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The news footage is pretty convincing
If they faked that footage and even went as far faking the messed up VHS tracking, I will be very very impressed.
Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)
The news footage is pretty convincing
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Maybe these people do have a sense of humour but your jokes just aren’t as funny as you think they are?
Fine, then don't laugh. Even mock me. Tell me not to quit my day job. I don't think somebody should lose their job/be banished from society because of a bad joke.
Leave other people alone unless they opt-in. It's a basic part of a kind society.
I can’t really understand, what exactly is so funny about this “prank”?
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I'm not sure what employee actions they're supposed to support. MS didn't get a chance to 'support' this, these guys did the thing on their own. If I'm MS I'm not sure I want to do a lot to "support" them after the fact as I really don't need groups of other employees stocking the shelves with fake products... Any prank that looks like it has someone else's name on it, or approval... but isn't approved is just always…
"we didn't do this, but we suspect it was an employee. Either way, it's pretty funny."
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I still remember the prank from the late 1980s when KING ran a story that the Space Needle fell over. KING ran retractions for days, and did their best to bury the footage. I saw it when KING ran it, and had a good laugh. It was an obvious prank (the video looked like a bad cut & paste job, and the reporters were local comedians from "Almost Live"), but too bad a handful of humorless people ruined it. I ran into Bill…
this has more details of what happened on that April's fools day https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2013/05/an-oral-...
Almost Live was always making fun of Boeing, Microsoft, cops, local sports fans, anyone who lived in Kent, gangs, local hair metal bands, etc. All in good fun.
(They even got the hair metal band members to come on the show and parody themselves.)
Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)
I'd expect to see something in usenet archives, or at least some mention of it somewhere before this year, even if it's to someone complaining about the lack of evidence of it happening. Couldn't find anything. The fact I've spent some time actually looking this up though makes this the best prank of the last few years. The video especially is a masterpiece of fakery.
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Either way, it is funny that they claim to have millions of results, yet you can't go past Page 11.
That's not true. You just have to click the "with the omited results included" at the bottom of page 11, and that gives you many more pages.
AFAIK there is no way to view all of those millions of results that they claim to have.
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Either way, it is funny that they claim to have millions of results, yet you can't go past Page 11.
At least it does go to eleven. Most amps only go to ten. I hope that if you're being serious about 11 being the max, that it was a deliberate reference.