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El Goorf
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 10:35
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a place to post april fools pranks you've come across on the internet.

I'll start with this item which arrived in a newsletter from a local store: laptops direct give free funerals

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All my base are not belong to anyone.
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David R
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IE 8.1 will use WebKit and Gecko rendering engines, and will support Firefox plugins

(From March 31st but obviously there's no way it can be true considering the other stuff on that page)


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BiggAdd
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 10:52 Edited at: 1st Apr 2009 10:58
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ThinkGeek have some good products this year.

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Chris K
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http://www.bbc.co.uk - Shark Whale finally photographed!

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Green Gandalf
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Quote: "Shark Whale finally photographed!"


Looks just like a frog tadpole to me.

I wondered about the "sniffer rat" item on the BBC news this morning.
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Zotoaster
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The videos on http://www.youtube.com are upside down.
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monotonic
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 13:45 Edited at: 1st Apr 2009 13:59
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Google introduce CADIE:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html

Check out the CADIE homepage and the Google Chrome in 3D links on that page to the left. lulz.

Edit: It appears that CADIE has improved google image search too!

Quote: "Hi everybody. So, I've been scouring the web looking for images that everyone in the world will like, and I'm just so excited about these.

I love them! I hope you do too!

XOXOXO,
CADIE

P.S. Did you see that last one? Both rainbows and unicorns!"


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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 15:29 Edited at: 1st Apr 2009 15:30
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[href]myanimelist.net[/href] - They have a mascot now: Naruto!

Make games, not war.

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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 15:37 Edited at: 1st Apr 2009 15:38
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Quote: "myanimelist.net - They have a mascot now: Naruto!"


Me no understand...



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Accoun
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 15:40
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Quote: "Me no understand..."

Well, naruto mostly "isn't liked" (very^^) in manga/anime community...

Make games, not war.

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Veron
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http://www.youtube.com/t/new_viewing_experience Further expanding on the YouTube thing.

#3 makes me want to sue Google.

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Rudolpho
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How can I have missed the Squeeze Bacon for fifty years??

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Van B
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 17:35
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That youtube 'hoax' is priceless, as in worthless, as in WTF!

A hoax is an elaborate tale intended to misguide someone into believing something that is fabricated. Youtube showing videos upside down is far from a hoax, it's a childish annoyance that only the most unimaginative marketing gimp would come up with.

They should have done a dozen subtle things instead, things that you might not pick up on right away, like have some featured 'spoof' videos, fake video footage of giant muppets like we had last year for no reason. Turning things upside down is retarded, boring, and it makes my blood boil.


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Benjamin
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Posted: 1st Apr 2009 17:47
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You can 'revert' to the old 'layout'.

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David R
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My Pocket Pets DLC for Fable II

Almost convincing (since it's complete with interview etc.) but the dollar charge and rather unconvincing image at the bottom let it down


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They should have done a dozen subtle things instead, things that you might not pick up on right away, like have some featured 'spoof' videos, fake video footage of giant muppets like we had last year for no reason. Turning things upside down is retarded, boring, and it makes my blood boil.
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Bad day?
Well I though the upside down thing was funny. And the perverse humour for the 'help' message was quite cool too.

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LOL

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Seppuku Arts
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My Dad pulled one at work, he said that yesterday all of the planets were aligned, so if you straight a set of pencils on a flat desk, they will soon roll off due to the changing magnetism of the planet. The person tried it and waited a few minutes staring to see if it would happen.


Before now he's convinced people that he had the top half of his leg amputated but not the bottom half.

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monotonic
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Quote: "Before now he's convinced people that he had the top half of his leg amputated but not the bottom half."


lol , that's a good one.

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Omega gamer 89
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Quote: "My Dad pulled one at work,"

Where does he work?

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flashing snall
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the blizzard jokes are pretty good
I wasnt sure if the D3 one was just a joke or not, until I saw the last video.
The starcraft 2 one is pretty good, but the WoW joke is gold.


I wish I had access to board 17.
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I got duped by the pretty convincing NIN one (with realistic Twitter build up too)

http://bit.ly/QtDzR

Mainly because I was in such a rush to fill in email details I didn't read anything on the page (The epileptic strobe light + track names and cheesy synth music was a give away looking back)


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Posted: 2nd Apr 2009 01:00 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2009 01:02
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Quote: "Where does he work?"


He works for the police. When he pulled the amputated one he was working for Barclays bank.

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Regarding the YT thing: I did notice that all of the featured videos were to do with upside down things, David Blaine, tarte tatin, handstands.
Still, it is bloody annoying.
Thinkgeek are good at this, i remember the 8 bit tie, which they ended up producing because so many people wanted one, amazing.


I'll finish them whenever i can be bothered.
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Gil Galvanti
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Quote: "Regarding the YT thing: I did notice that all of the featured videos were to do with upside down things, David Blaine, tarte tatin, handstands.
Still, it is bloody annoying.
Thinkgeek are good at this, i remember the 8 bit tie, which they ended up producing because so many people wanted one, amazing."

Does no one realize that there's a "revert" button that changes it back to normal?


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unicorn chaser!

My favorite still is when Slashdot switched to their pink "omg ponies" theme a few years ago.

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I thought it was great when Richard Davey made the TGC forum into a custom Google search site, with the pyramid logo and everything. Threw a lot of people off

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I don't think I was here long enough to remember that.


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@Jeku

I remember that, and he had a log for how many tries each user took until they figured out all they had to do was type "dark basic" to get in. I swear I got it the first time


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El Goorf
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ooooh @ shark whale.

i deliberately went on the bbc website to look for any april fools, i saw the shark whale headline, but thought it was just a typo and skimmed over it, oh well

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=0! no one pointed out that Xfire had a picture of hasselhoff as its background for some random reason... :S
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Quote: "=0! no one pointed out that Xfire had a picture of hasselhoff as its background for some random reason... :S"

because it changed to Hfire...

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Lee Bamber abandoning FPS Creator..



THE ANSWER TO ALL FPSC QUESTIONS!
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David R
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I was really hoping that one wasn't a joke


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And so many people fell for it!

That's what they WANT you to think...
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Hehe, Nice one Nickydude.

I actually ordered FPS Creator the other day, so I'll be lurking around your forums a lot more. (Still waiting for the order to be processed)

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I thought http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17839 was quite good.


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Lol, I almost wet my pants with that. Very funny!

LOL:

Quote: "Please note: -

HEXUS is not responsible for sexternal content
and if you know anyone stoopid enough to format their HDD to fix this 'dead pixel pandemic'
then buy them a grapefruit flavoured lollypop."


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Hmm. Dead pixels. There's one on my DS screen, and I hate it. However, I've started to look to that pixel for guidance when I'm stuck in a part of a game, and I'll be all, 'oh, hello little dead, green pixel, please do so kind as to point me in the direction of the item I'm supposed to locate'. It's north. It's always north...*sigh*.




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Keo C
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Quote: "Hmm. Dead pixels. There's one on my DS screen, and I hate it. However, I've started to look to that pixel for guidance when I'm stuck in a part of a game, and I'll be all, 'oh, hello little dead, green pixel, please do so kind as to point me in the direction of the item I'm supposed to locate'. It's north. It's always north...*sigh*.
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Nope, that's not creepy in the slightest.


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How is this thread still going? April 1st was five days ago.

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Whoa...MASSIVE deja vu just then!!


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