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just not that funny, is it?

You have to seriously question the maturity level of a comapny that goes to these lengths for such a "crappy" joke. It's one day out of the year people. And it's the most annoying day at that.

What a complete and utter waste of time and money.

your ad dollars at work

I thought it was funny.

It's april fool's day, you blowhards.

"It's april fool's day, you blowhards. "

Bah humbug. I hate april fool's day. What moron decided to create such a stupid holiday in the first place?

you must be a blast in person.

Yeah, I'm non-stop fun.

I thought the new GMail Paper feature was much funnier.

Oh, and to the "utter waste of money" guy:  If you had a few billion laying around you probably wouldn't worry about blowing a few thousand on a little indulgence.

The Internet has killed April Fool's Day.  Every site on the entire net feels the need to post their own joke, making them all completely obvious and thus seem just pretty stupid.  This also destroys the abilty to play April Fool's Day jokes on people in real life because by the time you get to them they probably already saw all the dumb Internet jokes and have their guard up.

Screw you, Internet!  You ruined April Fool's!

I thought it was TV that stopped people from being able to decent tricks because noone can think of anything aside from what they saw on Parent Trap or the Simpsons?

Please please please. April Fool's Day is very very stupid celebration. Especially for market leader.

Google, don't do that again.

Yeah, humor is completly worthless and empty of any revenue. We'd much rather die of heart attacks at early ages from boiling over stress all day.

Was I the only one that thought the GMail paper idea really wasn't all that bad? My first thought was "cool, I can select all of these e-mails labeled as 'Family Reunion' and mail that information to my grandmother"

Then I realized I'm a gullible moron.

Sorry for the cross post. I didn't realize that there were two threads related to April Fools Day out here. From the business of software forum:

"There is a video of a guy at Microsoft rigging his boss' ceiling to drop 1000 rubber bouncy balls on him. He's using a microcontroller and laptop inserted into the ceiling. All of his office mates are laughing it up while the boss looks at them thinking "now who in the h*ll do they expect to clean up this mess". You can tell that he is not amused at all. What a complete waste of time.

http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/04/02/2012390.aspx


There is another very believable Microsoft blog talking about how Virtual PC 2007 now supports OS/X which is something many of us would be interested in. The only tip off in the whole article is that you have to have the date on your computer set to April 1st. I'm surprised that no one quoted it out here yet as being real. It appears that the original author has pulled the blog entry. Many of his comrades were quoting it as real. This is the kind of crap that just wastes our time.

There is no need for this stuff in the world of business. I wonder how much April Fools Day actually costs businesses each year? "

Re: The rubber ball in the ceiling video.

Way to ruin what might have been an OK surprise by standing around with a non-concealed videocamera and asking suspicious questions before dropping them.