Talk:April 1, 2007

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The timesonline (timesonline.co.uk) is reporting that HMV is changing the dog in its logo to Grommit! (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1596742.ece)

The webcomic www.applegeeks.com has a farse page popping up with the comic oragedorks and is paroding after the comic and recent news of the site.

http://www.wii.tv/ has a video "sneak peak" of a futuristic Zelda game which is likely an April Fool's joke. --68.63.213.57 19:37, 31 March 2007 (UTC)


http://www.kaleva.fi/plus/juttu648343_page0.htm Finnish newspaper Kaleva published an April Fool's news item.

Austrian news paper Vorarlberger Nachrichten reported a visit by Madonna in the town of Lech. http://www.vn.vol.at/2007-03-31/ They got this information, including a photo, by a reader. It was also reported by ORF, which now replaced the article with a story about information of this joke. http://oesterreich.orf.at/stories/182596/ 85.126.128.10 23:46, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Is today's featured article a prank? --The preceding comment was signed by User:Sp3000 (talk•contribs) 00:04, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
I remember reading a lot of discussion between editors several weeks ago - I think the plan was to put items on the main page that appeared as pranks, but are actually true - so I would suggest that it is a real person called George Washington who was an inventor. -- Chuq 00:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Ask Metafilter has a self-parodying homepage up today. http://ask.metafilter.com/april1.mefi Also, YTMND.com's joke is both a parody of the Blogger homepage (http://www.blogger.com) and the MySpace name. I cannot edit, so will someone make these two changes (Ask Metafilter addition and Blogger mention) on my behalf?72.80.110.47 05:16, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Google has introduced TiSP http://www.google.com/tisp/ User:HarrisonX

On the flash portal website Newgrounds, everyone in the forum appear an administrator.

our very own wikipedia has a front page reminiscent of uncyclopedia's nonsensical content, but it's all technically true.

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