BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!

Subject: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 04:38 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: DMcG
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 04:47 AM

There's at least one thread, and I've posted links to a hoax in another thread. You just have to find them!

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Micca
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 06:25 AM

Duck shooting season begins today..:o)

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 06:37 AM

There's the one thread so far, and G-mail is offering a program to manage my relationships. I suspect the worst (they might actually HAVE a program that scans for smilies and brevity and other stuff).

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 07:22 AM

I'm guessing the threads on "Concertina weasels" & "Dylan burns electric guitar" may be spoofs (or is that 'spooves'?)

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 07:36 AM

And darn good, too. I near busted a gut reading the weasel thread.

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Amos
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 08:30 AM

Actually, Geoff, Max was forced by his wife to forbid them for fear of overtaxing Spaw's heart. So all the clones have been secretly instructed to remove any that appear.


A

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 09:15 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/01/tech.viruses/
My post about this worm may have been mistaken for a joke.
Also my best wishes to Severn and the actual procedures and the lighter side details about the grafts and medications to come which may have been considered by others to be inappropriate or disingenuous.

npr however has had 4 fake stories this morning so far. The best one was by Robert Reich and the one time tax break incentive for Wall Street traitors.

Subject: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 09:46 AM

Listening to Radio 4 (the Today programme)I thought the spoof might be the attempt to reclassify chimpanzees as a branch of homo sapiens
But then I hear a spokesmam for SCS (Senior Civil Servants) state that his members were being paid 114% less than their counterparts in the private sector. This must have been a spoof as no-one would work for negative money.
Either that, or the spokesman doesn't understand percentages!!

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: TIA
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 09:52 AM

I have found at least two (I think)

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: CarolC
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 10:16 AM

I'm fairly confident that I've spotted three.

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 10:43 AM

Could the OP's point be that 'Catters are fool-ish year-round?

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: frogprince
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 11:01 AM

Have you seen the ads for the new BMW 58e,?

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 11:59 AM

Here's one

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 12:01 PM

I wondered if I would get any bites.

Didn't anyone wonder why it was a blank first posting?

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 12:06 PM

Today I was using Google Books, as I often do, and I noticed a new "button" on the screen I had never seen before. It was labeled "Generate Book Report."

I clicked it, of course, and then read the message: "Gotcha! It's April Fools' Day! Sorry, but you'll have to actually read the book yourself."

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 01:17 PM

Mudcat has been taken into government-sponsored bankruptcy, and will be split into two components- above- and below-the-belt.

Russ Limbaugh and Lew Dobbs will compete for the below-the-belt segment.

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 01:18 PM

Google also has this:
CADIE, the Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 05:56 PM

Here's the page for Google Autopilot.

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 06:31 PM

Yes DD, why should today be any different!

And GD!, bites or bytes? Ducks got teeth?

(please copy this message and email it to the first 10,000 people you know. By the time it makes it around the world 20 times LH should be enjoying his first kill with old what's-her-name.)

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: GUEST,Natural born April Fool, Slag!
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 06:35 PM

KILL ???!! That should have read "kiss". My apologies to old what's-her-name.

I must have still been thinking about Duck hunting.

QUACK!

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 06:57 PM

Geoff - I notice that your second post was one minute into legging down day by Mudcat Time. So here's your virtual trips (sticks out right leg, runs away laughing).

Les

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 07:03 PM

There are more of the Google funnies linked in today's 3-D WWW thread.

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Apr 09 - 07:34 PM

At National Public Radio, listeners today responded to yesterday's story about whale farming. (Go to that page and then click "Listen Now.")

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 08:41 AM

It's WABBIT season!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Amos
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 10:56 AM

" 1 APR 09   In an unprecedented move Wednesday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee rescinded the Peace Prize it awarded in 2007 to former US vice president Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, amid overwhelming evidence that global warming is an elaborate hoax cooked up by Mr. Gore.

A press release from the committee quotes a chagrined Rajendra Pachauri, the UN climate panel's chair, who claims that he was the victim of a "cunning deception spanning decades":

    "I am deeply ashamed for having unwittingly perpetuated such a massive fraud on the governments of the world," said Mr. Pachauri.

    "It turns out that all that data from satellites and radiosondes, surface temperature readings, borehole analysis, measurements of rising sea levels, melting glaciers and permafrost, phenological data, and proxy reconstructions of paleoclimatic conditions were all fabricated out of thin air by my former friend, Al Gore. Now that I think about it, I suppose that we should have instituting some sort of peer-review process before publishing such alarming conclusions. Once again, I'm very sorry."

After revoking the 2007 prize from Gore and the IPCC, the Nobel committee retroactively awarded it to the more than 31,000 people who signed the Oregon Petition – an appeal challenging the notion that there exists a scientific consensus regarding global warming – "for their efforts to pursue pure, objective science that is free from the influence of any special interest group."

The prize of about $1.53 million will be divided equally among the petition's signatories, whose expertise ranges from astrology to Intelligent Design...." See full story here.

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 02 Apr 09 - 12:02 PM

DUCK season!

Subject: RE: BS: No April Fools on Mudcat !!
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:45 AM

I missed this on April 1st, so the impact is reduced....but it IS funny.

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