Every year, my favourite sites usually have some form of prank. My most favorite is Coming Attractions by Corona (Linkety link).
They USED to have fake movie reports every April 1st, but now they’ve moved to Cinescape, and I can’t %$^&ing find anything on that site. If anyone here knows where I can find this year’s fake movie listings (if they exist) that would be helpful.
Also, I’d like to see some other websites that changed their usual content for today.
Oh, I must say the worst April fool’s day joke today is Hotmail’s. The site’s been unreachable all $%^&ing day…:dubious:
That’s the only signifigant one I’ve seen. They claim to have changed their name. Funny thing is, last year at this time, they were the GIA and they did shut down(for real) on April 1.
typically, the Metallica fansite Intersandman (www.intersandman.com) published an entire page of spoofed news, which was pretty funny. I don’t know if they’ll do it this year or not, but as of right now, there’s nothing out of whack. I’m currently plotting dirty tricks and chicanery (dictionary.com word of the day, which is definately no coincidence) around my office, so I’m not that concerned with the lack of web lampooning.
I just went to www.somethingawful.com . At first glance it looks like a porn site. Since I am at work I panicked and immediately closed it, thinking that maybe I had entered the URL wrong by one letter (there are “typo” web sites which purposely rely on people’s mistyping the URL so that it leads to something else, usually a porn or spam site). Just to be sure I checked again and was brought back to the same porn-looking site. Even though it’s not actually porn, it looks wayyyy to porn-ish to look at while at work, so I think I will hold off looking at it until I get home.
Its clean- the stories are purposely bland, but with the lurid style of font and color somebody once told me was common of porn sites (yeah that’s the ticket. . . ).
I just want to make it clear that there are NO April Fool’s Day posts on Monitor Duty, the comic book news and comment site. http://www.monitorduty.com
Absolutely none.
None whatsoever.
Honest and for true.
You can stop reading this post now, because I don’t know what you’re looking for. You want an April Fool’s post? I doubt you can find one at http://www.monitorduty.com
And even if there WAS, what would be the point of telling you? I mean, what would be the bloody point of pulling someone’s leg and then telling them “There’s a jolly good leg pull over at http://www.monitorduty.com, wot wot!” and then they click over in advance thinking, “Ah, here’s the fake post.” What would be the bloody point of that?
I’ll be sure to warn you in advance of your surprise birthday party that everyone’s throwing for you, too, so you can put it on your calendar.
HomestarRunner.com, home to the famous StrongBad Emails, did a pretty decent one today. They replaced their site with a theme based around The King Of Town, one of the smaller characters in their arsenal.
And there’s a smaller site, to boot; whereas the menu normally says, “Toons, Games, Downloads”, today it says, “Toon, Game, Download”. They even replaced the opening Flash animation/theme for the day.
It’s fun to click around, but StrongBad fans will especially want to pay attention the the “E-mail” section today.
