{"id":10502,"date":"2010-04-02T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=10502"},"modified":"2010-04-02T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:58:08","slug":"two-april-fools-that-should-be-april-truth-yes-an-ipad-is-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/two-april-fools-that-should-be-april-truth-yes-an-ipad-is-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Two April Fools That Should Be April Truth. Yes, an iPad is Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every April Fools the thousand thousand joksters that inhabit Internet and Twitter believe they are a thousand thousand times funnier than on any other day.  We tend to ignore the day as best we&#8217;re able.  Yet here are two items that managed to cross from the stream into consciousness and make us think, &#8216;this should be a real thing. It should happen.<\/p>\n<p>And here they are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Top Shelf Announces &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2010\/04\/01\/top-shelf-announces-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-1988\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1988<\/a>&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2010\/04\/01\/top-shelf-announces-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-1988\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/loeg88-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"League of Extraordinary Awesome\" width=\"505\" height=\"780\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/loeg88-1.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/loeg88-1-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Lisa(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weird_Science_(film)\" class=\"external external_icon\">Weird Science<\/a>), MacGyver(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacGyver\" class=\"external external_icon\">MacGyver<\/a>), Doc Brown(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Back_to_the_Future\" class=\"external external_icon\">Back to the Future<\/a>), Mr. T (80s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_A_Team\" class=\"external external_icon\">The A-Team<\/a> ), and Jack Burton (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Trouble_in_Little_China\" class=\"external external_icon\">Big Trouble in Little China<\/a>) band together to fight the evilest evil of the 1980s. A mysterious shadow consortium known only as The Empire plots to destroy American icons from the inside out. The League failed once already. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman_III\" class=\"external external_icon\">Superman III<\/a> was a blight on many young souls. <\/p>\n<p>Emboldened by this dastardly move, The Empire decides to go for the jugular. This time they will strike so hard, so ruthless, that no one would be spared. People would speak of the stench for decades to come. This time, The Empire would make the ultimate of all evil adaptations in order to weaken the spirits of geeks all over the nation. This time they will make<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_the_Duck_(film)\" class=\"external external_icon\"> Howard the Duck: The Movie<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The extraordinary League of 1988 has their work cut out for them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2010\/04\/01\/top-shelf-announces-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-1988\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Top Shelf<\/a>, if you don&#8217;t make this vision come true, there will be blood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) iCade &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/stuff\/41\/iCade.shtml?icpg=Carousel_iCade_1\" class=\"external external_icon\"> iPad Arcade Cabinet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/stuff\/41\/iCade.shtml?icpg=Carousel_iCade_1\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thinkgeek-iCade.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"thinkgeek iCade\" width=\"505\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thinkgeek-iCade.png 505w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thinkgeek-iCade-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We have a very strong sense that in a month to two months time, this will become a reality. It&#8217;s not like this gag hasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts-apparel\/hats-ties\/9352\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">happened <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/geektoys\/plush\/bb2e\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every April Fools the thousand thousand joksters that inhabit Internet and Twitter believe they are a thousand thousand times funnier than on any other day. We tend to ignore the day as best we&#8217;re able. Yet here are two items that managed to cross from the stream into consciousness and make us think, &#8216;this should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,669,8],"tags":[88,2128,83,1955,2129,2108,4956,2130],"class_list":["post-10502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-panel-perfect","category-technology","tag-80s-flashback","tag-april-fools","tag-e-paper","tag-ipad","tag-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-1988","tag-make-it-happen","tag-panel-perfect","tag-wait-and-see"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10514,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions\/10514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}