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BS: APRIL FOOL

01 Apr 12 - 12:24 AM (#3331851)
Subject: BS: APRIL FOOL
From: MGM·Lion

✌

01 Apr 12 - 12:29 AM (#3331854)
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From: Stilly River Sage

♍

whatever. :-)

01 Apr 12 - 12:30 AM (#3331855)
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From: Stilly River Sage

Spaw, this one's for you:

♋

(I found that in my Twitter symbols and thought "who would appreciate this one . . .")

SRS

01 Apr 12 - 05:39 AM (#3331908)
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From: JohnInKansas

☣ = ☠

John

01 Apr 12 - 06:19 AM (#3331921)
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From: Bee-dubya-ell

CLICK

01 Apr 12 - 06:29 AM (#3331922)
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From: Bee-dubya-ell

It all makes sense now!

01 Apr 12 - 06:32 AM (#3331923)
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From: Leadfingers

Fooled Me !!!

01 Apr 12 - 08:11 AM (#3331960)
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From: GUEST,999

BWL's second link is true.

01 Apr 12 - 10:09 AM (#3332010)
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From: Charley Noble

And yesterday I awoke to find out I was richer by some $640 million! Today I give it all away to worthy charities and individuals.

If you are interested in applying for some of the winnings send me your account number, social security number, and passwords via PM.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

01 Apr 12 - 10:28 AM (#3332016)
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From: Rapparee

Guess what? Today is April 2.

01 Apr 12 - 10:34 AM (#3332021)
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From: Amos

According to meta-linguistic researchers at UCSD's Center for Linguistic Sciences, if you say the word "gullible" slowly enough it sounds just like the word "orange".


A

01 Apr 12 - 11:20 AM (#3332039)
Subject: RE: BS: APRIL FOOL
From: GUEST,999

Had to attest to the veracity of that, Amos. Gullible isn't in the dictionary.

01 Apr 12 - 11:24 AM (#3332041)
Subject: RE: BS: APRIL FOOL
From: JohnInKansas

Standard knowledge among singers is that when you forget the words you can just say "watermelon" and it looks like you're singing whatever you should be. It works best if there's one (or more) Martins in the band to drown out the singer - regardless of whether singer knows the words - but that's nearly always true in the crowds we've hung out with recently.

John

01 Apr 12 - 01:44 PM (#3332109)
Subject: RE: BS: APRIL FOOL
From: GUEST,Eliza

999, surely you've read Gullible's Travels?

01 Apr 12 - 04:19 PM (#3332171)
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From: kendall

Jacqui didn't go with me on the antique car tour. I called her and told her that I had bad news and good news. The bad news, I blew the engine in the Packard; parts all over the highway. She gasped, and I said now the good news, It's April Fools day. She promised not to kill me so I came home. What was that name you called me, dear?

01 Apr 12 - 04:25 PM (#3332174)
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From: gnu

Gullible? Wait until you go to sleep.

01 Apr 12 - 04:35 PM (#3332181)
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From: Bainbo

Here's an intriguing one that sprang up on me while searching the web for newspapers' April Fool hoaxes. It's pretty simple - but that's enough to keep me amused :)

Do a Google search for April Fool, then look down the page for the Wikipedia entry. Everything as it should be. But now try the same search on Bing and look down for Wikipedia. Even stranger, it was doing the same thing on Yahoo until I checked again just now.

01 Apr 12 - 04:41 PM (#3332183)
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From: Bainbo

Ha! it is doing it on Yahoo now.

01 Apr 12 - 04:45 PM (#3332185)
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From: katlaughing

LOTS to report in EFFector #605, today, including a rescue newfie who ate a volunteer!

02 Apr 12 - 01:36 AM (#3332353)
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From: Don Firth

Wow, Kendall, you have a Packard!??

What year? What model?

Don Firth

02 Apr 12 - 10:06 AM (#3332511)
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From: Sandra in Sydney

Sometime after 2am on 1st April I was half listening to the the Overnight show on the radio - bloke was talking about Earth hour

He was some kind of organiser of the event & was getting excited & dogmatically saying everyone should turn off their lights, electricity supply authorities should turn off the power, lots of outrageous stuff & was getting more worked up. When he said a notorious right wing politician was supporting him, I realised it was a very early April Fools joke! That bloke is very anti climate change & would no more support the climate than vote for a rise in government spending on the poor!

02 Apr 12 - 10:20 AM (#3332521)
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From: JohnInKansas

Sandra -

There have been several news notes recently about an organization trying to encourage people to turn ALL their lights, TV, Appliances, etc. on - coincidentally on "Earth Day" - to "Celebrate the Achievements of the Modern World." (Earth Achievement Day?)

Apparently none of the reporters have even thought about this being "political" (probably because their only "news sources" are on Twitter now).

John

01 Apr 25 - 11:39 AM (#4220129)
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From: keberoxu

Refreshing an old thread for this purpose.
There is a retrograde of Mercury in operation now,
threatening to make April Fools of us all
(Venus is retrograde as well).

01 Apr 25 - 11:43 AM (#4220131)
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From: Stilly River Sage

Not doing it this year. No point. Trump and Musk have made fools of everyone.

01 Apr 25 - 01:49 PM (#4220140)
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From: Helen

Hubby found an image of this yesterday morning, i.e. April Fools' Day and he sent it to me. I sent him back a message reminding him what day it was.

Then I fact-checked it on Snopes:

Did 'The Simpsons' Predict President Trump's Death?

It was found to be false.

01 Apr 25 - 04:03 PM (#4220149)
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From: Donuel

House of the Rising Sun

01 Apr 25 - 06:03 PM (#4220150)
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From: Rapparee

It's April 2, folks.

01 Apr 25 - 06:28 PM (#4220152)
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From: Donuel

And tomorrow is incontinance day for the Trump tariffs.

Nothing but tears and fears from losing 20 years of friends and co workers back in DC. Some were insultingly notified only by a rejection of their security badges at the door. Its all done illegally of course but in case you haven't noticed, America is no longer governed by law.

02 Apr 25 - 08:03 AM (#4220167)
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From: Dave the Gnome

I looked in the news for obvious joke stories but it is too difficult to tell whwther some of them are jokes or not nowadays!

02 Apr 25 - 02:18 PM (#4220187)
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From: robomatic

I remember thinking right after 9/11 that we were all in Tom Clancy's world.

Now we are in a netherworld where it is literally impossible to readily identify what is or is not April 1 material. That logical/ humorous interface has no cultural context right now,of espeifcially across the political boundries of rightthehellnow.

Not a fan of Keboroxu's resuscitation of old threads. Seems to degrade historical context in aid of what exactly?

03 Apr 25 - 11:09 AM (#4220242)
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From: Mrrzy

Got my confirmation email from Lufthansa, for my trip back from France. *All* the times were wrong, even some of the days, so I called Lufthansa. They had everything right. Looked at the email again - some auto bot (google, I think) had CHANGED ALL THE TIMES TO MY CURRENT TIME ZONE as if I needed to know what time it was in Cville when planning to board a plane in Munich! Anyway. I felt April Fooled.

03 Apr 25 - 11:41 AM (#4220249)
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From: MaJoC the Filk

(*rotfl*) Nice one, Mrrzy. I suspect some Artificial Incompetence instance was channelling Clippie, and followed through.

06 Apr 25 - 02:11 PM (#4220390)
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From: Mrrzy

If it hadn't been April 1st I don't think I would have found it as funny!