April Fools Day

[BSmith1068]

So what jokes/pranks have you seen today?

This article has some that are out there: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/01/april.fools.pranks/index.html

 

[Love]

The upside down youtube movies

Wikipedias front page

My awesome Kool-Aid mod

 

[Mowque]

I overheard one joke go very wrong.

In the back of my philosophy class, a girl called her moth and told her she was pregnant. (After a LOUD consultation with her friends that this would be the most shocking news.) The mother flipped out and hung up before the girl was able to explain.....she was still trying to get through when i left.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I haven't seen or heard any yet except the supposed dreaded computer worm that is suppsed to bring humanity to an end today.

My favorite lirpa loof of all time is probably a Road And Track article from the 60s detailing a straight-12 Jaguar E-type which had a bonnet so long it needed 2 TV cameras in the nose to see what's out there before pulling into traffic from an alley. I still run into people who don't know it was a parody.

 

[BSmith1068]

Google has a fun one today:

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

 

[Formaldehyde]

Wikipedias front page

Ireland's Taoiseach, Brian Cowen (pictured, clothed) is seen publicly naked in Dublin, following months of economic uncertainty.

Another good one from the past. NASA Discovers Water On Mars:

Spoiler :

 

[holy king]

i tried to pretend to be sober the whole day. didnt work most of the time.

 

[Mowque]

^---And i thought that was ESB

 

[holy king]

the museum of bad art wiki article of the day is nice too.

 

[BSmith1068]

French museum posts Concorde hoax

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7975877.stm

France's Museum of Air and Space has revealed that its announcement that Concorde was to return to the skies for a two-hour flight in June was a hoax.

A statement on the museum's website had said Concorde would make a special flight from Paris on 16 June, breaking the sound barrier off Ireland.

French news agency AFP picked up the story, only to retract it when it was confirmed as an April Fool.

The museum says it wanted to publicise a dream to see the plane fly again.

"This hoax launched by the Museum of Air and Space can produce ideas and make the dream live on," Gerard Feldzer told AFP.

The statement posted earlier on the museum's website included an "exclusive" YouTube video showing a Concorde leaving its hangar.

It said one of two Concordes given to the museum after their retirement had been kept flight-ready, and that technicians had made secret preparations for the demonstration flights.

Amid high demand, it said 50 passengers and three crew members would be chosen by lottery for the flight, which was to mark the 40th anniversary of Concorde's first French take-off.

Flights on the iconic, supersonic plane ended in 2003.

A new flight would cost 2m euros ($2.6m, £1.8m), Mr Feldzer said.

 

[Shekwan]

The Brian Cowen thing is hilarious. The Times article says Biffo, his nickname, stands for Big Ignorant F***er From Offaly.

 

[JtheJackal]

The Price is Right was a lot of fun. Everyone and I mean everyone, Drew Carey, the audience, the models, the cameramen, were wearing funny nose glasses. The actress who played Mimi on The Drew Carey Show modeled some of the prizes, the wheel made funny noises and the showcases were funny.

 

[Catharsis]

Sporcle's quiz today was really easy, see if you can do it.

 

[Steph]

The local radio announced that today, the A380 will make some test landing on short runway, at the local aerodrome.

One of my co worker was all excited and said he had brought his camera.

When he explained why, and that they wanted to make test with only 6 engines working for degraded performances, we reminded him the A380 has 4 engines...

 

[eastsidebagel]

Nothing happened to me today. That's quite boring, but I certainly like it better that way.

 

[GoodGame]

I denied that it was April 1st.

 

[civ_king]

I swapped someone water hydrogen peroxide, because he had some silver cappings it shot foam out of his mouth and nose and a hell of a lot of screaming

 

[Gooblah]

If that was true, it would be hilarious.

Anywho, in first period (US History), a reactionary kid wore an "I Luv Obama" sign (a piece of paper taped to his shirt) and pretended to be a Democrat. He then proceeded to rip off the shirt at the end of the hour and proclaim, "April Fool's", accompanied by eye-rolling by much of the class. The kid was an epic fail, and believed me when I told him I was convinced.

 

[thetrooper]

So what jokes/pranks have you seen today?

It's my birthday!

I blame my mother though for not pushing harder...

 

[dwaxe]

1. Spanish teacher gave our class a pop quiz. We traded papers for them to be graded, passed them up, and she collected them. Before she left, she told us that it was only for practice.

2. In the middle of class, the biology teacher called the two kids with the highest grades in the class (me and someone else) up and gave us detentions for being too talkative during the beginning of class. We just stood there speechless. She even gave us the paper to sign for a detention, and she told us to go to the office. We went, and the receptionist at the office said, "April Fools!" When we got back to class, everyone laughed their asses off at us.