# Aprils Fools Thread **URL:** \ **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:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/21 "2006-04-01T19:41:16Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Area 57 steak sauce included! > > Ok, sorry for the double post, I really thought it did not go in the first time. S’Okay… I was completely and totally whooshed by [thread=365442]Google Romance![/thread] Serves me right for getting all critical without actually \*reading \* about it. I just shook my head, fired off a scornful post and sat back to bemoan the state of affairs. Silly, silly me! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/22 "2006-04-01T20:58:39Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > S’Okay… I was completely and totally whooshed by [thread=365442]Google Romance![/thread] Serves me right for getting all critical without actually \*reading \* about it. I just shook my head, fired off a scornful post and sat back to bemoan the state of affairs. Silly, silly me! Thing is, I could actually see Google trying to branch into something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/23 "2006-04-01T21:18:22Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Neopets has a “neocharge” box on the side of the screen, that bills you neopoints every time you click a link. This is a joke?! I hope so- some very unhappy children in my house today! ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/24 "2006-04-01T23:22:53Z")
[Gamespot has posted a preview of World of Starcraft.](http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/worldofstarcraft/news.html?sid=6146918) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/25 "2006-04-02T02:09:08Z")
GameFAQs has a pretty good one. ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/26 "2006-04-02T02:54:36Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > GameFAQs has a pretty good one. My 10-year-old son got taken in by that one this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/27 "2006-04-02T03:23:03Z")
My husband changed his [blog](http://hereisnowhy.com/blog) today… It might be a little less funny to those who have never read his blog, but it’s definitely inspired. 🙂 Popozao! ---
**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 2, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/28 "2006-04-02T13:22:22Z")
[www.aero-news.net](http://www.aero-news.net) had its annual april fools edition. AOPA buys Miegs Field, Russian Aircraft carrier to server as refueling stop to Hawaii. Brian ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856/29 "2006-04-02T20:11:37Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > 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. Heh, I made an April Fools joke on a friend with this one. She’s pretty into the Mugglenet world and loves Emerson so when she called me asking if the Emerson/Melissa marriage was true or not and I played along explaining they seriously got married and I had cites and everything. She was a bit non believing before she called but surely if _I_ believed it, then it _must_ be true! Heh, I had her totally in shock about it till I said, “April Fools!” and hung up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aprils-fools-thread/350856.md?page=1)