Originally Posted By Darkbeer Enjoy the BIG scoop... <a href="http://www.miceage.com/allutz/al040107a.htm" target="_blank">http://www.miceage.com/allutz/ al040107a.htm</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean Not so far away from an April's Fool's joke ... as Pixar is pushing their animated properties pretty hard, anyway. No matter what park it is!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I think it would have been a lot funnier if they were a little more subtle about it. This just makes it too obvious that they were trying to do a joke. Even the Disney's Casino Adventure from a year or two ago was a lot more believable than this. I guess they figure most people are too dumb to catch on to the fact that it's a joke.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins I appreciate the joke for what it is. I don't think they were trying to offend anyone and I think it was nice that they went through the trouble to entertain us.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle Agreed nemopoppins...pretty funny and nice of them to take the time to put it together.
Originally Posted By retlawfan I agree that is was just a joke, and those that are offended by that should find a sense of humor. At the same time, I didn't find it that funny. Oh well. Nice try anyway. I appreciate the effort. Our local newsapaper printed one of the front pages of one of the inside sections upsaide down, then inserted it upside down so that it opened on the left. By this point all of the inside pages (that were not upside down) were now upside down. In small print at the bottom (really the top) were the words Happy April Fools Day. Nice effort, and no way able to offend anyone.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>I agree that is was just a joke, and those that are offended by that should find a sense of humor. At the same time, I didn't find it that funny. Oh well. Nice try anyway. I appreciate the effort. << That's how I feel too. Race is such a touchy subject .. but in the CONTEXT of it all ..... it's just a joke, people.
Originally Posted By oc_dean As a half hispanic myself ..... I touched on the subtle 'tacky' tones of it - which I found a little funny.... And come on everyone.... There's a level of "tackiness" in EVERY race. Al seemed to want to laugh at himself.. or atleast half of himself. And anyone who can laugh at themselves .. has a sense of humor.
Originally Posted By oc_dean And with that ... I'm making that my last post on the subject of race. Too touchy of a subject .... And we have World Events for that. Not an April Fools topic in the DL:Expansion section.
Originally Posted By danyoung >I think it would have been a lot funnier if they were a little more subtle about it. This just makes it too obvious that they were trying to do a joke.< I appreciate the joke, but I agree that some of the ones he's done in the past has more of a ring of believability to them. And what a lame world we live in when we can't make a joke anymore at the risk of offending this or that group of people. LIGHTEN UP, FOLKS!!!
Originally Posted By fkurucz I too am half Mexican (I lived 12 years in Mexico City). I found the gag to be amusing. FWIW, though, Cristina is not Mexican (its painfully obvious by her Cuban accent).
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle Many of us have forgotten how to just relax a bit and laugh once in a while. I find the article pretty hilarious.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 It wasn't so funny to me. Maybe because it was all so unbelievable, I knew it was an April Fool's story right away, so that sucked some of the entertainment out of it. I liked it better when you almost got suckered in, and then had that moment of realization halfway through.
