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April Fools Round-Up

by John Cole|  April 1, 20108:34 am| 60 Comments

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We’ll use this thread as the dumping point for clever April Fools gags. I’ll start:

World of Warcraft offers a new “neural interface” .

Google renames itself “Topeka.”

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  1. 1.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 1, 2010 at 8:36 am

    Every day is April Fools day in the land of Sarah Palin et al.

  2. 2.

    Legalize

    April 1, 2010 at 8:42 am

    My target took the day off today. Good thing. I’ve run out of stories about bad things happening to Carson Palmer.

  3. 3.

    Fr33d0m

    April 1, 2010 at 8:45 am

    Hey I heard Joe Biden was stepping down and in a move to get more Repugnicons to vote for every bill, The Pres is asking Sarah Palin to be VP!

    April Fools–I hope.

  4. 4.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    April 1, 2010 at 8:45 am

    Google has new app for its Android phone. Allows you to communicate with your pets and other animals.

  5. 5.

    PaulW

    April 1, 2010 at 8:48 am

    Republican leadership mistakes Tea Partiers as a Temperance movement, pushes to re-install the 18th Amendment and bring back Prohibition.

  6. 6.

    rob!

    April 1, 2010 at 8:54 am

    Somebody here tried to pull a joke on Glenn Greenwald, although he didn’t take it too well.

    Too soon?

  7. 7.

    R-Jud

    April 1, 2010 at 8:59 am

    Labour unveils new campaign slogans meant to play up Brown’s “Tough Guy” side (the Guardian also has an AFD roundup here). There was also one in the Independent about a second Hadron collider being built using the Circle Line in the London Underground.

  8. 8.

    Demowaste

    April 1, 2010 at 9:01 am

    The Democrats in Congress and our President.

    That is the joke…I only wish it was only on April 1st.

  9. 9.

    cleek

    April 1, 2010 at 9:01 am

    i hate 4/1

  10. 10.

    Barack

    April 1, 2010 at 9:03 am

    Hey guys, on this fine spring day I’d like to give the readership of Balloon Juice a shout-out, and thank you for all of your help over the past two years.

    I’m, uhhh, your President.

  11. 11.

    Evil Bender

    April 1, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Pretty clearly, I think, this is an early favorite for best 4/1 prank.

  12. 12.

    demo woman

    April 1, 2010 at 9:08 am

    The NYTimes puzzle today was not fun. I don’t like April fools day. Bah humbug!!!!!

  13. 13.

    Cyrus

    April 1, 2010 at 9:09 am

    World of Warcraft offers a new “neural interface” .

    I thought the EPEEN meter was a lot funnier, but it’s also a lot more of an in-joke.

  14. 14.

    demo woman

    April 1, 2010 at 9:10 am

    @Legalize: What’s up with Carson Palmer? A friend’s son works for him.

  15. 15.

    geg6

    April 1, 2010 at 9:17 am

    @Demowaste:

    Yeah, because there was nothing funny about when the GOP had the presidency and control of Congress.

  16. 16.

    kansi

    April 1, 2010 at 9:18 am

    The interviews on “Real American Stories”

  17. 17.

    Earl

    April 1, 2010 at 9:19 am

    I’m enjoying our new overlords, personally.

    (Why am I self-promoting? ‘Cuz no one else will…)

  18. 18.

    Tattoosydney

    April 1, 2010 at 9:19 am

    @Demowaste:

    April tool.

  19. 19.

    Comrade Mary

    April 1, 2010 at 9:25 am

    This is still my favourite Poisson d’Avril of all.

  20. 20.

    DanF

    April 1, 2010 at 9:34 am

    April 1st is the only day of the year when I’m not sure if Mickey Kaus actually fucked a goat. I really hate April Fool’s Day.

  21. 21.

    mike

    April 1, 2010 at 9:35 am

    This is the first April Fool’s Day in a long time that I’ve been on my guard, and I’ve caught a couple of pranks already before being gulled.

    You know what? It’s not nearly as much fun to spot it as to be taken in by it.

  22. 22.

    Punchy

    April 1, 2010 at 9:36 am

    I tried hard to believe this Bob Corker interview was a joke, but it seems not.

    He’s going to get CRUSHED by the teabaggers for even hinting the GOP screwed up. Especially in Deep Red Tennessee. Honesty is not the best policy amongst the rabid baggers. Just wow.

  23. 23.

    jurassicpork

    April 1, 2010 at 9:44 am

    Google has changed its name to “Topeka.” In the spirit of reciprocity, Yahoo, Inc. also changed its name.

  24. 24.

    Comrade Mary

    April 1, 2010 at 9:47 am

    Holy fucking crap.

    I don’t know if I found the Gawker link here or elsewhere, but this is either a surprisingly daring April Fool’s joke or a surprisingly daring real product.

    (And yes, it comes in women’s sizes, too.)

  25. 25.

    Sarcastro

    April 1, 2010 at 9:50 am

    Punchy, Bob Corker himself is an April Fool.

    Anyways; Windows 8 will be Unix based… and work!

  26. 26.

    fasteddie9318

    April 1, 2010 at 9:54 am

    Hey, I’ve got one! President Obama is going to break his campaign promise about offshore drilling and risk an environmental crisis on the east coast, in the name of a supply of oil that’s too small and will take too long to extract to make any difference in either oil prices or our foreign oil habit!

    April Fo–wait, what?

  27. 27.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    April 1, 2010 at 9:55 am

    LeBron James will consider a slight pay cut and join Kobe Bryant
    and The Los Angeles Lakers next year.

  28. 28.

    folkbum

    April 1, 2010 at 9:56 am

    I’m running for Congress against Paul Ryan!

    (Link posted in both threads, because nothing kills like overkill.)

  29. 29.

    Richard

    April 1, 2010 at 9:59 am

    Wikipedia’s is always good. “On this day” is priceless.

  30. 30.

    passerby

    April 1, 2010 at 10:05 am

    New Orleans radio website reports that LSU is on the cutting edge. They’re installing purple turf–awesome!

    And Huffpo reports that Lloyd Blankfein is Time Man of the Year (Got me with this because it wouldn’t surprise me were it true.)

  31. 31.

    Morbo

    April 1, 2010 at 10:08 am

    Japan should have some interesting things to report.

  32. 32.

    Comrade Mary

    April 1, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Canadian world domination continues: Justin Bieber infects Funny or Die, now knows as Bieber or Die.

  33. 33.

    Pasquinade

    April 1, 2010 at 10:14 am

    If one were so inclined, he/she would use http://tinyurl.com/ to send people to unexpected sites via the Custom alias feature.

    http://tinyurl.com/BJ-AprilFool

  34. 34.

    eglenn

    April 1, 2010 at 10:26 am

    Funny stuff, not certified April Fools (but, REALLY).

    Which states & cities have the largest p*nises?

    (starred for your anti-moderation pleasure)

  35. 35.

    Ahn Ahn

    April 1, 2010 at 10:28 am

    4chan has added a Facebook share app.

  36. 36.

    erinsiobhan

    April 1, 2010 at 10:31 am

    NASA discovers water on moon

  37. 37.

    Comrade Mary

    April 1, 2010 at 10:32 am

    @eglenn: So the biggest pricks in the US aren’t in DC? Go figure.

  38. 38.

    Tom Levenson

    April 1, 2010 at 10:34 am

    Try this one on for size, (blogged over at my place, where you will find a couple of classics exhumed for your pleasure.)

  39. 39.

    Pangloss

    April 1, 2010 at 10:38 am

    @rob!: Really? Greenwald is known for his sense of humor. Shecky Greenwald, they call him.

  40. 40.

    eglenn

    April 1, 2010 at 10:54 am

    Great new products at ThinkGeek (My First Bacon!).

  41. 41.

    patrick II

    April 1, 2010 at 11:15 am

    From “The Inverse Square Blog”
    Flying Penguins

  42. 42.

    darms

    April 1, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Moogmusic is offering a MF-401 Auto De-tune w/presets that include “Drunk as a Sailor” and “Cat in an alley under a full moon”.

    It’s time to take back the airwaves. Too long have our ears been fooled by processed, homogenized, artificially-in-tune vocals. It’s time to bring back the REAL sound of performers’ voices with Moog’s MF-401 Auto De-Tune!

  43. 43.

    Tom_23

    April 1, 2010 at 11:28 am

    @fasteddie9318: That’s funny!

  44. 44.

    Clambone

    April 1, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    Check out http://xkcd.com/ today. I’ll bet there are a bunch of easter eggs there that I don’t have the Unix chops to figure out.

  45. 45.

    KDP

    April 1, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    @kansi: oo-oo-oo! Did you hear? Lynn Forester de Rothschild is replacing LLCoolJ and Toby Keith on Real American Stories. And, she’s doing a real, live interview about her inspirational story.

  46. 46.

    celiadexter

    April 1, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    My husband was listening to WNYC (New York public radio) about an hour ago where there was a major news story and analysis about the Supreme Court having just ruled that corporations have the right to vote — complete with commentary by Dahlia Lithwick. He called me at the office (in a state of outrage, needless to say) to ask if I knew about it. I guess they did a really convincing job…

  47. 47.

    Calouste

    April 1, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    Historians uncover evidence that Shakespeare’s mother was from France according to the BBC. France announces plans to retroactively make Shakespeare a member of the Academie Francaise.

  48. 48.

    mem from somerville

    April 1, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Just found this one: Peak Olive Oil from The Economist:

    http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15695933

  49. 49.

    Jen R

    April 1, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    I like this one: http://www.jhu.edu/

  50. 50.

    Steaming Pile

    April 1, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    @Sarcastro: Solaris or BSD?

  51. 51.

    Steaming Pile

    April 1, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    @Clambone: I already tried “su – root”, but that didn’t work.

  52. 52.

    Comrade Kevin

    April 1, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    @fasteddie9318:

    Hey, I’ve got one! President Obama is going to break his campaign promise about offshore drilling and risk an environmental crisis on the east coast, in the name of a supply of oil that’s too small and will take too long to extract to make any difference in either oil prices or our foreign oil habit!

    He is not breaking a campaign promise. In fact, here is something from August of 2008 where he says he’s open to it.

  53. 53.

    FormerSwingVoter

    April 1, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    I’m actually not sure if this is a joke or not – it might have been up before today, but I didn’t see the link until April Fools:

    Buy a Job Reference: http://www.buyajobreference.com/index.html

  54. 54.

    Susan Kitchens

    April 1, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    Baseline scenario notes that Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs is named Time’s Man of the Year.

    The quote from the spokesperson in response to this startling news is a thing of, well, beauty.

  55. 55.

    Zach

    April 1, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    http://jhu.edu/

    This is actually pretty good.

  56. 56.

    Kevin K.

    April 1, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    Please forgive me the link-whoring, but I think Betty came up with a very good one today and, man, Rox Populi used to own April 1st.

  57. 57.

    canuckistani

    April 1, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    @Steaming Pile:

    I already tried “su – root”, but that didn’t work.

    But “sudo make me a sandwich” does.
    FTW!

  58. 58.

    BruceJ

    April 1, 2010 at 6:45 pm

    @canuckistani

    But “sudo make me a sandwich” does.
    FTW!

    How freaky…

    I’m WEARING my ‘sudo make me a sandwich’ tee shirt right this moment, but for April fools there’s this local bit of swiftian satire.

  59. 59.

    Joe

    April 1, 2010 at 8:15 pm

    To FormerSwingVoter-

    This is not a joke. I’ve actually used this service in January and now I’m employed.

    http://www.buyajobreference.com/index.html

  60. 60.

    Ellid

    April 1, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    Dharma Trading’s new flyer.

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