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April Fools' Day is here!
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:24 am
by Lirpa_Loof
Hidey ho, everyone, it's your favorite jokester celebrating his favorite day. Y'all watch out now, 'cause you never know when I or my associates might be in the area, lookin' to pull a prank.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:16 am
by littlebeast13
Have you seen jbhanley around anywhere....?
lb13
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:26 am
by Deaf Mini
What? Did you say something?
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:50 am
by teebee54
Cool! I love April Fools Day! Not quite as much as my BFF Jimmmy, but it still spices up my sugar, Sugar!
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:52 am
by Deaf Mini
Ummm, beast? Can you explain the avatar? Your picture is a bit grainy...
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:58 am
by Blind Beast
Deaf Mini wrote:Ummm, beast? Can you explain the avatar? Your picture is a bit grainy...
Huh? Could you please post in braille?
That's one of our old cats. I posted it for fanny's benefit because Fluffy looks a lot like Fanny (the cat, of course) which I just noticed when she put up her new avatar, but I don't think she's been back online since I put it up....
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:02 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
Check out the astronomy picture of the day from NASA
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080401.html
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:03 am
by Deaf Mini
Gotcha. It looked like a cat in a drawer nursing kittens, and I suppose that's exactly what it is, but I didn't have any context as to why, having Attendance Issues.
BTW, I am deaf because my oldest son won the chemistry division of his school's Science Fair, and asked if we were considering rewarding him, and could he have an electric guitar.
Lets just say that even small crappy amps can put out some sound. And until we get him some sheet music, I have to get used to hearing the openings to "Smoke On the Water" and "School's Out" over and over and over....
I blame his cousin's Guitar Hero game.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:09 am
by Blind Beast
Deaf Mini wrote:Gotcha. It looked like a cat in a drawer nursing kittens, and I suppose that's exactly what it is, but I didn't have any context as to why, having Attendance Issues.
BTW, I am deaf because my oldest son won the chemistry division of his school's Science Fair, and asked if we were considering rewarding him, and could he have an electric guitar.
Lets just say that even small crappy amps can put out some sound. And until we get him some sheet music, I have to get used to hearing the openings to "Smoke On the Water" and "School's Out" over and over and over....
I blame his cousin's Guitar Hero game.
My friend's dad gave me one of his old acoustic guitars when I was a kid. I guess (guess?) I was weird because I never had any inclination to learn how to play it, and besides, as with everything else in the Beast household, it got broken.
Funny how you noticed that Fluffy was in an old drawer (Even the furniture got broken around our place) because I'd forgotten all about that, and never even noticed it in the picture....
Next time your kids make you want to pull your hair out remember, Fluffy had about 100 kittens. You only had 4 (kids, not kittens, well....
.... )
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:20 am
by littlebeast13
Now that Fluffy's got her own MM, I'll go back to my usual avatar fare....
Now that it's getting warmer, it's almost time for that disease scare du jour West Nile to pop up again, so in honor of the 5th anniversary of the worst product blunder the Squiggly ever sent to my department, I shall don the picture of the worst item to ever sit (and sit, and sit, and sit....) on my shelves....
lb13
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:32 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
Deaf Mini wrote:Gotcha. It looked like a cat in a drawer nursing kittens, and I suppose that's exactly what it is, but I didn't have any context as to why, having Attendance Issues.
BTW, I am deaf because my oldest son won the chemistry division of his school's Science Fair, and asked if we were considering rewarding him, and could he have an electric guitar.
Lets just say that even small crappy amps can put out some sound. And until we get him some sheet music, I have to get used to hearing the openings to "Smoke On the Water" and "School's Out" over and over and over....
I blame his cousin's Guitar Hero game.
Could you get him Guitar Hero instead?
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:36 am
by Deaf Mini
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Deaf Mini wrote:Gotcha. It looked like a cat in a drawer nursing kittens, and I suppose that's exactly what it is, but I didn't have any context as to why, having Attendance Issues.
BTW, I am deaf because my oldest son won the chemistry division of his school's Science Fair, and asked if we were considering rewarding him, and could he have an electric guitar.
Lets just say that even small crappy amps can put out some sound. And until we get him some sheet music, I have to get used to hearing the openings to "Smoke On the Water" and "School's Out" over and over and over....
I blame his cousin's Guitar Hero game.
Could you get him Guitar Hero instead?
We don't have a game system (I know--welcome to the 21st Century!). I'm glad he wanted a keyboard instead of a Wii for his birthday, and a real instrument instead of a game. He even asked for a haircut yesterday!
My kids are just bizarre sometimes....
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:44 am
by Bob Juch
Deaf Mini wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Deaf Mini wrote:Gotcha. It looked like a cat in a drawer nursing kittens, and I suppose that's exactly what it is, but I didn't have any context as to why, having Attendance Issues.
BTW, I am deaf because my oldest son won the chemistry division of his school's Science Fair, and asked if we were considering rewarding him, and could he have an electric guitar.
Lets just say that even small crappy amps can put out some sound. And until we get him some sheet music, I have to get used to hearing the openings to "Smoke On the Water" and "School's Out" over and over and over....
I blame his cousin's Guitar Hero game.
Could you get him Guitar Hero instead?
We don't have a game system (I know--welcome to the 21st Century!). I'm glad he wanted a keyboard instead of a Wii for his birthday, and a real instrument instead of a game. He even asked for a haircut yesterday!
My kids are just bizarre sometimes....
Must be genetic.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:45 am
by MinisKidToBeNamedLater
Bob Juch wrote:Deaf Mini wrote:PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
Could you get him Guitar Hero instead?
We don't have a game system (I know--welcome to the 21st Century!). I'm glad he wanted a keyboard instead of a Wii for his birthday, and a real instrument instead of a game. He even asked for a haircut yesterday!
My kids are just bizarre sometimes....
Must be genetic.
You can say that again!
Thankfully, we don't have any of our Uncle Beast's genes.....
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:46 am
by MarleysGh0st
Deaf Mini wrote: We don't have a game system (I know--welcome to the 21st Century!). I'm glad he wanted a keyboard instead of a Wii for his birthday, and a real instrument instead of a game. He even asked for a haircut yesterday!
My kids are just bizarre sometimes....
A haircut? Huzzah, again!
So he wants to learn guitar as well as keyboard? And he already plays another instrument in school band, IIRC. Was that the viola?
A musical jack-of-many-trades!
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:52 am
by Deaf Mini
MarleysGh0st wrote:Deaf Mini wrote: We don't have a game system (I know--welcome to the 21st Century!). I'm glad he wanted a keyboard instead of a Wii for his birthday, and a real instrument instead of a game. He even asked for a haircut yesterday!
My kids are just bizarre sometimes....
A haircut? Huzzah, again!
So he wants to learn guitar as well as keyboard? And he already plays another instrument in school band, IIRC. Was that the viola?
A musical jack-of-many-trades!
Yup--he's an Orch Dork. He wants to learn Smoke on the Water, since they may play it with the orchestra, and if he could learn it on the guitar it could add something. Then he said, "Too bad the Talent Show is this Friday" like he would consider getting up on stage! I love him in a small school.
The best thing is his buddy plays drums, so if they get up a garage band it would be at Greg's house and not mine, since drums aren't portable. Yeeeeeeee Hawwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:27 am
by earendel
MarleysGh0st wrote:Deaf Mini wrote: We don't have a game system (I know--welcome to the 21st Century!). I'm glad he wanted a keyboard instead of a Wii for his birthday, and a real instrument instead of a game. He even asked for a haircut yesterday!
My kids are just bizarre sometimes....
A haircut? Huzzah, again!
So he wants to learn guitar as well as keyboard? And he already plays another instrument in school band, IIRC.
Was that the viola?
A musical jack-of-many-trades!
The viola was my instrument of choice in junior high school. I was never good enough to pursue it, so I no longer play.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:58 am
by kayrharris
Has Google joined the April Fool's schemes? I love some of the comments.
https://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
I'm back!
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:23 am
by Lirpa_Loof
And fresh from the Museum of Hoaxes, I give you the Top 10 April Fools Hoaxes of all time.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/index
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:35 am
by MarleysGh0st
Is there some pop cultural reference I've missed that would explain what a Lirpa Loof is?
Anything like a loofa sponge?
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:38 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
MarleysGh0st wrote:Is there some pop cultural reference I've missed that would explain what a Lirpa Loof is?
Anything like a loofa sponge?
Look at each word backwards.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:40 am
by Rexer25
MarleysGh0st wrote:Is there some pop cultural reference I've missed that would explain what a Lirpa Loof is?
Anything like a loofa sponge?
I think this question makes you the Lirpa Loof this year...
Re: I'm back!
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:46 am
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
You know Left Handed Whoppers would be very useful.
#8: The Left-Handed Whopper
In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."
I could also use a left-handed wooden spoon and left-handed chopsticks.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:41 am
by peacock2121
I am too gullible to like today.
I am an easy mark.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:08 am
by MarleysGh0st
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:Is there some pop cultural reference I've missed that would explain what a Lirpa Loof is?
Anything like a loofa sponge?
Look at each word backwards.
Now why would I have done a thing like that?