Fooled???

Yeah I know it’s rather too late to talk about fools but still couldn’t resist writing one. How many of you went around fooling people??? Those were the days when we used to plan for the whole week to fool some one on April 1st and now... I hardly remembered the day when my friend sent a usual birthday SMS that gets forwarded.

Not just us there was Google too playing jokes on us. The gmail paper was one such joke. Even I didn’t notice it. It was my friend who pointed out to me. I think he got fooled...He...He...

Gmail promised it customers that it would print the hard copy of your mails and deliver it to your home. Even the attachments like photos would be printed on a on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. And to make it look true, gmail spoke about the environment “Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.”

Even I would have happily clicked the button so that I could get all my photos printed free of cost. Who would feel bad, if something as good as this is turning up to you; free of cost...And how many are out there who was fooled by gmail????

Comments

Seshadri said…
hey..neeyum googling-aa..actually me wanted 2 post Goog's april fool's prank..aana namma pasanga ellorum comment ezhuthi doubt kalapparanga..athanaal sila naal no googling around on my blog:)..btw, this year they also had this TiSP thing on april 1...broadband thru ur bathroom, it said..chek out here http://www.google.com/tisp/
3:36 PM
Chakra said…
looks like there is a separate dept @ google dedicated to pranks like this...
12:27 AM
Phani said…
he he not me, although little bit disappointed that it didn't turn out to be a new feature. Every year google releases a prank and a new feature, but this year it turned out to be two pranks.

Check this out for full account.
http://phanizworld.com/2007/04/01/google-pranks/
2:55 PM
Arunkumar said…
it was a cool thought :P
6:02 PM
Unknown said…
GMail is for composing and reading mails. Why do u want it on a paper. Perasai perunashtam ithuthana???
7:38 AM
Syam said…
though I saw that button never wanted to try...thapichen...google la indha maathiri panrathukku thani dept irukkum pola...like driving directions ketta swim across ocean maathiri :-)
3:11 PM
மு.கார்த்திகேயன் said…
romba naal kazhichchu intha pakkam, janani
12:17 PM
மு.கார்த்திகேயன் said…
I was fooled by one site, where they sent me a link to download the CD1 of Sivaji.. Just a curiosity, made me fool on this exactly on Apr 1 morning, Janani
12:18 PM
மு.கார்த்திகேயன் said…
//Even I would have happily clicked the button so that I could get all my photos printed free of cost./

hahahaha.. Nallaaththaan EmanthirukkeenGa Janani..

Photos ellam vanthiduchcha, Janani.. LOL :-)
12:19 PM
Janani said…
@Seshadri
Yeah...Following ur steps.. Yeah even I heard about it after I posted this one

@Chakra
Yeah.. Now every one is seriously thinking about different ways to fool. And there is nothing to wonder even if Google has a seperate dept for this

@Phani
Cool... Yeah.. this feature is anyway too much to implement.
12:49 PM
Janani said…
@ArunKumar
Ethu cool thought? Epd kalu varatha???

@Barath.M
Think about the GB's of foto u have and printing them in glossy paper and being delivered it to home. Who wants to keep those text mails. Getting fotos is cool.. he..he.. But anyway prank right..

@Syam
My friend didn't believe when I told him about the swimming directions in Google Maps. Then showed this personally. I think avanga ithuku ne aalu set panni vechu irukanga nu

@மு.கார்த்திகேயன்
Hey even I heard abt it. Luckily didn't try it. Ithu onnu poratha. Evalo thadave than fool agarathu.

And btw keep visiting. I need time to read tamil.. Athavathu thathi thadumari naan tamil padika konjam ille ille neraya time aagum.Athaan not frequenting to yours.
12:57 PM
Serendipity said…
Nice pranks :D a friend directed me to these:D
1:08 PM
Anonymous said…
A friend of mine forwarded the mail but i never got time to read it...
Now i know what the mail was all about :)LOL.
1:55 PM
Seshadri said…
iniya putthandu vazhthukkal
2:18 PM
Phani said…
You are welcome to blogroll me. Was away so couldn't respond earlier. Added yours to mine.
1:48 PM
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