[APRIL FOOL'S DISCUSSION/LINKS THREAD] Believe nothing. For at least one day.
 

Just your friendly neighbourhood April 1st warning. Blech.


Hey, let's just go ahead and use this thread to link to the funny gags and hoaxes being spread around the Internet and otherwise today. - synk

My school paper printed some stupid April Fools Day stuff (yesterday, oddly). A fake article about the school banning Facebook and the like from their networks, and talks of a protest and a quote from the protest organizer to the effect of "Bring a bat in case it gets ugly."

It was just stupid. *shrug* Bugged me for some reason. Not clever and slightly reckless. And when I thought it was a real article I was OKAY with them banning it. All the computer labs are full because of people dicking around on Facebook.

Bah.

I am eagerly awaiting articles on the LHC creating a black hole and spelling doom for the Earth.

You guys know they cancelled April Fools this year, right?

Really?

Yeah, they did a short story on it on CNN.

Damn.

I will bring almond flavored cookies to class and casually mention that cyanide smells like bitter almonds, then laugh and accuse them of being silly when they drop the cookies and back away.

the prank will be that there really is cyanide in the cookies.

I went to CNN and found no such story...

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I swear I thought this thread was going to be some existential challenge.

over a year of being here
 

And yet you guys thought I was serious. -_-;

That tells you more about you than us.

For a moment, I did too. But that was before I saw the date... I need to get a new watch or something, entire weeks are passing by with no notice from me.

I call bullshit on that.

That I need to be more active.

Ehh I always had mix feelings about April Fools day. An old friend of mine is a master at deception. Being that 4 years back he once got me to believe his aunt got into a bad car accident and was rushed to the hospital that night. He had enough evidence to prove it had really happened. Only for her to come home an hour later unscratched, with her car undamaged complete with him smiling and going "April fools". >_<

Damn that brilliant bastard. I'm cutting my cell phone off tomorrow just to avoid getting played for a fool.

Don't be too hasty in reaching your decisions.

One of the most reputable news sources in the country ran a story about how we'd finally run out of new IP addresses, so ICANN would have to switch off the root server to convert everything to IPv6. Of course that would mean no computer that wasn't already prepared for IPv6 couldn't get online afterwards anymore.

I was prepared and in fact came across the story actively looking for the April Fool's joke but it was very well done.

ThinkGeek has the usual wonderful array of fake products today. Also, Woot is doing things a little differently this time around.

Also, something's off about Dinosaur Comics today. Though, I think I like it, if I could only articulate what is wrong with it.

I'd be interested in that synk. It's a pretty good idea. At least posting the really good ones. Some are kinda stupid.

I've got a newspaper from April 1 2007 that would be hilarious to give to someone in the morning of an April fool's day sometime. There's just a few steps to this plan:

1. Have a friend who has a subscription to the appropriate newspaper.* For extra credit, buy them a subscription in preparation of the joke.
2. Visit them on March 31 and stay the night.* Visiting early enough in the morning to bring them the paper is unfeasible, those conscientious newspaper reading freaks get up at like six.
3. Remember to bring the paper.* Ideally this should happen before step 2.

I almost pulled it off in 2008, except for step 3. Oh well, it'll be funnier the longer it takes.

PS: Holy pope-balls Dinosaur Comics is extra crispy weird. What other comic could alter every last strip if their archive for a joke? O_o

The Youtube thing is amazing.

Add "&feature=featured&textp=fool" to the end of any video URL.

I see what you did there, Loyal you devious bastard!

It doesn't work on all the videos, but it's pretty awesome. So far anything with still images or a small resolution hasn't worked for me.

Edit: And apparently sometimes it works, technically, but the images is too dark to really make out anything useful. If you don't see a message beneath the video saying "Thanks for using Text Only Mode and happy April Fool's Day!" then it didn't work.

XKCD is awesome today.

Amazing Super Powers is entertaining

Hey guys, Hulu has 3D now!

OMNOMNOM BRAINS

holy mother of god..... why are they not doing the whole movie like that!!!

That's not an April Fools thing. It's more or less machinima.

Can Youtube's shitty new interface please be an April Fool's joke?

This is one reason Polly is fucking awesome.
 

Nope. I was randomly selected to be a beta tester (read: guinea pig since I had zero say in the matter) of the new interface and layout a month ago. It's absolutely attrocious.

Bollywood is everywhere these days.

Not that I didn't know, just repeating.
 

Yeah, god Polly is hilarious.

My cock even made a guest appearance on the site!

I was wondering if that was your cock.


...That is possibly the strangest sentence I've typed today.

I'm sad YouTube's prank wasn't kept as a secret feature.

I've got a very familiar cock.

In a bit of late news, Blizzard makes Gearscore a built-in feature in WoW, not beating around the bush about what it actually does: Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number

The fact that it isn't at the very least "this week" says so much about you. Though, admittedly, not more than your signature.

How's about some April Foolish Freeman's Mind!!!

"Bitch cock slut whore," RoyxEd, Play Now Milord, etc.
 

Not if you know CJ.

remind me not to use you as reference when trying to get a job
 

Yeaaaaaah. Pretty much.

I'm always happy when my reputation precedes me.

The Knights of the Old Republic site put up info on a new class

I think that's my favorite April Fools #2 behind Polly this year.

The sad thing is that movie would be about twenty thousand times better than the original videogame.
...In fact, it just might be the single best movie based on a videogame we'll ever see.

...Get on it, Bollywood!

You're just upset because you don't have a naked purple lady in your head.

Might've been the day after April fool's but the guy still intended it as an april fool's kinda joke.
Someone I know hasn't been online in what is for him quite a while, and all of a sudden a person I know has personal contacts with him tells me he died.

Normally I'm pretty good about not falling into stuff like that but the sheer audacity of it sort of threw me off guard.
Turns out the guys router was broken and thankfully for my state of mind he came online about three hours later.

RE: "My aunt was in a car accident" and "Our friend is dead".

Those aren't friends. They're mean people. It's not goddamned funny to just be a dick and say "April Fools!"

Yeah you should always ask yourself, "Is this any more clever or nice than punching someone in the face and say 'April Fools!'"