Bargain of the month??

Post by **jtaylor** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:21 pm

Google are again offering a truly phenominal piece of technology, and for free -

http://www.google.com/tisp

I'm sure you'll agree this should flush the foolish competition down the tubes...

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:31 pm

it gets worse...

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:07 am

Trust Google; sounds like a lump of cr#p to me.

OTOH their Copernicus job sounds interesting (as they say, can you stand the Sopranos?) and as for their new superdooper file sorting facility

Where does Google get its pigeons? Some special breeding lab?

Google uses only low-cost, off-the-street pigeons for its clusters. Gathered from city parks and plazas by Google's pack of more than 50 Phds (Pigeon-harvesting dogs), the pigeons are given a quick orientation on web site relevance and assigned to an appropriate data coop.

Isn't it cruel to keep pigeons penned up in tiny data coops?

Google exceeds all international standards for the ethical treatment of its pigeon personnel. Not only are they given free range of the coop and its window ledges, special break rooms have been set up for their convenience. These rooms are stocked with an assortment of delectable seeds and grains and feature the finest in European statuary for roosting.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:16 am

englishangel wrote:it gets worse...

I didn't realise I was SO right.

marty · Post by **marty** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:59 am

It was April Fool's Day yesterday...

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:01 pm

You don't say....

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:40 pm

I think that one ranks alongside the Spaghetti Tree. Panorama, 1957.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 819261.stm

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:00 pm

kerrensimmonds wrote:I think that one ranks alongside the Spaghetti Tree. Panorama, 1957.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/date ... 819261.stm

.... which I vaguely remember watching.

Wasn't this the brain-child of the late, great and sadly missed Sir Spike Milligoon ??

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:26 pm

Might have been... but it was presented by Richard Dimbleby (thus proving he did have a sense of humour and could keep a straight face....)

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:12 pm

the best April fool i heard yesterday was in Leicester as i was on way to watch the rugby!
They said they are going to raise Leicester market up 6storeys and put a car park under it and have fencing round the market at the top so that no apples could fall off and hit people on the head!
For those that know Leicester and the market it would be quite ridiculous!

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:29 pm

Someone somewhere said that the best April Fool jokes had to be a)plausible and b)credible.. to start with. Then the further down the chain they went, the better the joke.
I am AMAZED that I have sent that Google website link to so many people today, who looked at it at face value, decided they did not want Google Broadband, and zapped it......without clicking on a single link. Did they not see the lavatory in the background, on the front page?!
AArrgghh!
So this must number among the best April Fools joke (including the Spaghetti Tree, as I reported earlier).
The only thing is... who on earth has so much TIME to create such a website, with all its links and attachments, INCLUDING an hysterical discussion forum? Whoever they are, they are seriously under-employed! I just wish I had the creativity. My own practical jokes are limited to turning out the lights in the Ladies loos at work (no external windows or anything), when I happen to know who else has entered the other cubicles. How TAME!?

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:52 pm

The United Nations got caught by one many years ago.

The Guardian (or was it the Manchester Guardian in 1976?) had a country supplement in its normal style extolling the virtues of thios country or that, together with adverts from all the major companies of the era, and, to celebrate the first F1 race on its soil, a special prize of a trip to the GP.

Difficulty was, the country was on a sandbank which was moving at high speed across the Indian Ocean and was ruled by some really bad-mouthed so-'n-so with an equally wierd name.

The UN got copies of the supplement on San Serife and sent them to all its offices worldwide. IMHO it was really well done; my bosws got sent there to do a marketing trip - he was always getting fooled by the directors.

Dutch Elm Disease is an April Fool joke

If you do a Google search you will find:
The BBC kept up its April fool pranks when a doctor, barely recognisable as Spike Milligan, explained how people with red hair were particularly prone to Dutch elm disease.
On April 1, 1975, David Attenborough gave a report on the musendrophilus - a singing mouse.
Another prank of recent years was calling eminent historians to Banbury, Oxfordshire, on April 1, to examine an inscription thought to be a clue to a past civilisation. It read: "s sorcy rub nabot es rohk co caed ir." Which experts soon deciphered as the age old children's verse: 'Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross' - spelt backwards.

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m224 ... i_54600165