Nomad

You had me good for a couple of minutes, then I remembered today's date.

You Bastard ...

jwoody

Didn't fool me for a minute.

30 seconds maybe, but nowhere near a minute.

G-16

nice try, should have directed all related links to that page, would have been way more believeable. good effort

spived2

Heh good thing I was already on the forum long before that was posted. Pretty funny though, I guess that's why post responses went wayyy down.

/edit heh I guess if you just scroll down a little you find the main page, didn't realize this until I read the source code and wondered why there was so much code for a few lines of text

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Frosstbyte

You know, I spent 15 minutes using all the bookmarks I had to all the specific forums that I look at on a regular basis and checking to see if they all worked (which, obviously, they did). And I just sat there trying to figure out what lame ass court order failed to force you to actually take down the servers. I fail.

Edit: Also, nicely done. And I'm really glad I paused before firing off a hell of an e-mail to Hal trying to figure out how any of this could stay together. In the parlence of our times: pwn3d.

Pip

First good one of today. Thanks for the laugh!

Lin

oh my god that was mean


I fell for it hook line and sinker .Good one

TexanAvenger

Well done Hal.

But let's be honest, how long do you think you could live without us? There'd be an underground TFP movement in its beginnings before tomorrow.

Though I believe the total number of posters today will be lowered...

d*d

well I'm posting just to prove that I didn't get caught out by it
"we're you fooled by the great tfp hoax of 2005?"
"well of course I wasn't check the archive for my post"

TheBrit

www.cometblue.com/tfp/
There is.
I want Hal to link to it on the main page for a few hours!

Lin

Thats good
great idea

superiorrain

^ now that really would be funny, TFP has gone underground. If that had been link to it i would believed it hook line and sinker.

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quadro2000

I was just about to post a thread asking people to post their favorite April Fools' websites for today, because I love finding them. TFP was the first one I found.

Of course, with Hal, we all know what "gag order" means...

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ShaniFaye

somebody beat you to it Quadro

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=86430

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

fulltiltgonzo

You should have directed everyone to some NSFW web-site! That would have been a hoot!

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thriolith

Didn't fool me for a second either. Just had to figure out what to do without the stupid index though... heh...

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ShaniFaye

I guess because I always go to view new posts I missed the fun....the only time I ever hit the forum link is to look at the birthdays, I wouldnt have known anything was up without this thread lol

good one hal

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

feelgood

Had me going

*golf clap*

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Blackthorn

Holy crap I've been in Vegas all week and I'm up at 5:00am on a conference call doing the usual "let's check out TFP while this bozo drones on and on" and then I get this:

Due to legal reasons, I have been forced to shut down the TFP.
A gag order has been issued and I cannot talk about this case.
It's been a great 3+ years filled with growth, laughter and togetherness.
It's a damn shame it had to end.
Hopefully I'll see you all again after this has been sorted through.
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Arrrrrrrgh!!! I blurt out without thinking about it on this call..."What the fuck???....oooops should have been on mute". There was a bit of laughter. Then I email maleficent who politely told me I'm a schmuck. Noooyce. Someone needs to bring me coffee. Sooon.

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pinkie

I wasn't fooled but for a secie-poo.

stevo

Had me for a minute, then I saw a April1 link....Good try, almost had me going to fark

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Squishor

Okay, I have to admit I totally fell for it. Can we blame the time of day? Lack of coffee? Anything at all?

The truth is I'm embarrassingly gullible...it's a shameful thing, but I once even fell for that line about "gullible" not being in the dictionary.

tecoyah

eight seconds......and that was without coffee...heh

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wwcd101

Got me... 4 seconds.

Thanks for listening.

abaya

Got me too, I'll admit for a good 10 seconds or so, until I realized I could click on other links. Nice try, probably best attempt of the day!

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JBX

All I have to say is Whew!

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Xeno

hahaha, nice one.

Glory's Sun

yeah ok.. I fell for it ..for a minute I thought life as I knew it was over


/hangs head in shame

laconic1

Got me for about two minutes. I have the forum index page bookmarked so I never even saw the main page was up. I went to stickfigurepeepshow to see if some replacement was there, like the last time TFP went down. Then I woke up and remembered what day it was.

1slOwCD8

Had me the whole time, until i saw that people were still posting. Then i was more confused. Then i saw this thread........ haha good one, didnt realize it was april fools.

Amnesia620

scarletleo pointed it out to me last night, so I talked to Hal and told him that I was pretty sure it was a prank and that I would keep quiet...and I did.

Happy April Fool's, Everyone

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rockogre

Nice try, I've been away a while, but not that long.

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*Nikki*

I am a mod and I was fooled. I had to talk to my buddy Daval and he sorted it all out for me then I felt like a complete idiot. Oh well.

snowy

I was soooo worried for about two minutes...then I figured it out.

Thank goodness for Google...which routed me to a page around it...muahaha.

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the_marq

Jeez, I didn't even read it. As soon as I saw the page was changed I when to my history file to find an internal link.

I am so smrt.

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ubertuber

Well, you got me - for a while.

Made me realize how much I like the place, that's for sure!

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Ripsaw

5 seconds. I had just finished asking a co-worker who we were going to get for April fools. Nice job.

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Janey

pretty funny tho.....

edmos1

got me, I refreshed, once, and thought to myself, then I looked at the scroll bar, good laugh

biznatch

oh my godddd....At first I was like whoa that royaly sucks..
And then I was like, waiiit a minute how come I just checked the forums (from the mail notification links) and there were no problems?
So yeah, maybe he really did get a problem, but fooled the legal system...and left the rest of the site running. so i went to general discussion. And I can't say I ever thought "April Fool's Day". Good one Hal, you got me.