People are Jokesters Today!

Posted by Colleen Kane

 

It's April Fools' Day, so Whole Foods tweeted a link to their home page chock full o' yukks like the one above. Under "What's Cooking?" they list deep-fried pork eclairs, chianti-gorgonzola popsicles, and ham & asparagus shortcake, among others. They're acknowledging how they can charge through the teeth for organic anything, and they trust their consumers to get the joke. 

The green celebrity gossip site Ecorazzi, on the other hand, did not, and Adult Video News and some others got in on the tomfoolery as well. 

 

 

Ecorazzi mocked up a package for a line of vegan frozen food they'd like to exist. At the bottom of the post, in italics: "It's worth noting that today is April 1st."

Even so, when a friend linked this story on Facebook, someone commented on the link, "I'm not sure, but I think they're saying this was an April fools' joke. Wish it were true!"

Over at AVN, they're claiming their novelty awards site for AVN Novelty Expo was hacked early this morning by "Friends" of AVN Novelty Business. The "O" Awards will feature honors such as "Best Buttplug in the Likeness of a World Leader" Best 'For Novelty Use Only' Item That's Not Really 'For Novelty Use Only'"and "Best Inflatable Animal."

Here's an image from their "Running of the Publisher" event.

 

A video on Gunaxin claims a new kind of penguin can fly. 

Twitter is offering 280-character tweets with their tweet doubler

And from Scanner reader Apollo, here are two more: one from Google that's a little too close to the truth of their omnipresent omniscience, and one weird one from NASA that immediately owns up to being a joke. Isn't it better when they don't admit it?

 Related:

 April Fools: The Prankster's Prankster

 Videos of the Day: "The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest of 1957" and "The Day Today"


Comments

asb76 said:

Trent Reznor trumps them all: www.nin.com/strobelight

April 1, 2009 6:47 PM

About Colleen Kane

Colleen has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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