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.

Had me fooled, until my gf pointed out that it is April 1st.

good job, thats the first time in years that someone has gotten me that bad.

Nice one Hal :P
I saw the scroll bar on the right though, so scrolled down and started browsing.. then realized oh yeah it's april 1st.

All that did ws make me poke around for a different way in.

Ohhhhh you got me man, I fell for it. And I thought maybe you got into trouble because of the titty board or something.

You got me for the past half hour or so!

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!

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

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!

hook, line, & sinker

he got me, and I'm man enough to admit it

I was half-convinced for a little while. It was mostly "Okay, when is Hal gonna fix the forum index so I can use it".

God DAMN. For a good 5 minutes I was having a little freak out session, then I realized what day it was. SHITE

Got a good chuckle out of me. :) This, in the midst of plotting April Fool's Day gags on our late coworkers. :D

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!

Nice job. Got me for a minute

had me for about two minutes. =)

nice try though, almost worked

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...

Ok - you got me really good. I even admitted my ignorance at another site :)

Having visited fark before here sort of made it obvious. =)

You do know you can scroll down to see the actual page right?

So tricky! :thumbsup:

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!

As i use Firefox's Live Bookmarks, i never go trhough the main page. Anyway, that was a good one!!

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. :D

It didnt occur to me that the scroll bar showed a lot of real estate left at the bottom of the page.

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.
:thumbsup: hal, y'bastard. hahahakisshahaha

good one. you had me bitching for a minute

I belived it for about 5 seconds. I actually exclaimed outloud, "What?!" But then I remembered what it is.

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."

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.

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!!!

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.

My heart dropped whenever I read the first line. Then I saw the word "gag" and put 2 and 2 together. Still a good one.

i didn't fall for it at all, though it took me some time to figure out how to get back in here : P

You would've gotten me good, Hal, but for the PM popup message from bundy. :)
Good joke! :thumbsup:

Nice! Cold blooded, but nice. Ya got me...

har har! I wasnt fooled for a second, I just clicked on the 'recent posts' list and it worked fine! And on a side note today is my brothers 18th birthday! My 20th is in exactly one week

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! :)

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...

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!

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.....

i got caught for it :(

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

Gotcha!

;)

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

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

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


XOXOXOO :crazy:

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

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

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

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

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. :)

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...

Now, I feel like an idiot...





bastard............ :thumbsup:

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

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.

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.