Apr 01, 08 06:00 am — Something strange is going on with the PM system. The homepage is telling me I have a new PM:
One new message
But when I click to view it I don't have any new PMs:
No new messages
What's going on???!?
Maybe someone joined up and started spamming, but got caught and deleted? Or maybe this is some April Fools thing?
I have had the same problem since 3/8/08, and its Petey's fault.
Zem, I'll be giving you a ring a bit later, kay? 
Oh bull... you just need to learn how to send a PM. 
::grin::
Stinks when that happens, it's usually because someone has sent you a PM and then deleted the 'sent' message.
Call me, I'll talk you through fixing it step by step.
Here's my new number~ 212.479.7990
I tried calling but I don't have international dialing; can you call my mobile, it's 07770 756 408
I can't now, I'm at work. 
btw.... kudos.
Very well done. 
For a minute I wondered if you were really going to make transatlantic phone calls just to resolve deleted private messages.
Then I remembered what day it is today.::grin::
As much as I enjoy traveling, I don't make it a habit of jumping over that little body of water known as the Atlantic Ocean to hang out with a friend and drink Champagne.
I mentioned a transatlantic phone call.
Your reply had to do with actually traveling across the Atlantic.
Those aren't exactly the same thing.
Wait... so you're saying you think the Aprils fools joke this journal was about is a stuck PM?
Double kudos to Andy then. 
Well, yeah, at first I took it at face value, but it seemed odd that you would be calling each other over a deleted PM. It seemed even more strange that you would be posting your phone number on the internet.
Then I thought about it for a minute and decided that it was an April Fools thing.
I still don't get the part where you started talking about making a transatlantic trip. Where did that come from?
Are you deliberately being obtuse?
No, I'm admitting that I was totally fooled at first.
But when I made a comment about calling Andy, you replied that you don't cross the Atlantic to drink champaign with friends.
That is the disconnect for me.
Click the pictures that Andy provided.
That should clear things up for you.
Huh.
You have managed to do the impossible.
I do believe I'm speechless.
Someone else can explain the humor behind the pics to you.
HEY GRAMPS.
IF YOU ACTUALLY READ THE FREAKING JOKE THAT ANDYPANDY POSTED, THE LAST FAKE PM SAID 'YOUR PLACE TONIGHT, I'LL BRING THE CHAMPAGNE X' THIS WAS FROM ZEM.
i believe that PERHAPS this was what she was referring to.
good god. 
Yeah, yeah, I get it now.
Other people's inside humor can be difficult for outsiders
I only read the titles for the PMs on the first screen, and skipped them on the second. Not knowing that the joke was there, I focused on the phone call part of the story because it was spelled out in the thread. When Zem replied with the champaign stuff I had no clue what was going on.
But hey, isn't that what April Fools is all about, snagging the innocent bystander with something unexpected? I got sucked in, the joke's on me.
The irony is that I really do have a stuck PM! Help!
jail
Definetely funnier than the first one. We have an interview with him coming up soon. Trying to get in touch with chrome because he has it. Hopefully we can post it shortly.