The (Un)official April Fools' Day 2011 Thread.

Depending on your timezone, April Fools' day is already well under way. So, this thread's to discuss pranks pulled by websites, pranks pulled in real life, your own pranks, prank speculation, whatever...
 
By the way, this site's great for tracking website pranks; there's nothing that interesting at the moment, but I'm sure that will change soon enough :o

I have it on good authority that this will be Wikipedia's featured article tomorrow.

A big home-opener win by the Cleveland Indians  April 1 over the Chicago White Sox would be quite an April Fool's prank.

April Fool's is the opiate of the people.

Referring to things as the opi[um] of the people is the opium of the sardonic.

Every year I always say that absolutely nothing is going to fool me. I then end up being puzzled by some small or minor thing I never saw coming, or some huge thing that has the plausibility of being true.

Cant wait to see what shenanigans they use on tomorrow's Happy Hour.

i got laid

Youtube 1911 is pretty good.

Myself and 14 other guys I work with (we do field support) are all "pretending" to call out tomorrow.. and make the inside staff @ our office freak the hell out.
 
somewhat lame, but simultaneously hilarious. 

So the april fools joke is that this thread is actually official?

" i got laid "

I'm psyched to see Blizzard's gag this year.

" I'm psyched to see Blizzard's gag this year. "

boo it's april fools again. i'm going to try and not be here or online because of crappy pranks that sites are going to pull. i remember a couple of years ago all of youtube's front videos were rickrolls, which i found pretty funny. there were some people that put like hey this isn't the video that i clicked on.

Okay, look at these glasses from ThinkGeek 
 
I can't shake the feeling that I've seen it somewhere else before.

Looking forward to what the Internet has to throw at us tomorrow (it's 10:30pm March 31 here). I hope I fall for something this year. 
 
EDIT: The "Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911" is hilarious.

Was the tested thing a joke too?

Anyone interested in a $1 Million dollar 360 controller?  
 
http://www.evilcontrollers.com/products/modded-controllers/evil-specials/evil-bling.html

I feel bad for anyone that has to report real news today. 
 
I remember the Square Enix merger happening on April Fool's Day.

Gamefaqs seems to be celebrating their 40th birthday today. You can read about it on the site. It had me for about 5 seconds.
 
Also this:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTUkoYorBxg&feature=feedu

" Waiting for Half Life 3 announcement. "

While I did say this in another thread, I'd like to say this one more time:
 
This is going to be a rough April 1st.
 
Oh and if anyone says anything about developer/publisher Cing being brought out of bankruptcy and developing another game with Kyle Hyde in it as a joke just for today, I'll cut you!

" @Rayfield said:

" Waiting for Half Life 3 announcement. "

Maximum troll. "

" @ajamafalous said:

" @Rayfield said:

" Waiting for Half Life 3 announcement. "

Maximum troll. "

Are you trying to imply that Crysis 3 and Half Life 3 will actually be the same game :o
 
If they do actually combine the two games together, it should be called:

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

Mid-Life Crysis 3

"

I hate April fools....see you tomorrow giantbomb.

Wikipedia's featured image of the day: 
 
    
 

   A 1513  portrait of an unknown Duchess , possibly  Margaret, Countess of Tyrol , by  Flemish  painter  Quentin Matsys . She holds a red flower in her right hand, at the time a symbol of engagement, indicating that she is trying to attract a suitor. This portrait inspired the appearance of the  Duchess  in  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . The portrait is Matsys' best-known work, and formed half of a  diptych . The painting is in the  National Gallery  in London.

I like the Destructoid approach, may as well go completely ridiculous with it. No one is going to take any news posted today seriously anyway.

=)
 
  

" I like the Destructoid approach, may as well go completely ridiculous with it. No one is going to take any news posted today seriously anyway. "

I truly hate April 1st.

" @Marokai: It hates you too. "

" @Sweep:  Amazon page for a book using that image. Do you have one for still not sure if serious? "

" @example1013 said:

" @Sweep:  Amazon page for a book using that image. Do you have one for still not sure if serious? "

Someone place an order for that book and see what happens! "

Oh, and Grooveshark's website is shit. They literally put a red/cyan filter on the WHOLE DAMN THING.

" @StarvingGamer: I never knew the formal definition of sardonic. Also, opiates exist, so I don't understand why you're correcting me.  I do like the idea of being mockingly cynical, though. "