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Post by trashcanman on Apr 1, 2011 20:53:04 GMT 2
The bossman is out on leave right now so no Fortress reports of Howard the Duck sequels or false hacker attacks this year. So let us live vicariously through legendary April Fools pranks through the years through the eyes of UGO. www.ugo.com/best-of-web/april-fools-day |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 5, 2011 16:52:44 GMT 2
After Halloween, April Fool's is easily my favourite time of year. It doesn't go on too long and it can lead to some genuinely inspired moments. And it's even better when thousands of people fall for it. I remember someone telling me about the diet tap water that they heard about yesterday, and I was like, "uh huh. And what was the date yesterday?"
I remember when I was about 11, my sister and I phoned my teacher and I put on this very posh accent and told her she had won first prize in a supermarket sweep, and she would be given five minutes to collect everything she could in the supermarket. She told me she hadn't entered and I said, "oh, we get that a lot. It may have been a family member" and she said, "oh, it was probably my sister." Yeahh.. probably. So it went on for about ten minutes, and I said she just had to answer some questions, favourite breakfast cereal, favourite chocolate etc. "And so the final question.. can you tell me the days date?" She said "April 1st." And I said, "right, and what is that date also known as..?" She said "April Fo.....ah." I started young back then.
That list has some classics for sure. The Zelda thing must've driven some people insane trying to find it. And swapping cartoon strips? Man, I LOVE this shit.
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Post by trashcanman on Apr 5, 2011 23:05:24 GMT 2
Good times, man. I remember I read an issue of Rolling Stone some years ago that had an advance review of Chinese Democracy, which had been delayed by about 10 years at that point and was pretty much considered a joke that would never materialize and I actually bought into the review until they dropped a hint at the end. Another year, The Offspring announced on April Fools that their next album would be titled Chinese Democracy and Axl Rose had a shitfit and sent his army of lawyers to their doorstep. That's twice that lame motherfucker got punked on 4-1.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 7, 2011 13:19:00 GMT 2
If I remember correctly, wasn't it "Chinese Democracy (You Snooze, You Lose!)" I would have caused a rift in the space time contium by actually buying an Offspring record if that happened.
What about the time when Digitizer (cult, revered, hilarious and sorely missed) "digital games magazine" (found on the information pages of British TV, long before the net) printed a story on April 1st about a new Sonic movie being made, but instead of a hedgehog they were casting a small boy with blue spiky hair. Even they were amazed by the amount of people who believed it.
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