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Apr 01, 2015

What D.C.’s April Marketing Fools Had Up Their Sleeves Today

Re-live the day’s “jokes” with us.

Mar 31, 2015

Pac-Man Goes To The White House On Google Maps

Happy April Fools Day.

Apr 01, 2013

Turkish News Outlet Runs April Fools’ Story About Washington Being Destroyed by an Earthquake

Washington was all but destroyed by a massive earthquake today. Sigh, no it wasn’t.

Apr 01, 2008

April Fools’ Roundup: Who Is the More Foolish? The Fool or the Fool Who Follows Him? Edition

In which DCist helpfully decodes those AFD pranks that have had you stumbling all over the Internet today. » Matthew Yglesias: “Iraq has chemical and biological weapons arsenals, plus an advanced nuclear weapons program and is likely to use these WMD to stage an attack on the American homeland using al-Qaeda proxies!” Joke: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before! » Wonkette: George W. Bush and Tony Blair nominated for Peace Prize — which…

 
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