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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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  • troy5a, on 03/31/2008, -1/+48I swear to God I'm going to pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans"
  • 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.
  • Wormwoods, on 03/31/2008, -0/+28On April Fools' Day does The Onion post actual news?
  • psrinivas, on 03/31/2008, -0/+26Shenanigans?
  • Nougat, on 03/31/2008, -2/+24http://xkcd.com/250/
  • wukillabee, on 03/31/2008, -4/+25This comment is not available in your country.
  • 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?
  • 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 *****!!"
  • nallelcm, on 03/31/2008, -1/+19What did his comment say? I can't read it in canada.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • inactive, on 03/31/2008, -4/+18Dont get your boss, it just pisses them off
  • spidoman, on 03/31/2008, -0/+14Probably your boss.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • RealmDown, on 03/31/2008, -2/+11Unless you plan on leaving anyway, then pull out all the stops.
  • RealmDown, on 03/31/2008, -0/+9That was a close one. You might not have escaped if you had remembered the quotation marks.
  • RealmDown, on 03/31/2008, -2/+10We're talking about April fools day, not the rest of the year.
  • 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.
  • inigomntoya, on 03/31/2008, -0/+7I think you've been Rick Roll'd, but it says I can't view the video...
  • 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...
  • 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.
  • 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....
  • 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.
  • itsradBrad, on 03/31/2008, -1/+6it was obvious to me b/c they said we "love Fox". Love Fox? Riiight..
  • bxblox, on 03/31/2008, -1/+6Followed by hillary endorsed by *everyone* articles.
  • radink360, on 03/31/2008, -6/+11I hate AFD.
  • luchid, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5OMG Internet Tough guy! Everyone run!
  • 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".
  • DangerDaz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4I somehow thought they were talking about Prager having sex as the april fool.
  • Harabeck, on 03/31/2008, -1/+4But then its hard to use that job as a reference.
  • ReyX, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3You mean Shenanigans?
  • luchid, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3My "the fool" what?
  • 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....
  • 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.
  • nallelcm, on 03/31/2008, -2/+4i hate goofy bleeps.
  • verkon, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I sent anthrax to my friends, boy are they gonna fooled.
  • wellyuk, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2haha
  • lynx44, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I feel for you brother. I wanted that code to be true as much as you did.
  • angusmancan, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2The ATHF prank on Cartoon Network was definitely one of the best TV pranks I've ever seen.
  • 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!
  • verkon, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Hah! I thought the same thing
  • surKaz, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I actually am taking work off tomorrow... but for different reasons.. I'll be outside all day.. crap!
  • rstarr, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Zing!
  • lenninct, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2FYI: digg now belongs to Foxnews.org
  • inactive, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2*Holds out gun, handle first*
  • rstarr, on 03/31/2008, -1/+3You should get out more.
  • nbcaffeine, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2How about the mail? What if your tricksters planned ahead?
  • wecaanation, on 03/31/2008, -4/+6
    The only tool I need in my defense kit is "common-sense"
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