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The Best Trolls Of April Fools

April Fools: the one day of the year where you must question every news report and press release you see. Except wait, that's every day of the year.

by Katie Booth  1 April 2014

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Today is not just any old day. It is the one day of the year where you must question every news report, every product launch, and every press release you see.

(Jokes: thanks to the internet, that really should be every single day.)

FRY APRILFOOLS

Yep, it’s April 1, and everyone is out to troll you.

Especially brands.

Here’s a look at the best and worst. L

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1: iiNett introduces Pet-Fi

iiNett’s new generation Wi-Fi  — “the world’s first pet-powered mobile broadband solution” — sounded great, until the little disclaimer: Pet-Fi only has a 30 metre radius. Pfft, that’s worse than D-Link.

PETFI 1

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2: Vegemite Energy Drink

This product will need a whole book dedicated to health warnings. Do people seriously drink energy drinks for breakfast?

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3: Google’s Pokemon Challenge/Shelfie

Undeniable winners of April Fools’ goes to Google. First for this epic Pokemon Challenge, which involves using Google Maps to capture all 150 pokemon — part of Google’s fictional recruiting search for an available position as Pokemon Master.

And then they came up with the ‘shelfie’ (or Sharable Selfie), a tool which allows you to set your Gmail theme to other people’s shared selfies.

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4: Shorten Backs Abbott

Duke Bill Shorten endorses Abbott’s reintroduction of Knights and Dames — though his nominations are questionable.

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5: Nickelback To Return

Please don’t even joke about such nightmares.

In other music news, Hanson announced a tour. Not a prank, apparently.

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6: Movie/Mind Projector, Courtesy Of Pirate Bay

Forgot TV screens and movie projectors: Pirate Bay is developing “a device that will embrace your entire mind.”

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7: Fitzy’s On-Air Breakdown

Regardless of how you feel about Nova Breakfast hosts Fitzy and Wippa and/or their ridiculous nicknames, this is a pretty great prank.

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8: The Return Of Sydney’s Water Buffaloes

The roaming water buffalos that delighted the Inner West make their return at the University of Sydney.

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9: Black Caviar Has Been Cloned

Black Caviar version 2.0 is in the works.

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10: The Guardian Reveals Lamingtons Not From Australia

In true Guardian style, Olaf Priol used some serious investigative skills to break all Aussies hearts, revealing that lamingtons were actually a New Zealand invention.

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11: ABC Confirms Story Is Not Hoax

ABC News 24 were so worried about this story being a hoax that they had to verify it on air.

(Well, it was a story about a tiny crocodile that went missing from a day care so who could blame them.)

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12: A Rational Fear Win The Day

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Katie Booth is Junkee’s editorial intern. She tweets at @kboo2344