can’t wait. did you pull a prank last year?

Ahh - diden’t think about that, but this could be a great way to make some linkbait. Thanks for the tip, will start the planing now.

Hmm - any tip?

Staale aka Vikingblogger

Meh. Mine was done in August

What’s it gonna be Shoe? That’s thinking outside the box!

At first I didnt think it was a good post, but then I realised this will be a great trick and a great oppotunity for driving a massive amount of traffic to my sites as everything is allowed on the day, I will think up of some stories that are so outrageous that people will find it hard to belive they are not true. Thanks for the early heads up Shoe :))

Thanks for the laugh in the morning I love the post title, lol

Well. According to Rebecca you could get away with farting and video blog about it. So is that what we are planning on seeing?
BTW, last year was good.

Nice…i’m started preparing mine as of yesterday for a few of my sites

Much thanks for the brainstorm!!!

Nothing could be more cruel than being born on April Fools day

hahaha I can’t wait. What did you do last year? I’m so curious.

Don’t wet yourself there Shoe. I’ll have to get to work on my April Fool’s post. Thanks for the reminder.

I spoke to someone at ShoeMoney Media and they told me what you’re planning. Muhaha.

Of course if you suck your prank…

Oh, what a difference a COMMA makes. May go down as one of the most quotable of the month

Remember, it’s not a truly epic April Fool’s joke if, in the process, you don’t piss off a lot of people.

The best April Fool’s joke I ever took part in was actually begun about two weeks prior to April Fool’s. I and a programmer friend were both members of an online community, back in the day when online communities were still pretty new. We cooked up this scheme over pizza one night. We were both system administrators of this online community. He wrote up a nice little program that purported to be an intelligent matchmaker program - you filled out a ten or twelve questions online, and then it selected from the database of other people who’d filled out the questionnaire to tell you who your best match was. That’s all it did. He installed it, I wrote up the announcement, and we let it fly.

It took off like wildfire. Everyone was running it, and then re-running it, because the more people who sent in their questionnaires, the more potential choices for a ‘match’ each person had.

But then all hell started breaking loose. Straight people were being matched with gay people. 60-year olds were being matched with 15 year olds. Husbands and wives, girlfriends and boyfriends WEREN’T being match. Several couples started dating based just on the results of this program. People were actually questioning their relationships (and maybe even their sexuality!!) The amount of drama it caused was unequalled in the history of the online community.

After two weeks, when April 1st arrived, we finally came clean, in the opposite way you’d expect - we actually *told the truth*. The matchmaking program was a shill. All the answers to the questionnaire were tossed - people were being matched in a pretty much total random fashion - actually, I think it had something to do with counting up the number of characters in their login-ids.

Boy, were people pissed at us! If we hadn’t been sysadmins, we probably would have been thrown off the system.

I remember it fondly to this day.

oh! i like it very much!

Heeh, netmeg, that’s funny..
I can’t wait to see what you throw out there Jeremy, something like “I’m buying the johnchow.com network” maybe?

haha… I just saw last years… that is awesome. I guess I will start planning now. I not usually one for April fools, but I guess its a blogging tradition huh?

I’m sure you’re going to announce that you’re going to form an SEO agency on 4/1 :.)

Shoe…I really wonder what you have up your sleeves

-Mike

Funny thing is how you are publicly announcing this now in January, we will all probably all forget about it between now and April 1st and fall for it like and old boot!

Thanks for the warning Shoe! LOL!

Cheers!

WineGuy

I know?????

You quite this gig and go on tour as a professional poker player called SHOEMONEY.

You do not have me fooled.

Good luck and lets us know when you get near making a final table.

Cheers

LOL yea I love april fools, but I never participate. I just like seeing others do it heh.

Thanks for the warning

Wow…My Grandfather must have really liked April Fools before he died, as he always smelled of pee…Kidding

I love aprils fools, gotta get some good ideas ready

shoemoney,

bring it on. Pranks & Linkbait is what Zug dot com was found on.

Lets see what you online marketers can do!

The prank masters at Zug

This is the first time I have heard of your pranks. Cant wait. I just started reading your blog!

Well I am sure I will fall for it. But bring it baby, lets see whats going down.

A fool and their dignity are easily parted.

Yes, I am destinately agreeing with you after hearing it is so accomplished that is not complicated to make an fool joke for someone you near loving you.

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