# Aprils Fools Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 1, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856 "2006-04-01T17:01:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/1 "2006-04-01T17:01:14Z")
Well, there’s been the Google one, as pointed out in another thread. What other April Fools Day pranks have you seen? Internet or otherwise.
For my part i’ll add in the joint [Mugglenet](http://www.mugglenet.com) /[Leaky Cauldron](http://the-leaky-cauldron.org) one, which probably won’t make much sense to people who don’t frequent them.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/2 "2006-04-01T17:13:36Z")
Neopets has a “neocharge” box on the side of the screen, that bills you neopoints every time you click a link.
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/3 "2006-04-01T17:13:46Z")
There’s always [fark.com](http://fark.com).
[thinkgeek.com](http://thinkgeek.com) is amusing as well.
[homestarrunner.com](http://homestarrunner.com) too.
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/4 "2006-04-01T17:19:02Z")
alt.movies.silent has a couple up.
Politics NJ has a great one (if you now anything about NJ politics) on their main page.
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/5 "2006-04-01T17:21:45Z")
Looks like [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2006) has collected some.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/6 "2006-04-01T17:24:50Z")
Probably only of interest to people who went to Cornell, but the Cornell Daily Sun completely hooked me with an article about incoming president David Skorton resigning due to differences with the Bd. of Trustees. Skorton got the job because his predecessor, Jeff Lehman, “quit” (probably got the ax) after only two years in office.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/7 "2006-04-01T17:39:52Z")
In an effort to diversify the demographics of its users, Slashdot has adopted a pink “OMG!!! Ponies!!!” theme for their front page. And of course, most of today’s stories are bogus - Microsoft buys OpenOffice, Duke Nukem Forever reviewed, etc
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### Author:  [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/8 "2006-04-01T17:44:53Z")
I got the Fark one last night. Heh. [Google.com](http://Google.com) is not showing me anything funny, but Google.ca is… a new Google service for… 🙂
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/9 "2006-04-01T18:21:05Z")
Yahoo is merging with Netscape and moving the whole shebang to Israel. The new company? Net’n’Yahoo.
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### Author:  [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/10 "2006-04-01T18:25:27Z")
> [@AskNott](#):
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> Yahoo is merging with Netscape and moving the whole shebang to Israel. The new company? Net’n’Yahoo.
Nicely done.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/11 "2006-04-01T18:39:56Z")
That reminded of another good one:
Sun Microsystems is going to be bought by Apple computer for 10 billion dollars, the new company will be named… **Snapple**.
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/12 "2006-04-01T18:52:20Z")
Go right now to Google Earth for some fun:
Go to Area 51, look closely betwen a couple of F-16’s, the New Scoot-n-Hide shelter and Hanger 6, you will see a UFO on the ground with a couple of aliens having a barbecue!
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/13 "2006-04-01T18:54:34Z")
I’ve been listening to NPR since about 10 this morning, waiting for the fake news story. Didn’t see anything on the home page either.
Maybe I missed it. I’m not all that quick on the uptake. I totally bought the zip code story from a few years back.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/14 "2006-04-01T19:00:05Z")
April 1, 2006 (Renton, Wash.) – Mothers and daughters will be delighted to be the first to experience the My Little Pony Roleplaying Game, coming this August from Wizards of the Coast, a developer and publisher of game-based entertainment products and a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., (NYSE:HAS). This first-of-its-kind roleplaying game features characters inspired by the legendary My Little Pony storyline.
[http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060401a](http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060401a)
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/15 "2006-04-01T19:05:45Z")
Go right now to Google Earth for some fun:
Go to Area 51, look closely betwen a couple of F-16’s, the New Scoot-n-Hide shelter and Hanger 6, you will see a UFO on the ground with a couple of aliens having a barbecue!
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/16 "2006-04-01T19:16:43Z")
[http://www.mikedoughty.com/senate.html](http://www.mikedoughty.com/senate.html)
Mike Doughty, singer songwriter, is running for senate. Check out the picture.
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/17 "2006-04-01T19:22:56Z")
And hey, if you go to Google Earth, where Area 51 is, you’ll see some aliens having a barbecue!
😃 Happy April Fools!
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/18 "2006-04-01T19:27:44Z")
> [@LunaV](#):
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> And hey, if you go to Google Earth, where Area 51 is, you’ll see some aliens having a barbecue!
>
> 😃 Happy April Fools!
Area 57 steak sauce included!
Ok, sorry for the double post, I really thought it did not go in the first time.
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### Author:  [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/19 "2006-04-01T19:32:23Z")
On [my site](http://www.cyburbia.org/), yesterday I eliminated a [very popular off-topic subforum](http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24159) from the tally of users’ post counts. People who had 5,000 or 6,000 posts woke up to find they had a count of only a few hundred posts. (I did it yesterday, because usage drops quite a bit over the weekend.) Today, I’ve got the Houston, Texas Zoning Ordinance featured as a site of the day. (You’ll get it if you’re a planner.)
Slashdot has an [OMG CUTE!!!11!! pre-teen girl theme](http://slashdot.org/).
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/20 "2006-04-01T19:32:33Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#):
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> April 1, 2006 (Renton, Wash.) – Mothers and daughters will be delighted to be the first to experience the My Little Pony Roleplaying Game, coming this August from Wizards of the Coast, a developer and publisher of game-based entertainment products and a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., (NYSE:HAS). This first-of-its-kind roleplaying game features characters inspired by the legendary My Little Pony storyline.
>
> [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060401a](http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060401a)
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Gotta love that _My Little Beholder_. 🙂
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