64 comments to “April what?”

1. Cassandra:
   1 April 2006, on 7:19 am

   Oh your fucking God… I was sitting here like, WTF?? I took a screen shot and everything.
   Good one… Very good.

2. Yorrike:
   1 April 2006, on 7:38 am

   That April 1st site design is nice, you should invert the colours (so it’s a bit lighter), and apply it to GifS (removing the jebuses, of course).

3. Rodney Anonymous:
   1 April 2006, on 8:13 am

   Congrats. You fooled me at first, but only because I wouldn’t put hacking this site past some crazed Fundie.

4. Sean:
   1 April 2006, on 8:32 am

   Bwahahaha!

   Rock on, Ron!

   Happy AFD, all.

5. Cassandra:
   1 April 2006, on 8:36 am

   but only because I wouldn’t put hacking this site past some crazed Fundie.

   This is exactly what I was thinking.

6. jimmer:
   1 April 2006, on 8:54 am

   Please tell your dad not to send me to hell. Tooooo good. I thought it had been hijacked also till I read that.

7. Deacon Barry:
   1 April 2006, on 9:32 am

   The perfect April fool gag. Within the realms of possibility so that I went WTF!? There was no inkling of this yesterday - has the website been hacked? Then I tried the menu button and found the TRUTH!
   Here in Scotland, it’s after twelve noon - does it still count?

8. Marcus:
   1 April 2006, on 9:50 am

   HA! Well done, Ron.

9. Jon Avon:
   1 April 2006, on 10:00 am

   Very alarmed for a moment there. The funny thing is that I didn’t for a moment think that you had crossed to the other side. Once you have become/ are a convinced rationalist it is so liberating and so self evidently sensible and justifiable that there is no going back. Scary thing is that it is perfectly plausible that the merchants of ‘love’ and ‘forgiveness’ could hack a legitimate website with the intention of, by subterfuge, surprising and outraging people who hold a defensible and inoffensive world view.

10. Bob:
    1 April 2006, on 10:39 am

    Hi. I’m Bob, and I’m an idiot.

11. Steve Sutton:
    1 April 2006, on 11:35 am

    I wasn’t fooled for a minute..

    Well, okay, maybe just one.

12. King Retard:
    1 April 2006, on 12:16 pm

    Hahahahaha, that was hilarious. I sat there for a second wondering what the hell had happened, and like others, thought maybe it had been hijacked until I read it all the way and remembered what today was. Very nicely done, Ron!

13. stardust1954:
    1 April 2006, on 1:38 pm

    You got me!!!!! I even changed my fucking passwords thinking you had a hacker! I feel like a complete MORON. hahahaha!

14. Ford:
    1 April 2006, on 2:01 pm

    The only thing that saved me from being fooled was that I happened to look at the calendar today before coming to this site. It did take me a couple of seconds to figure out where the fuck I was though. Good one.

15. Dena:
    1 April 2006, on 2:19 pm

    WTF?!?! For a moment I thought you fuckers were hijacked by some crazy.

    Shame on you all for tricking me. Don’t ever do that to me again. I’m a delicate flower.

16. Slartibartfast:
    1 April 2006, on 3:06 pm

    I read my RSS feed first and jumped right to this page

    Nice work!

17. Sean:
    1 April 2006, on 3:10 pm

    Hi, Dena!

18. Sean:
    1 April 2006, on 3:11 pm

    Slartibartfast Says:
    April 1st, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    I read my RSS feed first and jumped right to this page

    So did I, so it kinda weakened the joke a bit for me. I guess RSS can be less cool than just browsin’ after all!

19. Sean:
    1 April 2006, on 3:14 pm

    Check out Google’s April Fool’s gag:

    http://www.google.com/

    http://www.google.com/romance/

20. Ty:
    1 April 2006, on 3:20 pm

    This is my first vist to your blog. I came upon your site from a link on the Agnosticism / Atheism section of about.com and when I first saw the page on your supposed ‘holy redemption’ I thought,”What the Bleep! I’m too late.” The date had slipped my mind so thanks for making me aware that it’s April 1’st so that I can now better prepare myself for the cruel “April Fool’s” jokes that I know my friends and relatives inevitably have in store for me.

21. Sean:
    1 April 2006, on 3:39 pm

    Here ya go, Ron. I’ve immortalized it in our Flickr photo stream:

    http://static.flickr.com/37/121444243_0419dd82fd.jpg

22. NonProphet:
    1 April 2006, on 4:15 pm

    Well done! I too came via RSS, but had a good chuckle at ‘the truth’ linking through to the Atheist Manifesto.

23. Reluctant Atheist:
    1 April 2006, on 4:18 pm

    Sean:
    I’d completely forgotten what day it was. I was in the shower when I realized it.
    Kinda reminds me (a little) of the ‘Taco Liberty Bell’ AFJ some years back.
    I remember thinking, “Wow, this is going to impact the atheist blogosphere in no little way.”
    I too thought you’d been hacked.
    Gonna have to nickname you the ‘merry prankster’.

24. Annegrete:
    1 April 2006, on 4:27 pm

    Sometimes I hate my RSS But I do love the clown gif. Can I please have a larger one? Pretty please?

25. Sean:
    1 April 2006, on 4:38 pm

    Reluctant Atheist:

    Wasn’t my doing. All credit goes to GifS master Ron, the wizard behind the curtain.

26. sable chicken:
    1 April 2006, on 4:40 pm

    Ron, that was a good one…I loved it.
    I thought for a moment…
    “Here really Is a God!”
    …that’s a good one. You got me!

    Hi, Dena everyone has been missing you.

27. Sean:
    1 April 2006, on 4:46 pm

    Technorati also has up 15 fake most popular blog searches for their April Fool’s today. Amusing (to geeks, anyway):

    http://www.technorati.com/search/

    1. Third Life
    2. IEMac
    3. Pointcast RSS
    4. BeOS
    5. Emo
    6. Webcrawler
    7. Blah Blah Blah-o-sphere
    8. NeXT Buys Disney
    9. Megaformats
    10. Apple Newton
    11. Gates Buys Linux
    12. HyperCard
    13. Kozmo 2.0
    14. Technorati Hiring
    15. OMGROFLOLWTFBBQ!!1

28. michael:
    1 April 2006, on 5:04 pm

    Man, that was scary, don’t do that again.

29. roya:
    1 April 2006, on 5:27 pm

    It was not funny. I love this blog and thinking it has been fucked up is not funny!

30. Sean:
    1 April 2006, on 5:41 pm

    Oh, come on, Roya. We love ya, too, but putting up fake home pages on April Fool’s Day is a long-standing web tradition. I thought it was great that Ron took the time to do it. After all, isn’t our sense of humor one of the things that defines this site?

31. stardust1954:
    1 April 2006, on 6:52 pm

    I think it’s hilarious now that I panicked and bellowed for my son to come take a look and asked him if there was any way that could happen to my blogs…etc. etc. He came into my office room to check it out and just told me to change my passwords, and he didn’t even think of April Fool’s Day.

    I then got a clue after thinking about the 4 in looking4jesus…and clicked on it and LMAO!!!!

    This has got to be about the greatest April Fool’s prank I have seen since my brother put raw whole eggs inside the toes of my father’s shoes when he was a kid.

32. Ron:
    1 April 2006, on 7:23 pm

    Thank you, thank you. I’ll be at the Airport Way Hilton Lounge through next weekend. Well drinks 1/2 price until 9pm!

33. Ron:
    1 April 2006, on 7:33 pm

    Oh, and…

    1. Annegrete, I totally wish I had a bigger version of that .GIF file of the Jeebus/Clown crucifixion, but that’s the only one.

    2. Sorry the RSS readers got cheated a little, but there wasn’t a good solution that I saw to that.

    3. I got Bob better than the non-posters know. That alone made it all worthwhile.

34. Ford:
    1 April 2006, on 8:13 pm

    Wait, how good did you get him? I miss something?

35. Sean:
    1 April 2006, on 8:56 pm

    Ford Says:

    Wait, how good did you get him? I miss something?

    Well, we might as well out Bob completely.

    Ford, he sent an email to a bunch of us posters using addresses from an earlier thread… So ya’ll newbies were left off of it.

    This is what he said:

    Looks like some xian got all fancy-schmancy with our site…
    Redirected everything…
    Either that, or Ron and Sean converted without telling us…

    Sorry, Bob. Inquiring minds wanted to know.

36. Ford:
    1 April 2006, on 9:14 pm

    Hey, he’s not any more foolish than the rest of us. He’s just a little more proactive, just goes to show what most of the people here would’ve done if there was a real problem, ya slackers. :p

37. Ford:
    1 April 2006, on 9:23 pm

    Ya know, I’m glad April 1st was a saturday this year, that way the prank shit was kept to the occasional internet annoyance. I hate going out into the real world on April fools because then some asshole comes out at my unsuspecting ass with some “OMFG!! There was just a nuclear terrorist attack it’s all over the fuckin’ nooz!!” shit and the dozens of other pranks that go on.

38. roya:
    2 April 2006, on 3:18 am

    Sean, I just ment it was scary when I saw the headline “Im sorry jesus”.
    When I clicked on commentary though, that’s another story.

39. roya:
    2 April 2006, on 3:29 am

    I have a weak heart, so pliiiiiiz guys no more of this!

40. markoz:
    2 April 2006, on 6:40 am

    Great one but it is the 2nd in australia and was finished with the whole april fools thing so it was unexpected, anyway was yelling at my partner that some xians had hijacked your site and he pointed to the link at the bottom and i got thru but to late i have already emailed you, lookin the complete arse.anyyway finally left a reply on this awsome site keep up the great work

41. Lorraine:
    2 April 2006, on 2:50 pm

    I was referred to this site by someone on Rotten.com and had never visited until yesterday. I thought something awful had happened, then remembered it was April 1. Good one!

42. Lya Kahlo:
    3 April 2006, on 7:00 am

    *grumble grumble* I miss all the fun >:(

    *exit stage left with little black clouds overhead*

43. Sean:
    3 April 2006, on 7:49 am

    Here’s a screenshot of what we all saw when we hit the homepage on Saturday, Lya:

    http://static.flickr.com/37/121444243_0419dd82fd.jpg

    And welcome, Lorraine. Wow, someone on Rotten.com referred you to us? Now that’s street cred.

44. Ron:
    3 April 2006, on 11:07 am

    I left the page here at http://gods4suckers.net/ifoundit/ in case anybody wants to see it.

45. Bob:
    3 April 2006, on 11:56 am

    So, I come up for air from a mountain of boxes (moving SUCKS…UGH!), and I find that both Ron and Sean have outed my idiocy and dumb-ass-ery. Ummm, you caught me in the middle of a move, so I’m gonna take a freebie on the whole brainfart-thingy. (I even forgot my kid’s name at one point. Did I mention that moving sucks?)

    And Ron, you’ll be glad to know that I’m secure enough in my whatever to let an exceptionally old guy like you put one over on me.

    Rock on, people…

46. Eve:
    3 April 2006, on 2:25 pm

    Lya: *grumble grumble* I miss all the fun >:(

    *exit stage left with little black clouds overhead*

    Eve: Ditto…

    Now, from the April Fool’s homepage, “The Lord is my shepherd./And I am his sheep. And sometimes, he get[sic] lonely. But that’s OK, because, you know, it’s a[sic] honor to serve him.”

    That was just too damn funny…!

47. Sean:
    3 April 2006, on 3:46 pm

    Sorry, Bob. All’s fair in love and GifS!

48. Enemy of Religion:
    4 April 2006, on 10:18 pm

    Was that a post from the dumb cluck in message 26 ? She lied and came back here apparently because she thought someone had went over to the dark side. She actually mentions Gifs on her witless blog and attempts to bash Sean and Lya. She still hasn’t invested in a dictionary and something like “The English Language for Dummies” though. She’s the perfect model of a kook christian - a stupid, witless, uneducated, bible-quoting wackadoo loser who is spending their time doing crap like making wooden chicken heads.

49. Sean:
    4 April 2006, on 10:43 pm

    Is Sable attacking me? What did I do? I have shown her compassion way more than she has us.

    Not only did she fall for the April Fool’s joke, she so completely missed the irony in Ron’s fake home page that she has copied it to her site as if it is profound.

    Sad.

50. Enemy of Religion:
    5 April 2006, on 12:52 am

    Check out the second paragraph (the long rambling one with bad spelling and grammar) in the fourth posting here - http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12808662&postID=114396042971602583

    What a kook !! The dumb cluck is useful in that she’s a perfect example of what happens when you base your life on stupid religious nonsense. Maybe she and her wackadoo blog can be used to scare a few people straight.

51. Sean:
    5 April 2006, on 1:25 am

    Oh, I wish you hadn’t show me that, EoR. But I guess it is just as well you did.

    Sick Fuckin’ Chicken said:

    While proseltyzing is forbidden on the suckersite, they are now going out proseltyzing in their own special way to draw in people that like to proseltyze! All they do is bad mouth believers. Then when they get their point across, and everyone leaves them alone they hunt more down, drag them onto their site, and start up the feeding frenzy again.
    “Boo whoo…I wish xians would stop jamming their make believe sky daddy down my throat.”
    WHAT!?
    It doesn’t make sence to me…but I get it. I wonder if they know where they are going with it? It remains to be seem. I worry for Sean. Lya is now the queen of the heep. She is so smart, but she has also harden her heart because she has been hurt in life. In her search for God, she has run into people that have disappointed her. People like Sean have no idea. He is rebeling against something that he doesn’t even understand. Yet I’m sure his fear is very real to him…Sept 11th put a fear into the whole world. I think he wants so badly to be fair…aka, an equal oppertunity offender, but when it comes right down to it, he can only find Christians to put up a fight. I guess it is a game. Let’s push the Christian to the limit, so they will get mad and say something stupid. With the perfect exsample to live by, Jesus Christ, we still all fall short. Instead of the atheist blaming people, the blame is placed on God. But wait…they don’t believe in God!?? Round and round it goes.

    Oh my. To be psychoanalyzed by somebody as stupid and insane as Sable is a frightening thing to behold. And her self-righteousness, like all theist self-righteousness (Get it, Sable? I think all believers are deluded, not just deluded Xians like you) is so sick it makes my skin crawl. To know this person in life would be like getting intimately acquainted with Piper Laurie in the movie “Carrie.” And to think Sable has children. *Shudder.*

    Lya and Marcus: I take every word of compassion I ever said about Sable back. She’s a sick, nasty, hateful human being. And that’s the best I have to say about her.

    Sable: You come back to this site, you sick little puppy, and I am personally going to delete and defecate upon everything you have to say. New York City is my home town, where I grew up, you evil fuck. How *dare* people like you even *mention* Sept. 11 in your twisted attempts to figure out those of us with sophisticated world views you can never fucking understand? And how dare you fucking question my compassion, or Lya’s compassion, or the compassion of any of the people on this site. You sit at the kiddie table here because you have an infant mind. But since you have shown yourself to also be a bad seed, I am kicking you out in the rain to fend for yourself. Good luck with your evil life, hatemonger. Seriously. You make me sick.

    Oh, man. You got my fucking ire up with that one. Gotta admit. I’m a pissed off Irishman now.

    Never fucking mention Sept. 11 to me unless you LIVED it, psycho chicken. My fellow New Yorkers died that day — likely because of how stupid people like you have been about world affairs for decades… It was a long road that brought us there, and the last people who deserved to die for it were urban progressives who actually count among their friends many people from diverse cuktures.

    How many Muslim acquaintances do you have, Sable? Have you ever even seen an Orthodox Jew except on TV? You can’t even fathom the world I have always lived in. Don’t speak to me about how I view the world. It’s beyond your chickenheaded comprehension.

    I know you’d never even heard of the Taliban or Osama Bin Laden up until Sept. 11, and you couldn’t find Iraq or Afghanistan on a map even now.

    So shut the fuck up.

    –

    Ah. That felt good.

52. Lya Kahlo:
    5 April 2006, on 6:31 am

    “Lya and Marcus: I take every word of compassion I ever said about Sable back. She’s a sick, nasty, hateful human being. And that’s the best I have to say about her.”

    Good to hear. Like I said, the only reason she tries to get people to feel sorry for her is so she can insult, lie and evade with no recourse.

    *lol* I can’t believe you visit her site. Who the fuck cares what whiny bullshit she posts about us? It’s all either outright lies, or more proof that she has no reading comprehension. Anyone who came here and looked at the retarded bullshit she posted here would not come up on her side.

    Not surprising she came back for more, really. She needs our attention. She craves our approval. She even posts under other names hoping to avoid being deleted - but still uses her sable chicken e-mail address.

    She’s a liar, she’s a hypocrite and she is an adult who can’t take personal responsibility for a single fucking thing. She’s an obkect of pity, nothing more.

53. Lya Kahlo:
    5 April 2006, on 6:32 am

    OBJECT of pity. I took note of her ISP #. No more hiding for her.

54. Sean:
    5 April 2006, on 6:53 am

    I don’t actually visit her site. See above. I never would have seen that post about me if EoR had not pointed it out.

    I am done with the chicken for good.

55. Lya Kahlo:
    5 April 2006, on 7:01 am

    I meant I’m surprised ANYONE visits her site.

56. Marcus:
    5 April 2006, on 9:56 am

    I check it out once in a while to see what’s going on- she and Vile Blasphemer seem to have an easy going banter that I sometimes get a chuckle out of reading. He’s so patient and gentle with her, that it looks like she’s all wet for him.

    BWAHAHA!

57. Enemy of Religion:
    5 April 2006, on 10:22 am

    I only went there because she posted here. Also her site is good for laughs because she is so completely screwed up and just rambles on mindlessly.

58. Eve:
    6 April 2006, on 7:30 pm

    Shame, shame, shame on sable chicken; she flushed what little credibility she had with me (granted, it wasn’t much to begin with given the comments she posts) right down the toilet. I’m sending her to Coventry for good now.

    Sean, she bashed you because she likes you; you were somewhat controlled with her, which encouraged her for a while, but since she couldn’t win you over completely, the coin flipped (”It’s a Thin Line between Love and Hate;” anyone remember that movie?).

    And Lya, she admires you and wishes you would admire her back so that you two can be friends, albeit disagreeing ones; when you refused to admire her back, she turned (again, the other side of the coin, yadda-yadda-yadda).

    How’s that for on-the-spot psychoanalysis?

59. stardust1954:
    6 April 2006, on 9:54 pm

    Sean - One thing I have learned in my old age is never ever ever never ever never never ever ever ever never ever ever never ever never never ever ever ever fall for xian “feel sorry for me” tactics, “I am not like other xians” tactics or any other sly niceness…they just do that because they think they have a chance to assimilate you.

60. Sean:
    6 April 2006, on 11:31 pm

    Well, spank me with a spoon for having sympathy for her. I won’t again.

    Sorry for my above rant, but she really hit a nerve with that Sept. 11th stuff. And the other bullshit she had to say about me.

    Ugh. Religion can make people awfully mean in their hearts, huh?

61. Lya Kahlo:
    7 April 2006, on 6:31 am

    “And Lya, she admires you and wishes you would admire her back so that you two can be friends, albeit disagreeing ones; when you refused to admire her back, she turned (again, the other side of the coin, yadda-yadda-yadda).”

    While a flattering possibility, I don’t buy it. I don’t trust a word sable says. Because, each time in the past when we were kind to her, she’d start acting like an asshole again. Then she’d get some back, then cry about how mean we are, disappear for a while and then come back trying to be nice again. Either she’s that unhinged, or Star hit the nail on the head. She’s only nice because she wants her change to get back in and try to assilimilate us again.

    I’m not falling for it again. Three strikes – she’s out.

    “Religion can make people awfully mean in their hearts, huh?”

    RAMEN!

62. Eve:
    10 April 2006, on 3:48 pm

    Does “Ramen” mean “Ra (Egyptian sun god)-men” or something else? I like it either way…

63. Sean:
    10 April 2006, on 4:03 pm

    It means Ramen like noodles, rather than Amen, like Jeebus.

64. Eve:
    10 April 2006, on 7:30 pm

    Gotcha…