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Radio Prank

I seem to remember a very good April Fools day prank by London based Capital radio. April fools day fell on a saturday. They broadcast a show using Chris Tarant who was the then host of the Breakfast show which was normally broadcast Monday to Friday. The show followed the exact same format. I believe that many people turned up at their place of work on Saturday only to find it not open. Does anyone else remember this and could it possibly be a prank that has been played by other radio stations? --Cockers 15:07, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Google's April 1st Pranks

Someone should include Google's annual April 1st jokes: PigeonRanking (I think from 2003) - last year had the 'moon base' announcement, and 2005 they are 'introducing' a line of "Google Gulp" drinks. The comic strip switcheroo only happened once, but many online cartoonists continue to do some sort of gag on April 1st (see: UserFriendly, PC Weenies).

Software Development magazine's April 2002 issue contains a hoax article about an AI program that "writes programs" based on a natural language conversation with the user. "Successful" examples range from writing an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program to writing FAA aircraft control software.

Sports Illustrated did a hoax a few years back where they wrote an entire article about a rookie pitcher for the Mets who had studied philosophy in Tibet and had an amazingly fast fastball. I wish I could remember the details. -- Zoe

A Misplaced Pages Prank

You know,[REDACTED] ought to pull something really big this April Fool's. I mean, come on! Google does it, Radio stations do it - Why don't we? I mean, come on. It's not as if anyone's going to die if we pull a prank for 12 hours, right?

This is an encyclopædia. We are here to make information free for all. Correct? Further, we aren't pagans. Family Guy Guy 06:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

New York Times Liberty Bell

Taco Bell printed an ad about them buying the rights to the Liberty Bell, I elo

Pigeon milk

sending someone on an absurd errand such as seeking pigeon's milk: Kind of ironic, since pigeons and other doves do in fact produce a (false) milk, which they feed to their young. -- Coneslayer 20:13, 2005 Mar 23 (UTC)

Vandalism

Wow. Even an April Fool's joke can get vandalized. I like this joke, but it's making it hard to tell what was intended as a joke, and what was intended as vandalism: I had no idea whether the page renaming was part of it all… – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs, blog) 05:23, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

vandalism

Anyone else think this page should be locked for a day or so? I foresee a good deal of vandalism. Malo 07:56, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Maltese Drivers

They already drive on the left, (or at least are supposed to). Or am I missing something? Srl

Amusing

I understand people want to have fun, do it in a way that does not effect my life. Thanks. --Cool Cat 11:13, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

New Year

What I don't understand is the thing about new year: Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, it was observed as New Year's Day. Does that mean 1530, say, changes to 1531 in April??? -- Tarquin 12:07, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Do bear in mind the title of this page! --Thomas 14:32, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the new year thing is itself an april fool, I've read it in a great deal of sources. If it IS, then the joke is a little old, and this page shouldn't be making it. -- Tarquin 09:48, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Respect the Pope

I'm going to repeat something I said on the Talk:Pope John Paul II page. "While I am not Catholic (I'm Protestant), I certainly hope and pray that nobody makes light of the Pope's illness for an April Fools joke." To illustrate my point, someone put "Due to the death of the Pope this years April Fools Day has been cancelled. Please respect the wishes of the Catholic Church." (italics mine) on this page yesterday. That is in very bad taste. -- Jwinters | Talk 20:18, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comic Strip Ouiji Board

I am looking in my paper so here's a list of comics that don't involve this Ouiji board:

B.C., Peanuts, Beatle Bailey, For better or worse, Shoe, Hagar the Horrible, Rose is Rose, Blondie, Luann, Dilbert, Hi and Lois, Funky Winkerbean, Wizard of Id, Baby Blues, Pooch Cafe, Garfield, Family Circus, Arlo & Janis, Rex Morgan, Crankshaft, Ziggy, Lockhorns

Here's the list of those that do: Foxtrot.

Therefore: It's just foxtrot. Any examples to prove me wrong? --69.92.23.193 23:38, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Get Fuzzy too. -- Coneslayer 01:59, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

It wouldn't be possible for Peanuts to have been involved, since Charles M. Schulz has been dead for five years. It'll be hard to check the King Features Syndicate strips online since it they always post comic strips with a two week delay. -- JohnDBuell 03:30, 2005 Apr 2 (UTC)

Bill Amend's personal page shows that only three comics actually did this. Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy and FoxTrot. --JohnDBuell 16:32, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Holiday?

Is April fool's day really a holiday? Shall we categorize it under "category:holidays"? I really don't think so. A holiday is a day off such as New year's day or Christmas. I don't think there's a country on earth where prople don't go to work on April 1 because they are allowed by the government to fool other people. April fool's day is, at most, a festival or celebration. -- Toytoy 08:17, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

Nature's day?

This day is also the international nature's day.

Is this yet another hoax?

Page vandalism

"Traditionally, pranks are supposed to go pee pee by noon"

Now that April fools day is over in most parts of the world, maybe we should look through this article for more vandalism.  :-S

Other sources for the day

I have heard from a rather non-Xian source, that the Fool's Day has to do with the Xian belief that a baby was born without a father. Assuming a baby is born on December 25, and working with an average 269-day gestation period, the conception happens on April first. So, a nonbeliever would consider a believer a "fool" for believing that a baby is born with no male, and that belief would be on April first. The source is some obscure book a friend of mine has. No other sources i know of, so i don't think it's prime stuff for the front page. -- Chacham 09:08, 2005 Oct 10 (UTC)

Well, actually that would work for 268 days:

mysql> select date_add('2006-12-25',interval -268 day);
+------------------------------------------+
| date_add('2006-12-25',interval -268 day) |
+------------------------------------------+
| 2006-04-01                               |
+------------------------------------------+

--Gutza 12:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

April Fools Day on Misplaced Pages

Are we allowed to make funny edits and prank other users on April Fool's Day? That would be fun! --Wack'd About Wiki 19:35, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

You're allowed to make funny edits every day, they'll just get reverted more quickly on April Fool's Day since people will be looking out for them. I also suspect admins will be more lenient about about temporarily blocking people, at least I hope they are - because I have big plans this year. --NEMT 04:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

No. Melchoir 02:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Personally, I reserve what humor I have to talk pages and edit summaries - Misplaced Pages is more of a deadpan type. --Chodorkovskiy 15:23, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Dutch history

"Because the Dutch did not comply with this, they fought back. There was this band of roaming so-called freedom fighters, what we'd now call terrorists, calling themselves Geuzen, after the french geux which means beggars."

This isn't exactly objective. So the US revolutionists were terrorists as well? --Syr 17:01, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

April Troll's

Has anybody else noticed the similarity between April Fool's jokes and trolling? Seriously, the methods and goals are the same. Is this noteworthy? --Chodorkovskiy 09:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

It might be worth noting, but it could also be counted as original research, which is prohibited. If you could get a reliable source on such a thing, feel free to post it. --Gracenotes § 15:37, 1 April 2006 (UTC)