Comments on: Holy April Fools

By: ctgrow

ctgrow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:57:14 +0000

Yes, with a capital “I”.

By: Angus

Angus — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:34:49 +0000

Identical?

By: ctgrow

ctgrow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:02:57 +0000

Another random note: I started listening to “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations” on audio tape by Al Franken during my commute today, and realized that not only is your sharp wit and often hilarious attention to irony remarkably similar to Franken’s, but the tone and enunciation of your voices are almost identical.

By: ctgrow

ctgrow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:28:10 +0000

I also like the phrase “Also, I ate an entire shark while it was still alive.”

By: ctgrow

ctgrow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:26:45 +0000

I fell for the Google “Autopilot” CADIE hoax, where they claimed to be implementing a new “lab” in Gmail where it automatically replies to emails in your “style”. A ludicrous idea, obviously, but the artificial intelligence possibilities of it sucked me in for a while, until I realized there was no where to click to “enable” this new “lab”.

I recommend checking it out: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html

It’s embarrassing to admit that I momentarily fell for it, seeing as how I read it on April Fool’s Day.

By: Angus

Angus — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:27:39 +0000

Mmm, the Hoax: love the capitalization.

By: ctgrow

ctgrow — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:13:45 +0000

It would seem to follow that whatever we’re most sure of is the Hoax…leading us all down the skepticism spiral.

By: Angus

Angus — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:51:56 +0000

And to you, Mr. Childs.

By: cc

cc — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:41:53 +0000

You already know the man on the TV is lying and that your happiness revolves around something other than economy. Maybe you are fooling yourself there, that the man on the TV is not lying and that money brings you happiness. Maybe the black and white of it all is a hoax, the very idea that there is an Author or there is not. The hoax is a hoax.

April Fools to you, too, Mr. Stocking.

By: Anyone fall for an April Fools?

Anyone fall for an April Fools? — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:01:08 +0000

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