# April Fools Day Pranks. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547 "2009-04-01T05:09:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/1 "2009-04-01T05:09:42Z")
[This](http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-acquires-the-pirate-bay-090401/) has to be a [joke](http://thepiratebay.org/)right? And you’ll also find [CADIE](http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html) (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) on the front page of Google. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/2 "2009-04-01T05:16:04Z")
CADIE’s not working for me. ☹ Maybe I’m not in the right time zone? Did we want to list the ones we find? [Fark](http://www.fark.com/NFE/)has one too. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/3 "2009-04-01T05:48:05Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > And you’ll also find [CADIE](http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html) (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) on the front page of Google. Google ran an April Fool’s Day joke here this morning: [link](http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25270397-5014239,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/4 "2009-04-01T07:12:17Z")
Mayonnaise spread on the sit-down lids of the female nurses’ toilets? I think I got that one from here, but I cannot be sure. 🙂 Bill ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/5 "2009-04-01T07:14:27Z")
[YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&flip=1) is pretty good 🙂 Anybody know where to get proper char sets so it all works? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/6 "2009-04-01T10:05:11Z")
[Our local free weekly](http://www.mountainx.com/news/2009/the_twitter_manifesto) has one that’s scarily plausible. ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/7 "2009-04-01T11:29:04Z")
Try [this one](http://map.local.ch/de/Bahnhofplatz-8001-Zuerich) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/8 "2009-04-01T12:34:18Z")
See my sig (but not after April 1). ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/9 "2009-04-01T12:48:42Z")
[Newgrounds](http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/) is now a People’s Republic of China approved website. Like the new logo. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/10 "2009-04-01T12:54:41Z")
> [@Anaglyph](#): > > Try [this one](http://map.local.ch/de/Bahnhofplatz-8001-Zuerich) What is that? ---
**Author:** ![harryf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9fc29f/32.png) [@harryf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harryf)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/11 "2009-04-01T13:18:12Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > What is that? Those are trams displayed in real time from Zürich in Switzerland, complete with TramCam™ showing who’s in the tram ( click on a tram… ) - [http://map.local.ch/en/Zuerich-Hauptbahnhof](http://map.local.ch/en/Zuerich-Hauptbahnhof) \< usually always trams passing here near Zürich’s main station. For details see [http://blog.local.ch/archive/2009/04/01/local-ch-bringt-zuercher-trams-live-ins-internet.html](http://blog.local.ch/archive/2009/04/01/local-ch-bringt-zuercher-trams-live-ins-internet.html) - English translation here (via google translate) - [http://liip.to/entrams](http://liip.to/entrams) - it’s more or less accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/12 "2009-04-01T14:59:55Z")
[ThinkGeek](http://www.thinkgeek.com/index.shtml) is now offering Squeez Bacon, straight from Sweden. No word on whether or not it’s kosher, though. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/13 "2009-04-01T15:06:43Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > [This](http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-acquires-the-pirate-bay-090401/) has to be a [joke](http://thepiratebay.org/)right? EZTV.it got me this morning before I had my coffee by appearing to have switched to an all sports format. Nooooo! ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/14 "2009-04-01T15:10:30Z")
[Gmail Autopilot](http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/15 "2009-04-01T15:13:54Z")
Snow. On April 1st. In Victoria. Okay, it’s Mother Nature’s prank, not a website, but still. I feel fooled. I thought spring was coming… ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/16 "2009-04-01T16:11:48Z")
Recently, Homestar Runner had a cartoon about how [practically any cartoon on the site can be turned into a Strong Bad Email](http://homestarrunner.com/sbemailiarized.html). The website’s intro was [indeed turned into one today](http://homestarrunner.com/). ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/17 "2009-04-01T16:29:07Z")
For football fans and/or stats geeks: Football Outsiders has [this](http://footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2009/re-evaluating-running-back-metrics) piece on the importance of “Horizontal Yards.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/18 "2009-04-01T17:02:30Z")
Comedian Doug Walker of [ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com](http://ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com) had his three characters- Nostalgia Critic, That Guy, and Chester A. Bum- take over each other’s video segments with unusual results. Correspondent Linkara, who usually makes fun of bad comic books, had his own parody of Chester A. Bum wax poetically about _Watchmen_. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/19 "2009-04-01T17:40:36Z")
[aero-news.net](http://aero-news.net) always has a collection of good stories today. I really like this one: [PETA Sues On Behalf Of Geese Lost In 'Flight 1549 Tragedy' | Aero-News Network](http://www.aero-news.net/news/commair.cfm?ContentBlockID=114267b1-17d9-4f5e-8957-213943df7b6e&Dynamic=1) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/20 "2009-04-01T17:56:29Z")
Here’s a local PA prank. [Link](http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2009/04/no_more_mopin_around_gov_rende.html) > [@](#): > > The news about job losses, bank busts and desperate automakers is not getting any better. > > Gov. Ed Rendell is trying to do his part to aid the citizens of the commonwealth. > > His latest plan is to use about $15 million from the federal stimulus funds pouring into the state to try and change the mood of Pennsylvanians. > > The Patriot-News has learned that the money will be spent to hire clowns, mimes, magicians, street performers and comedians (nothing blue) who will be dispatched to malls, fairs and festivals across the state to boost morale. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547.md?page=2)