OT: April Fool's hoax stories
by BPH, San Diego, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 11:16 (6328 days ago)
Of course, everyone knows about Sidd Finch, but SI had another one five years ago that I think is underappreciated, probably because the novelty had worn off. I remember SI revealed the giveaway to the hoax in the next week's issue, but I can't remember what it is. Can anyone spot it?
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1031589/index.htm
We were going to go with either...
by domer.mq
, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 12:09 (6328 days ago) @ BPH
"Weis Releases B&G Game Rules" with a list of progressively more absurd rule modifications, all starting with the actual rule that OL can't cut block but must yell out "cut!"
or...
"Manti Decides to Go On Mission Before Enrolling at ND."
The first was getting pretty creative. The 2nd could well have sent people into a tailspin considering our (unexpected) success with "Lou Holtz to ND as AD" last year.
But then my kid got sick, so rather than blog, I rocked her from 10 to 5 last night.
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Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick.
My daughter did her own Linda Blair impersonation
by scriptcomesfirst
, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 19:09 (6327 days ago) @ domer.mq
last night. Nothing like changing sheets at 3 a.m.
Yeah. We were there 2 weeks ago. I feel your pain.
by domer.mq
, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 19:21 (6327 days ago) @ scriptcomesfirst
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Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick.
"Kenneth Yorik"
by Jay, San Diego, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 11:52 (6328 days ago) @ BPH
At one of the society's sessions a Fordham economics professor named Kenneth Yorik delivered a report entitled Who's Up First: A Stochastic Ergonometric Model of On-Base-Percentage Optimization. It was a cheerfully abstruse attempt to devise a batting order that would most often bring table-setting batters to the plate at the beginnings of innings. Yorik mentioned that in studying the scorecards he had kept throughout the 2002 season, he had noticed that the incidence of what he called LOOFA (for Lead Off/Outstanding Fielding Alignment) was "nowhere near frequent enough to be called 'often,' much less 'so often'-in fact, the frequency was rather low."
"Kenneth, what is the frequency?" asked someone.
Alas, said Yorik, that which should so often have happened had happened only slightly more than 3.31% of the time.
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"Who's Up First"
"what's the frequency, Kenneth?"
"Alas, said Yorik"
"LOOFA" (read it backwards)
The swear jar...
by PMan
, The Banks of the Spokane River, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 14:15 (6328 days ago) @ Jay
and the car pooling to Ann Arbor ("riding bitch") made me chuckle.
I guess I'm slow like Lloyd Christmas
by BPH, San Diego, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 12:51 (6328 days ago) @ Jay
I get the REM reference and the LOOFA, but the other ones escape me.
alas, [poor] Yorik
by Jay, San Diego, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 12:57 (6328 days ago) @ BPH
Act 5, Scene 1
HAMLET
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
come; make her laugh at that.
Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber
by FunkDoctorSpock, Your Nightmares, B* tches, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 13:13 (6328 days ago) @ Jay
"Hey, who's the BARBER here??"
Another
by Jeff (BGS)
, A starter home in suburban Tempe, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 12:07 (6328 days ago) @ Jay
"Slightly more than 3.31%" (4/1 is slightly more than 3/31)
That one I missed.
by scriptcomesfirst
, Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 19:08 (6327 days ago) @ Jeff (BGS)
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