April Fools (2011)

[Bockage]

Google is doing another april fools gag. I think it's pretty well done.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

[Titanss]

Army said they were changing hats to stetson. Glad to see they are keeping busy

[Eticket]

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/33250


http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...p&flushCache=1


http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/01...%99-of-gaming/

[Skyylya]

I did a pretty nice one at work today.

I work in an admissions department for an online college. I told my manager it would be funny if she told our director that she was going to resign out of the blue and go work for another school for better pay. She thought it was a good idea and even got a couple of the other managers to do it as well. Everything was going according to plan, they thought that our director would be freaking out thinking he'd have nobody to essentially run our admissions teams.

Well, I also went to my director and told him of the plan that the manager's were going to be submitting their letters of resignation after their morning meetings. His role to play was that for my manager he was going to accept her resignation on the spot, demand her key card and have her escorted out of the building by security.

It went flawlessly, after the morning manager's meeting three of them walked into the director's office to give him the news of the plan. After about a 15 minute meeting where he was playing along and acting concerned he told the other two manager's to leave the office and kept my manager behind for more discussion. After a few more minutes he called in our HR director and they walked her out of the office to the elevator, the whole time she was trying to back track and say it was an April fools yada yada.

She was freaking out thinking she'd actually now resigned the whole way. It wasn't until after he put her on the elevator and before she was about to have the door close in her face that he stopped the door and started cracking up.

It was sooooo funny and worked perfectly. I had a pretty fun day at work.

[Eticket]

http://www.gamegripe.co.uk/2011/04/0...-3-set-planet/

[Correction]

Nobody cares, but our public broadcaster (RTBF) inserted a fake in the news report about the UN sending us their own (Cameroonian) envoy to resolve the political crisis.

KCRW in los angeles has been running bogus news stories all day, from a new eye surgery that removes the need for 3D glasses in theaters and for use with 3DHDTVs to technology that lets food producers print coupon codes directly onto things like uncooked steak and ice cream cones.

[Mathematics]

friend kicked me in the nuts at work on wednesday, dropped me.

work tonight: me and him take out the big trashcan together(we work at a restaurant), he gets one side, i get the other. we both lift and start to go towards the dumpster. i kick him in the nuts from under the lifted trash can. when he was weak after the initial blow, i dumped the rest of this some odd 60 pound trash can onto him.

he laid there in filth and pain. "april fools!"

[Khamsin]

1911 button for Youtube videos.

Was that like the textp button, but instead made videos look like they were silent movies from the 1910s?

[Isiolia]

Was that like the textp button, but instead made videos look like they were silent movies from the 1910s?

Yeah, it put an old-film filter on the video and played piano music.

[aduidarnenye]

I can't decide if this is an April Fool's joke or not:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...bacon-fat.html

Halifax Water is warning residents to be careful about what they pour down the kitchen sink after an accumulation of bacon fat clogged sewage pipes in the Ridgeview Drive subdivision in Bedford.

Some basements were damaged when raw sewage built up during a two-week break in February and spewed into homes.

Dan Legge said it's not the first time the basement of his Ridgeview Drive home has flooded this way.

"Almost the entire level here was impacted," he said Friday."It would have come in through the toilet, through the shower and, of course, all over the floor."

Halifax Water general manager Carl Yates said crews sent cameras down manholes, and discovered the problem was created by bacon fat. The cameras sent back images of thick, white congealed fat, oil and grease.

"Most people think, 'If I just pour a little bit down, what's the big deal?' But, you know, if there's a couple hundred thousand people doing the same thing throughout the city, I mean it's going somewhere," Yates said Friday.

"It doesn't just go away, it congeals and it clogs the pipes."

Some homeowners say Halifax Regional Municipality should be paying for the cleanup.

Residents of one house told CBC News that their basement was destroyed when Halifax Water brought in hoses to blast through the congealed mess. Their insurance company is now fighting with the city over who should pay.

"I'm sure that's something that'll be reviewed, and if it's an insurance matter, it'll definitely be referred to our insurance or through the homeowners insurance and whoever's found to be liable in this, we'll certainly straighten it out," Yates said.

Coun. Tim Outhit, who lives in the neighbourhood, knows about these floods — sewage flooded his basement a few years ago. But he doesn't know why people in the area appear to be eating so much bacon.

"I always thought it was a pretty healthy neighbourhood. We're always out walking and shovelling and bicycling. But apparently someone along here likes their fried food," he said.

Halifax Water said grease build up is a common problem around restaurants in the city, but they're not sure why it's happening in this neighbourhood.

It's sending out flyers this week to remind homeowners to be careful about what they pour down their drains.

[Elesirdur]

Don't really think it's a joke at all. The Capital Regional District here in Victoria recently issued a press release that was put in the papers a few weeks ago about the same kind of thing. Lots of people disposing of fats down the kitchen sink and using their "toilets like garbage disposals" and the toll it's taking on the region's sewage system.

[Siniroth]

Missed thread earlier. I went with the classic change clothes in an obvious fashion (jeans + T shirt to sweat pants + hockey jersey to business suit in this case) every hour or so while hanging out with people and act like nothing's different.

[Kerberoz]

They should just skim the grease and use it to generate electricity.

[Plow]

[#686578]

Every video on youtube should redirect to Rebecca Black's friday song.

youtube is doing it wrong

[#686578]

http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/x...hromercise.png

Just got my Chrome Finger Sweatbands in the mail today

[zoobernut]

Oh shit hope mine get here soon!