04-01-2005, 09:44 AM | #45 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: Metro Detroit, Mich, USA
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You got me for the past half hour or so!
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04-01-2005, 09:52 AM | #46 (permalink) |
AHH! Custom Title!!
Location: The twisted warpings of my brain.
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Awww, I missed out until I found the thread, but I did all my morning browsing just waiting for somebody to pull something and I missed the best one!
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04-01-2005, 09:56 AM | #47 (permalink) | |
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I thought zug.com had the best prank of the year. The whole thing about the free vasectomies for fat men was a prank. That had national attention.
http://www.pnmj.org/last.asp Quote:
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04-01-2005, 10:05 AM | #48 (permalink) |
Watcher
Location: Ohio
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I'm a dork also. I blame only having one cup of coffee to that point. I click, I get the message.
*blink*blink* okay... Now, considering that I made 1/2" wide labels that said "April Fools!" and stuck them on the undersides of my co-workers mice last night before I left (at midnight), I'm going to assume this is a joke. Okay, view source... I read some code. I see it's all still there. so...why don't I see it? Hm, I keep looking. I see all the "< br >" in the "message" table, and.....nothing clicks. Now I nuke the cookies and go to see the main page. Okay, it's there. Hm. Do some clicking, find my way around. The site's there. *sips coffee* "now what the hell..." Go back to the "message" page...read source.... OH! br. Duh. *smack head* *scroll down* Sigh. Happy April 1st all! Thanks Hal!
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04-01-2005, 10:09 AM | #50 (permalink) |
The Cover Doesn't Match The Book
Location: in a van down by the river
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he got me, and I'm man enough to admit it
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04-01-2005, 10:22 AM | #52 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: Massachusetts
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God DAMN. For a good 5 minutes I was having a little freak out session, then I realized what day it was. SHITE
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04-01-2005, 10:43 AM | #54 (permalink) |
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Location: K-W. Err... -dot.
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Heh, I actually went around checking all my favourite sites, to see what 'fools they would try to be pulling. I almost expected the mighty TFP to say it had been shut down, or to get a random redirect. You had me wondering a little bit until I scrolled down though. :P
Happy 'Fools!
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04-01-2005, 11:36 AM | #57 (permalink) |
Getting it.
Super Moderator
Location: Lion City
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Had me for a little then I remembered what day it was...
Problem was I didn't think to scroll down... I've been waiting all day for the damn site to start up and have pictures of Hal laughing his ass off...
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04-01-2005, 12:05 PM | #61 (permalink) |
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I had my boyfriend's number dialed waiting to tell him that my favorite forum was being shutdown and how I didn't know how I would spend my time without it. But then I realized what today was and felt like an idiot!
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04-01-2005, 12:11 PM | #63 (permalink) |
Lord of All Fevers and Plagues
Location: Brockton, MA
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I knew as soon as I saw it what it was... but it still took me a couple minutes to figure out how to get in.
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04-01-2005, 12:25 PM | #65 (permalink) |
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Location: this ain't kansas, toto
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yknow, i was actually concerned... since the tfp myspace group actually disappeared today too. i thought maybe they were connected in the shut down.
i think i may have figured it out sooner if my husband wasn't home today keeping me offline. but yeah, good ol' "check source code" to the rescue. i haven't had a good apr fools prank for many many yrs. hal, y'bastard. hahahakisshahaha
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04-01-2005, 02:17 PM | #68 (permalink) |
Banned from being Banned
Location: Donkey
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I knew it was an April Fool's joke right away, but I had to have a friend tell me about the whole "scrolling down" thing.
I thought "Hm, okay.. I'm sure others will be fooled, but you mean I actually have to WORK today?! C'mon.. bring it back up."
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04-01-2005, 02:20 PM | #69 (permalink) |
Thank God hockey is back
Location: Deeeeeetroit
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never got me, I was linked right from my email to one of the threads and i replied to it, then i came back later in the day and got that so i figured it was bs. :-p nice effort though hal.
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04-01-2005, 02:23 PM | #70 (permalink) | |
Insane
Location: bangor pa
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god damn it dont scare me like that... now what if i didnt scroll down... and never came back again...:-( well that probably would have made evryone here happy!!!
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04-01-2005, 02:26 PM | #71 (permalink) |
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Location: New England
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I have bookmarks that take me directly to "View new posts" and "Advanced search", so I wouldn't have seen this prank at all if you guys hadn't mentioned it.
Where's Halx to gloat about his success? I also wonder if he pulled any other tricks, he had some great ones last year.
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04-01-2005, 03:24 PM | #77 (permalink) |
bAck iN aCtiOn!
Location: in my imagination
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yeah i got totally owned. i knew today was april fools, but JStrider msg'd me on aim saying "hey did you see the TFP today? " so i was like "i saw it yesterday and it was fine....why, what happened?" and he's like "just go see it" so i did and i didn't realize there was a scroll bar n stuff. then talking to another TFP'er on aim he was like "you're seriously freakin out over this?" and then things started dawning on me. bleh damn JS!
really good one hal! thanks for the laugh!
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04-01-2005, 03:30 PM | #78 (permalink) |
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Location: Netherlands
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Guess I'm just the grumpy guy here, but being in a country where it's been april fools all day and checking out my fav websites after coming home from going out to a bar, I'm kindof annoyed to find most of them littered with April Fools jokes. I mean... most of them aren't even usable anymore...
Then again... this hasn't been a good day... Blah... think I should just get some sleep now...
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04-01-2005, 04:04 PM | #79 (permalink) |
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Location: Brook Cottage, Lanark, Scotland
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You dont know what you have till its gone.
Lets hope a little more appreciation and some Financial contributions are the result. I was panicking for 15 minutes!
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04-01-2005, 04:34 PM | #80 (permalink) |
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Location: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, i.e. Oklahoma
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Made me tilt my head but if I hadn't been able to check the board from a message follow up I would have been more concerned. Good one.....
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