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« Thread Started on Apr 1, 2009, 6:54am »

I'm kicking off a thread for us to post links to internet April Fool's this year... so let's get cracking, people!

(And sorry we didn't get one up for the site... couldn't think of anything brilliant this year.)

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #1 on Apr 1, 2009, 8:20am »

Apr 1, 2009, 6:54am, Head Mutant wrote:

(And sorry we didn't get one up for the site... couldn't think of anything brilliant this year.)

April Fools! We're always brilliant!

(and, in the spirit of the thread, check out Reddigg. It won't make sense if you're not familiar with reddit already, but I thought it was funny)

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #2 on Apr 1, 2009, 4:41pm »

Blizzard as usual knows how to do a great April Fool's in cyberspace:

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

http://www.starcraft2.com/features/terran/terratron.xml

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/dance/index.xml

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #3 on Apr 1, 2009, 6:00pm »

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #4 on Apr 1, 2009, 7:59pm »

I posted a status update on Facebook that we had a baby girl, Trixie Ann Olivetti, who was born at 5:61pm and had flipper fingers.

It's AMAZING how many people took that seriously.

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #5 on Apr 1, 2009, 8:20pm »

Fiction World Rocked as Woman Claims No Sexual Attraction to Neil Gaiman
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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #6 on Apr 2, 2009, 7:54am »

A website I read that reviews action figures, Transformers, geeky crap like that had the site get taken over by their wives, daughters, and significant others, leading to girl-icized reviews, discussions of what stores she visits while her husband is hunting for action figures, etc. Pretty funny.

Marvel announced yesterday that due to a bizarre contract deal having to do with the X-Men movies, they had actually lost the rights to the character Wolverine to 20th Century Fox. Pretty funny.

I still think the best April Fools prank Marvel ever pulled was a few years back, when they announced that Spider-Man had been re-classified as a mutant and would be joining the X-Men. They even got a well-known artist to draw up some sketches of his new X-Men uniform. That one fooled a LOT of people.

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #7 on Apr 2, 2009, 4:39pm »

Apr 1, 2009, 7:59pm, Head Mutant wrote:

I posted a status update on Facebook that we had a baby girl, Trixie Ann Olivetti, who was born at 5:61pm and had flipper fingers.

It's AMAZING how many people took that seriously.

You know, strangely, I know a girl named Trixie who had webbed toes.

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #8 on Apr 2, 2009, 8:17pm »

Besides the yearly No-Pants Subway Ride (and the Food Court Musical that was posted here a while ago), one of Improv Everywhere's best missions was the Best Game Ever. A little league baseball game was chosen at random and, with the help of the with league commissioner, hundreds of people showed up to watch the unsuspecting ten year-olds with signs, banners, mascots, and peanut vendors. They also enlisted the help of NBC Sports and the Goodyear Blimp to turn it into a major league experience.

As a sequel mission, they unveiled The Best Funeral Ever yesterday on Youtube, where the IE operatives crash a sparsely attended funeral to show respect for the dead and make the family feel better.

Both Youtube and their website were inundated for hours with horrified and angry comments until the creators admitted the whole thing had a hoax.

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #9 on Apr 3, 2009, 11:43am »

Apr 1, 2009, 7:59pm, Head Mutant wrote:

I posted a status update on Facebook that we had a baby girl, Trixie Ann Olivetti, who was born at 5:61pm and had flipper fingers.

It's AMAZING how many people took that seriously.

jokes about babies are unfair to women who crave more babies.

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Re: April Fool's Watch
« Reply #10 on Apr 16, 2009, 12:48pm »

Apr 1, 2009, 7:59pm, Head Mutant wrote:

I posted a status update on Facebook that we had a baby girl, Trixie Ann Olivetti, who was born at 5:61pm and had flipper fingers.

It's AMAZING how many people took that seriously.

what kind of things did they say? I mean i would think the 5:61 gives it away lol

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