It's April Fools Day!

[DMKA]

I'm curious as to what that oppresive regime of a staff has in store for us this time around. I mean after last year everything else is pretty much fail.

And further more, do you typically act differently on April Fools Day, or is it just another day?

[Old Manus]

Is this thread an April Fool?

[NeoCracker]

http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=82079

[Meat Puppet]

Porn.

[nik0tine]

The staff failed on this one.

[Parker]

And further more, do you typically act differently on April Fools Day, or is it just another day?

I find it hard to believe any news story. I generally do not watch or read the news on April 1st. It is irritating.

[Cz]

I won April Fools' day this year, by not getting up until half past noon. It's never a fun day for me, so I'm happy to sleep in and avoid it every year.

[Del Murder]

Yeah, these pranks suck. I had nothing to do with them. Maybe whoever is behind this has something really cool planned for later.

Usually for April Fools I try to come up with an elaborate prank with the staff, but this year I just didn't have the energy to do it. I had a really good one though.

[Shoeberto]

I will probably be going to the store and then doing homework today. Maybe I will eat a candle.



CAN YOU FIND THE APRIL FOOLS IN THAT LINE!?

[Rase]

Let's see, mow lawn, write essay, waste time online and on videogames...

Nope, pretty much the same as usual.

[Xaven]

Yeah, these pranks suck. I had nothing to do with them.
Oxymoron.

[Del Murder]

Huh? Were you trying to insult me?

[Roto13]

My everything hurts

[NeoCracker]

I will probably be going to the store and then doing homework today. Maybe I will eat a candle.



CAN YOU FIND THE APRIL FOOLS IN THAT LINE!?
Everyone knows you dont do your homework.

[lovehurts]

edit by Hsu - I don't see why people are suddenly seeing the need to spam up the place with his joke from years ago, especially since all but Psy are all newbies who weren't even around to witness it. Stop.

[NeoCracker]

HE even kept my chang, love to Loath, I'm touched

[Dignified Pauper]

it was only funny when Psychotic did it.

[Shoeberto]

it was only funny when Psychotic did it.
Prettymuch, yeah.

[lovehurts]

it was only funny when Psychotic did it.
I was just finding a way to post this.

[Psychotic]

it was only funny when <s>Psychotic</s> Linus did it.Ya gotta pre-empt the haters in this business.

[Lost Number]

I dont get the joke.

[NeoCracker]

If it helps any it me doing it amused my sleep deprived mind.

[Miriel]

edit by Hsu - I don't see why people are suddenly seeing the need to spam up the place with his joke from years ago, especially since all but Psy are all newbies who weren't even around to witness it. Stop.
I don't see why the Staff didn't see this coming. Bandwagon, hi.

[lovehurts]

I dont get the joke.
I realy don't think that there is a joke...maybe to the older memmbers. But this isnt funny at all. I thought that we were just reposting the note in a repeative fashion just for fun....but that wasnt the idea. The note realy isnt all that funny....

[Shoeberto]

edit by Hsu - I don't see why people are suddenly seeing the need to spam up the place with his joke from years ago, especially since all but Psy are all newbies who weren't even around to witness it. Stop.
I don't see why the Staff didn't see this coming. Bandwagon, hi.
I guess I have faith in the judgement of others.

Well, had faith.

[NeoCracker]

I guess I have faith in the judgement of others.

Well, had faith.

And that was your first mistake

[Psychotic]

I realy don't think that there is a joke...maybe to the older memmbers. But this isnt funny at all. I thought that we were just reposting the note in a repeative fashion just for fun....but that wasnt the idea. The note realy isnt all that funny....If the elections hadn't been cancelled, I would've made you my right-hand man in TUTU.

[Old Manus]

edit by Hsu - I don't see why people are suddenly seeing the need to spam up the place with his joke from years ago, especially since all but Psy are all newbies who weren't even around to witness it. Stop.
The elitistness is overwhelming

I would bold the offending material, but this isn't possible.

[Cz]

In future, we should probably cancel April Fools Day and rename it Elitist Day, a festival dedicated to the recycling of in-jokes and oldbie chatter. It wouldn't be any different to any other day of course, but at least we'd get a nice banner.

[Linus]

Skeet skeet to that.

[Del Murder]

Last year wasn't a recycling. :(

I promise, guys, next year I'll get involved and come up with something good. There will be much pants crapping.

[VorpalCyberWolf]

Last year wasn't a recycling. :(

I promise, guys, next year I'll get involved and come up with something good. There will be much pants crapping.

I'll hold you to that, Del. Granted I missed Linus and all, but I was expecting so much more.

[Linus]

...it really is me. =(

[Psychotic]

I promise, guys, next year I'll get involved and come up with something good. There will be much pants crapping.The joke is to feed us all laxatives?

[Dignified Pauper]

that could smell bad after a while...

[Psychotic]

It can't stink worse than this year's joke. Hoho!

[Rye]

OBURNSAUCE. That's really true though.

[NeoCracker]

So, is Samuraid being banned part of this sick joke?

[Dignified Pauper]

Samuraid was banned? *checks*

prolly a joke

[NeoCracker]

What if the every staff member decided to play a joke by banning every other staff member, and they did it at the same time so there was no staff, and no one to unban the staff until Cid comes?

[DK]

oh noez samD got banned plz say it ain't so

[NeoCracker]

this screen is painful

[Madonna]

I spent the last few days brainstorming a prank for the first of this month and I couldn't.

[DK]

Yeah thinking up April fools stuff is hard. stuff that people would fall for, anyway

[Madonna]

There's a lot more to a good trick than to just being obnoxious. I had some good ideas too, mind you, but a lot of them involved using others without their knowledge. Very unfair stuff and a bit too much on the line, in the end.

[Dignified Pauper]

There's a lot more to a good trick than to just being obnoxious. I had some good ideas too, mind you, but a lot of them involved using others without their knowledge. Very unfair stuff and a bit too much on the line, in the end.

I use people all the time. Like my children. They sew my clothes. I don't see anything wrong with it. I own them. I can't exploit something I own.

[Miriel]

Yeah thinking up April fools stuff is hard. stuff that people would fall for, anyway
Well hundreds of sites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2006) have managed to come up with some stuff that didn't just involve an oldbie spamming up the forums.

I particularly likes KillingIfrit's FFXI related joke (http://www.killingifrit.com/ff11us/polnews/news0401.shtml) although I was only fooled for a split second. :p

[Del Murder]

There's a lot more to a good trick than to just being obnoxious. I had some good ideas too, mind you, but a lot of them involved using others without their knowledge. Very unfair stuff and a bit too much on the line, in the end.
You are quite right. Real tricks involve emotion. Real tricks bring people to the edge, right up there, and when they're about to fall off, you pull them back and say 'APRIL FOOLS!' And then they hate you for a long time. Wait why do we do this again?

Next year I promise layers upon layers of pranks. Just when you thought you got it, the real trick will manifest itself, and you'll be lost all over again. And it will start in mid-February. Mark your calendars, kids.

[Miriel]

Del Murder is gonna be a Daddy. :hyper:

[Del Murder]

Yes, but this time instead of a cardigan it will be a fleece. See, brand new material!

[Psychotic]

I preferred both the avatars thing and the colours thing to the Linus thing. And that's a whole lot of thing.

[Del Murder]

Well, that one was for the boss. Can't really say no to him, especially since he has only 4 months left to live...

[Miriel]

I preferred the Everybody Loves Raymond deal, but eh. THEN PEOPLE WOULD BE CRAPPING THEIR PANTS. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v451/Emoticons01/10.gif

Psychotic should lead the revolution next year. I would, but I'm too lazy.

[Samuraid]

This year wasn't meant to be anything special in particular. It was just to have a bit of extra fun on the day obviously set aside for such things. If it makes anyone feel any better, don't even consider anything that has happened today as related to April Fools. Just think of it as a "random day in which staff members do crazy things" day. :p

:mwahaha:

[Del Murder]

We call those days Saturdays!

[Psychotic]

:mwahaha:OK. So messing with the avatars was alright. And giving everyone a Linus avatar? I took that like a man. Screwing around with the colours? Sure, go ahead. Banning yourself? I didn't bat an eyelid.

But adding this :mwahaha: smiley is absolutely unacceptable, and I call for Samuraid's immediate resignation from staff. Disgusting.

[Samuraid]

That smiley has been there for a while now. There just hasn't been as much need to use it...until now. :mwahaha:

[DK]

Well hundreds of sites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2006) have managed to come up with some stuff that didn't just involve an oldbie spamming up the forums.

You've had your moment in the spotlight, and now Leeza's sick of your picture, so step aside and quit moaning. :mad2:

[-N-]

Banfest was better than this crap because it wasn't just staff doing it.

[Loony BoB]

As much as I didn't think that this was anything more than what Murd said - ie, just a few staffers messing around for the hell of it - it seems there was an unintentional fooling going on as a result of a past AF's... nobody believed it was Linus. Anyone who honestly did not believe it was Linus, you are the April Fool.

[Dignified Pauper]

Seriously, Linus hates EoFF ever since being banned. Why would he have come back. I think it was you BoB. And which staff member was dr_unne_is_gay?

[Del Murder]

Dr Unne. Strange, no?

[Shoden]

Oh god, amazing, Dr Unne supports the fact that dr_unne_is_gay!!!

[Samuraid]

And which staff member was dr_unne_is_gay?
It was * gets shot by sniper *

[Shoden]

I'm going to end up hitting that sniper one of these days.

[Loony BoB]

Seriously, Linus hates EoFF ever since being banned. Why would he have come back. I think it was you BoB.
xD!

EDIT: Really, if you're all so certain it's not him, why not go chat to him on AIM or check his LJ? :p

[Psychotic]

Isn't this BoB's fourth post insisting that it really was Linus? Desperate to convince us, much?

Would such a...ahem...responsible admin such as yourself really let a banned member post? And even if you did, I hope you're not going to claim his rant and PMs to me had nothing to do with you. Intriguingly enough, Linus, who doesn't strike me as someone who would care whether or not I believed it was him, also suggested I use AIM or LJ to check whether it was really him. Oh, it's probably just a coincidence!

[Loony BoB]

Isn't this BoB's fourth post insisting that it really was Linus? Desperate to convince us, much?
No, I just find it all really funny. At least the staff and Linus can see the funny side of it all. I'm also really keen to get people further into the discussion to somehow prove it wasn't him, because I know that it's impossible to prove because, well, it was him.

Would such a...ahem...responsible admin such as yourself really let a banned member post?
Sure, if Cid said to let him, I would. Cid's my boss, yo.

And even if you did, I hope you're not going to claim his rant and PMs to me had nothing to do with you.
Oddly enough, they didn't. I went offline sometime after Linus went to sleep and didn't return until April Fool's was over.

Intriguingly enough, Linus, who doesn't strike me as someone who would care whether or not I believed it was him, also suggested I use AIM or LJ to check whether it was really him. Oh, it's probably just a coincidence!
You people think Linus cares too little or something. And what do you expect him to say? Is that not proof enough? Or do you think I have his LJ password and AIM password too? It was Linus xD

EDIT: Can you forward those PMs, though? :p Now you've sparked my curiosity.

[Despotus]

I believe you, BoB! *licks boots*

And anyway, regardless of whether or not that was all just a big leg pull, I sure enjoyed the Spammage. :D Thank yooooooou!