I was so elated to see a post about the firing of the baseball Cardinal’s manager that I immediately re-posted it to Friend #4, without reading the last few words — the ones that tagged it as a prank.
One was an added touch of delight on top of a time I had recently been fooled. As I have mentioned before, the Fascinating Horror YouTube channel posts the (seemingly) random spoofs of disaster movies. Turns out it’s an April Fool’s Day tradition.
But the last one was my favorite. I truly believed that they repainted the giant Amoco sign. This was an article that slowly became more and more outrageous, so I got that feeling of satisfaction when the penny dropped.
That is off-center. They really should re-paint that.
4 responses to “April Fools Recap”
KC – that article is charming. Are the embedded links also hoaxes?
I thought I was Not In The Mood for *any* April Fool’s Day stuff this year, but I was proven wrong by this article:
https://aidansean.com/AprilFools/
I did not click through to all of them, but the few I did click through to: not hoaxes! Just ridiculous realities (or, in the case of the circling sheep, reporting on possible causes for behavior exhibited in a video, one of which causes includes an expert saying “… I don’t think they’d do that without an invisible fence, so I have suspicions about the setup” which would be a maybe-hoax). But I don’t know about the other links in there.
(penguin diagram: named due to a bet, though! There is so much in science, both on the human side and the sciencey side, that you just couldn’t make up…)
KC – Scientists seem fun. I think with so much dryness in their roles they get a little crazy.