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This is not a joke

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Everyone loves April Fools' Day, especially online. In paper publishing, you have to really prepare ahead for a good gag, and then hope that something doesn't happen to make your joke fall flat or become irrelevant - or even worse, true. But April

Everyone loves April Fools' Day, especially online. In paper publishing, you have to really prepare ahead for a good gag, and then hope that something doesn't happen to make your joke fall flat or become irrelevant - or even worse, true. But April Fooling online is another story entirely; you can get instant joke satisfaction at the click of a submit button, and here's just a smattering of the jocularity that we've found in our daily net-trawlings.

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Issue: 133 | February, 2012

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