The Icon Bar: April Fools

If you just got here and missed the pink TIB - where the hell were you? :)

Okay, so I slept in last year too, which is why this one was timed. At a little after 12a.m. the site automatically switched to a pink front page, complete with a slightly different list of Pearls of wisdom. My own site also went black and displayed the date of March 32nd.

This news story previously pointed to a new news site, RISC OS is we!. It currently has two news stories, one about Acorn's downfall being due to nut allergies, and another about the arrest of ArgoNet staff that I was supposed to use last year.

If I might be serious for a while, it is our intention to not only keep RISC OS is we! going, but also to introduce a new site, riscos.me.uk (which currently points to TIB). The first will continue to be a spoof RISC OS news site, because hey, we all need a laugh now and then no matter what the date. The latter is intended to be a general purpose "About RISC OS" site with info on the OS, and hopefully some accounts of personal experiences. If you're interested in helping out with either, please email us at news@iconbar.com. I'm serious!

Black House of Mabel

April Fools

(01:35 1/4/2002)
  mark quint (08:34 1/4/2002)
    Andrew C. Poole (15:54 1/4/2002)
      foggy (17:17 1/4/2002)
        Guest (20:45 1/4/2002)
          John Hoare (02:49 2/4/2002)
            Richard Goodwin (08:15 2/4/2002)
              John Duffell (09:36 2/4/2002)
                Jason Tribbeck (15:43 2/4/2002)
                  Andrew C. Poole (17:19 2/4/2002)
                    Guest (11:45 4/4/2002)
                      Guest (22:47 5/4/2002)

Guest

Message #90576, posted at 01:35, 1/4/2002

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Impressive, hard-hitting news. Perfect start for a web site started on April 1...

Love the pink background on The Icon Bar front page. Now I don't need an emetic when I need to throw up.

Mike :)

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mark quint

Message #90577, posted at 08:34, 1/4/2002, in reply to message #90576

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:E
lovely & colourful :D

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Andrew C. Poole

Message #90578, posted at 15:54, 1/4/2002, in reply to message #90577

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Damn! I missed it :(

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foggy

Message #90579, posted at 17:17, 1/4/2002, in reply to message #90578

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What a pity nobody saw it. Especially as you were up all night changing the web site colours!

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Guest

Message #90580, posted at 20:45, 1/4/2002, in reply to message #90579

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Poo bum

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John Hoare

Message #90581, posted at 02:49, 2/4/2002, in reply to message #90580

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Gah! The one time I don't log onto The Iconbar because I was away for the weekend! :-( Still, I had a nice weekend. A *very* nice weekend :-D

Right, I'm off to think of a spoof news story...

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Richard Goodwin

Message #90582, posted at 08:15, 2/4/2002, in reply to message #90581

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I wasn't up all night Foggy, I did it at work in January ;)

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John Duffell

Message #90583, posted at 09:36, 2/4/2002, in reply to message #90582

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Those who didn't see it, think yourselves lucky! :) It was disgusting!

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Jason Tribbeck

Message #90584, posted at 15:43, 2/4/2002, in reply to message #90583

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Now that's planning in advance ;-)

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Andrew C. Poole

Message #90585, posted at 17:19, 2/4/2002, in reply to message #90584

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Hear Hear :)

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Guest

Message #90586, posted at 11:45, 4/4/2002, in reply to message #90585

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... and here I was expecting Microdigital to announce Omega was available on April 1st. :)

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Guest

Message #90587, posted at 22:47, 5/4/2002, in reply to message #90586

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Pah!

I well remember a certain Rich Goodwin once saying to me, many a year ago, something like "I dare you to turn your website pink".

Which I promptly did and forgot to change it back again for ages. :-)

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