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So, now that April Fools is winding down (or is over), what in your opinion was the best hoax ever?

I say the metric system.

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So, now that April Fools is winding down (or is over), what in your opinion was the best hoax ever?

Teh moon.

Carbon dioxide causes global warming. :D

Carbon dioxide causes global warming. :D

I know, It's actually Manbearpig. I'm totally Cereal.

the earth being round.

So, now that April Fools is winding down (or is over), what in your opinion was the best hoax ever?

I say the metric system.

Isn't the non-metric system a better hoax? The metric system is actually useful.

Jesus being the Son of God and risen from the dead! :D

Yes, I am ensuring in every possible way that I am going to Hell! :D :p

So, now that April Fools is winding down (or is over), what in your opinion was the best hoax ever?

I say the metric system.

I think the best hoax is the word hoax was incorporated into our memories, yet you have to experience it in order to understand it.
It's all wrong, everything.
I think when the BBC make a mention of spaghetti trees in the 70s (or was it the 80s) millions of people believed them, and they had to make a huge apology for it.
Truely, misleading behaviour lost it's edge after that, now i have to rely on various politicians to get a really good kick.:)

Isn't this question impossible to answer? The best hoax is the one we don't know is a hoax.

I didn't do a hoax this year. I spent the day at the local children's hospital helping the kids prank the doctors and nurses(who were great sports). Some of the staff even took a pie in the face. I dipped into my stock(yes, I have a freezer chest in the basement filed with day-past expiration date pies that I get from local bakeries for almost nothing) and brought about 25 pies with me for the festivities. Special note: Make sure they are fully defrosted before use. The kids had fun, the staff had fun, the custodians are pissed. :)

The Argentinian Terror Gnome.

terrorgnome.com

Actually an awful, easy to see through hoax. But funny.

I didn't do a hoax this year. I spent the day at the local children's hospital helping the kids prank the doctors and nurses(who were great sports). Some of the staff even took a pie in the face. I dipped into my stock(yes, I have a freezer chest in the basement filed with day-past expiration date pies that I get from local bakeries for almost nothing) and brought about 25 pies with me for the festivities. Special note: Make sure they are fully defrosted before use. The kids had fun, the staff had fun, the custodians are pissed. :)

Now that is awesomeness.

Or should I accuse you of corrupting innocent children, and inflicting a sense of humor on them?

The Argentinian Terror Gnome.

terrorgnome.com

Actually an awful, easy to see through hoax. But funny.

http://terrorgnome.com/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI)

You sure that's the website?

http://terrorgnome.com/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI)

You sure that's the website?

What a dirty trick!

Now that is awesomeness.

Or should I accuse you of corrupting innocent children, and inflicting a sense of humor on them?

SOmeone had to. *nod*

I think when the BBC make a mention of spaghetti trees in the 70s (or was it the 80s) millions of people believed them, and they had to make a huge apology for it.
Truely, misleading behaviour lost it's edge after that, now i have to rely on various politicians to get a really good kick.:)

The BBC managed something amusing for this year's April Fools' day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qDl1aH9l4

Biggest hoax eh?

New zealand vodka claiming to be 40%

[you'd get more drunk off a 6-pack of beer]
[If you want vodka, buy russian-made]

SOmeone had to. *nod*

Corrupt innocent children, or accuse you?

The World Assembly

Corrupt innocent children, or accuse you?

Both. :)

the best april fools joke ever was npr's "talk of the nation" april 1, 1992 wherein they announced that richard nixon had thrown his had into the ring for the '92 elections. every caller in the first hour supported the idea and the idea that nixon was eligible for the presidency because he hadnt served 2 full years of his second term. every freaking caller was HAPPY at the thought that nixon would be running again.

of course they had all be briefed on what to say by the producer before they were put on the line

it was the scariest hour of radio since "war of the worlds" in 1938.

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The World Assembly

I was totally gonna say that.

Yes, I'm sure the United Nations is totally pissed that this game has it's own U.N. (this game, and every other political simulator) and that, after 6 years of using it, they'd choose April 1st, 2008 to make their disdain known.

'Cause movies, novels, video games, and other fictional medium HAVEN'T been using their own versions of the U.N. for decades...

My April Fools day joke was pretty good. There are still people responding to it, thinking the situation I described in my OP actually happened.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=553148

I think when the BBC make a mention of spaghetti trees in the 70s (or was it the 80s) millions of people believed them, and they had to make a huge apology for it.

This. Every time I've read about it it's seemed funnier.

I set my facebook profile to the opposite sex and proclaimed I was undergoing gender realignment. Unfortunately, no-one read it and commented :(

Australia - no British government would ever spend the money to sail a load of convicts to the other side of the world, they would just sail out into the Channel and dump them over the side. And those animals - the kangaroo, the wallaby, the drop bear etc. are all clearly made up.

global warming, the holocaust, the mainstream media's version of what happened on 9/11, evolution, and the baseless 'theory' that the Earth goes round the Sun ;)

Australia - no British government would ever spend the money to sail a load of convicts to the other side of the world, they would just sail out into the Channel and dump them over the side. And those animals - the kangaroo, the wallaby, the drop bear etc. are all clearly made up.

*Throws Rambhutan into the back of a black sedan*
*speeds off*
nothing to see here people... move along...

I have to say, that www.zug.com has a few goldies, especially the older stuff...

Newtonian physics, followed by Fox News.

So, now that April Fools is winding down (or is over), what in your opinion was the best hoax ever?

I say the metric system.
I'll agree with that... What a crock! Just a crutch for people that can't count past ten...

The next best I can think of in modern times is the War of the Worlds broadcast and, no, I didn't hear it live...

This. Every time I've read about it it's seemed funnier.

I set my facebook profile to the opposite sex and proclaimed I was undergoing gender realignment. Unfortunately, no-one read it and commented :(
when i first heard about it, it was really funny.
Maybe that tells you something about your mind processes. In other words, you're really the opposite sex you think you are.:) or maybe you like both of them equally, you know, getting the best of both worlds and all that.

I was going to tell my wife I lost my job...but she'd never buy it.

I then thought about telling her I had some horrible disease...but I have a potentially annoying one, I think.

I could tell her I'm leaving her...but she might be happy.

I suppose I could tell her I'm getting a high-paying job in another city. That's the ticket. Tokyo, perhaps.

The best hoax ever by anyone? Sidd Finch. Hands down.

The best hoax ever is a toss-up between "the moon landings were faked", "Oswlad didn't kill JFK", and "Titor is a time traveler" because all 3 are still widely believed by too many people.

Every last speech ever delivered by an elected official.

That e^(i * pi) = -1.

Real numbers, irrational numbers, and imaginary numbers in one simple expression? Yeah, that's really believable.:rolleyes:

Darwinism

That e^(i * pi) = -1.

Real numbers, irrational numbers, and imaginary numbers in one simple expression? Yeah, that's really believable.:rolleyes:

Man, that almost out-geeks my computations to learn the orbital period of Arrakis around Canoups...

The bes hoax ever (this month) was the rickrolling of GM :P

The bes hoax ever (this month) was the rickrolling of GM :P

GM?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors
???
Profit

Man, that almost out-geeks my computations to learn the orbital period of Arrakis around Canoups...

And what about the integral of e^(x^2) from negative infinity to positive infinity? How on earth could that be the sqrt(pi)???? I SEE NO PI(E)S IN THAT INTEGRAL!

GM?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors
???
Profit

I meant UMP (http://z3.invisionfree.com/UMP/index.php?act=SC&c=1) rickrolled Generalite Mafia (http://generalitemafia.ipbfree.com/index.php?) - they still have the skin in their skin selector!

Progress.

Man, that almost out-geeks my computations to learn the orbital period of Arrakis around Canoups...

No, out geeking them is being able to prove the result.

of all time then i would have to say janet cooke's jimmys world

non resolved hoaxes... well not to be a dick, but religion


and recent hoaxes where i have been the victim, well my girlfriends tried to convince me that she was pregnant, would have worked too if i didn't already know that it was aprils foo day(foo intentional)


strange its the only day that has not been commercialised

the noble gases. I've never seem any of them doing anything, ergo they don't exist;)

I say the metric system.

Nah, imperial system.

Funny, the imperial system was exported to, say, USA back when it was a colony of England's, but even after UK came to its senses, USA stuck with the relic of the British Empire.

Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Liberia, Myanmar and the United States.

Hmm, looks like developing countries seem to stick to the imperial one.

Mars Climate Orbiter — In 1999 NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used US customary units for a calculation.

Also, that's one of the most hilariously embarrassing incidents the "great American science system" has ever managed.

Source of quotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system

Oh, and after watching BBC's penguin thingy, I'll have to vote for that. It was hilarious! :D :D :D

No, out geeking them is being able to prove the result.

Euler's formula says e^(i*x) = cos(x) + i * sin(x)

x = pi

e^(i * pi) = cos(pi) + i*sin(pi)

cos(pi) = -1
sin(pi) = 0 so i * 0 = 0 leaving us with

e^(i*pi) = -1

or should I go forth with the Taylor series expansion to prove Euler's formula?

Either way, they're all hoaxes.;)

the noble gases. I've never seem any of them doing anything, ergo they don't exist;)

Xenon Tetrafluoride would beg to differ.

The Sokal Affair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair). :D

Euler's formula says e^(i*x) = cos(x) + i * sin(x)

x = pi

e^(i * pi) = cos(pi) + i*sin(pi)

cos(pi) = -1
sin(pi) = 0 so i * 0 = 0 leaving us with

e^(i*pi) = -1

or should I go forth with the Taylor series expansion to prove Euler's formula?

Either way, they're all hoaxes.;)

Yes, I know the proof. Of course, proving Euler's formula is a good start.

Anyway, if you think that's bad, try computing (e^pi)-pi. You should get 20, unless your processor has floating point rounding errors.

U. F. O.'s .

Yes, I know the proof. Of course, proving Euler's formula is a good start.

Anyway, if you think that's bad, try computing (e^pi)-pi. You should get 20, unless your processor has floating point rounding errors.

No you don't...

So, now that April Fools is winding down (or is over), what in your opinion was the best hoax ever?

I say the metric system.

Compassionate Conservatism.

States Rights.

Strict Constructionism.

Floogle's Subminimalist masterpiece "B Flat and Other Notes."

So many to choose from.

The Holocaust.



*looks around.*



*sees horrified expressions of NS Jewry.*



*sees horrified expressions of NS Jewry turn to raging hate.*



Just joking.



*sees NS Jewry getting pitchforks and torches.*



Serious answer: WMD's in Iraq.

The Holocaust.



*looks around.*



*sees horrified expressions of NS Jewry.*



*sees horrified expressions of NS Jewry turn to raging hate.*



Just joking.



*sees NS Jewry getting pitchforks and torches.*



Serious answer: WMD's in Iraq.

Too late.

*sodomizes Kahanistan with a flaming pitchfork*

Anyway, I nominate:

"The Allies are not invading at Normandy. That was a diversion. Patton is going to hit Calais any minute now."

Certainly the most elaborate hoax in history, the Allies pulled this one on the Germans in 1944. The Germans actually pulled troops from Normandy to defend Calais AFTER the Allies dropped the largest amphibious assault in human history on Normandy.

The Vietnam War.

Serious answer - the BBC penguins were not new. Channel 4 did something fairly similar with polar bears in 1997, there's an excellent archive of it at http://************/2q9j9y