April Fools Day Gnus Split #1!

kiay · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:47 am

remybuxaplentyfan wrote:

For some reason the Lamort reminds me of the Lutari:

I think it was one of lutari's early versions.

If really it was, then I can't believe TNT choose lutari instead of the lamort thing, its so much better!

WIS · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:53 am

Pah! I missed the whole thing! (I think)

The neoboards have settled down now...

Chakra_ · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:01 am

Yeah. Neoboards have quiten down already..

No more spamming boards like NEW PETS !!!

I LIKE NEW PETS...

Image.. 1 april fools day joke and it has evolved into almost 20 pages tread. :battar:

AngelFoxBlue · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:09 am

Oppolo wrote:

Morningstar wrote:

And, some of the names are clearly versions of the names of humans: Leofinn, Carmariller (Carmen?), Codyber.

I'm not quite sure where you're coming from- the Leofinn is clearly just sticking together 'Leo' (lion) and 'fin' (for the fish side) while the Codyber is named after the president (like Teddybear is named after the president Teddy). Carmariller maybe, but it's a bit of a stretch....

As for which I want to keep- I really really REALLY want that Llama. The Varwolf looks like it should be a proper pet (although I wouldn't get one myself) and the Nikondrak would be cool to have too (again, I wouldn't adopt one, but it fits the neopets style and I bet they'd be popular with some audiences).

The name Lamameeah is taken from 'Mama Mia' (just with an L obviously). And Hughman is... well, do I really need to say it?

And the Wazziup is taken from everyone's all time favourite greeting. HeHe.

As for the Leofinn I didn't look at is as being a guys name. Leo means 'lion' and it's clearly a Peophin with a lion's upper body instead of a horse. But yea, it's still possible it's named after someone named Leo.

hiddenneggs · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:30 am

winter wrote:

It's "tradition" that all April Fool's jokes end by 12 noon

And, the pets were taken down at noon. At least the avatar was in the afternoon

What's weird is how new this "tradition" is -- I've heard about it for a few years now, but it certainly was not the U.S. tradition when I was in elementary school/junior high/high school/college (a timeframe spanning from the '60s into the '80s).

So it wasn't widespread until at least the late '80s, the '90s, or turn of the century.

I wonder how it started. Some grumpuses trying to cut short the time when they would have to put up with the pranks?

Blk Mage · **Posts:** 1832 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 7:00 am

I don't know if anyone posted this but this is from the NT.

Quote:

You just released 50 new species !! how are you going to give them all a day of there own like kiko day? and how are you going to make them be able to be painted with paintbrushes? - Nikki24772005
Hehe

That was our little April Fool's Day joke. We always do something silly at this time of year. Those species aren't really released, and they won't have their own pet days. You are not by any means the only person who fell for it. (You can stop sending the angry *how dare you release 50 or why are they so ugly* messages now heh ). I mean did you see the Hughhman or the scary Gorilla/Turtle ?!?!

Is there even the remotest, tiniest chance that some of the April fool's pets might be released in the future? The "Sharkaw" and "Polaflint" look pretty cool, and the Neopets menagerie doesn't have any bobcat or lemur-like critters yet. - Gizmonic
Well a lot of those pets were designs that didn't quite make it in the past. If one or two seem popular we could possibly end up tweaking the things we didn't like so much about them and adding a more refined version. We have no plans to do that at present though.

Johnnydontgo · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:23 am

What a shame that it's not on their list of "to do's"... My guess is you'll never hear about those "new" pets again.

Morningstar · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:36 pm

.ccy, thanks for creating that zip file of all of the pets. So much cleaner that my jpeg collage.

I wish Neopets would at least contemplate the release of some of those pets. Some of them are just so well drawn that it seems a shame to shelve them.

Why not make them into petpets or plushies? I would love a hughman plushie (so ugly that he's adorable--kind of like those troll dolls from way back) and a swaq petpet would be the perfect playmate for my pteri.

Twisted Sanity · **Posts:** 1993 **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:40 am

Some of those pets wouldn't do too badly as petpets. I mean some old Neopet designs were used as petpets rather than just dumping them, right?

Hughman would be hilarious.

Morningstar · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:36 pm

hiddenneggs wrote:

winter wrote:

It's "tradition" that all April Fool's jokes end by 12 noon

And, the pets were taken down at noon. At least the avatar was in the afternoon

What's weird is how new this "tradition" is -- I've heard about it for a few years now, but it certainly was not the U.S. tradition when I was in elementary school/junior high/high school/college (a timeframe spanning from the '60s into the '80s).

So it wasn't widespread until at least the late '80s, the '90s, or turn of the century.

I wonder how it started. Some grumpuses trying to cut short the time when they would have to put up with the pranks?

Hiddenneggs, I had never heard of it either, so I decided to do some research on the internet (*sigh* what would I do without the internet?).
It seems that it is a very old tradition to end all pranks by noon. By old, I mean late 1500's. Supposedly, any pranksters who don't oberve this rule in turn become April Fools. Perhaps the rule fell to the wayside in modern times--at least here in America.

I found a lot of interesting stuff on the history of April Fool's. One theory: It started in late 1500's when France switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. New Year had been celebrated from March 25 to April 1st under the Julian calendar. New Year was then moved to January 1st when the new calendar was put into place. Those French people who didn't get with the times and who continued to celebrate New Year in late March got various jokes played on them. One joke was to stick a paper fish on a person's back. That person was then called Poisson d'Avril, or April Fish, which later became April Fool.

Mark Twain said "April Fools Day is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four days."

If your curiousity about this holiday got the better of you (like mine got the better of me), I highly suggest a glance at these sites:
http://www.crystalinks.com/aprilfoolsday.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/af16c.html
http://www.novareinna.com/festive/allfool.html

GillyMcGillerson · **Posts:** 99 **Joined:** Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:01 am

I think this guy is going to become real:

V.S.

They look exactly alike

Pixa · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:16 pm

§hark wrote:

I think this guy is going to become real:

Large pictures

They look exactly alike

I don't mean to sound rude, but it is going to be a new pet, things like header, and all the other colours have already been found. The Lutari was not featured on the All Pets page, although it has been hanging around on the servers for a while.

AFI_Sorrow · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:25 pm

Johnnydontgo wrote:

What a shame that it's not on their list of "to do's"... My guess is you'll never hear about those "new" pets again.

Probably not. It'd be nice to make them into petpets, but they'll probably just never do anything with them again. *sigh* And I really liked a few of them. I'd shell out some NP to buy them as petpets. (A few I even think I'd go far enough to buy the petpet plushies of them.)

Robert · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:33 pm

Morningstar wrote:

hiddenneggs wrote:

winter wrote:

It's "tradition" that all April Fool's jokes end by 12 noon

And, the pets were taken down at noon. At least the avatar was in the afternoon

What's weird is how new this "tradition" is -- I've heard about it for a few years now, but it certainly was not the U.S. tradition when I was in elementary school/junior high/high school/college (a timeframe spanning from the '60s into the '80s).

So it wasn't widespread until at least the late '80s, the '90s, or turn of the century.

I wonder how it started. Some grumpuses trying to cut short the time when they would have to put up with the pranks?

Hiddenneggs, I had never heard of it either, so I decided to do some research on the internet (*sigh* what would I do without the internet?).
It seems that it is a very old tradition to end all pranks by noon. By old, I mean late 1500's. Supposedly, any pranksters who don't oberve this rule in turn become April Fools. Perhaps the rule fell to the wayside in modern times--at least here in America.

I found a lot of interesting stuff on the history of April Fool's. One theory: It started in late 1500's when France switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. New Year had been celebrated from March 25 to April 1st under the Julian calendar. New Year was then moved to January 1st when the new calendar was put into place. Those French people who didn't get with the times and who continued to celebrate New Year in late March got various jokes played on them. One joke was to stick a paper fish on a person's back. That person was then called Poisson d'Avril, or April Fish, which later became April Fool.

Mark Twain said "April Fools Day is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four days."

If your curiousity about this holiday got the better of you (like mine got the better of me), I highly suggest a glance at these sites:
http://www.crystalinks.com/aprilfoolsday.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/af16c.html
http://www.novareinna.com/festive/allfool.html

Actually Poison D'Avril is still celbrated by some french people. I know in Quebec, they still do it, and a couple of my French teachers talked about how they put a fish on theirs wifes back and it was the funniest thing every

GillyMcGillerson · **Posts:** 99 **Joined:** Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:01 am

Pixa wrote:

§hark wrote:

I think this guy is going to become real:

Large pictures

They look exactly alike

I don't mean to sound rude, but it is going to be a new pet, things like header, and all the other colours have already been found. The Lutari was not featured on the All Pets page, although it has been hanging around on the servers for a while.

Really hmmm i didn't know

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