Top April Fools' Day 2011 Pranks from Around the World
This one is among the best in years. It's so funny because it works on so many levels. It's on the Virgin website, feigning as a press release. Not only will astronomers laugh, but so will everyone who is ready for the economy to improve.
"As a firm supporter of small businesses Sir Richard is hoping to set an example for struggling entrepreneurs facing setbacks by having Pluto reinstated as an official planet, after its declassification by the International Astronomical Union in 1996," the press release states.
Speaking to how Branson plans to solve the problem of Pluto being too small to be a planet, a unique solution is offered by Virgin rocket scientist Professor Chelovek Protaprilia:
"The vehicle has a special harness to collect asteroids and space debris, which it will drag into Pluto's gravitational field, increasing the planet's mass."
The folks at YouTube have taken us back in time to see the site as it first was, when it made its debut in 1911. In honor of the grand occasion, we have excerpts from the speech of President William Howard Taft.
"I should be untrue to myself, to my promises, and to the declarations of the party platform upon which I was elected to office, if the incoming Congress is not aware of the importance of boxing cat videos and our shared human moments of folly. We should encourage this in every way feasible," Taft said about YouTube.
YouTube has a few special videos done up as they might have looked in 1911, all worthy of a laugh.
Google employee reveals his is an "auto completer"
"I started originally as a spell checker," the Google employee now working as an auto completer says. He goes on and says how he types "around 34,000 words a minute," and he completes the sentences of all his family and friends.
He goes on to describe a neural scanner that you wear on your head, think the predictions, and "zoom, it instantly displays the results."
But there seems to be a bug, as he says he can only get it to return one thing.
"Right now I an only get it to return Princess Leia in a metal bikini," he says with a befuddled look.
Check these out, and have a happy April Fools' Day!
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Post a CommentHow wonderful! A day to honor people like you!
We should never lose our sense of humor even in the worst of times! We need a bit of April Fool's day, everyday! - siva
My kids thought that 1911 gag was cool.
These things are what April Fool's jokes are supposed to be. Someone should tell my bosses so they will stop putting peanut butter under our chairs then lowering them to the ground, wrapping the toilet seat in cellophane, putting grease on door knobs, and carrying around a fotting keychain all day. You're supposed to fool someone into believing something untrue and somewhat ridiculous not act like the worlds biggest jack ass... I mean fool.
Ah, if only Pres. Obama placing military intervention on the table were an April's Fool's joke.