{"id":189411,"date":"2010-04-01T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/01\/runners-up-in-the-2010-april-fools-competition\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T01:53:00","slug":"runners-up-in-the-2010-april-fools-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/01\/runners-up-in-the-2010-april-fools-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Runners Up in the 2010 April Fools Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/2010\/04\/01\/lloyd-blankfein-time-man-of-the-year\/\">Lloyd  Blankfein: Time Man Of The Year<\/a> [He is CEO of Goldman Sachs]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investingwithoptions.com\/2010\/04\/01\/new-etf-to-offer-new-ways-to-lose-money\/\">New  ETF to Offer Fresh Ways to Lose Money Investing With Options<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8598199.stm\">France &#8216;claims&#8217;  best pizza maker title<\/a> (video, the BBC approaching the perfection of the spaghetti harvest)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/modelsagents.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/merkel-places-hopes-in-lysistrata.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ModelsAgents+%28Models+%26+Agents%29\">Merkel  Places Hopes in Lysistrata Initiative<\/a>, calling, &#8220;on the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their  partners until they file their tax returns.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/us-government-to-save-billions-by-cutting-wasteful,17171\/\">U.S.  Government To Save Billions By Cutting Wasteful Senator Program<\/a>.  Not sure if this is a true April Fools gag, since <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Onion<\/span> does this every day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1603346\/google-jail\">Google Jail<\/a>, which is actually a Fastcompany.com joke about Google&#8217;s April Fools jokes. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 80px; height: 31px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img696.imageshack.us\/img696\/2373\/googlejaillogo3846550.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Google is <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/different-kind-of-company-name.html\">no longer named Google<\/a>, it is now <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 65px; height: 26px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img691.imageshack.us\/img691\/4559\/topekahp3990722.gif\" \/>, which come to think of it, is an awful lot like being incarcerated.<\/li>\n<li>Paul Krugman and NPR&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Talk of the Nation<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=125461390\">propose shortening the year to reduce the deficit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mydd.com\/2010\/4\/1\/breaking-floridas-senator-bill-nelson-to-leave-democratic-party?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mydd+%28MyDD%29\">Breaking:  Florida\u2019s Senator Bill Nelson To Leave Democratic Party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/needlenose.com\/wp\/2010\/04\/01\/obama-fills-out-census-form-lists-kenya-as-birthplace\/\">Obama  fills out census form, lists \u201cKenya\u201d as birthplace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/diary\/18106\/stupak-democrats-to-lose-committee-seats\">Stupak  Democrats to lose committee seats<\/a> (How I wish this one was real)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/01\/340168\/pictures-farnborough-beckons-for-italian-uav-display-team.html\">Farnborough  beckons for Italian UAV display team<\/a> (the Photoshops on this are prize)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Blankfein: Time Man Of The Year [He is CEO of Goldman Sachs] New ETF to Offer Fresh Ways to Lose Money Investing With Options France &#8216;claims&#8217; best pizza maker title (video, the BBC approaching the perfection of the spaghetti harvest) Merkel Places Hopes in Lysistrata Initiative, calling, &#8220;on the women of Greece to withhold &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1002,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}