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April Fools 2008

Effigy2000 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:05:40 -0800

AprilFoolsDayOnTheWeb brings you the most complete listing of April Fools' Day Jokes that Web Sites have run each year from 2004 all the way up to today. Also, the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time. Meanwhile, Google seems to be up to its old tricks...

What fools these mortals be.

Fourmyle — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:48:33 -0800

Regularly-updated listing of today's April Fools jokes on the web. Add 'em if you've got 'em.

April Fools

badstone — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:00:01 -0800

Top 100 April Fools Hoaxes of all time. Also, April Fools on the Net - a history of newsgroup April Fools posts.

Heavy Metal

skechada — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:59:21 -0800

Pictures of the tin-foil apartment - a New Year's Eve prank taken to the nth degree...

April's Fools day, and the origins thereof.

taumeson — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:15:58 -0800

Anybody know the origin of April Fool's day? We already have a post about the greatest hoaxes of all time, but doesn't anybody know WHY we hoax and trick? I won't tell you why here....but I find it funny, what with the current jingoism and all, that it comes from France...after you digest that first link, read more at urbanlegends.com.

Pay no attention to the shooting.

jonz — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:25:42 -0800

As a brief distraction from all the death and destruction, let's head over to the museum of hoaxes, where we'll find the top 100 April Fool's day pranks of all time. Good luck with your own respective hoaxing.

jokeefe — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:44:24 -0800

MIT webpage modified for April Fool's Day. We've seen the Google Pigeon page, and EBay, and even our beloved Mefi (can I say that I actually like this look better?). Have we got a thread which is collecting web page AFD jokes? I didn't see one. If not, perhaps this could serve as a start?

ggggarret — Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:20:26 -0800

april fools from ebay i hadn't realized it was april fools until the nice people at ebay reminded me.

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 21:15:15 -0800

Are You Ready For April Fool's Day? Better read the Museum of Hoaxes's March Newsletter to find out. Certain pranks are already in progress, while other recent hoaxes - of which at least one was seriously discussed here on MetaFilter - remain fresh in our minds. Real aficionados and sleuths, of course, will head straight for the hoax websites pages, where some seem too good - or too awful - not to be true. In Southern Europe, April Fool's Day is known as Liars' Day and everyone is entitled - nay, compelled! - to invent at least one big whopper. Any ideas?

ronsens — Sun, 01 Apr 2001 03:59:39 -0800

Pith and Vinegar is a hosting company now?

jjg — Sun, 01 Apr 2001 03:19:20 -0800

Happy April Fool's Day! I just stumbled across my first prank page of the season. How about you?

Steven Den Beste — Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:41:59 -0800

April 1 was two weeks ago, guys. [I can't believe they could be so stupid.]

mrmorgan — Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:01:50 -0800

Latest on the mcsweeneys.net takeover. If this is a prank, it's already getting old. I keep hoping for some big humor payoff, but I'm the MTV generation--speed things up! Darnit!

mathowie — Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:36:03 -0800

I can't tell if this is an April Fool's parody of a certain someone or not, but have a great weekend! I'm still digging!

mathowie — Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:10:12 -0800

This is one of the funniest office pranks I've seen in a while. A few months ago, I proposed filling a coworker's office with ballons, but the packing peanuts are much better (and funnier). [stolen from brig]