Posted Apr 01, 2008 in adventures, culture, richmond, in
Well, you know my criteria for good April Fool’s Day jokes. Here’s what I’ve kept track of so far for the day:
- I had a little fun with the users of the Palladium-Item forums who like to post anonymous rants. It resulted in at least one phone call threatening legal action against me and started at least one conversation about the nature of privacy on the Internet, so I consider that a mild success.
- Jim Hair, photographer and community activist extraordinaire, announced he and his wife Vicki are moving back to California after he accepted a position there. Funny on a number of levels, but mostly so because of what they’ve invested in Richmond.
- Jean Harper is at least fantasizing about a good joke, though I’m concerned about her allegations that members of the Earlham College swim team are promiscuous. Wait, does Earlham have a swim team? Ahem.
- Google’s got it going on with a new kind of wakeup alarm, plans for colonizing Mars, and a way to never send an e-mail that’s late.
- Lawmakers in Congress are “criticizing” oil industry executives for not investing in renewable resources – jolly good show!
What else ya got?
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Posted April 1, 2008 at 10:46 pm
wickdly funny prank chris! on so many levels...
would have been nice if the site admin let peoples sphincters pucker a bit longer 
i appreciate you! happy april 1st, 2008
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Posted April 2, 2008 at 7:41 am
I love the P-I joke -- i cracked up.
(PS: No clue about the swim team...)
Posted April 2, 2008 at 10:24 am
By the way, thanks for highlighting that very time-consuming and elaborate prank that Congress pulled.
I'm pretty sure that one took a lot of effort by a lot of people years to pull off!
Posted April 6, 2008 at 11:43 pm
This one got me:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/01/april_1st/
I didn't catch on that I had heard it on Apr 1 until a couple of days later when I was indignantly telling someone else about it.
doh!
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Posted April 1, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I applied to join Google Mars crew, but apparently I'm too "distressingly normal" for the job.
Bummer.