Have you seen this?

[Gambit]

So apparently GRRM needs help finishing up DANCE (who would've thought?) I just checked his Not a Blog section of his website and there is an entry that says he plans on letting another author into the series with new characters, plot twists, etc. Is he serious? I can only assume that he is, so I have to ask is anyone as worried about this decision as I am.

[the smiling weirwood]

Its April Fool's Day!

He's just kidding.

[Gambit]

THANK GOD. I have never been so happy to have been mistaken.

[thaddeus6th]

Hehehe. I saw a good April's Fool in the Mail. It was Jacqui Smith, coming out of an Ann Summers shop :P [if you aren't British you won't get that probably. Jacqui Smith is HOme Secretary, and recently had to apologise for using expenses to fund the cost of watching naughty movies. Whoops.]

[the smiling weirwood]

What is Ann Summers? Is that like Victoria's Secret or something?

[Dagny]

Originally Posted by the smiling weirwood

Its April Fool's Day!

He's just kidding.

thank god too!!!

new author, new characters, new plots twists? i didn't realize GRRM was so cruel and unusual !

[pyan]

Originally Posted by the smiling weirwood

What is Ann Summers? Is that like Victoria's Secret or something?

Umm - sort of, but naughtier...they sell other, more intimate, stuff as well...

[the smiling weirwood]

"Meanwhile, I'll be in the hot tube with some babes in bikinis, sipping some Irish Mist and watching my TIVO replay of the Giants victory over the Patriots in the last Super Bowl but one. Hey, maybe I should tell Howard to work in a knight called Ser Tyree..."

That and the "amused" alien face pretty much clinch the fact that its a prank for those who weren't feeling it earlier.

[Boaz]

Gambit, most likely I would've fainted if I'd read that this morning. In the afternoon I worked with a moron who thought every single stupid thing he could say or do should be followed with the exclamation, "It's April Fool's, B****!!!" So I knew as soon as I read the first sentence of this thread that this was a real joke... and not a moron locking me out in the snow and making me listen to him proclaim in his best Dave Chapelle imitation, "It's April Fool's, B****!!!!"

[the smiling weirwood]

I managed to avoid being pranked today.

Apparently the spell check for this site doesn't consider "pranked" a real word, nor does it acknowledge the existence of contractions.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by thaddeus6th

Hehehe. I saw a good April's Fool in the Mail. It was Jacqui Smith, coming out of an Ann Summers shop :P

I thought the Photoshop job on that story was feeble. My 12-year-old could do better.

As for GRRM's story, hey, if he was going to do this Howard's the very man I'd pick. Go and look up some of his stuff, if you don't know who he is: he's an excellent but much-neglected author.

[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by Boaz

In the afternoon I worked with a moron who thought every single stupid thing he could say or do should be followed with the exclamation, "It's April Fool's, B****!!!" So I knew as soon as I read the first sentence of this thread that this was a real joke... and not a moron locking me out in the snow and making me listen to him proclaim in his best Dave Chapelle imitation, "It's April Fool's, B****!!!!"

In some countries (the UK amongst them) you'd have been able to reply, April Fool, Sucker!" as it was after noon (Wiki quote - April Fools' Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia):

Traditionally, in some countries, the jokes only last until noon: like UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, someone who plays a trick after noon is called an "April Fool". Elsewhere, such as in Ireland, France, and the USA, the jokes last all day.

(This was very useful at my school - all those decades ago - a time when very few small boys had watches.)


It seems those misguided revolutionaries who led the thirteen colonies to independence have yet another terrible thing for which to answer.

[Syphon of Oor-Tael]

That's why I don't come online on april first. NOTHING can be trusted. I hate that day.

[thaddeus6th]

Nonsense. Britons can be trusted (after 12pm)!

[Aegon the Unworthy]

Well my wife got me with the "Im pregnant" prank.

She's never been able to pull a joke like that because she cant lie very well. So she sent me a text message. I was so pissed that she would send me something like that via text that I forgot it was April 1rst. Even though I had gotten up at 4 AM to rig her bathroom sink to just douse her with water.....

And just so the family pets wouldnt be left out, my six year old son and I built a radio controlled mouse (just a toy car with a mouse shaped cat toy over it) and an elaborate "cat trap" involving two pulleys, a net and a pressure switch to catch some cats. They fell for it every time....stupid cats.