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4/1/2013

Happy April Fool’s Day

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:19 am



No April Fool’s jokes today. The last one went over like the proverbial lead balloon. You’d think a lead balloon would at least be funny — who tries to fly a lead balloon? — but not so much.

However, the guy who generally devises the April Fool’s jokes we have done here, Eric Turkewitz, has a Justice Alito/baseball quiz in place of his usual April Fool’s jokes. If there is some joke or hoax built into his post, I expressly disclaim any knowledge of same, with no express or implied warranties, guarantees, or any legal whatchamajigs.

It’s also “Cesar Chavez Day observed” here in California, I think. So there’s that.

Feel to free to run hoaxes in the comments. It might be kind of obvious, but what are ya gonna do.

UPDATE: Google’s contribution is a deal where you try “Google Nose Beta” and when you click on it, you’re Googling “Diaper.” Try to make yours better than that, mmmkay?

24 Responses to “Happy April Fool’s Day”

  1. Ding.

    Patterico (9c670f)

  2. here in Failifornia, we already gave our governmental slugs and the future felons uf America the day off on the 25th.

    redc1c4 (403dff)

  3. At their peril blingly trusting low information people can choose to believe you when you say that this year you are eschewing April Fools pranks on your readers, P. Me? Well, I approach life as a conservative. It’s going to be a very busy day, too. Monday laundry and tax prep season and baseball opening day and all. CU all tomorrow! 🙂

    elissa (e1b9ce)

  4. I’d forgotten about that April Fool’s prank.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  5. Cardinals baseball starts today, and that ain’t no joke.

    JD (3cbfc7)

  6. i turned the shower on while the turtles were in the bathtub and they thought it was raining

    hah!

    you shoulda seen the look on their faces

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  7. What to Caesar Chavez and Martin Luther King, Jr. have in common? Family members willing to exploit the patriarch’s legacy in order to make a few bucks.

    JVW (4826a9)

  8. I turned on the left turn signal and then turned right. But I do that a lot, anyway, since my brain surgery.

    nk (c5b7ef)

  9. Here is something that will warm — literally! — your day. It goes to show what can happen when we all decide to make a difference.

    JVW (4826a9)

  10. JVW, the mealy mouthed defense of illegal activity and even embezzlement in that article on the Chavez organization is a must-read. “Scholars” and others just don’t want to challenge the dogma of their religion, do they?

    Patricia (be0117)

  11. Every day on the calendar is a day for fools as long as Obama as President.

    Elephant Stone (937e2d)

  12. AZ Gov. Brewer issued a joke at First Doofers expense.

    gary gulrud (dd7d4e)

  13. Barack Hussein Obama wins Nobel Prize for Economics.

    The Dana who was born in April (3e4784)

  14. Or even better:

    Obama Declares April The Month To Budget Responsibly

    I thought this was an April Fool’s Day joke momentarily, but apparently, it’s for real. The White House has declared that this is the month to give advice to young people on how to budget responsibly. Perhaps they should aim their advice at President Obama and Congress. While they’re at it, they should also include state and local lawmakers.

    President Barack Obama, who has increased the national debt by $53,377 per household, has proclaimed April“National Financial Capability Month,” during which his administration will do things such as teach young people “how to budget responsibly.”

    “I call upon all Americans to observe this month with programs and activities to improve their understanding of financial principles and practices,” Obama said in an official proclamation released Friday.

    “My Administration is dedicated to helping people make sound decisions in the marketplace,” he said.

    More at the link, assuming that all of the Mountain Dew and potato chips you just spewed out laughing on your computer will allow you for follow it.

    The Dana ROTFLMAO (3e4784)

  15. More at the link, assuming that all of the Mountain Dew and potato chips you just spewed out laughing on your computer will allow you for follow it.

    Comment by The Dana ROTFLMAO (3e4784) — 4/1/2013 @ 11:48 am

    Saw that earlier today and was sure it was a hoax because I didn’t follow the link to the White House site.

    Unbelievable. He’s just laughing at us now.

    Only President “I Won” would have the gall to put out such a condescending, patronizing press release when he has never gotten a single vote from anyone in Congress for one of his budgets. (Can you imagine the reaction if Bush had done this?)

    And to think we have to put up with four more years of this preening, self-absorbed narcissist.

    no one of consequence (325a59)

  16. Who flies a lead ballon? The Mythbusters, of course.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGdHRupe7Zc
    I didn’t find the English version right off.

    MT Geoff (a67ef4)

  17. Google seems fixated with all things dreary. I guess spring is too cis-hemispered or something.

    SarahW (b0e533)

  18. This remains my favorite april fools’ joke ever:

    > http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/mandelset/mandelmonk/mandelmonk.html

    aphrael (c41e1e)

  19. Someone inconsequential wrote:

    Can you imagine the reaction if Bush had done this?

    Perry once wrote:

    And the GOP record, Christian, for fiscal solvency is?

    It is: A national debt up from about $5 trillion to about $9 trillion in Bush’s two terms. That’s your record and it is pathetic!

    The Dana who remembers Perry's past contributions (3e4784)

  20. “Scholars” and others just don’t want to challenge the dogma of their religion, do they?

    I was really disappointed to see that UCLA had been bullied into starting up a Chicano Studies Department. Back in the 1990s it was a huge controversy on campus. There had been a Chicano Studies major for years, but it had been interdisciplinary with courses and faculty spread out in a number of departments. Despite hunger strikes and other disruptions on campus, the UCLA administration was steadfast in its belief that establishing a separate department would be cost prohibitive in light of the relatively small numbers of majors that the field attracted.

    Of course at the time I figured that eventually the racial grievance crowd would manage to get their way, and apparently that happened in 2005. So hooray for the taxpayer of California who is now paying for a boutique naval-gazing phony-baloney academic boondoogle with 13 permanent faculty members and who knows how many support staff hires. Yet another reasons why conservatives are so skeptical about the usefulness of academia.

    JVW (4826a9)

  21. Dana (AKA The Dana Who Throws A Knockout Punch)just exposed Perry (AKA The Perry Who Forgot to Take His Multivitamin)for having tingly legs regarding Obama.

    In other words, when the deficit went up under Bush, Perry was pounding his fist on the table. But now that Obama’s debt has made Bush’s debt look like tiddlywinks by comparison, Perry’s not so concerned about the national debt.

    Well, Perry, one thing’s for sure.
    Nobody can accuse you of limiting your foolishness to only April 1.

    Elephant Stone (937e2d)

  22. Zeppelin rules!Here’s something that happened-really
    Im in the trades-union-so when a ‘side’ job come up/ friends in the trades are who you call. My friend- the Tounge’- everybody calls him the tongue..because..I dunno- I thought it was sexual but guys who knew him way back would tell me he got his nickname playing pee wee basketball because when he dribbled the ball his tounge would be hanging out-like tiny archibald-and it just stuck. Plus-he’s got the best sense of humour- I always say-to the friends of the Tounge that he has a joyful,innocent look on his face-like every experience is new and to be cherished-he always has a grin on his face. But the real friends of his who know him say-” Yeah-I know that look-he’s a retard’
    Which might be true-but I digress.
    So- I know the T is out of work-and I call him up and say ” You want a side job?” of course he does
    So I say call this number and say ” Im a friend of xxxittsy and he said you need a taper’ [tech term/drywall mud guy’
    But what Toungue didn’t know was I gave him the number to Toys r us so when he called there was confusion. In the retelling to me-the Tounge says to himself-maybe I dialed the wrong number?-so he calls again and he hears “Toys r us, may I help you?’ and he immediatedy knew the jig was up!
    So-now when he calls me-if I see him on caller id/ I say-Toys r Us!
    and also- the random-clean up on aisle 7 jokes
    so-

    pdbuttons (2648f1)

  23. The White House had time for an April Fool’s joke — an appearance by Kid President, who also attended the Easter Egg Roll.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  24. http://gothamist.com/2012/04/01/bbc_successfully_trolls_april_fools.php

    I liked last years jokes better really.

    SarahW (b0e533)


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