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pita? Why? They've been great humour for a hundred years! Maybe the average quality has declined, but still you see some really great ones.
Do you remember the BBC TV report about the spaghetti harvest? (Spaghetti-tree hoax - Wikipedia[^]) In 1957, pasta was far less known outside Italy, so lots of people honestly believed in the joke (and it was very well made).
Some of the April joke RFCs are great. RFC 1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers was actually implemented a few years later. ofr RFC 3514 The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header. There are several others that could deserve mentioning.
Jokes can have nice side effects, too. A number of years ago we still paid check. For Christmas, lots of people here in Norway bought for themselves, or as gifts, new furniture or whatever else you buy at IKEA. Then there was a mail robbery: The sack of mail contained all the check from IKEAs bigges warehouse in Norway for the busiest day of the year. If a check never reaches the bank, it is not charged to the issuer's account. Lots of people got their gifts and furniture for free that year. Of course the honest ones answered to the request to report to IKEA to repeat the payment, but many did not. Then, on April 1st the following year, Norway's biggest newspaper Aftenposten reported that the sack of mail was found, all the checks recovered. Those who had not reported their buys to IKEA would be reported for fraud. However, police was at the moment very busy with a few big investigations, and would be unable to handle it for another week. As there were still people reporting late to IKEA, those who have made up for their buys within the current week would suffer no consequences. IKEA had not been consulted about the joke, so when there suddenly was a great rush of people who admitted that they had not been charged for their buys, only those who had read Aftenposten that morning understood why.
I love April fool's jokes, but certainly prefer the more sophisticated ones. I love it when it takes days before people understand that they have been fooled. (And consequently I hate the modern trend that electronic media are rushing to be the first one to present a survey of "this year's jokes", often before you go to work on April 1st, so that there is no more use trying to fool you for the entire day.)
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Member 7989122 wrote: In 1957, pasta was far less known outside Italy
 
Have you been reading posts of facebook and twitter again? Everyone who watched that episode of Panorama knew it was a joke, and had a bloody good laugh, watching it. Hell, by 1957, we even knew what bananas, cabbages, and trees were. Member 7989122 wrote: I love April fool's jokes, but certainly prefer the more sophisticated ones.
Sorry, but one good gag per 200,000,000 pathetic childish pranks isn't enough to sell the idea to me.
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... aye ...
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... aye, yarrrgh!
(though 'a doubt 'a be, (yargh, 'll 'awyas be a 'rgarrrghdless))
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I didn't know they'd done this before, but Wikipedia describes a ton of it. Almost all of it beyond lame, so no wonder I never knew.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Hopefully everyone else will as well:
Really? We all may be stuck at home but there's no reason to lose our senses of humor.
Google always had great April fools jokes. It's a shame they are skipping it. 
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Well, you know me - I was born without a sense of humour. So I feel the need to share. 
TTFN - Kent
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ZurdoDev wrote: Google always had great April fools jokes.
They did them to show what fun guys they are -- while doing everything they can to monetise you.
They've cancelled it to show what great, respectful guys they are -- while doing everything they can to monetise you.
If I thought that there were even a milligram of sincerity in anything they did, I would consider taking them out of my hosts file.
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Your personal paranoia means nothing to me.
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Your attempts at trolling mean I get to chuckle at you.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: trolling
Don’t use words unless you know what they mean.
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You're not getting any better at it. Maybe you should go and practice somewhere where it's allowed.
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I sometimes really wonder...
Do you really think 100% all what you say?
or do you just go against the people speaking in a thread as devil's advocate?
And it is genuine curiosity. I don't care if google this or that.
M.D.V. 
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Nelek wrote: Do you really think 100% all what you say?
So, your response seems to only have 2 possibilities. You are trolling or just responding out of emotion.
So, let's see if you can actually explain what is wrong with my comments. Why are you against having a sense of humor? Or are you just trolling?
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ZurdoDev wrote: Why are you against having a sense of humor?
I am not against it, the problem is I never know if you are being serious or sarcastic, joking or really meaning it.
ZurdoDev wrote: So, your response seems to only have 2 possibilities. You are trolling or just responding out of emotion.
Playing devil's advocate for the sick of a good debate is something I have done several times, being a troll is (at least for me) being a jerk or trying to make the other get in a discussion and enjoy making him get angry.
It is easy to see that I don't usually agree with you, but as far as I can remember I have never accused you of being a troll and neither did I in my previous message.
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: is I never know if you are being serious or sarcastic
Why wouldn’t I be serious about this? I find it interesting that last week there were at least a dozen jokes about the virus but nobody said it was in bad taste. Now all of a sudden April fools jokes are in bad taste? It does not make any sense. So, I should be asking the rest of you if you are serious?
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I didn't say April Fool's by Google was bad taste, I just asked if you were being serious or sarcastic.
NVM... forget it.
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Nelek wrote: , I just asked if you were being serious or sarcastic.
You are right and I am wrong. I read more into it than that. My mistake.
Yes, I am very serious. I don't see the problem with joking and many in the Lounge seem to agree.
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Because of the neighborhood, things didn't look particularly strange (certainly not for the time of day and day of week). Quiet walk around the block.
Perfect temperature, clear skies, low humidity, mild breeze. It's nice to forget for a while (or perhaps remember why you want to get through this).
Advisory: Let the sun shine on your face and it will make you smile.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Let the sun shine on your face and it will make you smile the zombies will get you!!
Oh, wait, that's the next pandemic, not this one.
I'm getting too much data from my all-seeing crystal eyeball; I get mixed up.
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Which shows the speed of the crisis: #FlattenTheCurve.
It shows a massive failure of western society (politics, health care and citizen) in fighting that pandemy and the sucess of asian countries like japan, south corea even china.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: countries like japan, south corea even china
"Even" China?
Have you even looked at the numbers?
Their strategy of massive lockdown, followed up with door-to-door testing, has been massively successful -- in a country where governance can only be described as herding 1.4 billion bad-tempered cats (and making regional/provincial leaders toe the line in China is far harder than it is in the US).
Making people congregate in testing areas (even drive-throughs, as first implemented in Korea) is effective, but creates new risk hotspots, no matter how diligent the organisers are.
Western countries' "herd immunity" and "it'll just go away like a miracle" strategies are responsible for the mess we're in, and will likely be responsible for a huge number of deaths.
God only knows how many people are alive today because the Chinese leadership made difficult decisions early -- but by no means easily, given that they had to work from a standpoint that no-one knew anything about the disease, at that time, and avoiding what might have been unnecessary panic was a real thing.
The Chinese central government has done a fantastic job.
We should be so lucky.
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Why yes Santa. I totally believe the numbers out of China that the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny just handed me!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Have you heard of that new-fangled thing called "the Internet"?
So have 1.4 billion Chinese nationals. If you've got Chinese friends, get them to show you what Chinese nationals are talking about.
Your assumption that their leaders are incompetent at their jobs and inveterate liars who get away with anything they do and say looks like an erroneous transposition with "leaders" of certain western nations, and your willingness to believe that the Chinese people are stupid enough to blindly believe everything such incompetent liars tell them seems to be a reflection of the people of those western nations.
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Most political "leaders" havent the skills to master such a historic challenge.
Lying and betraying is a working political strategy because enough people dont react in the long run of it, when some positive news short before elections occuring. What a surprise? 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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The "leaders" people are being conned into electing in the Americas and Eastern/Western Europe, these past few years, are the worst since Stalin and Hitler.
Assuming that the leaders of Oriental countries are as terrible is a natural thing to do, I suppose, but that doesn't mean it's true.
Is there going to be a colony on Mars? Are there any places left?
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