SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Bowing to reader demands, all bloggers at MacUser have been fired for posting way, way too many corny April Fool’s articles, well exceeding the reasonable limit for pointless dribble on a popular blog owned by a large publication.
Jason Snell, parent publication Macworld’s editorial director, shook his head in shame.
“I just…I just don’t know what got into them,” said a visibly shaken Snell. “They thought it would be fun to write some April Fool’s posts. Sure, why not, right? It’s a just a stupid blog, after all.
“But they just wouldn’t stop. Post after post after post. After a while I started posting comments about how not-funny they were, and how I really just wanted to them to please, please stop.
“Then I realized I could just fire them, so I did.”
Dan Moren, a MacUser editor, denied having anything to do with the posts, inconspicuously pointing his finger at co-editor Derik DeLong while mouthing “all him, all him.”
At last sighting, MacUser bloggers Dan Pourhadi and David Dahlquist were seen attempting to cross the southern US border while being chased by dozens of pitchfork-wielding readers who were fed up with the lame-ass jokes.
“They weren’t even clever, or witty, or, like, legible,” said one reader. “Look, you’re still writing! Why won’t you just stop?!”
I would've read all of them if Dan Moren wrote them.
One of the articles might actually be true. I believe Steve Jobs is actually giving fake news to rumor sites.
This story is a little funnier than the fools ones. who wrote it?
Computer geeks are not funny.
Computer geeks, trying to be funny on April Fools Day, are even less humorous.
Just stick to what you're good at: Apple News.
Well THANK YOU.
Now I can stop marking everything "read" in Google reader.