[WikiEN-l] April Fool's Day

Thu Mar 31 06:23:32 UTC 2005

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:10:53 +0100 (BST), Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> The Cunctator said:
> > On 3/30/05 4:21 PM, "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> --- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> >>> Just for fun, why don't we have a game on Friday to create an
> >>> alternative main page, linked from the main page?  "Click here to see
> >>> our April Fool's Page."
> >>
> >> I think that is a great idea. :)
> >>
> > I think it's profoundly lame.
> >
> > An April Fool's joke that can't fool anybody is not an April Fool's
> > joke.
> >
> > Thus the word "fool".
> >
> 
> I think there is a definite failure to engage with the subject matter
> here.  Whatever happened to the sweet old idea of just, for one day in the
> whole year, doing something unexpected, out of character and insincere?

you mean like bucking a trend on the net? Everyone will be doing 
April Fool's for various values of april the first. It is so last
century.

-- 
geni