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Do You Like April Fool's Day?

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Do You Like April Fool's Day?

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    Votes: 10 15.9%

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    Votes: 12 19.0%

  • Dont Care

    Votes: 41 65.1%
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I was never much of an April Fool's guy, but with twin 6 year old boys it now has become kind of fun. My one son had been asking for weeks when was April Fool's.(I guess Cartoon Network kept mentioning it or something) So on Saturday he asked and I told him that it was and he preceded to tell me I was wearing a wooden hat followed by him saying "April Fool's!". Was cute, and a, you have to have kids to appreciate it type moment. Of course I had to get him back. So about a half hour later I called him in the room and told him we were going to Chucky Cheese for lunch followed by "April Fool's!". Needless to say he was mad the rest of the day. :slappy: Most days having kids is fun as hell.
 
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BUMP

I ran across this website awhile back and every now and again I go back and read a few more pranks. I normally hate April Fool's because, frankly, the quality of the Pranking Has really gone downhill. I blame Orson Welles.

Some of these pranks, however, are funny enough to make my sides hurt from laughing so hard!

Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time

#83: Diamond-Encrusted Grenades
During the 1990s stories of the ruthlessness of Russian gangsters became increasingly prevalent in the news, but apparently just because the gangsters were ruthless, that didn't mean they weren't fashion conscious. In 1996 Itar-Tass announced that a military factory had begun manufacturing diamond-encrusted grenades, which it was selling to Russian gangsters concerned about dispatching their enemies with style. "The use of such a grenade will leave your one-time rival in a sea of beautiful sparkling gems rather than in a pool of blood," the article noted.

#77: MITkey Mouse
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On April 1, 1998 the homepage of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced some startling news: the prestigious university was to be sold to Walt Disney Co. for $6.9 billion. A photograph of the university's famous dome outfitted with a pair of mouse ears accompanied the news. The press release explained that the university was to be dismantled and transported to Orlando where new schools would be added to the campus including the School of Imagineering, the Scrooge McDuck School of Management, and the Donald Duck Department of Linguistics. The fact that the announcement appeared on MIT's homepage added official credibility to it. But in fact, the announcement was the work of students who had hacked into the school's central server and replaced the school's real web page with a phony one.
 
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I usually enjoy a good April Fool's joke...but on another website I frequent they switched several of the frequently used nouns to words like "cupcake" "rainbow" and other weird crap. That wasn't bad, rather amusing...until they added the words "the" and "is" to the bad word filters. Imagine submitting a paragraph or two of text and every time you hit the submit button you have to remove/change the spelling of your "the"s and "is"s....got old fast.
 
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South Africa adds 12th official language

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Cape Town - The government has announced that Mxlish has been included as South Africa's 12th official language.

Mxlish, the language used on Mxit, has been adopted on a recommendation from the department of arts and culture and endorsed by the Pan South African Languages Board (PanSALB).

In a late parliamentary session on Thursday, the government legislated Mxlish into the South African Languages Bill (B 23?2011).

"Mxlish fits the criteria for a national language," said Xoliswa Nbete, head of the National Languages Expansion Task Team (NLETT) at PanSALB.

"It's completely indigenous to South Africa, spoken by a vast number of people across the country and can be seen in everyday use."

Mxit was pleased with the legal framework, saying that the language was already in the common South African lexicon.

Street signage

"We have even seen our users take the language to other social platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. That's a lot of talking. Or as we like to say: thtz ALT of tlkin," said Sarah Rice, vice president of Communications at Mxit.

The first street signs in Mxlish should be ready once tenders have been awarded. Reports suggest that three companies from Limpopo have been included on the preferred bidders' list.

"We are going to start with street signage as this will have an immediate and visible impact and then work towards enabling matriculants to write their final year exams in Mxlish by November 2013," said Nbete.
 
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