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... (Score:2, Insightful)
PONIES~~~! etc.
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Only if you promise to be good and give me 5 billion dollars.
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HAHA
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And, actually, removing Anonymous Coward for a day would be an amusing joke.
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As would changing the font to Cyrillic.
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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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Re:And so it begins... (Score:5, Funny)
Hush now and respect your elders, even if they are hell bent on self-destruction.
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Ever since last year, OMGPONIES == April Fools for me. Bring back the pink!
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Alas I'm guessing this is the true april fools.
Re:New Discovery ! There ARE Linux Desktop Users ! (Score:5, Funny)
OMG PONIES!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
"slashdottit!"? (Score:4, Funny)
Let me break that up a little:
"slashdot tit!"
So is
Re:"slashdottit!"? (Score:5, Funny)
This must be the slashdot equivalent to farks "boobies". I for one welcome our new full chested over-ladies?
Re:"slashdottit!"? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you mean, hairy geeks with man-boobs? Given that this is Slashdot and all that?
Re:"slashdottit!"? (Score:5, Funny)
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(bleehhhhh....)
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Over-ladies? (Score:2)
Re:"slashdottit!"? (Score:4, Informative)
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?
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That's odd... (Score:4, Funny)
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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Besides, to echo another reply to your post...have to actually read the posts on digg? Man, what a bunch of tools post there. Less pollution here, I say.
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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!
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Not if the million people joining are complete and utter morons. Do we WANT to be in that market?
Re:"slashdottit!"? -- April fool's joke? (Score:3, Interesting)
I mean think about it... it's almost april 1st, the page it links to makes no sense... anyone else smell a prank here?
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To my surprise, it actually isn't a joke!
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I mean think about it... it's almost april 1st, the page it links to makes no sense... anyone else smell a prank here?
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I guess I was fooled.
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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].
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Then again, maybe I do...
Are you listening, CmdrTaco?
Where are the ponies? (Score:2)
Buried It (Score:4, Funny)
Ponies (Score:4, Insightful)
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Woohoo, free karma! But funny mods don't earn karma, do they...
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That's what she said...
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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! (Score:5, Funny)
It may also be magically delicious, but that remains to be seen.
Ahem... (Score:3, Informative)
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Actually true. It evolved. From bad to worse.
Brace yourselves everyone... (Score:2)
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Best I've heard around me (Score:2)
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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:The sad thing is I'm never ever going to top that prank
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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.
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It doesn't on my Safari... Hmmm... are you, perchance, using the Safari that comes with Vista?
(I kid...)
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I have no response to that (Score:2)
April Fool's 2.0 at TechCrunch (Score:2)
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)
Oh yeah, new feature (Score:2)
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.
A joke? (Score:2)
So basically I'm confused, is "slashdot it" a genuine logo? I have t
ph3ar teh p0ni3s (Score:2)
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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...
Hah. (Score:2)
Our stories will be hyper-accurate and scientifically perfect!
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The actual Museum of Hoaxes link (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/ [museumofhoaxes.com]
Obvious April Joke (Score:2)
Or is it a joke......
oh heck with it (Score:2, Funny)
In YOU, russia fools soviets with cheese sauce....
oh screw it.
they left out cartoon network (Score:2, Interesting)
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I always enjoy the 1st (Score:3, Informative)
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)
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)
- 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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... but when does April 1 really start? To discount the effect of time zones, it's best to go by a common time zone (like how TV shows are always listed in EST/EDT in the US even though they're also seen in other time zones at other times). For a website with an international audience, the only time zone that makes sense is GMT... and it's already been a couple of hours into April 1 GMT.
(Do we really have to remind people about this every year? Sigh.)
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I consider this a fortune. It means it's gonna be over here in 19 hours.
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In Europe (and Soviet Russia) it already IS april fool's day... not my fault the US is always lagging behind...
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I live in an European country, you insensitive clod!
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I believe you just did...
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You (well, not *you*) usually kneed a matched set.
Part numbers 717R and 717L.
Pick up the catalog, there are attachments.