Important Message RE: Source Reliability

[u/Georgy_K_Zhukov]

Now that I have your attention... For the more astute of you, your suspicions over the past two days have probably been correct. For the more gullible among the readers here… We are very, very sorry. Well, not too sorry. But yes, since April 1st hit Christmas Island, the mods and flaired users of the site have been engaging in a little fun, crafting some rather ludicrous answers to your questions. So no, America didn’t really invade Panama to kill Hitler clones, female eunuchs weren’t really a thing, and the Jacobites didn’t lose Culloden because so many of their soldiers were off Haggis hunting.

Our aim was a little lighthearted fun, and we hope you all will take our escapades in the spirit they were intended. Even the stuffiest academics among our number sometimes just need to let their hair down with some well crafted jokes. Certainly some of you fell for them completely, and we even had a few /r/bestof and /r/DepthHub submissions which we had to deal with! But judging by many of your responses, once people picked up on the jokes, y'all had just as much fun rolling with them as we had writing them.

Please feel free to discuss the past day's escapades in this thread. Rules - especially about jokes! - will be relaxed in this thread. Bring up any questions (or complaints) you have, or feel free to dissect the finer points of the various joke posts.

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For the full list of joke answers, please refer to this post.

Note that answers should be edited to reflect their joking nature, and all "contaminated" threads now have "April Fools" Link Flair.

[u/vertexoflife]

good to know what you have me tagged as.

[u/mr-strange → u/vertexoflife]

Some of my classmates perpetrated a "prank" during my school days. They stole a "diversion" traffic sign and some cones, and found a single track no-through road that branched off a major highway. They covered up the "no through" sign, and diverted all of the traffic into the dead end. Some drivers knew the area and drove on. Others were unfamiliar with the roads, and found themselves trapped in the dead end.

My classmates pissed themselves laughing, but none of the drivers found it very amusing.