Beware the First of April

Just a quick service announcement: As you’ve probably noticed, today is April 1st, colloquially known as April Fools.

Do not believe anything you read on the internet today.

But do feel free to link any interesting April Fools items you run across in the comments.

(Aside: In addition, today is also the third anniversary of my second (and current) marriage. In honor of that fact, Eric and I added a new action item to our task list at today’s scrum: Anniverse. No word yet on what that actually means.)

32 Comments

  1. Rikaku - April 1st, 2009 @ 4:26 pm UTC

    Congratulations!!! =D

    Yes, there is nothing you can trust on today. Though, would I be bad if I said I would LOVE a pimp my mount option?

  2. Amyliz - April 1st, 2009 @ 4:31 pm UTC

    Congratulations!!
    And ya..I’d love a Pimp my Mount option too! Kudo’s to Blizz and their zany April Fool’s ideas (I still love the Pandarin chinese food delivery the best!)
    (First post for me!)
    *Waves hello*

  3. Palladiamors - April 1st, 2009 @ 4:50 pm UTC

    Happy Anniverse, Mania and Eric!

  4. Palladiamors - April 1st, 2009 @ 4:50 pm UTC

    *Waves hullo to Amyliz as his double*

  5. ihlos - April 1st, 2009 @ 4:56 pm UTC

    I dont know about any april foolery you speak of, but there is a new tenacity pet thats making news, check out more info on my blog.

  6. Maebius - April 1st, 2009 @ 5:34 pm UTC

    Yep, it’s “ignore most blog posts and new items day”.. /sigh
    However, assuming your Anniverse is not one following the prior paragraph’s warning of distrusting all news: Congrats!

  7. Mania - April 1st, 2009 @ 6:45 pm UTC

    You can always trust me! *grin*

    But yes, my husband and I eloped to Las Vegas a few years back with our shared best man, Todd. We got the license after midnight and were married sometime around 3am on April 1st. The date was important to me, although the marriage was rather a formality. (We wed primarily for the health insurance. We’ve been together since … lessee … 1999.)

  8. Shirate - April 1st, 2009 @ 6:57 pm UTC

    GRatz! Gotta love anniversaries! Btw, where did yall find the pimp my mount joke? I can’t find it

  9. Kristy - April 1st, 2009 @ 7:00 pm UTC

    The You Tube web site is doing a funny April 1st trick on people.

  10. Darigez - April 1st, 2009 @ 7:00 pm UTC

    It wasn’t as good as they usually do, or i haven’t seen it all yet.

  11. Mania - April 1st, 2009 @ 7:02 pm UTC

    P1mp My Mount is on the EU WoW site. Link: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/mount-p1mpage.html

  12. Ikara - April 1st, 2009 @ 7:05 pm UTC

    I loved the April Fools jokes, but I wished they had shown Kael’thas dancing xD
    Pimp My Mount is a little cooler, but it’s a tough call. Warcraftpets.com had a pretty funny April Fools joke, too.

  13. Rilgon Arcsingh - April 1st, 2009 @ 9:35 pm UTC

    Yep, it’s “ignore most blog posts and new items day”.. /sigh

    You can trust SES! :)

  14. Mr. Perfect - April 1st, 2009 @ 9:39 pm UTC

    The regular WoW site has a PvP Dance Battle announcement on it. It’s pretty good, if you ask me. The “Mesh Shirt of Inappropriateness” is especially funny. Because really, when is mesh ever appropriate?

  15. Patricia - April 1st, 2009 @ 11:17 pm UTC

    Congratulations Mania and Eric.

    I love “The Soul Train” reward for the Dance Battle season. “Binds when picked up. Mount. Races: Orc, Undead, Tauren, Troll, Blood Elf Requires Level 60. Requires Riding (300)

    Use: Teaches you how to summon this mount. This is a very fast five-person mount that carries vendors and back-up dancers.

    Business up front, parting the the back.”

    LOL

  16. Patricia - April 1st, 2009 @ 11:18 pm UTC

    oops. Sorry for the double post, but that should be

    “partying in the back.”

  17. Ryai - April 2nd, 2009 @ 12:06 am UTC

    LAWL @ wut Patricia posted

    Amigod that would be the best thing ever XD

    And today the only one that got me was the ‘trick’ my ride one that Blizz did, I actually thought it was real- I had forgotten what today was, and thought it was real.

    I had a real laugh and Aria and I both wished it was real- I would love to do something with a kodo to make the big bulky rhinos a bit more loveable in my eyes.

    Compared to the one that happened on Youtube for me- everything went upside down including a vid I was watching and it hurt my eyes e.e

    And grats on the anniversery Mania, and many thanks for not falling into the pit off pranks on us- I’ve experienced enough about Pokemon [yes I play the games occasionally 8D] and it annoys me when people think it’s funny to make up rumors and lie and get peoples hopes up in that way..

    Ok Pmp my Mount fools was basically the same but it’s different, it was quite funny imo.

  18. Volcan - April 2nd, 2009 @ 7:19 am UTC

    Did you guys notice the new YouTube layout for April Fools? :D

  19. Faeldray - April 2nd, 2009 @ 10:23 am UTC

    Congratulations Mania and Eric!

    May you have many more happy years to come. :)

  20. Jolyroger - April 2nd, 2009 @ 12:09 pm UTC

    Congratz to you both.

  21. Koriani - April 2nd, 2009 @ 1:12 pm UTC

    Yea – I actually think a PVP Dance-competition thing would be totally fun and cool (and definitely innovative lol). Too bad for me :(. Oh well maybe one day we’ll have the dance studios in finally :).

  22. Shir_Kirakira - April 2nd, 2009 @ 1:15 pm UTC

    Its a shame the April Fools items weren’t real…now I totally want a Mesh Shirt of Inappropriateness, Codpiece of Assertiveness for my character and a Soul Train mount for my hom–err, guildies.

    Damn you Blizzard, damn you.

    (Although when I first saw the item “Soul Train” I thought for some reason it should be non combat pet, like the toy train you can buy in Dalaran, but instead of everyone nearbye going “choochoo” the item would force everyone to dance instead!)

  23. Mr. Perfect - April 2nd, 2009 @ 1:16 pm UTC

    Yes, that pimped Kodo is kind of cool. Really, who wouldn’t want a tiny Murloc sailing around on top of their mount like it was a pirate ship?

  24. Nyx - April 2nd, 2009 @ 3:35 pm UTC

    http://bigredrhino.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/ptr-build-9722-new-tenacity-pet/

    Oh, god, I wish.

  25. Rottingham - April 2nd, 2009 @ 4:20 pm UTC

    I know I’m a day late but Congrats!

  26. Ryai - April 3rd, 2009 @ 12:31 am UTC

    I just got duped again, the warcraft vanity petsite and the companion cube.

    Damnit I wanted a cube :<

    I blame Aria tho SHE LINKED IT TO MEEE

    evil evil evil person.

  27. Witrely - April 3rd, 2009 @ 1:20 am UTC

    happy anniversary Mania and Eric :)
    live long and prosper ^^

  28. Azhrei - April 3rd, 2009 @ 9:06 am UTC

    Man, I still want the bard Hero Class from last year. He’d be the ultimate dance-fighter too!

  29. scott - April 3rd, 2009 @ 9:13 am UTC

    Grats to you Mania and Eric!

  30. Bill - April 5th, 2009 @ 11:01 am UTC

    Everything is better with squeeze bacon

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/squeez-bacon.html

  31. Rottingham - April 5th, 2009 @ 4:59 pm UTC

    WOW! that Squeeze Bacon looks delicious! I bet It’s real chunky…

  32. Palladiamors - April 5th, 2009 @ 9:03 pm UTC

    Since when do we get that kind of spammer here?

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