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Featured Jokes from 2008
# Rate ThumbSite Joke
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youtube.comIntroducing YouDigg. The new collaborative project between video megasite YouTube, and Digg.com, the social news site that is revolutionizing the industry.

Digg to be used to promote videos to the front page of youtube
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google.com.auNew Google search tool 'can see into future'
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trustbanners.comWe are delighted to announce the arrival of TrustBanners - a scientific breakthrough in advertising. The results come about from 18 months of research with Professor Olaf. Prilo an expert in the study of brain function.
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uk.youtube.comAll featured videos redirect to Rick Roll
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njection.comReal Time Tracking of Police Officers online and on your phone
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espn4.comElection Deathmatch Coverage
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google.comVir-gle is a fake project between Google and Virgin Media to go to Mars
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mail.google.comGmail Custom time
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onlinedating.typepad.comeHarmony Founder Finds Love on Match.com
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youtube.comBBC documentary trailer on a breed of flying penguins who migrate to the rain forest
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thinkgeek.comFull Lineup of Thinkgeek April Fools Products
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wunderground.comPsychic research proves hurricanes/global warming connection
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infoworld.comMicrosoft, Yahoo agree on buyout price




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Top 20 Highest Rated Jokes (2008)
# Rate ThumbSite Joke
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581

uk.youtube.comAll featured videos redirect to Rick Roll
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237

mail.google.comGmail Custom time
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197

google.com.auNew Google search tool 'can see into future'
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183

youtube.comBBC documentary trailer on a breed of flying penguins who migrate to the rain forest
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133

google.comVir-gle is a fake project between Google and Virgin Media to go to Mars
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86

youtube.comIntroducing YouDigg. The new collaborative project between video megasite YouTube, and Digg.com, the social news site that is revolutionizing the industry.

Digg to be used to promote videos to the front page of youtube
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78

thinkgeek.comFake Thinkgeek Product: Betamax to HD-DVD Converter
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thinkgeek.comFull Lineup of Thinkgeek April Fools Products
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xkcd.com1/3 web comics switch: redirected to questionablecontent.net
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beyondunreal.comIf the web was on a console system.
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espn4.comElection Deathmatch Coverage
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eu.starcraft2.comTauren spacemarines
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worldofwarcraft.comNew Blizzard Console Game: Molten Core
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collegehumor.comdisplayed a fake Myspace page of a girl name Crystal on its domain. The page changes within seconds.
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wow-europe.com'new hero class'
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w00t.comholding a woot-off, but every item for sale is exactly the same.
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leakylounge.comAsk Sybill
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thinkgeek.comFake Thinkgeek Product: PTeq - USB Pregnancy Test
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politinks.comTHIS PAGE IS NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY - President Bush extends the Patriot Act and takes down websites to 'fight terrorism'.
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206_bones.livejournal.comHostile Takeover of 206_Bones




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2008 Jokes
# Rate ThumbSite Joke
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ajaxweb20.net
Submited: 2008-04-04 12:17
[In Italian] A fake bug in Firefox
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computertaal.info
Submited: 2008-04-04 04:30
[Not In English] Site sold by the chief editor
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homeonlinegames.com
Submited: 2008-04-03 23:20
Ranked numero uno....NO 1 up fro 9000,000,000,893,032 in one day
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leighlo.com
Submited: 2008-04-03 16:31
An interview with the crowbar from Half-Life, Portal's Weighted Companion Cube, and a new piece of digital film
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ocremix.org
Submited: 2008-04-03 14:29
A Final Fantasy III ReMix album was announced, titled Echoes of Eternity. It is based on the NES version, not the recent DS remake.
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cnnentertainment.co.nr
Submited: 2008-04-03 14:22
Rapper Snoop Dogg converts to Mormonism
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ev-eon.com
Submited: 2008-04-03 13:19
Bottled carbon drink launched
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bazaarblog.com
Submited: 2008-04-03 13:14
Chuck Norris to speak at conference on Anti-Social Commerce
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oc.co.za
Submited: 2008-04-03 06:07
redirected to our main rivals carnagesa.net
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iseyz.com
Submited: 2008-04-03 02:55
ARGNet hacked
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eslblogs.englishclub.com
Submited: 2008-04-03 00:37
UN To Ban ?Unnecessary? Languages
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206_bones.livejournal.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 22:31
Hostile Takeover of 206_Bones
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globalvillageidiots.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 21:44
TSA Nixes Holding Hands in Airports!
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megatonik.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 20:48
Lego Batman: The Video Game had been changed to Best-Lock Batman to save money on licensing.
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megatonik.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 20:44
Electronic Arts has finalized its purchase of Take-Two, and Take-Two's games will be undergoing a numer of significant changes.
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megatonik.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 20:41
A rumor that Guitar Hero: Fall Out Boy is going to be released. The full set list is included.
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politinks.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 20:36
THIS PAGE IS NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY - President Bush extends the Patriot Act and takes down websites to 'fight terrorism'.
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stanford.scout.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 20:33
Bogus Stanford Basketball Recruiting Story
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burningman.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 20:02
New security measures at Burning Man
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mcphee.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 19:47
5 Fake Products Including Squirrel Underpants
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mrfeedback.net
Submited: 2008-04-02 19:24
Google bought my site which has only been up for 30 days.
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110mb.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 19:20
IE6 passed Acid3
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aquateencentral.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 18:17
Aqua Teen Central becomes Robot Chicken Central. Similar to last year's only tweaked... this year's includes a squished image of Gene Simmons, a YouTube video of 'Ow, My Balls.' from the film Idiocracy, and a looping mp3 of Good King Wenceslas.
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hewnandhammered.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 18:06
Ikea in hostile takeover of Stickley
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rashbre2.blogspot.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 18:01
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Alternative Ending
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boards.gamefaqs.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 17:44
Random YouTube videos popped up, including 'It's Over 9000', 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time', and the intro to 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'.
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novaljapag.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 13:40
President Bush visiting Novalja
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thecubreporter.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 13:18
Announced sponsorship deal with Motorola and individual sponsorships for each of its writers, including one writer changing his name to Wrigley Field.
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nintendoring.net
Submited: 2008-04-02 12:22
[Not In English] Date of Super Smash Bros Brawl PAL
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indoforum.org
Submited: 2008-04-02 11:45
IndoForum, an Indonesian Online Community, in collaboration with NASA has founded a new experiment to move IndoForum Server to the Top of Olympus Mons Mountain (Mars) because according to the research the new location has a natural sattelite reflector to broadcast signals to all around the world. And resulting all members could access IndoForum from any location on the Earth with a minimal speed of 54 MB/s using Wi-Fi.
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nubiana.co.uk
Submited: 2008-04-02 11:22
Mariah Carey appears in London wearing a bin liner and talks about how looks aren't important.
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realityblurred.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 11:16
Fake reality TV stories: Big Brother 10 will cast kids ages 8 to 15; Lauren Conrad will work for TMZ during The Hill's fourth season; Donald Trump invites Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to compete on Celebrity Apprentice 2; Reality show camera crews, audio engineers go on strike
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xbox.frontforen.de
Submited: 2008-04-02 10:56
[Not In English] linkshaender xbox
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preisbock.de
Submited: 2008-04-02 10:55
[Not In English] pizza instead of multi media ads
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webhallen.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 10:43
[In Sweedish] A Swedish webshop tries to sell a new game that didn't exist (to bad, wanted to buy!). It's called Sid Meier's Kina (which means China). You'd supposed to get a AK-47 and a baton for your wiimote. Enjoy! (Maybe you can use a website translator to get the context out of this)
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svencoop.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 09:44
Sven Co-op The Movie announced
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maine.craigslist.org
Submited: 2008-04-02 08:14
A posting in Casual Encounters from a man who won the lottery
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irregularwebcomic.net
Submited: 2008-04-02 07:39
Bogus 'Cease and Desist' order from LucasFilm
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irregularwebcomic.net
Submited: 2008-04-02 07:37
Latin pun & comic swap with Legostar Galactica
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austechnews.blogspot.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 07:15
Podcast renamed to 8Bit news, and Reviews commodore 64 games and games from the early 1990's
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1computercare.co.uk
Submited: 2008-04-02 06:16
Graphics card olfactory circuit on a separate daughter board
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itskeptic.org
Submited: 2008-04-02 06:14
NASA employ ITIL to provide fully automated lights-out IT operations for all future space missions
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kelseyinfo.co.uk
Submited: 2008-04-02 06:11
Chickens wearing jock straps that mark eggs
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houstoncars.org
Submited: 2008-04-02 05:58
Toyota buys GM.
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hereward.co.uk
Submited: 2008-04-02 05:48
ufo sighting - hereward fm even got fake callers in to say about a ufo
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deejay.blog.hr
Submited: 2008-04-02 04:36
Google Has Acquired 'DeeJay Blog' (website related to everything important in Electronic Dance Music, Entertainment World and Information Technology).
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BVEstation.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 03:49
'Super Route Tuesday' advertises over a dozen add-ons to be released for BVE, a free train simulator.
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fundromeda.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 03:16
Angelina Jolie has given birth to black twins
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moddb.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 02:25
Love is in the air - it is time to shake up 2008 and embrace creativity. Mod DB wants to help you developers lead the charge and has launched a new pink love hearts site theme.
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tribune.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 02:17
Company changed it's name to ZellCoMediaEnterprises Inc., added a slideshow of puppies, a debt-o-meter, tipjar and bogus text to its homepage, making fun of itself and other companies. It also issued a fake press release about selling naming rights to its headquarters and its newspapers going paperless (willy wonka style).
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homestarrunner.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 02:14
This cartoon was released on March 31, but the next day, an easter egg was added leading to a secret YouTube video. At the end, click the disk box to receive a code - this is the YouTube URL code for a secret bonus video, viewable at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSyK2RdlUY
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syafriadi.wordpress.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 02:03
UU ITE
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projectafter.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 01:46
Front page news item announced a fake partnership between the site and J-List (jlist.com).
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Pnosis.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 01:34
(at The Eye, there.) Two hypnotists take over the world's pixel factory and hold the world's pixel supply for a billion trillion dollars ransom.
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coh.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 01:19
Game upgrade will remove all sounds off your hard drive to save you space and replace them with visual sounds in the game
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neowin.net
Submited: 2008-04-02 00:46
No longer blue-ray support on PS3s
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sanjuanems.org
Submited: 2008-04-02 00:39
Old School EMS
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guravehaato.info
Submited: 2008-04-02 00:38
[In Portuguese] A lot of Brazilian blogger posted about 'Feed-se', a magazine about blogs, that should be sould in a 'traditional' way
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ipcga.org
Submited: 2008-04-02 00:18
Blackbird gaming PC banned from competition for being 'too bloody powerful'
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ff7citadel.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 00:15
Site themed in honor of a very minor Final Fantasy VII character, the Shinra Manager
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gametrailers.com
Submited: 2008-04-02 00:14
Assassins Gear Solid 4 video
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forum.weed.co.za
Submited: 2008-04-02 00:03
[Need to log in] Marijuana legalised in south africa
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hogwarts-experience.heavenforum.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:59
One of the moderators took over the site with help of the Admin's husband. He took away her power on the site along with some other people's. He changed the sites name from the Hogwarts-Experience to the Raistlin Experience. Also he created a thread for his take over.
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goal.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:57
England Replace Expelled Spain At Euro 2008
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urbandead.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:47
When you sign on there is a list of alerts as though it were Facebook
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ksot.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:34
The 'GameFAQs Boards Secondary FAQ' was changed to the 'Animal Crossing Secondary FAQ'.
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bobmccarty.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:23
No such technology exists...yet.
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z10.invisionfree.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:20
The Administrators pretended to ban everyone on the site and pretended that they closed it down
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metatalk.metafilter.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:09
Background colors of each Metafilter sub site gradually change and cycle through a spectrum causing users much confusion.
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bullyscomics.blogspot.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:04
Blog was taken over by Evil Bully, Bully's evil twin from another universe
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bitstrips.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 23:00
3 week old DIY comics site bought by Microsoft. User made comic strips replaced with Vista advertorials.
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blogs.columbiatribune.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:58
Ralph Wiggum declares for Missouri governor
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encyclopediaofarkansas.net
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:52
Encyclopedia of Arkansas clowns around
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hulu.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:38
The TV show 'Vanish' vanished from the website
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ravelry.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:28
All user avatars in the forums were given different types of hats.
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vgmaps.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:19
The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle Of Hours is mapped (supposedly the companion game to Oracle Of Ages and Oracle Of Seasons), but it's not a real game, and is based on a cancelled game.
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boards.theforce.net
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:13
On a primarily Star Wars forum, there has been a creation of a new forum dedicated to Pancakes and Waffles.
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blog.patyuen.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:12
False advice for new models
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food.gofrolic.org
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:10
Bees Found! Colony Collapse Disorder Actually a Protest of Conditions, Colonialism, and Monarchy
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youtube.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 22:06
Played on Live TV a Fake News report on New zealands TV3 about Jenkum (getting high from shit!)
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mrcopilot.blogspot.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:45
Microsoft thinks its high time some quality open source games are released noting a significant hole in the Linux Gaming market. 'We see it as a great opportunity to introduce Linux users to Microsoft products.'
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rotaryone.org
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:42
News release stating that the Rotary Club was to be bought by Kiwania International for $2 per share.
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madmattsarmory.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:34
Medieval Armorer now has Grande Assiette
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shoptravelgossip.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:18
Adnan Released Britney Spears Sex Tape
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instantz.net
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:10
Website being hacked and replaced some content of the page (removed anime list, removed J-drama list, changed donation goal to 1 million, etc)
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waffles.fm
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:08
Private hard to get in Bittorent site allows sign ups but then redirects them to YouTube Rick Rolled
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npr.org
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:04
NPR ran an enthusiastically positive review of the fictional composer 'Simon Fluegel' and his one note compisition, 'B-flat'.
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dethklan.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:02
Dethklan was today sold to China for an unenclosed amount. China now has submitted to the news a video to announce the sale. Video: (rickroll)
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1337games.ipbfree.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:01
This board has been hacked by Anonomous,
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freewebs.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 21:00
turned into a fake Google with all the links forwarding to the real website, which all the the links started with the letter X.
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rootthisbox.org
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:59
Did a joke with hackthissite.org - ebsites changed their sites to make users thing that they had been hacked, by adding a false PHP system() execution.
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lenovoblogs.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:59
ThinkPad Mr. Coffee Edition
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streetprices.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:58
Paper version of our price comparison services, delivered to your door every half hour.
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mail.gnome.org
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:56
The announcement of the GNOME Epiphany (browser) dropping support for the Gecko (layout engine) backend and supporting only WebKit
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sonic.libsyn.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:55
The Sonic Society played a fake show called Pony Talez before launching into their real episode. The end credits were then interrupted by a Rickroll.
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spearhat.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:54
Bogus product reviewed on the Twit.tv podcast
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ketnet.be
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:53
[Not in English] The Flemish childrens' television station Ketnet announced that two of their presenters, Kristien Maes and Kobe Van Herwegen, were to marry.
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everquest.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:52
[In Game Only] All the in-game characters are a different race (and sometimes gender).
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redwall.wikia.com
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:49
he Redwall Wiki became the 'Loamhedge Wiki'
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oneclickwifi.net
Submited: 2008-04-01 20:47
changed their service from finding people to play wi-fi with to finding life partners. The general theme of the site was changed to match the new service
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