Haans, While I am fairly new to this listserve,I must add that life is too short and sometimes a bit dull to take things like April fools jokes so seriously! Happy birding, The ORIGINAL Jimmy Kimmel~;) Sent from JSK's iPhone > On Apr 1, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi. > > The tradition of the April fools posts on the Ohio listserve had been > around almost since the inception of the Listserve by Vic Fazio back in the > 1990s. But in recent years it has been beaten into the ground, by a very > small set of individuals, in the guise of "protecting" beginners or others > too gullible to know better. > > This is unfortunate as these posts were often very well done and very > entertaining to the point of being hilarious. Stuff like Ivory-billed > Peckerwood is far too obvious to be good. The implausibility was always > over the edge on the best ones. Sometimes there was even collaboration > between birders as with the Boat-billed Heron in the mid 90s > > The truth is that only true fools actually fell for these posts, which was > the whole point. If you were sucked in by something as unlikely as a > Great-horned Owl carrying off a German Shepard well... > > But this true and real *tradition* of almost 2 decades is now dead because > of a very few, apparently humorless, people, and our Ohio birding community > is a much poorer place because of it. > > Such a shame. > > Haans > > > > > >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Dillon Nott <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Man..... I guess I can't report my California Condors ether.....;) >> >>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Steve Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> What...you mean I should probably hold off on my Ivory-billed Woodpecker >>> sighting till tomorrow? :-D >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Kathi Hutton <[log in to unmask] >>> <javascript:;>> wrote: >>> >>>> Traditionally, someone usually takes advantage of the date to post some >>>> rare, unusual, or even mythical bird sighting on April 1st. Fair >> warning: >>>> If something sounds too good to be true today, don't get in your car >> and >>>> start driving. >>>> >>>> No foolin' >>>> Kathi >>>> >>>> Sent from iVan II, my iPhone >>>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. >>>> Please consider joining our Society, at >>>> www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. >>>> Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. >>>> >>>> >>>> You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: >>>> listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS >>>> Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] >>> <javascript:;> >>>> <javascript:;> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. >>> Please consider joining our Society, at >>> www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. >>> Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. >>> >>> >>> You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: >>> listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS >>> Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] >>> <javascript:;> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> >> Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. >> Please consider joining our Society, at >> www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. >> Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. >> >> >> You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: >> listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS >> Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]