Parents Sue School After Pod Daughter Is Banned From Prom 33
With the prom season only a few months away kids and parents alike are starting to make plans for the big day. However, one girl's alien replacement might not get a chance to experience that special day if a school district has its way. Even though Darcy Swope's pod duplicate is virtually identical to her, the Santa Mira school district has decided she is not welcome to prom. School officials acknowledge the duplicate attended school and did Darcy's homework for an unknown period of time but say she isn't really a student and therefore doesn't belong at the dance. Darcy's parents disagree with the decision and have filed suit against the school, Her dad says, "We miss Darcy every day, but the thing that consumed her and is now pretending to be my daughter is almost the same and deserves to be treated the same." "She may not have that sparkle in her eye or the vocabulary as our flesh and blood daughter, but she has never missed curfew and has a thirst to learn. It would be a shame if Darcy II didn't get a chance to experience this important part of being human, even if she isn't one," adds her mother.
resembles my prom (Score:2)
Re:Okay, this one isn't bad (Score:5, Insightful)
Even so (Score:3)
With under 50 comments per spoof, you'd think those responsible would get the message that very few are interested.
But apparently not.
Oh well. See everyone tomorrow, when the site is over this.
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That or there's just nothing to say since it's not real news.
I love that Slashdot has been doing this for years and wish more news sites did the same. (Ideally The Onion would report actual news today only.)
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Yeah - I took the day off from /.
So many were incomprehensible - it was apparent there wasn't any real news yesterday.
Pod Diversity in the IT Industry (Score:2)
It's high time that we discuss the lack of Pod Diversity in the IT Industry. Over 50% of important US government officials are actually pods. But only 5% in the IT Industry. Although, they mostly hold managerial positions, where a lack of humanity goes easily unnoticed.
I believe this is because IT Workers are smart enough to use fire extinguishers to fight the Pods . . .
. . . or was that another movie, and I am getting confused . . . ?
PLEASE STOP THIS SILLINESS! (Score:1)
Pretty please.
Stop already! (Score:2)
April Fools might have been funny for a while when the calendar was switched to Jan 1, but this is not even imaginative.
April Fool's - Slashdot doesn't get it (Score:5, Insightful)
Does anyone at slashdot or dice in general have any fucking clue what April Fools is about?
Its not about posting completely unbelievable ideas you stole from someone elses book/movie/tv show plot.
Its about doing something in such a way that you trick someone else into believing something completely unbelievable.
EVERYTHING posted to slashdot today is just fucking retarded. Not just unbelievable, most of it is just stupid, none of it is original, and not a single reader of this site is stupid enough to actually believe even the headlines to this stupid stories. They aren't clever. They aren't funny. They are just flat out lame.
If you approved one of todays stories, you should have your privs revoked immediately and more appropriate would be to fire your dumb ass, no sense of humor, annoying self in the name of making slashdot suck a little less. FFS, have any of you even fucking READ 2001 or seen the movie Firefly yourself? I mean not just heard about it from someone else, since you seemed to fuck up some pretty simple details greatly.
Re:April Fool's - Slashdot doesn't get it (Score:5, Funny)
You do realize, don't you, that protesting against things officially deemed funny is considered strong evidence of nonhumanity by the FBI?
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That is the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin speech, isn't it? With a few word mods.
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That is the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin speech, isn't it?
Phase One:
The Great Pumpkin: drawing gift-lust away from Judeo-Christian holidays [youtube.com]
Phase Two:
The Time of the Great Pumpkin: Robot Chicken payback [youtube.com]
Phase Three:
Breaking of the Seals, ascension of the faithful.
FOXTROT ONE-NINER, we are on schedule. Release the whipping cream. Repeat, deploy the whipping cream.
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and what sucks more is that these stories still exist in the timeline the day after.
I took yesterday off from /. because it was full of obviously silly stories. Thankfully no "real" news was mixed in.
Slashdot has fallen. Please don't get up. (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't know if I hate Beta or April 1st more.
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What someone should do is just post outlandish stores that happen to be true...
Wait... Just repost from Fox and MSNBC....
Suggestion for a better April Fool's joke... (Score:1)
Yes, it's like the Powers That Be on Slashdot aren't even trying anymore.
Many of you on Slashdot have been around long enough to remember the "OMG Ponies!" joke site that was foisted on us one year. Seemed like everyone at the time complained about how stupid that joke was. Of course, the joke ended up being on Slashdot (albeit several years delayed), since *now* cute cartoon ponies are considered "20% cooler" than ever before, thanks to the inexplicable cult-following of My Little Pony - Friendship is Ma
Please. Just. Stop. (Score:2)
I for one welcome our new pod-people overlords (Score:2)
and I look forward to the day when all humans have been replaced by them.
Bring back the ponies (Score:2)
slashfuckoff (Score:1)
I don't like going all fark on slashdot, but... (Score:2)
WFTAmIReading.jpg.