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List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by undersuit »

SilasX wrote: post #336
polemic wrote: post #88

Double bluff in today's New Zealand Herald: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti... The "April Fools' Day special" promised a new BMW to the first person who took their car and the front-page coupon to the dealership. Ms Marsh was first at the Newmarket car dealership this morning, arriving in her 15-year-old Nissan Avenir. She was swiftly rewarded with a new BMW 1 Series worth almost $50,000…

How is that April Fools? The offer was serious and they honored it. It's not like e.g. offering all of YouTube on DVDs.

It was literally titled the April Fools Day Special and on a day where the pranks vary from annoying programs that mess with my keyboard input to annoying news articles that mess with my sanity. I wouldn't have driven down to that dealership it they were giving away junkers or Bugatti Veyrons not to mention a BMW.

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Post by johnl1479 »

rcarmo wrote: post #5

CERN researchers confirm the existence of the Force http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researche...

This is my favorite today so far

> With the research ongoing, many at CERN are already predicting that the Force will awaken later this year.

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Post by JoblessWonder »

Thriptic wrote: post #292
tajen wrote: post #67

April fools I wanted the most: - NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities, - Water allowed on board of planes, - ISIS converting to Christianity, - Apple patenting the patent, - Snapchat releasing a payment system Note that April Fools is on December 28th in Spannish culture. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable...

> NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities I was thinking of something more along the lines of "NSA brings suit against NSA after it learns that tailored operations group was secretly spying on other divisions of the NSA".

> Wired has learned that the NSA has filed a confidential request for records from the NSA due to suspected illegal activities.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

nvader wrote: post #370

David Beazley releases Meẗal, a python decorator library powered by umlauts. https://github.com/dabeaz/me-al

Haha, I love this bit of the README:

> If the above command fails with an ImportError, you're probably using a Mac. That's an unfortunate choice as you can't really expect a toy machine like that to be used for serious tasks.

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