April 1st
 

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

You Bastard ... :D


http://img11.exs.cx/img11/2851/412bg.th.jpg

Didn't fool me for a minute.

30 seconds maybe, but nowhere near a minute.

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

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 :|

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.

First good one of today. Thanks for the laugh!

oh my god that was mean :lol:


I fell for it hook line and sinker .Good one :thumbsup:

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...

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"

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

Thats good
:lol: great idea

^ 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.

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...

somebody beat you to it Quadro

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

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

:suave:

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

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

Had me going

*golf clap*

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.
- Hal

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. :D Noooyce. Someone needs to bring me coffee. Sooon.

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

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

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. :hmm:

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

Got me... 4 seconds.

Thanks for listening.

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!

All I have to say is Whew!

hahaha, nice one.

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


/hangs head in shame

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.

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.

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 :D

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

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.:)

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.

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.

Well, you got me - for a while.

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

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

pretty funny tho.....

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

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.