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This thread is now a repository of April Fools' Day pieces.

The Guardian - 24 hour live Royal Wedding coverage
Rock Paper Shotgun - Games of 1873
Youtube - Top Memes of 1911
Google - Google Motion offers innovative new gesture-based email
Destructoid - goes handwritten
The Daily Mail - Very subtle satire. I think.
Minecraft - Patch 1.4 brings Minecraft Store

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It's drawing so close now that I can practically feel the moistness in my trousers. What news event generates more interest, more scoops, more stories, more strange little vignettes, more wonders, more heart-stopping exposes, more feeling, more beauty, or more love? Luckily, the Guardian or Grauniad has taken its new 'live-blogging' method - extensively used to cover UK political protests as they unfold - and applied it to the royal wedding. Don't miss out.
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As you can see below, people believed this. April fools!!!!!
 
I barely cared about the Swedish royal wedding.

Of course, this has the potential to become more interesting, I saw an article earlier about how some British Islamic fundamentalist group has threatened to disturb the wedding.
 
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(LOL at The Queen's eyes)
 
^They should have included Princess Diane as a ghost.

Too soon?
 
I'm sorry, but why should I care about this?
 
I feel bad for William. his wife is going to be a princess. she practically has an excuse to be a stuck up high maintenance bitch

"but I'm a princess!!!"


FHITA WILLY!
 
What.

I hate celebrity stuff, and that includes this.
 
Cool for you guys I guess.

Monarchical peasants.
 
JYFIHP, SIIHP etc.

But seriously, there's positivity to be gleaned from this. Because I literally don't give three eights of a festering shit about The Royal Wedding, I'll work on that day and get paid more because it's technically a holiday.

OOO-RAH
 
Is there any chance this will turn into a Red Wedding? If not, this sounds like the most boring thing on the planet. Like all weddings.
 
* Impervious to parody
* Even on 1st April
 
I don't mind the wedding, they've got me a day off work. :)
 
Eejit said:
* Impervious to parody
* Even on 1st April
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Exactly. I think this is a great joke.


The editorial is awesome.

Beginning today, the Guardian announces a raft of changes designed to ensure that our royal coverage is unrivalled by any other media organisation. We begin an unprecedented month-long, 24-hour royal wedding live blog, offering minute-by-minute coverage of the preparations. We will be recalling correspondents from some less newsworthy parts of the globe, such as north Africa and south-east Asia, so they can focus on palace matters instead. And we will shortly be making available to readers a range of attractive commemorative crockery.

The marriage of a prince to a commoner – a true bridging of class divides, if ever there was one – represents the perfect moment for progressives to commit again to the promise of hereditary monarchy. Great philosophers, from Burke to Andrew Morton, have argued powerfully for the institution's value. In any case, it would be churlish to fight the tide of excitement and optimism currently flooding the nation. It is time to put away the cynicism, and get out the union jacks.
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It's almost as if they didn't click the link.

What, do I really seem that likely to be enthusiastically trumpeting these squalid nuptuals?

(Actually I think Middleton's kind of cool)
 
Absolutely. Although I can't actually say that because she looks similar to a very good friend at mine.

I have made this the April Fool's Day repository.

Check the front page of Rock Paper Shotgun for the finest game-ing news.
 
April Fools jokes are shit. Its become so predictable ever since people started doing it on the internet. They should at least make it the whole month of April, rather than just one day. At least then it can still be sort of amusing, since people can't just stop having real updates/press releases for the whole month, unlike how they do for April 1st.
 
Well, it's dumb and predictable if you actually expect to be fooled. But if you want to just be like "oh, haha, that's funny" then it's pretty okay.
 
Then I object to it being called April Fools' day, and it should be April Jokes day.
 
It is agreed.

The shadowy cabal that secretly names all holidays, defenders of Christmas and Christ, is hereby adjourned.
 
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