Reply to: Classic April Fools

[Sysman]

In other news...

Randall at xkcd has concocted some kind of weirdness for serving today's cartoon. There's a thread on Reddit about it and the output of the algorithm is gradually being categorised; people are working on deriving the underlying equation that governs the process...

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Hmm, today's cartoon for me mentions ski lifts and a price in Swiss Francs.

[Sysman]

For Mac fans iTerm2

World's first home mini nuclear generator

Includes Plutonium start pack. Good for 50 years

[d000hg]

My AdBlock on Chrome became CatBlock for the day. AdBlock: Inturdusing CatBlock

[Doggy Styles]

Did anyone here hear the one on BBC radio about 10 years ago about the discovery of Viking voice recordings on fish skins? Very amusing at the time, and the muffled sound effects would have fooled many northerners and welsh people.

[Doggy Styles]

You saw the Nationwide mention of it, as did I; the original was Panorama in 1957: BBC ON THIS DAY | 1 | 1957: BBC fools the nation

Bloody hell, I didn't know that. No wonder I remember it in black and white, which would have been a bit strange for what, early 1970s?

[NickFitz]

In other news...

Randall at xkcd has concocted some kind of weirdness for serving today's cartoon. There's a thread on Reddit about it and the output of the algorithm is gradually being categorised; people are working on deriving the underlying equation that governs the process...

[NickFitz]

That was the first April Fool that I ever saw. It was on early evening TV, on a program like Nationwide or somesuch.

You saw the Nationwide mention of it, as did I; the original was Panorama in 1957: BBC ON THIS DAY | 1 | 1957: BBC fools the nation

[wim121]

Hi Wimmy - thanks for posting; made me laugh

Thanks pach, hope you had a good weekend btw!

[pacharan]

This years google april fools:
Google Racing


I liked their toilet ISP one ....
Welcome to Google TiSP

Hi Wimmy - thanks for posting; made me laugh

[wim121]

This years google april fools:
Google Racing


I liked their toilet ISP one ....
http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/tisp/

[Sysman]

Every Guardian April Fool's Day prank listed since 1974

[BrilloPad]

Mrs BP convinced her sister she is pregnant. Impressive as she has had her tubes tied.

[Sysman]

[Doggy Styles]

In years to come many will remember the classic carried by all the papers this morning - 'Torres scored a goal'.

[KackAttack]

When Sinclair programs published a program to convert ZX81 basic code into machine code - but all it actually did was print april fool over the screen.

Sinclair User 15 - Letters