Comments on: Big Announcement

By: Prime Time Money: Canadian Roundup | Prime Time Money

Prime Time Money: Canadian Roundup | Prime Time Money — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:31:47 +0000

[...] Four Pillars shares his new ideas for emergency funds and tax free savings. Canadian Dream talks about coping with an early retirement obsession. SquawkFox shares a video tutorial on her rent vs. buy calculator. Two Wise Acres share a really cool foreclosure picturegraph. Canadian Capitalist provides another reason to avoid hedge funds. Visit this list of Canadian personal finance bloggers. [...]

By: Saturday weigh-in and linkstuff - April Fool’s Edition

Saturday weigh-in and linkstuff - April Fool’s Edition — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:21:22 +0000

[...] did an April Fool’s day post this week which was quite enjoyable. Mr. Cheap created most of the post, but both myself and Mrs. [...]

By: squawkfox » Carnivals

squawkfox » Carnivals — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:31:49 +0000

[...] but not least, the fellows over at Four Pillars got me good with their Big Announcement April Fool’s gag. I still can’t believe they called me a “Foxy Squawker”. [...]

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:58:07 +0000

Pinyo – you should do it!

AJ – sure, but we only accept Canuck citizens.

FJ – we will keep repeating this exercise every few weeks until you gain a healthy level of skepticism!!!

Mike

By: FinancialJungle

FinancialJungle — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:18:01 +0000

I’m a little late in reading this. Got me scratching my head for 10 minutes. I don’t remember particpating in a few conference calls.

Can’t believe you got me twice within a few weeks. Shame…

By: AJC @ 7million7years

AJC @ 7million7years — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:59:49 +0000

It’s actually a brilliant idea and emminently marketable/saleable … even on April 2nd … I wonder if I can get oot and aboot and become a kanuck?!

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:38:57 +0000

Darn, you got me going for a minute there until I realized the day.

The reason I fell for it because it’s something I would do

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:08:45 +0000

Preet, the video is brilliant!

You are quite an actor.

Mike

By: WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com

WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:10:41 +0000

No, it’s still April 1. Fair game until midnight!

Or is it noon?

Actually, if you are interested, I pulled one April fool’s prank 2 years ago that is on YouTube. It doesn’t make much sense without the context, but I had my friend come in and interview a lady in my office about “a career in the financial services”. We took the video and I wrote out every sentence she said, I then took a few hours to create NEW questions that when spliced into the video and re-joined with her responses made it look instead that she wanted to kill her boss for a promotion.

It’s a bit “amateur hour”, but you can see the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7TngF02E4

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:40:34 +0000

TMW – we had considered asking you to join us a while back but we were afraid you would deliver 14 tons of legal papers for us to sign…

WDAMMG – kudos on the new job. I’m assuming that’s NOT a joke..

Interestingly enough I have a post on hedge funds this week…and it’s not a nice post on hedge funds either!! Your hurdle rate will be very tough.

Mike