01 Apr
don’t call me Yoko
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!
April 1st, 2005 at 6:51 amI was wondering what happened when the U.S. branch of that site came on my screen this morning.
April 1st, 2005 at 7:12 amHappy 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!
April 1st, 2005 at 7:17 amHahahahaha 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)
April 1st, 2005 at 7:26 amFrank sells IMAO on April 1st. Hmmmm. There’s a connection somewhere.
April 1st, 2005 at 7:37 amD’OH! (slaps forehead)
April 1st, 2005 at 7:42 amI 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!
April 1st, 2005 at 8:06 amI’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.
April 1st, 2005 at 8:32 amDefinitely 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.
April 1st, 2005 at 8:38 amEven if its real! I love it, gotta love a man with priorities!!!
April 1st, 2005 at 8:39 amA 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.
April 1st, 2005 at 8:40 amDefinitely an april fools prank, you can still visit deep links:
Example: http://imao.us/sound_index.htm
April 1st, 2005 at 8:42 amOh and FAQs about Aquaman and monkeys might be a little clue as to the truth.
April 1st, 2005 at 8:46 amNothing, I have Nothing for Sale
April 1st, 2005 at 9:23 amThe great Frank J’s promise to blog forever ended abruptly when he sold out to the Koreans, that must have been one poofy deal, and the comparison’s of the lovely Sarah K to Yoko began to fly.
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!
April 1st, 2005 at 9:25 amCute.
April 1st, 2005 at 9:25 amActually had me until I read these comments.
I’m sure you’ve gotten some hate mail, though.
John Kerry Signs Form 180
April 1st, 2005 at 9:32 amToday a spokesperson for John Kerry (who once spent 4 months in Vietnam and Christmas in Cambodia) announced that he will finally sign form SF-180, releasing his whole military record.
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
April 1st, 2005 at 9:46 amWell played, well played.
April 1st, 2005 at 10:31 amClapping>>>>>>>> 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
April 1st, 2005 at 10:41 amI’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.
April 1st, 2005 at 10:42 amLIAR! 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:
April 1st, 2005 at 10:47 amDo 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…
April 1st, 2005 at 10:50 am“Now in North America and even Canada!” Priceless. Man, you guys got me good.
April 1st, 2005 at 10:51 amYOU LITTLE BRATS! I was sick at my stomach until I FOUND out it was a joke. YOU LITTLE BRATS!
April 1st, 2005 at 11:06 amI’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.
April 1st, 2005 at 11:09 amNot nice to fool your future Mother-in-law Frank…. tsk tsk… >>>>still laughing! Jackie
April 1st, 2005 at 11:11 amUgh! 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
April 1st, 2005 at 11:21 amHeh, I loved the part numbers. Great touch.
April 1st, 2005 at 11:25 amToo 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”!
April 1st, 2005 at 11:31 amFrank shoulda had a part named HFL-666. (Hate-Filled Lefty)
April 1st, 2005 at 11:35 amNTM=Nuke The Moon. Duh.
April 1st, 2005 at 11:36 amKay, 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,
April 1st, 2005 at 11:37 amYou 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?
April 1st, 2005 at 11:38 amThis is halarious. I am a strong man can I bend the wheel.
April 1st, 2005 at 11:53 amWow, 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.
April 1st, 2005 at 12:03 pm“No at this time IMAO handle and grips are only for pulling.” Our legs, that is! Good one FrankJ!
April 1st, 2005 at 12:11 pmApril Fools
April 1st, 2005 at 12:17 pmSome people are just better at this than I am. Man I’m jealous. Yesterday Today Background I really thought he had sold it for a second, and was thinking damn I hope that SarahK got a really nice ring, otherwise…
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…..
April 1st, 2005 at 12:24 pmSaved myself from eternal disgrace by one minute, Steve L. Synapses seem to be malfunctioning this morning.
April 1st, 2005 at 12:27 pmNow 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.
April 1st, 2005 at 12:27 pmApril Fools!!!
April 1st, 2005 at 12:37 pmI am very happy to tell you that IMAO.us has not been boughts by Japanese company. You may view phony…
Add a burrito to your fool counter
Great joke!
April 1st, 2005 at 12:39 pm
April 1st, 2005 at 5:11 pmFrank J. sells out to the Japanese?
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.
April 1st, 2005 at 5:51 pm*laughs*
April 1st, 2005 at 7:23 pmi almost wrote watson, “sweetie, i have some bad news…”
glad i checked!
music sharing program
July 17th, 2005 at 9:25 pmdon’t call me Yoko
more than a feeling
July 30th, 2005 at 12:58 pmdon’t call me Yoko
antibiotic
August 16th, 2005 at 6:35 amdon’t call me Yoko