April Fools Day Thread

[jeff061]

LinkedIn is suggesting I connect with Einstein, Watson and Robin Hood among others.

[DanGarion]

EA Sports has purchased the rights to Total Pro Football.

[JPhillips]

Curtis Painter and Mike Anderson announced as co-head coaches at Mizzou.

[stevew]

We took the Profanity out of The Kings Speech and rated it PG13.

[Autumn]

GMail Motion, for using gestures with your Gmail page:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

Google is hiring Autocompleters!

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/u...ter/index.html

Hulu goes back to the '90s!

http://www.hulu.com/index.htm

YouTube goes back to 1911! The video is actually hilarious.

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2...king-back.html

[Passacaglia]

Just a thread to collect random April Fools Day jokes on the 'net.

[JonInMiddleGA]

ABC Abandons Drama Development, Will Slate New Reality And Sitcoms Only In Fall 2011

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Curtis Painter and Mike Anderson announced as co-head coaches at Mizzou.

Ok, that made me laugh.

Some of the stuff is funny. I guess I'm easily amused and will take anything to liven up the work day.

Funny or Die - Funny Videos, Funny Pictures, and Funny Jokes

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

ABC Abandons Drama Development, Will Slate New Reality And Sitcoms Only In Fall 2011

TV networks will implement new spoiler alert system + reality blurred

[Young Drachma]

Child free flights from October 2011

CHILD FREE FLIGHTS FROM OCTOBER 2011

RYANAIR TO INTRODUCE ‘CHILD FREE’ FLIGHTS

Ryanair, the world’s favourite airlines, today announced that it will introduce ‘Child Free’ flights from October (winter schedule) after a Europe-wide survey of 1,000 passengers showed that half would pay higher fares to avoid other people’s children. The survey showed that a third of passengers (36%) have had flights ‘ruined’ by other people’s noisy kids with one in five passengers (18%) urging Ryanair to restrict the number of children on flights.

While the survey found that passengers would prefer to avoid other people’s children, it placed ‘blame’ firmly with parents with top gripes being:

1. 50% Parents who expect ‘special treatment’ because they have children.
2. 25% Parents who allow children to annoy those in seats behind.
3. 15% Parents who board late and expect others to accommodate them.
4. 10% Parents who allow children to run in the aisles or kick seats.

Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:

“When it comes to children we all love our own but would clearly prefer to avoid other people’s little monsters when travelling. While half our passengers would like us to divide our cabins up into ‘adult’ and ‘family’ areas it is not operationally possible due to our free seating policy, with optional priority boarding. However, with clear demand for ‘child free’ flights Ryanair will introduce child free flights on high frequency routes from the start of our winter schedule in October.”

ThinkGeek :: Arsenic-Based Sea Monkeys
ThinkGeek :: Edible Gummy iPhone Cases
ThinkGeek :: Angry Birds Pork Rinds

Apple to launch Vatican City Apple Store - TNW Apple

Google Friendship

[Lathum]

My company put on the intranet homepage that Rebecca Black is going on tour with William Hung and we are the sponser

[PilotMan]

My son's school had all five of their second grade classes take a park and field trip day today. The field trip was to the local library where the person at the library didn't tell anyone else that the school was coming.

We just happened to be in the kids section when the busses pulled up and the librarians started freaking out. On the phone, getting bosses, trying to come up with something to do.

So all the kids come in and one of the teachers talks to the girl in charge who is responsible for coordinating the schools and she kept asking who set this up, and apologized and said that they didn't have anything planned, but that they would help the kids out. The boss was unfortunately out of the office for the day.

All the kids are staring at the librarians wondering what they are going to do when the boss comes out riding on a book cart, holding a big April Fool's cake for his staff. So all the kids get to yell April Fool's to the Librarians, then he calls one of his staff at home and has the kids sing Happy Birthday to her over the phone.

Classic.

[ColtCrazy]

I didn't have any students get me, but I did get the class today.

Our Science chapter this week has talked about symbiosis so we've been looking at various types such as mutualism, parasitism, etc. Well, on Wednesday I had showed them a short video about bed bugs.

The class was kind of half grossed out but half excited about this video. So, for fun (wheels spinning already), I asked if they would like to see some up close as I had a Science teacher friend from the middle school that works with a company that sends out specimens for classrooms. The class loved the idea.

Well, the "bugs" arrived today. I told them they shipped dormant and that they needed to warm up some before they got active. I left them in a container (which you couldn't see into) on a table and told them we would look at them after lunch.

During lunch, I came in, broke the container, and put it on the floor. After lunch, I made sure I came up the steps after my class so they wouldn't think I had been in the room.

Well....panic ensues. The class is freaking out about where the bugs are. I'm acting anxious about it, pretending to call the principal about what I do (the principal knew about it, though this was good).

They go out to recess and I put together a sheet with the Department of Health logo copied on it. After recess, I get them all settled down and we walk through what to do in case of an infestation. Before turning to the final page, I said "Now, this is the most important thing to remember"

And in big, bold letters...."Happy April Fool's Day"

I am an evil man.

[Barkeep49]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

My son's school had all five of their second grade classes take a park and field trip day today. The field trip was to the local library where the person at the library didn't tell anyone else that the school was coming.

We just happened to be in the kids section when the busses pulled up and the librarians started freaking out. On the phone, getting bosses, trying to come up with something to do.

So all the kids come in and one of the teachers talks to the girl in charge who is responsible for coordinating the schools and she kept asking who set this up, and apologized and said that they didn't have anything planned, but that they would help the kids out. The boss was unfortunately out of the office for the day.

All the kids are staring at the librarians wondering what they are going to do when the boss comes out riding on a book cart, holding a big April Fool's cake for his staff. So all the kids get to yell April Fool's to the Librarians, then he calls one of his staff at home and has the kids sing Happy Birthday to her over the phone.

Classic.

Having worked at a public library a school pulling this sort of stunt wouldn't surprise me at all. This was a great gag (if a questionable use of buses).

[DanGarion]

Sportsdigs had April Fools two weeks ago.

[Warhammer]

So I'm at the house playing FM 2010. It hits 4-1, and the headline...

Warhammer Lands Alfreton Windfall!

The Alfreton board has decided to award you a sum of $825 million to use on players or a new stadium.

Please confirm acceptance of this unexpected bonus.


The hell of it, I had just completed a showdown with Arsenal to wrest 1st place in the PRM from them, I figured the board was ecstatic. But no! It's a frickin' April Fool's joke!

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by Warhammer

So I'm at the house playing FM 2010. It hits 4-1, and the headline...

Warhammer Lands Alfreton Windfall!

The Alfreton board has decided to award you a sum of $825 million to use on players or a new stadium.

Please confirm acceptance of this unexpected bonus.


The hell of it, I had just completed a showdown with Arsenal to wrest 1st place in the PRM from them, I figured the board was ecstatic. But no! It's a frickin' April Fool's joke!

WTH, they programmed that into the game? Classic.

[Karlifornia]

Originally Posted by MJ4H

There isn't a joke. It's the whole stupid idea. A day where people try way too hard to be funny is just painful all day long. The worst thing though is that you can't trust anything you read all day long. Heck, a couple of years ago I was reading a preview of a game I really wanted to play. I read all the way through the article. At the end, I found out that the game preview article was just an April Fools joke. The guy hadn't actually gotten to play it. And I read this article in JUNE. The website just didn't take the article down. I found the article through a web search.

I really don't know how stuff like that isn't infuriating to more people.

I happen to think that was pretty funny. I mean, especially the part where it happened to you and not me!

[SirFozzie]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

WTH, they programmed that into the game? Classic.

Yup, there's an easter egg for playing April 1st on April 1st

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by Barkeep49

Having worked at a public library a school pulling this sort of stunt wouldn't surprise me at all. This was a great gag (if a questionable use of buses).

Well, it was a legit field trip that had been planned all along. So the kids got the value out of it for sure.

[mckerney]

The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch
He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga—and his future in baseball

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by mckerney

The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch
He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga—and his future in baseball

great book

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by Lathum

great book

+1

[Young Drachma]

Oberlin College & Conservatory

[Young Drachma]

White House trolls with Kid President

[MacroGuru]

http://www.google.com/landing/nose/

[Young Drachma]

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