# Any good April 1 posts/sites?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-april-1-posts-sites/534619>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 1, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-april-1-posts-sites/534619 "2010-04-01T19:10:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-april-1-posts-sites/534619/21 "2010-04-02T08:02:31Z")

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I was going to buy Thinkgeek’s [tauntaun](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/) sleeping bag from last year’s April Fool’s prank, but not for $100! You know how many hookerbots I could buy instead?

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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-april-1-posts-sites/534619/22 "2010-04-02T14:55:55Z")

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NPR usually does an April Fool’s Day story during “All Things Considered”. Did anyone catch what yesterday’s story was?

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-april-1-posts-sites/534619/23 "2010-04-02T15:16:04Z")

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> [@EvilTOJ](#):
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> I was going to buy Thinkgeek’s [tauntaun](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/) sleeping bag from last year’s April Fool’s prank, but not for $100! You know how many hookerbots I could buy instead?

Wait. Is that thing not a real product you can buy?

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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-april-1-posts-sites/534619/24 "2010-04-03T00:05:34Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Wait. Is that thing not a real product you can buy?

Every AF ThinkGeek does 4 fake products, but they also have a way to request that they turn them into real products, some of which they do, like the sleeping bag, and the ‘background music’ tshirt that got featured on Big Bang Theory…

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-april-1-posts-sites/534619/25 "2010-04-03T00:38:59Z")

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[Zombie Squad’s](http://zombiehunters.org)forums were “shut down” for a day and they said they were transitioning to a Facebook page, and would be phasing out “preparedness” topics over the coming year, and transitioning to just another mindless “social networking” site

Considering we ZS’ers are quite the antisocial, cynical types (and dashingly handsome to boot 😉 ), this would have been a death blow to the Forums, as Facebook is the antithesis of the whole ZS “mindset”

Thankfully, most of us (myself included) got the joke, but some forumites were actually fooled

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