Ladies and Gentlemen, I declare my April Fools Gag of 2008 a complete success!
If I’ll can be so smug – it was everything a good April Fools gag should be: harmless, not treading on anybody’s toes (learnt my lesson a few years back after a major news organisation demanded I took it down), and I fooled a number of people (mentioning no names. Guy. Bloggeries.).
There have been some good ones (Google, John Chow, Shoemoney, ‘Dharma’ Geezer from Diamond Geezer and The Net Fool) and some not so good ones (I’m with Malin – anybody blogger who ever does an april fools ‘joke’ where they sell their blog for millions should be castrated, it’s uncreative and a little arrogent). However, as a result, here’s my awards for the best April Fools Gags yesterday.
April Fools Gag I Fell For: Virtual Boy Games Coming To The Virtual Console (with 3D Specs)
Rubbishingest Non-April Fools Gag: Recent Garden – Retro Garden would become a blog for New Games, Featuring a review of Call of Duty 4. Unfortunately, I forgot to upload it. Moment’s gone.
Story That Could Be An April Fool Gag But I Can’t Decide: Guitar Hero for the C64.
Meme Become Aware Of: “Rickrolling” (thanks To Youtube, John Cow and Cheezburger) – the art of having an inconspicuous link to a video of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
Most Improved: Mum, who excelled herself from her previous half arsed attempts of “It’s snowing!” and offering to make us cereal replacing the spoons with forks.
This year she sent a text informing us that the government – along with greenpeace – have found a way to cut carbon emissions equivalent to 153,000 aeroplanes. All you do is if everybody holds their breath for 20 seconds beginning at 11am, then less Co2 will be breathed out.
Biggest Story That Wasn’t An April Fools: Colwyn Bay’s Police Station Being On Fire, we honestly thought it was an April Fools. It wasn’t.
Best April Fool’s Gag: There really is only one winner. IGN.com with the Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer. Sheer amount of work went into it, and I actually would really like to see it!
Those are my picks, what are yours?
Comments: 11 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
Damn! I would like to see the Legend of Zelda movie too! I have to say that it was a well worked on prank
I want to see Legend of Zelda the movie now!!!!!!!!!!!
*Sulks*
I also liked the youtube rickroll prank. Googles annual prank was a bit rubbish this year, if I’m being honest (and I am)
My local music forum admin team posted a message saying it was shutting down… as did another imageboard forum I use, and a pr0n imageboard forum I visit occasionally *shifty eyes* changed everything to images of bunny rabbits and kittens
I liked the Betamax to HD-DVD converter on ThinkGeek. A bit geeky, but there you go. It included a RickRoll.
John Cow got me good with his rickroll and multiple windows to close! UGH! Personally I liked Michael Arrington’s claim that he was sueing Facebook for 25 mil.
Legend of Zelda – just great!
And if you Google “Legend Of Zelda Movie Trailer April Fools Gag” you are on the first page – but perhaps not many will do that or “Legend Of Zelda Movie Trailer Rhys” where you are number one …
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Ok i hate to rain on your parade.. but 1. i didn’t know it was april fools day and 2. is it wrong im not that impressed….
best april fools gag i saw was in the paper out here… liquor land the off bottle shop had a full page out with a new technology called “wine patches” 5 different ones and even a water one for cleansing your palette! not even clicking on the day Heather the girl in my room said i’ll try it if you do… so were sat there licking the news paper wondering y it doesnt work…
only when her m8 Annie got home from work and tried it did we realise it was an april fools gag! best ive ever seen! even had a disclaimer u had to be 18 to try… genius!
Blimey, I bet you didn’t even know they had taken the word gullible out of the dictionary
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I think 1st April is a good day. If played a prank well it can really fool people and you can have great laugh for the rest of the year. I wonder who started it……