Thursday, April 2, 2009

Best April Fool's post from yesterday

All the regular April Fool's jokes were done yesterday, like Google with CADIE, which was not one of their stronger efforts but quite elaborate, and IGN, which actually did a brilliant article on a fake video game, complete with a downloadable copy of the game which kept crashing every time you tried to do something in the game.

But there was also maybe the funniest April Fool's post I've ever seen thanks to the crossword world. Two of the major crossword bloggers, Rex Parker and Brendan Emmitt Quigley (BEQ is also one of the premier crossword constructors in the US), switched blogs for a day and parodied each other's writing style. Rex's parody of BEQ was very funny but one note. BEQ's parody of Rex, on the other hand, was sheer genius. It was so good that I didn't even realize that it wasn't Rex posting for a little while.

It isn't as funny if you don't do crosswords a lot, as it makes fun of a lot of the most common clues. Also, the theme that BEQ claims is the theme for the puzzle is decidedly NOT the actual theme; it's amazing that he was able to find a completely different, inane theme from the actual one within the puzzle. The writing is still quite funny regardless of how big a crossword fan you are, and if you're curious to see how good a parody this is, check out a normal post from Rex.

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