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Top 10 April Fools Stories 234

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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."
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  • And so it begins... (Score:2, Insightful)

    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.

  • OMG PONIES!!! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Red Cape (854034) on Saturday March 31 2007, @08:39PM (#18562087) Homepage Journal
    I LUV CUTE THINGS!

  • "slashdottit!"? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Dirtside (91468) on Saturday March 31 2007, @08:41PM (#18562121) Journal
    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!"? (Score:5, Funny)

      by Zeebs (577100) <[moc.liamg] [ta] [werdsr]> on Saturday March 31 2007, @08:44PM (#18562167)
      "slashdottit!"

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

    • Re:"slashdottit!"? (Score:4, Informative)

      by Psycosys (886125) on Saturday March 31 2007, @08:47PM (#18562205)
      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!"? (Score:5, Insightful)

        by GrumpySimon (707671) <<email> <at> <simon.net.nz>> on Saturday March 31 2007, @08:57PM (#18562305) Homepage
        I'm looking forward to fanboy posts about what Kevin Rose had for breakfast, and the turning off of threaded comments mode. Yay!

      • We're experimenting some techmonological differences

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by omeomi (675045)
        Not to mention the TM and Copyright notices next to Slashrating and Slashdottit...it's not even possible to copyright a word, and Slashdot doesn't even mention a trademark on "Slashdot", let alone "Slashdottit"... ;-)
      • now all they need to do to make it like digg is make EVERY SINGLE LINK open in a NEW WINDOW!!! Man, digg sucks and bad.
    • 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: (Score:3, Funny)

        by 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!

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by kestasjk (933987) *

        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?
        How long did it take you to figure that one out, Sherlock? (By the way it already is April 1st in more than half the world)
      • Since at this point is 2007 April 1 and 0230 GMT I too suspect the festivities has begun. Let us hope they can surpass OMG Ponies.

      • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

        by KDingo (944605)
        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.
    • So is /. turning into a porn site for AFD? Let the mammary-related jokes begin!

      Mammaries? What are these mammaries that you speak of?

      Remember, this is Slashdot. You're going to have to explain yourself a little better. Here, let me help you [google.com].

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by daeg (828071)
      I'm not sure I want porn from a site that spends an entire day out of the year devoted to pink ponies and the other 364 days devoted to things ranging from angry tube-talking politicians, sharp pieces of plastic and metal hardware, giant, horrible and ever-looming bugs, and operating systems with kinkier names than half the devices found in your local sex shop.

      Then again, maybe I do...

      Are you listening, CmdrTaco?
  • 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 (Score:4, Funny)

    by dduardo (592868) on Saturday March 31 2007, @08:44PM (#18562159)
    I buried this story because it doesn't contain any pink ponies.

  • Ponies (Score:4, Insightful)

    by jibjibjib (889679) on Saturday March 31 2007, @08:46PM (#18562195) Journal
    Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.

    • Re:Ponies (Score:4, Informative)

      by Johnny_Law (701208) on Saturday March 31 2007, @09:27PM (#18562563)

      Mod this comment Insightful, for no particular reason.
      Please, mod this comment Informative, also for no particular reason.
    • After a one-year hiatus, I'm back with my karma whoring. Let yourself be known as one of the lucky few to help kick off Karma Whoring 2.0!

  • Slashdottit! (Score:5, Funny)

    by DaveM753 (844913) on Saturday March 31 2007, @08:51PM (#18562233) Homepage
    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.
    • Yep. Might as well turn off the computer and read a book. The next 24 hours will be nothing but childishly obvious, not-particularly-funny "joke" posts. Hah, yes. "Microsoft to Release Vista Under GPLv3". Hilarious.
  • 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.

  • Oh yeah... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Speare (84249) on Saturday March 31 2007, @09:02PM (#18562351) Homepage Journal

    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.

    • "...in Safari, the new voting doohickey completely and unavoidably obscures the left chunk of the story's blurb."

      It doesn't on my Safari... Hmmm... are you, perchance, using the Safari that comes with Vista?

      (I kid...)

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by iabervon (1971)
      The internet's going to be shut down for spring cleaning for most of that time anyway, so it's just as well.

    • And by the way, on Safari, the new voting doohickey completely and unavoidably obscures the left chunk of the story's blurb
      I'm seeing the same thing on Firefox (2.0.0.2, Ubuntu Edgy).

    • And by the way, on Safari, the new voting doohickey completely and unavoidably obscures the left chunk of the story's blurb.
      That's a feature!
    • If it renders the same as it does in Firefox latest, it doesn't. It's just floated left with no right-side margin or padding. It appears to cover part of the summary, but in reality the text is just butting up right against it. Regardless, still crappy coding.
  • so happy April fools
  • TechCrunch has an April Fool's Day post that it has bought FuckedCompany.com [techcrunch.com], with Pud at FC and perhaps even Valleywag [valleywag.com] aiding and abetting the joke. Based on the comments and posts elsewhere in the blogosphere, many appear to have not caught on at first.

    It seems that the April Fool's 2.0 strategy is to launch the joke a day early.

  • My new word I've been using (Score:5, Funny)

    by CrazyJim1 (809850) on Saturday March 31 2007, @09:15PM (#18562477) Journal
    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.

  • Like we're really going to believe that "slashdot it" is going to be a new feature, and that /. is taking leads from Digg now. Stories, yeah, but leads? No. Never.

    • I am not so sure it is a joke, sometime during the last couple of weeks I saw a "slashdot it" link alongside a "digg it" link on some site I was visiting. Not knowing or caring much about digg I thought both logo's were peculiar to the site. When I saw the same/similar logo on the summary I thought to myself "oh, so it is slashdot's logo after all", yet I read the comments and find people implying the logo is a dig at digg (so to speak).

      So basically I'm confused, is "slashdot it" a genuine logo? I have t
  • Oh god. It's April 1st again. On Slashdot. Prepare for a full day of agony.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Dunbal (464142)
      April 1st again. On Slashdot. Prepare for a full day of agony.

            So long as they don't bring back that ghastly purple and pink - my eyes have barely had time to recover - we should be fine. It's not like we read the articles anyway...
  • Does anyone else get the joke? Click on the "slashdotit! (tm)" link and read the explanation for the new system. It's a not-so-subtle "dig" *ahem* at a few other sites.

    Our stories will be hyper-accurate and scientifically perfect!
  • I tell you, I never tire of seeing the exact same "news" every single year. It's a tradition!

  • The actual Museum of Hoaxes link (Score:5, Interesting)

    by hey hey hey (659173) on Saturday March 31 2007, @09:49PM (#18562767)
    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]

  • Cowboy Neal runs for President. Geek community rallies behind the first Geek cannidate.

    Or is it a joke......

  • oh heck with it (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    In soviet russia, April fools YOU......err, um

    In YOU, russia fools soviets with cheese sauce....

    oh screw it.
  • Cartoon Network [toonzone.net] pulled a hilarious April Fool's joke a few years back.

  • It is non-slashdot day for me (Score:3, Insightful)

    by houghi (78078) on Sunday April 01 2007, @03:20AM (#18564857)
    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 (Score:3, Informative)

    by kahrytan (913147) on Sunday April 01 2007, @03:27AM (#18564885) Homepage


      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 (Score:3, Funny)

    by Macka (9388) on Sunday April 01 2007, @05:32AM (#18565437)

    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 (Score:3, Insightful)

    by John Jorsett (171560) on Sunday April 01 2007, @10:55AM (#18566997)
    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.)

And now for something completely the same.