Boycott April Fools Day
Sunday, April 1st, 2007 - 9:44am
When I was a kid, it used to be fun. Because April fools meant pranks. Getting your sister to sit on the toilet which you'd covered in vaseline. Things like that.
Now, it's an endless parade of lame internet headlines.
I've grown to detest it. They're never funny. Really.
Humbug.
So what's the LAMEST one you saw today?
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I like April Fools' Day. My father and stepmother got married today. They have a weird sense of humor.
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thinkgeek.com
The German gaming websites are already done with their oh-so-incredibly humorous jokes (hawhawyuckyuck). News with the quality level of "Gran Turismo 5 now Xbox 360 exclusive" - ohohohoh, funny times we had (not).
You gotta give Blizzard some credit though - they always put quite some efforts into their pranks and you can really feel how much fun it was for the people involved.
I agree, I hate April 1st on the internet. It is just dumb.
I agree with rabbit for the most part. Gaming websites especially just don't get it. They post false stories that fans wish were true. The most common example is sequels to dead franchises with huge fan bases. That kind of story isn't funny, it's just mean.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
I hate you.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Only one of the websites I frequent did something today and it's pretty lame. The Daviswiki just changed the look of their website. Boooooring.
Ouch, I have lost myself again
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ytmnd is pretty funny today.
We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all.
How about making April 1st "Boycott April Fools' Day Day"?
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Aperture Science wrote:
Boycott people with no sense of freaking humor.
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Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
I hate him more.
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"In other news, Miyamoto pissed on my head, and gave me a forecast of rain." - *Le
Meh, I'm in. I hate this "April Fools Day".
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The default page on http://ask.metafilter.com is incredibly funny today. (click on any of the "comments" links to go to the real question page.)
A guy at work here called the control room on the radio and claimed we had a belt torn over halfway across. Then when our techs got there he let go of "April Fool's!".
Not funny.
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Im in. I tend to use Gametab.com so I can preview each site's headlines. The ones with obvious april fools headlines (Like TeamXbox, good grief they're going all out with obvious BS headlines) are going on suspension, taken off my list for no less than 1 week.
It reminds me of how terrible TeamXbox is all around. These are the most original headlines they've ever had. The rest of the year it's all just reprinted microsoft press releases, word for word.
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I think we should all be glad that April 1st fell on a weekend this year so we can avoid most of the amateurish bullsh*t.
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trowan, I swear to everything holy I will find a way to get you for that.
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I also hate April Fools day because it's stupid to have a planned day of pranks. Some idiot way back when just didn't get what a prank was.
Oh, and Trowan
is a sonofabitch.
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Ooh, you're gonna get a double-dosing next Thursday.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Wizard of the coast had a ton up, like a DnD monopoly boardgame for example.
Usually, my brother gets our mom every year with something. Mom turned the tables this year.
My brother was in Chicago for some Chicago Bears convention thingamawhatsit, and she called him this morning at the hotel and told him that his flight would probably be delayed because there was a blizzard going on in Seattle. He was just about to go tell his friend about what was going on when mom broke out the old "April Fools!" mahoocher.
I'm sure next year, he'll get her back at least tenfold.
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I love how rabbit's anti-april-fool's thread has turned into the opposite.
We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids.
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Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
The worse thing about today is that tomorrow is my birthday so I get a lot of lame jokes about almost being an April fool.
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