Because it's still relevant, and people enjoyed it so much last year, I call your attention to Your April Fool's Joke Sucks, from a year ago. Let's revisit:
I'm trying to help you raise the bar. Thus, a list of things which do not actually constitue a valid April Fools' Day joke:
- "I changed my stylesheet! To someone else's!" Why isn't that funny? Because I still knew it was your site.
- "Our tiny company bought/got bought by a giant company. Like Microsoft!" Wow, that's lame. Neither believable nor surprising enough to be amusing.
- "We are embracing this thing we've demonized forever!" So you're a pest removal service that's getting into the cockroach-raising business? Sigh.
- "We have a big announcement today!" No you don't. It's Saturday.
- "Our new product does the impossible." You mean like making an April Fool's joke on the web that's actually funny.
(Sigh) Another disappointing April 1st passes by. This post is just as relevant as it was last year. And the year before that.
Not even Google's April Fools Day joke was funny.
I saw a bunch of them, rolled my eyes, and just thought about how lame these "jokes" were, and why they couldn't read your post first and realized that they were f'ing lame.
This one made me smile. Maybe because it doesn't build up an elaborate hoax situation: http://www.twoweekstillfriday.com/blah/?p=738
Cheers from Vancouver
Jan Karlsbjerg
www.jankarlsbjerg.com/blog/