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The Blawgirl’s April Fools’ prank round-up, UT Law dean loves him some emus

1 April 2009 1:34 PM 229 views No Comment

2540591196_0d289a6a67The Blawgirl loves her a good chuckle (and referring to herself in the third person, apparently). And she also loves the clever things people do on April Fools’ Day. Here are what some pranksters have been doing around the world.

  • A man and his emus. My favorite prank so far today has come from the dean of the University of Texas School of Law (via blawg Above the Law). Dean Lawrence Sager wrote an email to his students stating that he would be resigning his position at the law school in order to pursue his first love: raising emus. Sager writes:

“Some of my finest hours have been spent cantering across the Texas plains on the back of an Emu. They are stately, resplendent, Brobdingnagian birds, capable of carrying a man at full gallop the length of 30 hectares on a single hogshead of millet seed.”

UPDATE: According to Above the Law, the dean states that he did not write the letter, but he finds it very funny.

  • All your CADIE are belong to us. Google releases CADIE, Internet-based artificial intelligence that has assumed control of the Google company and its goods and services. The setup is pretty elaborate, with CADIE, depicted as a boxy panda, developing her own YouTube page and blog.

Find a massive, ever-growing (dare I say, extreme!!) list of April Fools pranks on TechCrunch.

I’ll update this page as I find things today!

Photo: snoshuu / Flickr and bonguri / Flickr

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