Spot The Media's April Fool Jokes Here

[H3LL]

Be quick - Put what you think are media April Fools that you have spotted here:

My Nomination:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262603/AA-jetpack.html





Yes, yes, I know the whole paper is a joke - but you know what I mean.

 

[rdaneel]

Can always count on Google.

 

[Lothian]

The Guardian has one.

 

[Foolmewunz]

Can always count on Google.

Can you do a screen cap? I get directed to Google over here and they have nothing.

 

[rdaneel]

Can you do a screen cap? I get directed to Google over here and they have nothing.

No, but here's their Blog entry about it.

 

[H3LL]

Can you do a screen cap? I get directed to Google over here and they have nothing.

They have a link on their main page to this:

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/

Link title: New! Break the language barrier between species with Google Animal Translate!

I hope it works for you.

 

[dtugg]

Can always count on Google.

Conversely, Topeka, KS is now named Google.

 

[rdaneel]

They have a link on their main page to this:

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/

Link title: New! Break the language barrier between species with Google Animal Translate!

I hope it works for you.

HAH!! So the front page for you doesn't say Topeka?

 

[H3LL]

It seems that maybe Google have a different joke (if any) for different regions.

I have no idea what this is but wonder if it is a funny.

http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/landing/shiritori/

Someone may want to check out others.

Google Regional Domains

 

[Ethan Thane Athen]

What was the JREF April Fool's prank that was removed? I'm gutted I missed it - sounds like it was a doozy....or is the announcement itself the joke?

 

[H3LL]

....or is the announcement itself the joke?

That's my guess and quite a good one too.

 

[rdaneel]

It seems that maybe Google have a different joke (if any) for different regions.

I have no idea what this is but wonder if it is a funny.

http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/landing/shiritori/

Here's the Google Translate version of that page.

 

[Ohforf]

It seems that maybe Google have a different joke (if any) for different regions.

I have no idea what this is but wonder if it is a funny.

http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/landing/shiritori/

Someone may want to check out others.

Google Regional Domains

Nice Find
You can always feed it to Google Translator. like this (using german google, may not work for you)

Even knowing the weirdness of machine translation, this is a bit ... odd...

G is a girl. このたび、 G さんからお声がかかり、Google しりとりの中の人になりました。 This time, G's takes your voice, Google now takes people in the butt. G さんのムチャぶりに負けないようにしなくっちゃ。 I have to lose for the first time that G's normally imagine. 皆さんに楽しんでいただけるよう、がんばります。 As you enjoy the best.

 

[H3LL]

The translation of comments had me laughing even if not a joke:

I took a wonderful butt.
Shiho

By a picture of a cute female.

 

[Brian-M]

What was the JREF April Fool's prank that was removed? I'm gutted I missed it - sounds like it was a doozy....or is the announcement itself the joke?

I second this. It would be great to know what the prank was... unless the announcement itself was the prank, in which case that's just incredibly lame.

There's a better prank on my wall calender. I turned it over to April and found that St. Stupid Day's parade is being held in San Francisco on April 1st, and it's also 4th of July. Awesome, but they should have left out the St. Stupid Day bit, that's far too obvious.

 

[Ohforf]

I second this. It would be great to know what the prank was... unless the announcement itself was the prank, in which case that's just incredibly lame.

There's a better prank on my wall calender. I turned it over to April and found that St. Stupid Day's parade is being held in San Francisco on April 1st, and it's also 4th of July. Awesome, but they should have left out the St. Stupid Day bit, that's far too obvious.

http://www.saintstupid.com/event.html

 

[Tanja]

In the Daily Telegraph...

 

[Darat]

The Guardian has one.

Damn - that's an April Fool - here I was getting my hopes up for the party leaders' debate to turn into a boxing match.

 

[332nd]

Damn - that's an April Fool - here I was getting my hopes up for the party leaders' debate to turn into a boxing match.

I think that's Thailand...

 

[23_Tauri]

This one's topical for Randi forum:

DIMENSIONAL PORTAL INCURSION AT THE LHC!