"The Oasis threads were a big joke." - DU Lounge thread from April 2nd, 2005

[LoZoccolo]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

It actually all started as a copycat thread about two months ago. Someone had posted a thread asking if the Beatles were really more popular than Jesus in the 60s or something, so I posted one asking if Oasis was more popular than the Beatles in the 90s. I admitted it was a joke in another thread the same day, but I decided to keep it going for kicks. I was having fun coming up with all these obtuse angles. Barely anyone responded to the one where I admitted it was a joke, and really, no one in the past two months went and dug it up, so it's like no one remembers seeing it. Then I got the idea in my mind that I'd come clean the day after April Fool's day. It's almost like a two-month-long April Fool's joke in the final analysis.

I should say that I actually really am an Oasis fan, just not one that's out to prove they are better than the Beatles at every turn. I think that Oasis is underrated and that the Beatles are overrated, just not to the proportions I put it in the Oasis threads. And while I do see some influence from the Beatles, I still do think they're their own band, and that some of their songs are better than some of the Beatles songs. I'd even go so far as to say they're on the short list for best band of the 90s, and that I'm looking forward to their next album.

I could see people saying that my mock-musings were lame, obtuse, annoying, deluded and self-important, but I still can't get my head around why they would infuriate certain people. And it would only be certain ones, but they'd get really mad. I think it's interesting that someone would waste that much anger on something they are in the same breath are saying is stupid. If I was going around spreading false political propaganda, it might be dangerous, but I was saying that a band was really cool, and that it was cooler than another band.

I also thought it was funny that other people, unprompted in public or private, started joining in the effort, and one in particular started some hilarious threads himself. I would name names to give props, but the next thing I know is they'd be saying that their threads were serious whether they actually were or not. I'll let them choose whether or not to reveal that!

A lot of you did catch it, some sooner than others, and it was really funny reading some of your responses to the threads.

And in case you're thinking this is another April Fool's joke, please note that it is no longer April Fool's day in Chicago where I live.

Well, this thread will probably be more popular than the Beatles by tomorrow morning. It's as if this smiley came right on time...

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