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The April Fools' Day defense kit.

slate.com — "As April 1 approaches, prudent observers will be on the lookout for the media's latest hoaxes. Last year, in anticipation of April Fools' Day, Jack Shafer offered advice on how to avoid becoming the victim of the media's shenanigans."

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  • mikehrp, on 03/31/2008, -4/+18Dont get your boss, it just pisses them off
    • Laiden, on 03/31/2008, -1/+21Buried for telling me I shouldn't try to piss off my boss. Who are you to tell me what I can do to my boss?
    • RealmDown, on 03/31/2008, -2/+11Unless you plan on leaving anyway, then pull out all the stops.
      • Harabeck, on 03/31/2008, -1/+4But then its hard to use that job as a reference.
      • inigomntoya, on 03/31/2008, -0/+7If a practical joke pisses off your boss, you may want to find a different job anyway. No one likes working for someone with no sense of humor...
        • antdude, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1What if you are your own boss?
          • RealmDown, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Either watch the Simpsons more, or get some Prozac.
  • rstarr, on 03/31/2008, -1/+13I'm just going to stay on snopes tomorrow all day, it's the only site I can trust on April Fools.
  • troy5a, on 03/31/2008, -1/+48I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans"
    • TRScheel, on 03/31/2008, -2/+19Hey, Farva! What's the name of that restaurant you like, with all the goofy bleep on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
    • psrinivas, on 03/31/2008, -0/+26Shenanigans?
      • RealmDown, on 03/31/2008, -0/+9That was a close one. You might not have escaped if you had remembered the quotation marks.
    • homerj1965, on 03/31/2008, -3/+1"Shenanigans"
    • brianez21, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Mmmmm....pistol whip [/homer]
  • radink360, on 03/31/2008, -6/+11I hate AFD.
    • dannylewis, on 03/31/2008, -0/+6Especially every website on the net has some sort of hoax that is either extremely obvious or down-right convincing. April 1st, to me, is Don't Read Anything on the Internet Day.
  • MasterPlayer, on 03/31/2008, -0/+14I already fell for an April Fools' joke when I watched Diggnation recently...I would have picked up on it if when I watched it, it wasn't 2 days before April 1st.
    • itsradBrad, on 03/31/2008, -1/+6it was obvious to me b/c they said we "love Fox". Love Fox? Riiight..
    • DangerDaz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I can't believe I never realised that until now. I feel dumb. :(
      • DangerDaz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4I somehow thought they were talking about Prager having sex as the april fool.
  • IHaveIssues, on 03/31/2008, -3/+3Must.resist.urge. to buy. fake. tatoo sleeves.
  • wukillabee, on 03/31/2008, -4/+25This comment is not available in your country.
    • nallelcm, on 03/31/2008, -1/+19What did his comment say? I can't read it in canada.
      • dajuggernaut, on 03/31/2008, -0/+19it says: "George Bush is the president of the US... ha ha ha j/k April fools.... no wait *****!!"
      • inigomntoya, on 03/31/2008, -0/+7I think you've been Rick Roll'd, but it says I can't view the video...
    • GliTCH82, on 03/31/2008, -0/+6I think Youtube not only AFD'd us with that, they Rick Rolled every other country in the world with that.
  • Mier, on 03/31/2008, -7/+3If it's from thinkprogress, slate, mediamatters, huffington post, or anything ending with Times it's probably full of *****.
    • RealmDown, on 03/31/2008, -2/+10We're talking about April fools day, not the rest of the year.
    • IHaveIssues, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Remember Fox News is fair and balanced. That should be your only source for news.
  • matteus400, on 03/31/2008, -5/+2The best April Fools day jokes are the ones that are never played. All of your suspecting friends and family anxiously await your well planned joke. Yet the real joke is that there is no joke! Everyone but you spent the day wondering and in fear of what might happen.

    I know I know thats just plain evil and sadistic but its sooo much fun.
    • angusmancan, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4These people you "prank" probably just think to themselves at the end of the day, "that's nice, I'm glad that douchebag didn't do anything to pester me today".
    • nextyoyoma, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1this sounds like something George would come up with in an episode of Seinfeld
  • dOOBiEx213, on 03/31/2008, -1/+32Avoid Digg like the plague. Can't wait to see an influx of "Obama Drops Out of Race" articles.
    • bxblox, on 03/31/2008, -1/+6Followed by hillary endorsed by *everyone* articles.
  • Klainmeister, on 03/31/2008, -0/+6If it wasn't for this article, I would have gone through tomorrow without any idea that it was April Fool's day....
  • DangerCollie, on 03/31/2008, -2/+10I bit on a local radio gag a couple years ago. The pandas were visiting from China for an exhibition and the radio station started running stories that the pandas had escaped and there was a massive panda hunt going on. Part of the reason I thought it was plausible was based on my time as a zoo volunteer. They were certainly dumb enough to let them get out.

    But I bit. They got me.
  • anoneng, on 03/31/2008, -7/+1its called a gun and a bowie knife
    not many will pull a prank then
  • wecaanation, on 03/31/2008, -4/+6
    The only tool I need in my defense kit is "common-sense"
    • luchid, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5OMG Internet Tough guy! Everyone run!
  • milliardo, on 03/31/2008, -4/+0I'd hate to be the new guy in the office tomorrow...nor the world's worst manager...anyway it's just another excuse to telecommute.
    Here's some pretty good pranks:
    http://digg.com/comedy/How_To_Grow_Grass_in_Someon ...
    http://digg.com/comedy/How_To_Play_the_Aluminum_Fo ...
    • nbcaffeine, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1those are some awesome links. The exclamation point digg uses on the 404 page looks nifty
  • bearnard, on 03/31/2008, -3/+0this article was supposed to be a hoax http://www.japanese-antiques.net/Japanese%20Geisha
    on april 1st :)
    what a sucker..
  • schizogony, on 03/31/2008, -1/+13Don't go to work/school.
    Stay off the Internet.
    Leave the TV off.
    Don't answer the phone.
    Don't leave the house.
    • surKaz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I actually am taking work off tomorrow... but for different reasons.. I'll be outside all day.. crap!
      • schizogony, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1May God have mercy on your soul.
        • surKaz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Carl Sagan... Protect me..
          And incase you didn't have anything else planned.. FSM and BOB... you too.
          k, thanks.
    • nbcaffeine, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2How about the mail? What if your tricksters planned ahead?
      • verkon, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I sent anthrax to my friends, boy are they gonna fooled.
  • tvnation, on 03/31/2008, -3/+2lets just say if you do this, your the fool. thats what they want you to think
  • BigManOnCampus, on 03/31/2008, -0/+15FTA: "You don't look gullible, but you are. Year after year, the media take advantage of your naiveté and humiliates you with an April Fools' Day prank"


    Funny, I thought that was "day after day, the media take advantage of our naivete...." You could have fooled me.
  • angusmancan, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2The ATHF prank on Cartoon Network was definitely one of the best TV pranks I've ever seen.
  • AlexanderCurtis, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1My mother's birthday is April 1st so being involved in AFD activities has been pretty much off limits for lifetime.
    So I just get her the rest of the year to make up for it.
  • NuFadZoo, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1Avoid all media that isn't Slate
  • Wormwoods, on 03/31/2008, -0/+28On April Fools' Day does The Onion post actual news?
  • Bob24, on 03/31/2008, -3/+3Step 1: Remember it's April 1st.
    Step 2: ...
  • brendanryder, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3some thing they forgot:
    Dont click any tinyurl, or short url codes because chances are you going to be rick rolled.
  • Nhmarine, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3Why is everybody on their guard about April Fools? I love jokes like that, it is one of the most hilarious days of the year. You are supposed to laugh on April Fools, not be paranoid about it. And if you are stupid enough to do something like... mmm, say, go to Illinois for a "Free Wheelz" event, then you dont deserve to be pissed. You were stupid enough to participate, no? If you can't laugh at your mistakes in life, you will be a very pissed off person....
  • helenkupo, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2Does anyone remember IGN's Dead or Alive Beach Vollyball nude unlock April Fools joke? I bought that game specifically for that...only to find out next issue it was fake! My friends and I spent hours perfecting what needed to be done to unlock those girls in all their glory...and it never worked... damn you april fools day!!!
    • lynx44, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I feel for you brother. I wanted that code to be true as much as you did.
  • lenninct, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2FYI: digg now belongs to Foxnews.org
  • Elliuotatar, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2The internet is ruining April Fools day. Why the hell does every damn news site have to talk about it the day before it occurs? How are we supposed to fool our friends and coworkers if they've been reminded the day before by the news sites that the damn thing is coming up!
  • helenkupo, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1I don't have a brother.
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