April Fools Compilation Thread 2012

[Joecoolyo]

Its that time of year again! Lets collect all the April Fools from around and web and IRL in this thread. Did you pull off any good pranks? What is Google mapping out this year? Get anyone good on CFC?

Share with us the best of April Fools 2012!

 

[Synobun]

Google's April Fools

Useless day, but I guess the pranks pulled by big companies are pretty amusing.

 

[Tee Kay]

deviantART is being taken over by fascist cats.

 

[TerrisH]

Possibly.. the Revival of Toonami on cartoon network /adult swim. they opened up a whole nother can of worms with this one.

 

[Optical]

Google also added an 'I'm Steering Lucky' button.

EDIT: Okay, now apparently that's not an April Fools' joke. Well, I was fooled.

 

[vypernight]

Well, when I was younger, I put chicken bones in my cousin's birthday pinata. When she hit it and the bones fell out, I pointed and said, "You killed it!"

I don't remember anything after that.

 

[Mise]

Reddit's "Timeline" is pretty hilarious. At least I haven't got bored of it yet.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Adblock changed all ads to pictures of cats, rather than hiding them. I actually prefer it

 

[Chukchi Husky]

One forum I go on changed to a My Little Pony theme.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

TV Tropes seems to think I would appreciate their homepage in Polish or even ROT13. Thankfully, everything else seems to be fine.

 

[Save_Ferris]

One forum I go on changed to a My Little Pony theme.

Wherewherewherewherewhere

Oh right, I'm still NickyJ.

Memebase is.... Weird.

And Sporcle does.... Nothing. They're those kind of people.

 

[NickyJ]

Google Maps has a Castle of the Winds-esque map type.

 

[mangxema]

Google's April Fools

That's actually Chrome's prank. Google Maps has its own:


Link to video.

edit:crosspost

 

[Save_Ferris]

That's actually Chrome's prank. Google Maps has its own:


Link to video.

edit:crosspost

BUT I WANT THIS TO STAY FOREVER!!!!!!
caps

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I don't know if this actually happened, but I wouldn't put it past the BBC

Spoiler :

 

[NickyJ]

 

[Save_Ferris]

Bill Amend is best person ever. This comic was my childhood.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Well, when I was younger, I put chicken bones in my cousin's birthday pinata. When she hit it and the bones fell out, I pointed and said, "You killed it!"

I don't remember anything after that.

Anything, at all?

Like, you have retrograde amnesia?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Adblock changed all ads to pictures of cats, rather than hiding them. I actually prefer it

I was baffled.

NationStates just announced that they're going public.

Wikipedia's Did You Know section seems curious today:

From Wikipedia's newest content:

... that Ralph Dewey (pictured) blows up animals for Jesus?
... that a University of Washington fake mathematician created as a student prank became the author of several well-received papers in research journals?
... that Toronto officials considered replacing their moose with unicorns?
... that in 2007, the owners of a hairy Fabulous Willy were criticised for being homosexual?
... that Nintendo owns the rights to a pornographic film?
... that Santa Claus was a stud?
... that some Chicago sports fans blame their team's recent failings on the absence of Honey Bears?
... ?

Ditto for "On this Day":

On this day...
April 1: Palm Sunday (Christianity, 2012); Rama Navami (Hinduism, 2012); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year; National Day in Iran (1979); Edible Book Day

1234 – An Englishman lost the Battle of the Curragh in Ireland (location pictured), at the same place where an Australian would win the 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge in Scotland many years later.
1293 – Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome to be consecrated by the Pope, only to find that there wasn't one.
1918 – The British Armed Forces started to grant personnel the power to fly.
1970 – The first of over 670,000 gremlins were released into North America to crush imported machines.
1997 – Marriage in the Netherlands became more samey.
2006 – As mandated by a 2005 Act of the British Parliament, several British policing agencies joined together to become very serious and organised.

 

[Antilogic]

That's actually Chrome's prank. Google Maps has its own:


Link to video.

edit:crosspost

I love the JRPG references--the little dude looks like he's from the Dragon Warrior games, and the title screen looks like Final Fantasy.