# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/21 "2009-04-01T18:26:45Z")
My jailbroken iPhone announced that Cydia was sold to Microsoft. There was a link to Youtube with Bill Gates. I got rick-rolled. Got me! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/22 "2009-04-01T18:43:05Z")
How many of you Dopers use Bug Me Not to bypass registering at news sites to be able to read articles. For those of you aren’t familiar with it, it’s a way to get around restrictions on reading material on free web sites by using shared email addresses and passwords so you don’t have to leave your own email information. Well, imagine my surprise whan I went to Bug Me Not to get a log in for my local newspaper and I was asked to register! Yep, it’s true. Here’s the page I was taken to: [http://www.bugmenot.com/register.php?url=tucsoncitizen.com](http://www.bugmenot.com/register.php?url=tucsoncitizen.com) For those of you who are understandably reluctant to follow links, Ha, ha. April Fool. It takes you to a pseudo-registration page with two buttons, one of which says, “Join Now For Free” and the other says, “Existing User Sign In.” Clicking either box produces a pop up which says, “Just fooling.” You are then taken to a list of log ins for your desired publication. It’s just Bug Me Not’s having a little April fool’s fun and may not be there tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/23 "2009-04-01T18:50:31Z")
On the MMO side, we have City of Heroes: [Golden Age](http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/ncnorcal_announces_city_of_her.html) and World of Warcraft’s new [Dance Battle System](http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/dance/index.xml). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/24 "2009-04-01T18:53:47Z")
Some news on the next [Batman movie](http://incontention.com/?p=5038). ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/25 "2009-04-01T20:45:31Z")
An article on an [all-pork resort](http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1466060.html), that might be on interest to all you bacon fans out there. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/26 "2009-04-01T20:57:49Z")
On Facebook this morning, one of my notifications was that Barack Obama confirmed me as a fourth cousin on We’re Related. I was wondering WTF until I realized the date today. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/27 "2009-04-01T22:14:07Z")
According to [Gametrailers.com](http://Gametrailers.com), Duke Nukem forever was released today. They already have a [walktrough](http://wikicheats.gametrailers.com/index.php/Duke_Nukem_Forever_-_XB360_PS3/Walkthrough) posted. Great tips: > [@](#): > > Enemies will often charge at you. They will run in a straight line toward you, even if there is something in the way. All you have to do is stand behind a pit of lava, and they will run directly into it. Unfortunately there is no lava found in the game. > [@](#): > > Firearms > > Duke Nukem uses firearms to fight his enemies. These are weapons that use gunpowder to accelerate a lead projectile toward an enemy at high speeds. When this projectile’s trajectory intersects an enemy’s body, it causes damage as it passes through. This damage is often enough to kill an enemy. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/28 "2009-04-01T22:45:41Z")
[Here](http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/04/around-the-web-on-april-1st/)’s a list of all sorts of hijinks online today. ---
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/29 "2009-04-01T23:00:20Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > According to [Gametrailers.com](http://Gametrailers.com), Duke Nukem forever was released today. They already have a [walktrough](http://wikicheats.gametrailers.com/index.php/Duke_Nukem_Forever_-_XB360_PS3/Walkthrough) posted. > > Great tips: A _good_ April Fools joke must be _believable_. We all know that Duke Nukem Forever will \*never \*be released… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/30 "2009-04-01T23:04:20Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > [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. Heh heh. In the video featured on the product page, the spoken Swedish seems to be a Swedish translation of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” a.k.a the Rickroll song. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/31 "2009-04-01T23:39:06Z")
Microsoft introduced a game called Yodelling Hero. I think there is a video on Youtube. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/32 "2009-04-01T23:58:48Z")
I thought this simple [one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=512502)was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/33 "2009-04-02T00:46:57Z")
I still can’t quite buy the announcement that [The Guiding Light](http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/04/39guiding_light.html) is going off the air. I just have a hard time imagining it was even _on_ anymore, let alone that anyone was still watching it. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/34 "2009-04-02T01:20:10Z")
I get several Google alerts, and one of them is Stephen King. Today there was an alert that Stephanie Meyer had committed suicide over the whole Stephen King Says Stephanie Meyer Can’t Write Worth Shit kerfuffle. When I tried to click on the link it was blocked at work. My daughter is a huge fan and I wanted to be prepared in case she found out. I didn’t find anything popping up when I tried to Google “Stephanie Meyer Suicide” so I can only assume it was someone’s idea of a prank. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/35 "2009-04-02T01:58:55Z")
Expedia’s offering [vacation packages to Mars](http://www.expedia.com/daily/mars/flights-to-mars/?mcicid=Mars_home_us). You can save up to $3 trillion if you hurry! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/36 "2009-04-02T03:04:25Z")
Apparently Car and Driver fooled [Nascar fans](http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92422). ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/37 "2009-04-02T06:46:33Z")
The Price is Right today was a masterpiece. A masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/38 "2009-04-02T06:56:40Z")
I dunno if this qualifies for this thread, but I’ll offer it anyway because no other thread seems approprate. The greatest April Fool’s joke I ever experienced was perpetrated by my wife. When I was in undergrad earning my BA in journalism, Razorette and I decided the time was right to finish out our family. We had one child, a beautiful son, and decided to try to make a little girl. Long story short, the younger brother was born six months before I graduated, fully covered by my wife’s insurance and the GI Bill. Being a liberal, environmentally-minded guy, I decided that, at the age of 30, it was time to visit an experienced urologist an shut down the baby-making equipment. I was supposed to go back and be tested for potency, but a combination of machismo fear and final exams conspired to keep me from getting the much-needed final verdict. My wife nagged, I demured, life went on. Fast-forward a year and a half, I’m enjoying an upwardly-mobile career in newspapering, we’re getting ready to buy our first home (a brand-new tract home in suburban northern Colorado) and life is great. One morning my wife casually mentions that it’s time for her regular feminine checkup and, frankly, she hasn’t been feeling all that well lately. I voice the expected words of concern. pat her lovingly on the bottom and tell her, “Call me and let me know what the doctor finds.” Sooooo… at about noon I get a call at my desk (I was regional editor on a mid-sized newspaper) and it’s none other than The Center of My Universe. “I just got out of the doctor’s office,” says she. “Oh, and what did the doctor say?” asks I. A moment of silence. “I’m pregnant,” says she. My world froze. The new house evaporated. Huge bills loomed – Razorette is a breast-feeder, and our new child would have the constant comfort of it’s mother’s body and presence for the first six months. Her career, just beginning to flower, would be eradicated yet again as she stayed home to care for our spawn; the boys would have to bunk up while we contrived a nursery in the bedroom one of them happily occupied. And me? I would be working every hour of overtime I could coax out of the city editor just to feed another hungry mouth. “You shoud have gone in for a test,” says she. “But we’ll talk later.” I hung up the phone and tried to focus on headlines, page layout, all that editing stuff. Five minutes later my phone rang again. I answered. It was my Beloved’s voice. “Honey,” she cooed sweetly, “What is the date today?” It was, of course, April 1. And I’d been fooled. It remains, to this day, the best April Fool’s joke I have ever personally experenced. The genius of it is that I was the agent of my own discomfort. Her little joke wouldn’t have worked if I had done what I was supposed to do. Still, it would have been nice to have had a little girl. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/39 "2009-04-02T07:17:48Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Apparently Car and Driver fooled [Nascar fans](http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92422). …who apparently cannot see the humor in anything more sophisticated than Larry the Cable Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547/40 "2009-04-02T11:59:07Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Apparently Car and Driver fooled [Nascar fans](http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92422). That’s one of my favorites from this year. [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=512610) also made me smile this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-day-pranks/491547.md?page=1)