Chip Shots by Chip Griffin

April Foolishness

ByChip Griffin

Call me a fuddy-duddy.  Call me a curmudgeon.  But I find the flurry of April Fool’s blog posts to be annoying.  The best ones make it hard to tell fact from fiction (see TechCrunch & FC), but unfortunately that makes one doubt even real news today. Plenty of people have been caught in the fake news net this weekend, since some apparently decided to make it a two day event.

And whatever happened to the convention of ending these jokes with “April Fools!”? If these blog posts at least ended that way, it would be much better.

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  2. I didn’t end mine with April Fools, but I’m pretty sure that most people who read my blog knew it was a joke have the first sentence.

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