibjibjib (889679)]

Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.

Re:Ponies

[Johnny_Law (701208)]

Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.

Please, mod this comment Informative, also for no particular reason.

Re:Ponies

[David_W (35680)]

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:

[zippthorne (748122)]

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

Slashdottit!

[DaveM753 (844913)]

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.

Ahem...

[Bob Cat - NYMPHS (313647)]

http://reddit.com/goto?id=1edx1 [reddit.com]

Brace yourselves everyone...

[jbrader (697703)]

It begins.

Best I've heard around me

[kaufmanmoore (930593)]

A radio station near me, Greensboro, NC (NASCAR country) announced the April fools right after Dale Earnhardt's death that the Postal Service was issuing a stamp in his memory. Apparently alot of people flooded the post offices asking for the stamp. By the end of the show someone from Washington called the station and threatened legal action if they didn't stop.

Re:Best I've heard around me

[gmack (197796)]

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 [helsinki.fi] 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 [google.ca]
• Someone telling me that he hopes I used a scratch monkey [helsinki.fi]
• Someone used my post to back up his bug report [iu.edu]
• 12 days later someone posted a report on their lug's mailing list. [linux.ie]
• Two YEARS later someone referenced it on the linux advocacy newsgroup [google.ca]

The sad thing is I'm never ever going to top that prank

Oh yeah...

[Speare (84249)]

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.

My new word I've been using

[CrazyJim1 (809850)]

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.

The actual Museum of Hoaxes link

[hey hey hey (659173)]

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/ [museumofhoaxes.com]

It is non-slashdot day for me

[houghi (78078)]

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.

I always enjoy the 1st

[kahrytan (913147)]

  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.

Water Tables

[Macka (9388)]

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.

     

The BBC seems to have the best ones

[John Jorsett (171560)]

In 1980 the BBC reported that Big Ben, in order to keep up with the times, was going to be given a digital readout. It received a huge response from listeners protesting the change. The BBC Japanese service also announced that the clock hands would be sold to the first four listeners to contact them, and one Japanese seaman in the mid-Atlantic immediately radioed in a bid.

- Museum of Hoaxes #35 [72.14.253.104] (Google cache. Real site seems to be down today. One guess as to why.)

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[Cheapy (809643)]

Nope. Only you.

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[gardyloo (512791)]

Goddamned Canadians. ;-)