# Post your April Fools links
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 1, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664 "2004-04-01T03:46:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/1 "2004-04-01T03:46:26Z")
I’ll start the ball rollling, just found this one, although it’ll mean little to anyonw outside the UK… [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=507170](http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=507170)
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### Author:  [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/2 "2004-04-01T04:39:33Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> I’ll start the ball rollling, just found this one, although it’ll mean little to anyonw outside the UK… [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=507170](http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=507170)
David Lister, Arts Editor. Hee.
Actually I was just going to ask if [this press release](http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html) from Google is an April Fools joke. If so, CNN, the New York Times, and CNET have all fallen for it. I’d tend to be suspicious of Google PR on April Fools Day.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/3 "2004-04-01T06:19:35Z")
[The new Newgrounds, I’M LOVIN IT!](http://www.newgrounds.com/)
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### Author:  [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/4 "2004-04-01T06:38:40Z")
The Google thing is a joke.
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### Author:  [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/5 "2004-04-01T06:44:31Z")
> [@caphis](#):
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> The Google thing is a joke.
And I say that because the notion of offering up 1GB per user is ludicrous.
The MSNBC story on it makes it even more suspicious sounding.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/6 "2004-04-01T07:04:48Z")
> [@caphis](#):
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> And I say that because the notion of offering up 1GB per user is ludicrous.
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> The MSNBC story on it makes it even more suspicious sounding.
I put my e-mail into the “Interested in an account? Let us send you info!” field. We’ll see what happens.
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### Author:  [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/7 "2004-04-01T07:05:52Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#):
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> I put my e-mail into the “Interested in an account? Let us send you info!” field. We’ll see what happens.
Who didn’t? 😃
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### Author:  [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/8 "2004-04-01T07:12:43Z")
[off-topic a bit, but just a bit]
Apparently, Google recently bought the domain from [NetConcept.com](http://www.netconcept.com/domains.htm).
Maybe someone there will speak up. 😃
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/9 "2004-04-01T07:33:01Z")
Don’t be too sure it’s a joke. CNN reported on the Google E-Mail back in [January](http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/google.email.reut/).
And their April Fools Day joke is [here](http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html).
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### Author:  [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/10 "2004-04-01T07:41:17Z")
> [@Rico](#):
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> Don’t be too sure it’s a joke. CNN reported on the Google E-Mail back in [January](http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/google.email.reut/).
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> And their April Fools Day joke is [here](http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html).
Interesting. Perhaps this is that clever marketing thing where you offer up a real press release on 1 April and, depending on the reaction, you either offer it up as a joke or as something real.
I know a couple radio stations did this, and Microsoft did it once, I believe.
I’m skeptic about it, but I guess we’ll find out eventually.
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### Author:  [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/11 "2004-04-01T07:48:24Z")
Earlier today [www.drudgereport.com](http://www.drudgereport.com) had that story listed as an April fool’s joke, now it links to the New York times article. Hmmmm.
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/12 "2004-04-01T07:59:16Z")
Do you guys think this is an April Fool’s?
[http://www.japan.com/technology/index.php](http://www.japan.com/technology/index.php)
Looks like just another “looks like perpetual motion!” claims. It doesn’t seem funny or interesting enough to be a joke, but I’m not sure.
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### Author:  [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/13 "2004-04-01T10:38:47Z")
[Peter Mandelson, new BBC chairman](http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,1183250,00.html). Heh heh!
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/14 "2004-04-01T10:45:16Z")
Brilliant!
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/15 "2004-04-01T10:45:52Z")
[Eisner and Disney … together at last](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/)
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### Author:  [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/16 "2004-04-01T11:11:00Z")
> [@caphis](#):
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> The Google thing is a joke.
They have certainly put a lot of effort into it…
Grim
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/17 "2004-04-01T11:27:46Z")
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### Author:  [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/18 "2004-04-01T11:30:13Z")
The latest [BMW ad](http://www.anewwaytocook.co.uk/shef/index.htm)
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### Author:  [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/19 "2004-04-01T11:40:24Z")
BMW have got a good advert in today’s _Times._ They talk about a new feature in their vehicles where you can link your car to the microwave oven in your kitchen via a sat. nav. system. Using this you can turn on the oven from your car and start the cooking process. Because of the navigation system the oven knows how far from home you are and adjusts its cooking time so that the meal is perfectly cooked when you arrive home.
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### Author:  [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2004, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-april-fools-links/237664/20 "2004-04-01T11:42:17Z")
dang, you beat me to it !
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