Announcement April Fools 2011 - NEW BYC Program & Partnership - Sell Your Extra Eggs!

[ChickyFlicky]

Quote:

This made my day!

 

[Cass]

I read 19 pages, then I had a question I thought was answered in the first post, so I went back to page 1...and NOTICED THE TIME...allowing for time difference cross country it was posted at 12:01 APRIL FOOL'S Day.


Ok...now what the helk am I going to do with a DOZEN EGGS A DAY?

 

[youngbiddy]

*ahem* This is serious business, folks. I'm afraid that half of The Warden's Icelandic chickens flock must be moved immediately to an undisclosed secure location. And an emu chick.

No, make that two emu chicks. There's a bad case of Ineedemuitis going around. Stay back, and stay calm. Please return to your homes. Leave your flocks with me.

That is all.

 

[mmaddie's mom]

see... now the really funny stuff is coming in... I'm from the government... confiscation of birds....

 

[boxermom]

I'm so ashamed... Hook, line and sinker... (why is there no shameful smiley?)

 

[Cattitude]

*giggles* My partner in Chicken Math got me good, too. He said as I walked into the Farm House: We've got five chicks in the incubator! And I rushed to the incubator...

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

There was some great fun here and thanks to all the members that joined us in 'promoting' this program. Some of the sly humor like the quote above made this really special.

For those that did not have fun with this please keep in mind that the announcment of a sister site called Backyard Cows was a Joke too, but after much interest was shown, and things were worked out so it became a reality.

Sometimes all it takes is an idea to be spread for it to ecome real.

And yes, we Mods can check IPs.

 

[lostsoulhelpmejebus]

*note to self...no pc access from 11:59pm 3-31 to 12:01 am 4-2, just don't do it!!!*

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

-------------PROGRAM UPDATE----------

Thanks to everyone who participated in our much anticipated and (mostly) fun 2011 April Fools' day! A lot of planning and coordination goes into this annual event, in fact, we probably started planning for this starting the day after 4/1 of last year. Since that time the BYC staff have been brainstorming ideas, and over the past few weeks, this idea was the one that rose to the top. We discussed and refined it quite a bit to find the balance between "too believable" and "too implausible". As always, we found the right balance... proven by the fact that within minutes of posting we had some that were believers and some that were not.

We regret that some of our peeps had their feelings hurt, of felt this was in bad taste... it was never our intent. As a group we work VERY hard on these jokes to find the balance between good fun and not causing a mass panic.

While we (the BYC Staff) often are perceived as very rigid and strict, we want to be clear that we love this community and completely support good clean fun... and reading through this thread, we're happy to report that the vast majority of our members did have another great April Fools day.

(those that didn't have a good time... mark your calendars to take a BYC break that day... if you can.

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[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Happy April Fools Day everyone!
I've been looking forward to seeing what fun Nifty, Terrie, and the Moderators would dream up this year.

It is sad some folks got their feelings hurt.

Next year, it'll be tougher than ever to prank anyone.

Lisa