Anyone notice Google home page April Fool Joke?

[dixiegrrrrl]

[HereSince1628]

1. You went there to peak ah???????

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. kneeslapper, that one.

[RKP5637]

2. So that's what that's all about. I was wondering... makes sense now. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Also sly reference to Dorothy...

heh heh....not in Kansas anymore....get it?

[Tumbulu]

3. Topeka....?

What is the joke? Sorry to be so dense....

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. ahhh..ok...

Dorothy and her red slippers =gay icon, for reasons that escape me at the moment.

Maybe it is the " you are not in Kansas anymore" thing.

For years saying you or someone was " a friend of Dorothy" was to discreetly say they were gay.

I gave my openly gay brother this doormat when he moved into his new house:

[RKP5637]

7. April Fools': Google renames itself 'Topeka'

April Fools': Google renames itself 'Topeka'

(AP) – 7 hours ago

TOPEKA, Kan. — Topeka is Google, and now Google is Topeka.

Weeks after the Kansas capital unofficially renamed itself after the Web search giant, the company returned the favor Thursday in the form of an April Fool's Day joke.

Google, at least on its home page, became "Topeka."

The company says it's a response to Topeka's decision to change its name to "Google, Kan." for the month of March. Topeka jokingly changed its name in a bid to persuade Google to choose the city as a test site for its planned super-fast fiber-optic network.

A blog posting by Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the prank shouldn't be mistaken for the company picking Topeka, adding that the re-naming of his company will have no effect on which cities get chosen.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-G-thdcKiR6kAhM6j_N1BYb2ekQD9EQA9H04

[elocs]

8. No, although I read about it all day long here.

:shrug: What can I say? It's the truth.