April Fools Jokes

Post by **gannon** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:12 pm

Here's my favorite so far: http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlexâ„¢, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear. See our Privacy Policy.

This one isn't bad either: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1781208,00.asp

Edit:
And a few funny things that aren't actually jokes:
http://www.flexbeta.net/main/comments.p ... news=12565
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1162261

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:15 pm

www.thinkgeek.com
Also check out gmail!
Yay! Infinity + 1 storage! Woo! Hoo!
(There actually just upping it to 2gigs - what a funny day to do it...

)

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:16 pm

Heh, both pathetic.

My practical joke to be executed the weekend is to plug a cord into a wall socket, and wrap the other end's stripped wires around a doorknob, and have a friend open the door. Only, I'd rather not give the kid a full 120v, or else he'll totally kill me, or my other, weaker friend.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 3:29 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:37 pm

*In the Professor's voice* Bad news eveybody. Linus is dumping Tux in favor of something thats a more modern depiction of linux. Read here. And if your interested in submitting your own ideas it has to be in by midnight tonight an in PNG format.

This is just a all to obvious April fool's joke.

poopiesman · Post by **poopiesman** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:42 pm

I fell for this one awhile ago. It was so evil.

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:07 pm

We went on a field trip to the IMAX theater in Natick today. When we were all back on the bus, I asked the teachers where someone was. They weren't on the bus, and everyone was eventually in a panic. That is, until I revealed it as a joke.

I also punched holes in the bottom of a disposable cup. Guess who took it?

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:14 pm

well, I got a pretty good trick earler today: remember that iPod I found a while ago? When I put up a found ad, we used the line 2 number. This morning, I was talking to my brother while making a grilled cheese sandwich. My mom called my dad on the second line. We heard my dad saying "could you describe it? Ok, I'll have you talk to my son and you can describe the songs on it." I was really mad that there was someone that called after all this time and all, but I picked up the phone (after all, what choice did I have)

I put the phone to my ear, and heard a recorded voice, "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again"

I also had an idea for a joke at work: get a broken hard drive and put it in a coworker's computer while the boss isn't looking. I'd then have the coworker say his computer isn't working, and I'd be the one to fix it. I'd bring myself to the boss' attention, rip out the already broken hard drive, and throw it into the parking lot! Aw, I can just imagine the guy's face

Post by **bicostp** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:18 pm

I showed this to my friend who just bought a DS.

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His expression was priceless when I told him I had it on pre-order!

Post by **Triton** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:25 pm

my speech teacher told me bout this one that this news station (tv or radio i dunno) about the ottumwa bridgeveiw center. really funny too goes like this: the thing on the news or whatever was that they found a bunch of oil under the old colliseum (torn down to make way for new bridgeveiw center) like crude oil type ya know. they had a bunch of people interveiwed and sounded really funny the way mr. richards said it

Unidentified Assilant · Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:15 am

Beyond Unreal had a pretty good April Fools Joke about a 'new game' called Unreal III, quite funny

louischance · Post by **louischance** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:28 am

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=april_fools05
this was maddox's site on april 1st

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:06 pm

Yeah if you look a year back you can see his first April Fool's joke. You'll know it when you see a big picture of a guy tha looks like Mr. Clean.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:49 am

I got my friend really good

What I did was take a mini PS2 case (care to guess where I got it

) put 4 motors from 2 PlayStation controllers in it, wired to 2 lever switches on the bottom, and wired them to 4 AA's. I then painted 666 on the front of it.
What it does is when it's on the ground it appears to be a stock PS2 with 666 on the front of it, but when it's picked up it rumbles like there's something in it.

So what I did was set it on the front of my friends sidewalk, when he walked by he exclaimed "Holy crap! A PS2!", he picked it up and it started to rumble on his hand and for some reason it squealed too! (probably just a motor hitting the top of the case) he dropped it and jumped back 4 feet and yelled "Yipes!". It was great!