you posted the story at 12:02pm, thus meaning you are the fool.

...says most of it... Best one so far...

until the third paragraph. Didn't bother reading the rest.

It's after 12 o'clock now, making you the fool, not us...

If only it weren't 1st April

Thanks for this; after a late night pratting around with RedHat, I needed a laugh

A happy April fools day to you all!

I got as far as "In a candid interview with The Register" before I twigged!

Hmmm, you realise that, with a published date of 12:02PM this makes the author an April fool as UK April fool is only until midday. Unless this is actually legit, which I doubt, considering how much Wales was enjoying his expense account.

.. we been all fools stone is the way forward not Web 2.0 lol

Nice one guys

How sad to see Jimmy leave like this. I hope he didn't feel compelled to resign because of all the horrid stories El Reg kept publishing about him.

</fool>

would seriously decrease the amount of stuff the reg could write about

Is that 7 years bad luck, or just time differences... :D

Statesians don't have a sense of humour?

Oh Why oh why oh why,

Such sadness fills my heart,i weep at this terrible news,

Ahh,I have come undone,what is me but a mere shell of a man in the face of such

dreadful knowledge,

Oh help me for i fear that dread shall overtake me,

If i fall,remember me on this April day,

Paris,cause she aint kno fule

Apparently the Author is in San Fransisco, where it would be about 3-4am, on 01-04-08...so it should still be okay..

Er, it sez GMT, so whoever called 62 minutes has the win here.

But aside from that folks, read the byline. It's from Cade in SF, GMT -8 it says here, cut the poor beggar some slack. Nobody gets up at sparrow chirp just to avoid being taken to task by pedants.

Besides, it's funny and worth stretching a point for........

Quote: "In a candid interview with The Register, Wales said he intends to join the brotherhood of Franciscan Friars, taking the traditional vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience"

Brilliant, just effing brilliant. I burst out laughing when I got to the bit above. :)

But wait a mo - that's about the third or fourth April Fool on the site today. Don't you Vultures have *any* work to do? On second thoughts, silly question...

It's going to be illuminated-manuscript-o-pedia FFS

Sure.

just a pity it's not true. :)

...when it claims to be a Reg exclusive!

...so it's an April Fool. It only appears to have been posted after 12 noon to GMT users ?

Heh, I took the headline seriously until I noticed it had been posted in Bootnotes.

maybe it should be more of a xmas wish than an april fool?

It's called April fools DAY not April fools before noon.

..until I got to the celibacy bit.

It made as much sense as any other story from Wikipedia-land.

I still prefer the virutal human story

the day El Reg turned into the Onion.

I liked this story, best effort of the day!

Ann Coulter has freakish arms by the way.

Haven't you changed to BST at Vulture Central?

"Ann Coulter has freakish arms by the way."

Just the arms!? Sheesh, she's quite all around scary no matter the angle...

> OK, folks, we know, April Fool's ended at midday/this or other silly story is not very subtle and did not fool you not even for a second/etc. We know.

Yes, but perhaps you don't know why?

It's because every story by Cadz about Wikipedia sounds like a lot of bollocks...this one just happened to fall on a date that gives a half decent excuse for it :)

The tradition (in the UK at least) goes that if you attempt a prank after 12 noon on April 1st, you are the fool.

Paris, because we are talking about fools