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#225217 - 04/01/09 08:37 PM

Your Favorite April Fools (2009)?

Gizmo

Registered: 06/05/06
Posts: 14995
Loc: Portland, OR; USA

So I'm poking around and saw several of Google's April Fools this year, and I must say, Tisp is far better than CADIE.

I didn't bother with any April fools at my sites; just not into them anymore :/...

So, my question to you; what was your favourite April Fools this year? How about of all time?

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#225220 - 04/01/09 08:38 PM

Re: Your Favorite April Fools (2009)? [Re: Gizmo]

David Dreezer Offline

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Registered: 07/21/06
Posts: 2199

Did you see w00t.com or tdwtf? Bother were marvelous.

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#225222 - 04/01/09 08:39 PM

Re: Your Favorite April Fools (2009)? [Re: David Dreezer]

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Registered: 07/21/06
Posts: 2199

Oh, accuratereloading.com was also supreme.

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#225224 - 04/01/09 08:40 PM

Re: Your Favorite April Fools (2009)? [Re: David Dreezer]

Gizmo

Registered: 06/05/06
Posts: 14995
Loc: Portland, OR; USA

I did enjoy W00t's big bag o'crap... the million dollar shipping charges held me back though

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#225235 - 04/02/09 09:19 AM

Re: Your Favorite April Fools (2009)? [Re: Gizmo]

Mitch P. Offline

old hand

Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 827

I publish a fishing site. One year I redirected my site to PETA. People were freaking out, thinking the site got hacked. A local TV station even did a story on it, thinking the site really was hacked. (They never even contacted me to check.)

Other years I came up with stories like the site being sold or me not having time to do it anymore. The board was closed down entirely for the day. People freaked and the emails poured in.

Yesterday I posted a bogus story about a new world record fish that many are seeking (largemouth bass). Not as over-the-top as other years, but it got a few people.

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#225240 - 04/02/09 01:31 PM

Re: Your Favorite April Fools (2009)? [Re: Mitch P.]

AllenAyres Offline

Registered: 12/29/03
Posts: 1995
Loc: Texas

I "backgraded" the forum at UBBDev to an earlier 5.x series - was pretty funny when people showed up

One year we forwarded everyone to one of several other sites, most everyone thought we were hacked

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#225241 - 04/02/09 01:35 PM

Re: Your Favorite April Fools (2009)? [Re: AllenAyres]

Gizmo

Registered: 06/05/06
Posts: 14995
Loc: Portland, OR; USA

Now that sounds fun... Hack all of the template files and stylesheets to make a theme that looks like an old (anciently old) classic or threads build... but it running completely current code lol...

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#225243 - 04/02/09 02:10 PM

Re: Your Favorite April Fools (2009)? [Re: Gizmo]

Mitch P. Offline

old hand

Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 827

Like the template joke.

I also wanted to find a away to serve the forum upside down. It would be fully functional, just upside down.

Possible for one of you coding experts?

Edited by Mitch P. (04/02/09 02:10 PM)

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#225259 - 04/02/09 02:46 PM

Re: Your Favorite April Fools (2009)? [Re: Mitch P.]

driv

Pooh-Bah

Registered: 01/10/04
Posts: 2377

Here ya go...

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> 
document.write("<style type=\"text/css\">"); 
document.write("body \{ filter: fliph flipv \}"); 
document.write("</style>"); 
</script>