April 1st Goodness

[DrAlex]

Anyone spotted any decent pranks on the intertubes?

http://www.youtube.com/ (click any featured video)

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


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The Sinner: Where no one ever learned "if you haven't got any thing nice to say, don't say anything at all."

[JM]

Quoting DrAlex from 09:56, 1st Apr 2008
Anyone spotted any decent pranks on the intertubes?

http://www.youtube.com/ (click any featured video)

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


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The Sinner: Where no one ever learned "if you haven't got any thing nice to say, don't say anything at all."

I reckon Munchingfoos "death of the sinner" might be one...but other than that, none sofar. Or either that i'm so gullible i've believed what i've seen.

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"Life can be full of many problems"; this can be translated into "tormenting you is how the big man gets his jollies"

[Cain]

http://eu.starcraft2.com/features/terran/taurenmarine.xml

Blizzard have a piece about the Tauren Marine for Starcraft II, along with three moovies of the unit in action.

Thing is, since the Pandarens were an April Fool's prank years go, could the Tauren Marine make it into the game somehow?

http://www.blizzard.com/us/diablo2exp/pinata.html
The Diablo Soul Pinata,
Weapons may be cursed. Keep away from children. Do not ingest soul gems. For use on hallowed ground only. Use protective glyphs while handling. Do not combine with Wirt’s Leg and Tome of Town Portal using Horadric Cube (sold separately). Contact Blizzard Entertainment support in case of unholy auras, demonic visitations, or other paranormal phenomena. Blizzard Entertainment shall not be held responsible for loss of souls or property damage caused by monsters, the undead, demons, or any other type of Lesser or Prime Evil

There's two others as well.

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I hold an element of surprise

[munchingfoo]

I think this might be the BBCs one, but I'm not sure.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 323316.stm



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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[Hevelius]

Quoting munchingfoo from 10:55, 1st Apr 2008
I think this might be the BBCs one, but I'm not sure.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 323316.stm



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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

I think that's real - haven't you seen 'Forrest Gump'?!

This is the Guardian's:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/apr/01/7
The byline confirmed my suspicions!

[Raaaaaaaar]

You'll have to keep looking becuase that appears to be true. Tim Boggan is a US Table Tennis player and did visit China in the 70s as part of a US team. Remember the scene in Forrest Gump where Tom Hanks goes to China to play ping pong and then meets the president? It was based on the 1971 trip.

Quoting munchingfoo from 10:55, 1st Apr 2008
I think this might be the BBCs one, but I'm not sure.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 323316.stm



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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[KayBee]

What was that - 4 mins before the posts were deleted?

Oh well. Only 25 mins until admin can stop the pretence.

[KayBee]

I'm struggling to find any others in any of the papers. Maybe I'm just really easily taken in!

[munchingfoo]

There's loads of them on DigitalSpy (I think)

for example, Paris Hilton to make a cameo in Eastenders.

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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[Pedant]

I heard a story on the news about the courts stating that the Royal Family had nothing to do with Diana's death.

[Eskimo]

The date on the BBC link is the 31 March, surely that prevents it being an April Fool.

[Idioteque]

If anyone reads Questionable Content, xkcd or Dinosaur Comics then beware - they've swapped their web addresses for the day

I was rather confused this morning

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Ah, there's no justice like angry mob justice

[kezziecats]

I liked the BBC flying penguin footage on the bbc iplayer website:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

[Paul Carey]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01 ... explosion/

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Paul Carey
NPH Cinema, St Andrews

[Mr Comedy]

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

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"I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung

[munchingfoo]

What about this one?

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/bodyadvertising/

Joke or real?

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“ When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading”

[Power Metal Dom]

The Youtube one was excellent XD

The Sinner one less so

Only one I came accross in my daily surfing was Ctrl Alt Del's new Choose-Your-Own-Adventure comic: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20080331.jpg

"Imagine a cross between Star Wars and Indianna Jones"!
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Like flames on fuel...upon metal I drool

[Thackary]

I know the marketing manager's brother...
I'll find out.

[Thackary]

It's genuine, apparently. Started 28th March.
Anyone up for a tattoo?

[Fozzy Bear]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tay ... 324591.stm

I can't help but be suspicious of that story.