April Foolishness

[robkelk]

Spotted on a few RPG-company websites:

http://www.sjgames.com/ill/]Steve Jackson Games reports that they're being purchased by Atlas Games.
http://www.atlas-games.com/]Atlas Games reports that they're being purchased by Ronin Arts.
http://www.roninarts.com/]Ronin Arts reports that they're being purchased by Steve Jackson Games.

Not a bad start to the Foolishness, but there has to be something better out there.

(I'm not bothering this year. Nothing I can think of tops http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.arts. ... 2fabba2040]my 2003 Follishness. (For context, that was when "Freedom Fries" first appeared...))
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Kaze no Ryuu]

Youtube rickrolled everyone. Click on any of the 'Featured Videos'.
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[WengFook]

Blizzard has put up several nice jokes

http://www.blizzard.com/us/
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[WengFook]

Kaze no Ryuu wrote:

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Youtube rickrolled everyone. Click on any of the 'Featured Videos'.

what does rickroll mean?
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[CrimsonKMR]

WengFook wrote:

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Kaze no Ryuu wrote:

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Youtube rickrolled everyone. Click on any of the 'Featured Videos'.

what does rickroll mean?

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Rickroll
There is no coincidence, only necessity....
- Clow Reed

[Ankhani]

And the foolishness goes on.

City of Heros Announces Visual Sounds Issue 12 to be renamed "Pow, Biff, Boom, Bam!"
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[Bob Schroeck]

The Register has a few obvious ones, and maybe some inobvious ones (there are a couple I'm not sure about), on its http://www.theregister.co.uk/]front page:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01 ... ittorrent/]Comcast acquires BitTorrent for $53bn

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01 ... wikipedia/]Jimmy Wales resigns from Wikipedia

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01 ... explosion/]Teacher's head explodes due to Wi-Fi, mobe radiation

Oh, and http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/4/1/0111/99983]Ed Foster's Gripelog has one, too.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Morganite]

That visual sounds thing actually sounds kind of cool....

Now, the highly dubious web game Kingdom of Loathing has changed it's name to Kingdom of Salad. Most if not all
pictures have been replaced with bowls of salad, random words have been replaced with "salad", and hit locations have been replaced with salad
ingredients.

I'm not sure I want to know what it means to "drop your curdflinger on your cherry tomato".

-Morgan.

[Kokuten]

there's some incredible stupid going on over at the LJ Community Little_Details.

I don't know if it's april foolishness, or godlike stupidity.

what in
the name of all that is holy is going ON here?!Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[Elsa Bibat]

Check GRR Martin's livejournal blog for how he will take a page from Heinlein and just crosses his best series as the ending of A Song and Ice and Fire.

http://grrm.livejournal.com

[katreus]

Ah... for any of you wcbb fans out there (or maybe I'm the only one ^_^), beknighted has the usual AF posting, this one as news from Indianopolis. And it
starts out so intriguing as well.

Indianapolis, April 1 (AF) - At a press conference late Monday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Women's Basketball Committee
announced that the NCAA has adopted a new process for selecting and seeding its annual national championship tournament. This process removes the
responsibility for selection and seeding from the committee and creates a new tournament subcommittee that is responsible for all matters related to the
operation of the tournament.

http://boards.rebkell.net/viewtopic.php?t=37370

Last year's was just as good if the not better AF posting of news from Cleveland:

Cleveland, April 1 (AF) - The NCAA and the Women's Basketball Officiating Consortium announced new assignments for game officials in Tuesday's
women's Division I national basketball championship game today, replacing the previously-assigned officials with a new group who had not previously
officiated in this year's NCAA tournament. The original crew, Sally Bell, Dennis DeMayo and Dee Kantner, will be replaced by University of Connecticut
coach Geno Auriemma, Maryland coach Brenda Frese and Baylor coach Kim Mulkey.

http://boards.rebkell.net/viewtopic.php?p=296361

[Epsilon]

You know what I hate about April Fool's Day?

Stuff like this.

Why must IGN make nerds cry?

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Epsilon

[Rev Dark]

http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/04/ ... ge-to.html

[WengFook]

Epsilon wrote:

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You know what I hate about April Fool's Day?




Stuff like this.




Why must IGN make nerds cry?




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Epsilon

That. was a really. REALLY expensive prank.... and they should have chosen a more bishie guy to play Link IMHO
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