We’ll use this thread as the dumping point for clever April Fools gags. I’ll start:
World of Warcraft offers a new “neural interface” .
Google renames itself “Topeka.”
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We’ll use this thread as the dumping point for clever April Fools gags. I’ll start:
World of Warcraft offers a new “neural interface” .
Google renames itself “Topeka.”
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General Egali Tarian Stuck
Every day is April Fools day in the land of Sarah Palin et al.
Legalize
My target took the day off today. Good thing. I’ve run out of stories about bad things happening to Carson Palmer.
Fr33d0m
Hey I heard Joe Biden was stepping down and in a move to get more Repugnicons to vote for every bill, The Pres is asking Sarah Palin to be VP!
April Fools–I hope.
The Grand Panjandrum
Google has new app for its Android phone. Allows you to communicate with your pets and other animals.
PaulW
Republican leadership mistakes Tea Partiers as a Temperance movement, pushes to re-install the 18th Amendment and bring back Prohibition.
rob!
Somebody here tried to pull a joke on Glenn Greenwald, although he didn’t take it too well.
Too soon?
R-Jud
Labour unveils new campaign slogans meant to play up Brown’s “Tough Guy” side (the Guardian also has an AFD roundup here). There was also one in the Independent about a second Hadron collider being built using the Circle Line in the London Underground.
Demowaste
The Democrats in Congress and our President.
That is the joke…I only wish it was only on April 1st.
cleek
i hate 4/1
Barack
Hey guys, on this fine spring day I’d like to give the readership of Balloon Juice a shout-out, and thank you for all of your help over the past two years.
I’m, uhhh, your President.
Evil Bender
Pretty clearly, I think, this is an early favorite for best 4/1 prank.
demo woman
The NYTimes puzzle today was not fun. I don’t like April fools day. Bah humbug!!!!!
Cyrus
I thought the EPEEN meter was a lot funnier, but it’s also a lot more of an in-joke.
demo woman
@Legalize: What’s up with Carson Palmer? A friend’s son works for him.
geg6
@Demowaste:
Yeah, because there was nothing funny about when the GOP had the presidency and control of Congress.
kansi
The interviews on “Real American Stories”
Earl
I’m enjoying our new overlords, personally.
(Why am I self-promoting? ‘Cuz no one else will…)
Tattoosydney
@Demowaste:
April tool.
Comrade Mary
This is still my favourite Poisson d’Avril of all.
DanF
April 1st is the only day of the year when I’m not sure if Mickey Kaus actually fucked a goat. I really hate April Fool’s Day.
mike
This is the first April Fool’s Day in a long time that I’ve been on my guard, and I’ve caught a couple of pranks already before being gulled.
You know what? It’s not nearly as much fun to spot it as to be taken in by it.
Punchy
I tried hard to believe this Bob Corker interview was a joke, but it seems not.
He’s going to get CRUSHED by the teabaggers for even hinting the GOP screwed up. Especially in Deep Red Tennessee. Honesty is not the best policy amongst the rabid baggers. Just wow.
jurassicpork
Google has changed its name to “Topeka.” In the spirit of reciprocity, Yahoo, Inc. also changed its name.
Comrade Mary
Holy fucking crap.
I don’t know if I found the Gawker link here or elsewhere, but this is either a surprisingly daring April Fool’s joke or a surprisingly daring real product.
(And yes, it comes in women’s sizes, too.)
Sarcastro
Punchy, Bob Corker himself is an April Fool.
Anyways; Windows 8 will be Unix based… and work!
fasteddie9318
Hey, I’ve got one! President Obama is going to break his campaign promise about offshore drilling and risk an environmental crisis on the east coast, in the name of a supply of oil that’s too small and will take too long to extract to make any difference in either oil prices or our foreign oil habit!
April Fo–wait, what?
Mr Stagger Lee
LeBron James will consider a slight pay cut and join Kobe Bryant
and The Los Angeles Lakers next year.
folkbum
I’m running for Congress against Paul Ryan!
(Link posted in both threads, because nothing kills like overkill.)
Richard
Wikipedia’s is always good. “On this day” is priceless.
passerby
New Orleans radio website reports that LSU is on the cutting edge. They’re installing purple turf–awesome!
And Huffpo reports that Lloyd Blankfein is Time Man of the Year (Got me with this because it wouldn’t surprise me were it true.)
Morbo
Japan should have some interesting things to report.
Comrade Mary
Canadian world domination continues: Justin Bieber infects Funny or Die, now knows as Bieber or Die.
Pasquinade
If one were so inclined, he/she would use http://tinyurl.com/ to send people to unexpected sites via the Custom alias feature.
http://tinyurl.com/BJ-AprilFool
eglenn
Funny stuff, not certified April Fools (but, REALLY).
Which states & cities have the largest p*nises?
(starred for your anti-moderation pleasure)
Ahn Ahn
4chan has added a Facebook share app.
erinsiobhan
NASA discovers water on moon
Comrade Mary
@eglenn: So the biggest pricks in the US aren’t in DC? Go figure.
Tom Levenson
Try this one on for size, (blogged over at my place, where you will find a couple of classics exhumed for your pleasure.)
Pangloss
@rob!: Really? Greenwald is known for his sense of humor. Shecky Greenwald, they call him.
eglenn
Great new products at ThinkGeek (My First Bacon!).
patrick II
From “The Inverse Square Blog”
Flying Penguins
darms
Moogmusic is offering a MF-401 Auto De-tune w/presets that include “Drunk as a Sailor” and “Cat in an alley under a full moon”.
Tom_23
@fasteddie9318: That’s funny!
Clambone
Check out http://xkcd.com/ today. I’ll bet there are a bunch of easter eggs there that I don’t have the Unix chops to figure out.
KDP
@kansi: oo-oo-oo! Did you hear? Lynn Forester de Rothschild is replacing LLCoolJ and Toby Keith on Real American Stories. And, she’s doing a real, live interview about her inspirational story.
celiadexter
My husband was listening to WNYC (New York public radio) about an hour ago where there was a major news story and analysis about the Supreme Court having just ruled that corporations have the right to vote — complete with commentary by Dahlia Lithwick. He called me at the office (in a state of outrage, needless to say) to ask if I knew about it. I guess they did a really convincing job…
Calouste
Historians uncover evidence that Shakespeare’s mother was from France according to the BBC. France announces plans to retroactively make Shakespeare a member of the Academie Francaise.
mem from somerville
Just found this one: Peak Olive Oil from The Economist:
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15695933
Jen R
I like this one: http://www.jhu.edu/
Steaming Pile
@Sarcastro: Solaris or BSD?
Steaming Pile
@Clambone: I already tried “su – root”, but that didn’t work.
Comrade Kevin
@fasteddie9318:
He is not breaking a campaign promise. In fact, here is something from August of 2008 where he says he’s open to it.
FormerSwingVoter
I’m actually not sure if this is a joke or not – it might have been up before today, but I didn’t see the link until April Fools:
Buy a Job Reference: http://www.buyajobreference.com/index.html
Susan Kitchens
Baseline scenario notes that Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs is named Time’s Man of the Year.
The quote from the spokesperson in response to this startling news is a thing of, well, beauty.
Zach
http://jhu.edu/
This is actually pretty good.
Kevin K.
Please forgive me the link-whoring, but I think Betty came up with a very good one today and, man, Rox Populi used to own April 1st.
canuckistani
@Steaming Pile:
But “sudo make me a sandwich” does.
FTW!
BruceJ
@canuckistani
How freaky…
I’m WEARING my ‘sudo make me a sandwich’ tee shirt right this moment, but for April fools there’s this local bit of swiftian satire.
Joe
To FormerSwingVoter-
This is not a joke. I’ve actually used this service in January and now I’m employed.
http://www.buyajobreference.com/index.html
Ellid
Dharma Trading’s new flyer.