April Fool

today seems like the king high holiday for unfunny people to try to prove how unfunny they are, usually ending with the sentence, "APRIL FOOL'S! HUR HUR HUR HURrrrrrr!"

(I was about 12)

When I was a kid, I did the switching-the-salt-and-sugar thing a lot.

We made a pizza. Underneath the tomato sauce layer we put a layer of marmalade. We also made a green salad. At the bottom of the bowl we put a slug.

I swear to god I have never seen my dad so angry. He thought the slug was fake at first but his face when he realised it was real... yikes. He didn't speak to me for the rest of the holiday. Until then I thought only children could sulk.

So... best or worst? Well it seemed like a great idea at the time. I suppose I'd be pretty angry now too if my kids served me up inedible, possibly hazardous food.

I think my trick on the kids today might be kind of cruel. At the beginning of each class I've been announcing that this is my last week as their teacher. I tell them I'm going to be a police officer and that starting next week Ms. Ch0ice (a despised lady down the hall) will be their new teacher.

A little girl this period was so upset she ripped up her paper and nearly started to cry before I could tell them 'April Fool's'. I can't believe they keep buying it.

Um... why would you want to do that? (Anyway, it's no longer April 1 anywhere in the contiguous U.S.)

It's surprising how innocuous a slug can seem to an 11 year old. (Even though I do suspect you of having completely made that fact up Pete.)

Why is TiSP in beta?
When things go wrong with TiSP, they go very, very wrong. Let's leave it at that.

"It's paper, plain and easy. I sometimes find myself wondering: what will Google think of next? Cardboard?"

Bill K., Armchair Futurist

Here's The Guardian's effort.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

Not seen any others.

http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-acquires-the-pirate-bay-090401/

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html

The Guardian one is too obvious but I did laugh.
Currently, 17.8% of all Twitter traffic in the United Kingdom consists of status updates from Stephen Fry...A further 11% is made up of his 363,000 followers replying "@stephenfry LOL!"

Daily Mail - even more obvious than the Guardian one...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166245/Oh-Jacqui-surely-you.html

Some people I know created a message that you send to people via Facebook that is, ostensibly, a heartfelt "Im writing to tell you I care about you on your e-mail at 2 am - take my heart but please don't break it = ah here goes nothing" e-love declaration. It quotes the book "The Prophet," but quickly reveals itself as an April Fools joke (the poem ends with the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme songs quotes).

The replies they got from it last year were v. funny and I sent a few out myself tonight, though I'm now I'm getting a case of the not-funny-she'll-be-alienated blues.

On another note, a friend told me copies of X-Men: Origins were floating around torrent sites tonight (this is over a month before the film arrives in theaters). You'd think it was an obvious joke but others are confirming its validity. So I guess the biggest fool of all this year might be 20th Century Fox.

Adult Swim is showing The Room, which is less funny than it is cruel.

1. Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink

2. Premier League: Alan Shearer appointed Newcastle manager until end of season

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/new-arrivals/the-memory-stick/index.html

The Guardian one is too obvious but I did laugh

Yeh, I wanted to hate this, but it is quite neatly done: JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?

R4 Today presenters wearily reading some of them out this morning ... I don't like starting my day shouting FUCK OFF, FUCK OFF, FUCK OFF from under the bedclothes, but there you go.

(Actually: that's an increasingly common occurrence with Today, sadly. The fucking smugness ...)

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2009/04/shatner.html

A Reading-based IT company is warning people using the web to beware – typing the word ‘google’ into the Google search engine this morning will “break the internet”.

ho hum.

I dunno, those song titles are a bit funny without the knowledge..

The Helvetica one is a bit unclear to me too... The font Google changes to doesn't even look like Helvetica, as far as I can see.

"i can't even read mandarin so i don't get how i'm supposed to understand this article"

alright tuomas, enough

let us enjoy april fool's day

(x-post)

Well, I don't see anything particularly funny about the song titles, they sound like something an UK electronic album could actually have.

See this album, for example:

http://www.discogs.com/Si-Begg-Commuter-World/release/42750

Oh Tuomaspaws :-/

Rebecca Black - "Paranoid Android"

idgi

tuomas just STOP

http://www.dcrblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hammer-time.jpg

Rob Brydon just did the Ken Bruce show as Ken Bruce with Peter Serewassisface guest starring as Wogan.

This one had me going for a minute: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/01/derek-dougan-psychedelic?CMP=twt_gu

I hope to god this is a gag: http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek/index.php?thoughtid=652

The name of the author of the Derek Dougan story gives it away immediately

i liked this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk.horsemind.com/news/education-1535/

Beta-Lactam Ring Records announces new ICP release + ltd. ed. box set

http://www.blrrecords.com/shop.php?art=Insane+Clown+Posse

Excellent: http://www.blrrecords.com/img/wire.jpg

http://www.blrrecords.com/img/wire.jpg

xp!

Audio samples are A+ too!

totally believable :/

a real Wire cover would have coverline with a droll wordplay in it

Like

INSANE CLOWN POSSE
Miracle Whip

And the whole thing was clearly concocted by someone who's entire knowledge of ICP is gleaned from the Miracles video

3 In Flagrante Delicious

^lolled

I don't rly follow this label but seem to recall they did a good one last year too?

so i have this coworker who i've been meaning to post about on the annoying coworker thread...

she basically does no work. spends *literally* most of her days surfing facebook. that or blogger. does the minimum amount of work possible and does shitty work at that (sometimes i think intentionally).

anyways - IT this morning, as a joke, redirected facebook to a fake page that says it has been shut down by a US court. she panicked for about an hour. called IT several times. sent out an all-staff about it (with IT's phony explanation attached) and has now been missing for an hour! this is hilarious.

(she cannot be fired soon enough, btw)

LOL

impressive

she's back and has been umbrella shopping online for the last 30 minutes.

I don't Facebook at work, the last thing I want to see when I'm at work are my family's faces.

she also updates her blogger every hour. how often a person can post variants on "still slacking off lol", i have no idea.

isnt that like a legit reason to fire someone imo?

also, ppl who are like HOW DARE YOU MY BLOG/TWITTER/FACEBOOK UPDATES IS MY PRIVATE THOUGHTS THIS CANNOT COME INTO THE WORKPLACE are the most disgusting savages in the world imo

Whiney so beyond OTM. I'm straight lolling at that girl though. Someone told popcorn girl in my office this morning that the partners were going to remove the microwave from the office due to "staff complaints" and I swear I thought she was going to cry.

HA HA hahah ahhahaha

and to the FB thing: a recent court ruling decided that, while the contents of said web surfing is private, the actual stats of said surfing (what time spend on what pages) are not protected.

Bit too easy imo:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/01/cameron-shaun-ryder-advise-tories

if you have the adblock extension it shows you pictures of cats today.

I hate AFD but i hate the "when posting AFD jokes steer clear of these" cos it presupposes the other AFD jokes aren't either stupid or also hurtful

https://www.facebook.com/hugh.aylward.9/videos/756327181053549/

Today is actully April 2...

No just joshing, it is April Fools, I April Fooled you, you should of see your face

The rise of April Fools scolds on social media is really depressing. "No jokes because the world is on fire! Some of us are traumatized and don't find these jokes funny!" Oh ok maybe log off for a bit

don't you know this is the April Fool Scold Thread? do better.

Fuck AFD

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/1s931zb/arne_slot_signs_contract_extension_with_liverpool/

Thought this was quite well done, the time difference masked the bit for Amerikkkans.

Corporate April Fools media (even from relatively small hobby gear brands) can go die in a fire though.

i would never scold or tell people they shouldn't enjoy a joke/prank, but for my part i just don't have much of an appetite for it when we are indeed living in a sick, almost completely unbelievable joke that just gets worse every day

I guess it really depends on who is being pranked

My capacity for compassion and my fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity are being pranked by my unrevealed but deeply held pessimism

I wrote an article about an April fool I desperately wanted to believe was real.

https://thedriven.io/2026/04/02/april-fool-why-paying-cyclists-isnt-such-a-joke/

I wrote an article about an April fool I desperately wanted to believe was real.

https://thedriven.io/2026/04/02/april-fool-why-paying-cyclists-isnt-such-a-joke/