Rainwulf

i got caught for it

flamingdog

Actually kept me for a while. It was only when I clicked on a bookmarked thread and it loaded that I raised an eyebrow.

And I even realised it was April Fools' Day... and never made the connection. God...

Willravel

*clicked on tfp in bookmarks bar*
"HUH?!"
*reads message*
"Someone is suing TFP! What can I do?!"
*notices scroll*
*goes to the fridge to get some humble pie*

Very, very good one. Got me for a good seven seconds.

OFKU0

Would have been classic if everyone stayed off the board the whole day leaving Hal to think everyone believed his prank.

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loganmule

this late in the day and I still get to be the first to comment that this was HALarious...or am I the only one uncool enough to go for the cheap pun? Anyway, cheers to all.

cait987

didn't fool me just had to find a way around the white screen of death lol

Grasshopper Green

You got me. I figured it was an April Fool's joke but never thought of the scroll bar until another TFP'er enlightened me...d'oh.

/smacks forehead


Good one!

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Halx

Gotcha!

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bobby

HOPE I DIDN'T ADD TO MUCH TO YOU'RE LITTLE JOKE....LOVE YA ,BOBBY XOXOXOO

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slant eyes

good one hal. and to think, i was really pissed, even left a message on www.ventanger.com about it

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DID YOU GO TO THE "NEW" TFP I FOUND.....


XOXOXOO

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new_timer

Nice joke. Had me going for a bit, then I figured it out.

G5_Todd

lol he got me....i figured he got in trouble with irs for not paying taxes on the donations or something

present_future

You had me for about a minute, and then I realized the date. I had nothing to do the whole day without my TFP.

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Seething

I woke up knowing fully well what day it was. Didn't get me for a sec.

Next time, link to some phony legal documents. And use some funny names for the lawyers involved. "I'm using my attorneys Locke, Schtock, and Barrell as my defense. They're shooting every possible angle as to how I can get the site back."

Nice try though.

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BuDDaH

I knew something was up, the little bastard didnt say jack to me about any issues with TFP, by the time I got off work last night, my phone was ringing off the hook from members asking what the hell was going on. I went to the page and saw it. Since being his house mate, I ALMOST went in his room to jerk him out of bed and pummel him for not letting me in on it...

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paddyjoe

Now, I feel like an idiot...





bastard............

Fly

......*understatement*........

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Aladdin Sane

You bastard! I was fooled until this very minute! I was looking at my browser history and clicked on a url for a TPF discussion that I visited a few days ago. Of course it came up, and here I am. Damn! Until now, I mean right this sec, I thought this place was history.
Good one, Hal.

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Blue Fish

I wasn't fooled but I also didn't realize you could still access the forum through other methods. Just figured I had to wait 24 hours before logging on again.

amonkie

There's a few more gullible people who haven't posted in here that ontop of the "malfunctioning" board, we were also able to convince that the IRC Chat was being spied upon and closed down

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wolf

I almost fell for it. It took me about 20 minutes to remember the date. Then when I saw the joke Google played, I remembered. Nice one Hal.

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little_tippler

hmmmm as you probably have gathered I got fooled! My SO was the one who had a look later and said, um, it's April Fool's, the forum is still there. hm. I feel stupid

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StanT

@#$%^&*

Figured out the April Fools thing right away. Figuring out how to navigate without landing on the joke page took me a while.

HamiC

I was so sad....and gullible. Well done.

Scorps

That was a good fool there hal...first I forgot it was april 1st, then I rememberrd but when 12pm came along and it was still down it made me think!

Blackthorn

HA! I knew you used smileys....

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G5_Todd

what joke did google play?

maleficent

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