ok, please stop with the hate mail already. it was not my decision to get rid of IMAO. Frank made the deal to sell the URL while i was at work last night, and he had already gotten payment in his paypal account by the time i got to his house after work. the sell of the URL to the Korean manufacturer was very lucrative, and i can’t fault him for selling it, especially when he tells me that he wants to take a break from blogging for a while so he can focus on our pending nuptials.
plus, he just bought me a really nice ring and this will help pay for that. Frank will probably get back to blogging eventually.
UPDATE: for the slow… April Fools!
Well, that was one HELL of a rock…took me the better part of my first morning coffee to figure this one out though….sometimes I’m such a fool…You guys rock!
I was wondering what happened when the U.S. branch of that site came on my screen this morning.
Happy planning!
There are priorities in life and I’m happy he made you one of them! Ignore the negative emails….there’s a time for everything. I’m sure he’ll have stuff to blog about in married life ;-)
Good luck to you both!
Hahahahaha good one you guys ! The most elaborate and well sprung April Fools Joke I’ve ever seen.. Youve got the whole blogoshere freaked.. ahahahahahaha You three are quite a team (Frank & Sarah J & The Duck)
Frank sells IMAO on April 1st. Hmmmm. There’s a connection somewhere.
D’OH! (slaps forehead)
I never even concidered that today was April 1st.
It’s gotsta be an April fool. From the “About Us” section:
“Past our establishment in 1961, IMAO make always to provide standard handle elements”
No way they are that shoddy at translating!
I’m guessing it’s one of the better April Fools pranks ever pulled. But if not: Congrats to you both, best of luck in the future and I’ll be glad to sign up anyone that send you hate mail for the Daily Midget Porn e-mail so you don’t have to look at the pages.
Definitely April Fools.
If you go to Google’s cache of imao, and click on any of the permalinks, you’ll see that they’re still on the server.
If a foreign group had bought the site and already put their new version up, it would be hosted on a different server and there’d be no way to access the old archives.
Still a great joke.
And I’m going to call SarahK Yoko from now on.
Even if its real! I love it, gotta love a man with priorities!!!
A prank like this works better when it is NOT April 1. Yeah, there are some gullible people out there, but Frank’s whole premise is humor.
It also doesn’t help that he still has his archives available. I don’t know how hard it would have been to pull them down.
Definitely an april fools prank, you can still visit deep links:
Example: http://imao.us/sound_index.htm
Oh and FAQs about Aquaman and monkeys might be a little clue as to the truth.
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Awwwww, man! I don’t get to see the fake IMAO! All I see is the regular site, but all the posts are gone. Drat. Wait… Is THAT the joke? Everyone post about the fake IMAO that doesn’t exist? Pull one over on Tracey, huh? Everyone’s in on it, too. Sneaky!
Cute.
Actually had me until I read these comments.
I’m sure you’ve gotten some hate mail, though.
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http://imao.us/faq.htm ahahaha. Check out the FAQ’s of the “new IMAO” it talks about Aquaman. Good job FrankJ and the rest of you guys! I almost cried this morning
Well played, well played.
Clapping>>>>>>>> very good, this is why you and Frank are my first reads of the day…Jackie….p.s. I almost sent an e-mail last night too…lol
I’ve got the goods, yo. Go to this page and take a look at the model numbers of their products. Ready?
Okay:
FJF. SJK. HVO. KVN. SCT. RWD. IMW. KTE. NTM.
Now, some of those I’m not sure of, off the top of my head, but FJF, SJK, SCT, and RWD are kinda suspect. Trying to figure out the other five.
Outstandingly good funny, y’all. You guys almost wrecked my whole day.
LIAR! this is all an april fools pulled off by a redirect of the url…YOU LIE! I have seen the IMAO Korean website before….many of us have
PLUS you couldn’t write this kind of comedy:
Do your handwheels turn well with excellent making inside them? IMAOs turn each time as expected and are easy to you put the hand on. Reliablility, good and very expected are what is happen when a IMAO handwheel is turned.
Kay, I think I got most of the rest, if Cadet Happy’s first name is Kevin. Except I don’t know whwt NTM is. Hmm…
“Now in North America and even Canada!” Priceless. Man, you guys got me good.
YOU LITTLE BRATS! I was sick at my stomach until I FOUND out it was a joke. YOU LITTLE BRATS!
I’m pretty sure from the FAQ about Aquaman, it’s gotta be a joke but a pretty good one. I do hope the real IMAO corp (found at IMAO.com) has a sense of humor if is a joke.
And I’m afraid we will have to call the Lovely and Talented SarahK by her new name, Yoko. ; )
Congratulations again on your engagement.
Not nice to fool your future Mother-in-law Frank…. tsk tsk… >>>>still laughing! Jackie
Ugh! I am the most gullible person on earth! I KNEW it was April Fools Day (I caught my 13 year old daughter switching the salt and sugar in the shakers first thing this morning) and I still fell for it. I’m close to tears!! Very cruel joke Frank!! Man, I need to go get a life! :P
Heh, I loved the part numbers. Great touch.
Too funny. I actually believed it when I checked late last night after I got home from Florida… sent Frank an email saying “I think you got hi-jacked”!
Frank shoulda had a part named HFL-666. (Hate-Filled Lefty)
NTM=Nuke The Moon. Duh.
Kay, I think I got most of the rest, if Cadet Happy’s first name is Kevin. Except I don’t know whwt NTM is. Hmm…
Army NCO Guy,
You should be ashamed if you don’t know what NTM means. It is one of the hallmarks of IMAO.
what am i going to do at work now?
This is halarious. I am a strong man can I bend the wheel.
Wow, I thought I was going crazy. Actually I really was. I typed in imao.us a couple of times before I started taking a closer look at things and noticing how badly translated the site was. The FAQ’s are quality. Nice spot on the part numbers NCO. I would definitely have overlooked those. Best April fools prank ever you guys.
“No at this time IMAO handle and grips are only for pulling.” Our legs, that is! Good one FrankJ!
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You got me. I had to start reading the comments here before I delved deeper into the “new” IMAO. Yeah, the Aquaman and monkey FAQs finally convinced me.
But then, you’re talking to the person who listened to Sean Hannity last April and was convinced Sean had gone over to the dark side. It took me almost all day to remember “D’uh! April Fools!”
Yes, I am gullible…..
Saved myself from eternal disgrace by one minute, Steve L. Synapses seem to be malfunctioning this morning.
Now what Frank should be doing today… going through all your email first to get rid of the hate mail. *grin* I thought about that last night when I first saw Harvey’s post. LOL. Happy April Fools.
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Add a burrito to your fool counter
Great joke!
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You got me. I was surprised that Frank J. actually had a blog hidden amongst all those blinking ads. Then when I heard he was gone, I really missed him for a good 12 seconds. But then I realized that the fall of IMAO would bump me up a notch in the bloggie awards this year. So HOORAH, I said. HOORAH!!!!
Then it all turned out to be a stinking April Fool’s joke.
*laughs*
i almost wrote watson, “sweetie, i have some bad news…”
glad i checked!
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