LOL It may be March 31 on the Kotaku Tower desk calendar, but it's April 1 somewhere in the realms of The Lord of the Rings Online. Turbine has decided to make with the massively-multiplayer hilarity, announcing that a new playable race, the Fowl-People, would join the currently playable Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Hobbits, bringing new epic quests and new housing options (coops, henhouses, etc.).

The jokes are too good to spoil here, so make your way to the official site. But pee before you do. We can't have your LOL-derived incontinence on our hands. This is sure to be just a mere speck on the landscape of puns, gags and sidesplitters to be delivered this April Fool's, so brace yourself for all comers.

The Battle of Amon Hen [LotRO]

7:20 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Michael McWhertor
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DesmondHume at 07:24 PM on 03/31/08
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Sounds.....interesting.
ArAcHnAdZ at 07:25 PM on 03/31/08
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Confirmed, Kotaku Tower is 2 months in the future.
DigiMish at 07:26 PM on 03/31/08
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How's GTAIV? Cause you know... you've already been playing it for an entire month, Mike...
HuffmanDickings at 07:27 PM on 03/31/08
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Really guys? Is it "May 31 on the Kotaku Tower desk calendar"? haha, i found a typo, i get a cookie! ;)
Polywhirl at 07:29 PM on 03/31/08
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I only appreciate these gags if they make them real. For example, I want them to actually make a chicken race now. It might be a gag, but they should make it.
@ArAcHnAdZ: Of course. Kotaku has to be in May. That's how they know all the latest gaming news ahead of time. And Kotaku Tower itself is a state of Zen that transcends all boundaries, not a physical place.
JaggedToaster at 07:29 PM on 03/31/08
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Har har, I found a typo! OH EM GEE.
InsidiousTuna at 07:30 PM on 03/31/08
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I need to try this game out again. Every time I try, I get bored when it tries to update, and I stop.
ShaggE at 07:32 PM on 03/31/08
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Birds, schmirds. Needs more Cow Level.
Mike918 at 07:33 PM on 03/31/08
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Hey this is the first typo that i can see yay!, but is fine we get your point ;)
okenny :) at 07:37 PM on 03/31/08
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It's the time of year where all the news you hear are lies... yes folks... it's election time... err, I mean April Fools :\
MisterSleep at 07:40 PM on 03/31/08
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I'm glad they decided to keep everyone a breast of the changes and didn't just wing it with the updates. I'm egg-cited to try it out but I hope the fowl-mouthed mothercluckers don't get me down...

Eggs Benedict. Wait. Shit. That didn't work.

Okay, I'm down. Jesus, I think I'm bleeding from my eyes.
Shindokie at 07:41 PM on 03/31/08
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I never knew May came before April. Har Har. It's May April March. Take it anyway you will
majatt at 07:41 PM on 03/31/08
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And with this I disappear from the internets for the day and come back when sanity has returned, lol.
Michael McWhertor at 07:42 PM on 03/31/08
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Man, I can't believe you guys fell for that "May 31" joke. Buncha rubes. LOLz.

Also, how come I never get credit for all the words I get right, huh? I mean, "incontinence" isn't exactly a word I use everyday (thank God).
Spiffyness at 07:49 PM on 03/31/08
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lol, batter.
Sap_My_Sentry at 07:50 PM on 03/31/08
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Damn it, they fixed it already.
goldwings at 07:52 PM on 03/31/08
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OH SHIT April 1st is coming already?! RUN TO THE HILLS THE INTERNET IS NOT SAFE.
Shindokie at 07:56 PM on 03/31/08
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@Michael McWhertor: It's much easier getting the words you get wrong to be honest. If you got all the words right then we would have to go on topic. Who wants that?
ShaggE at 08:01 PM on 03/31/08
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@Michael McWhertor: "Incontinence" is so vastly underappreciated as a word...

Same goes for "hullabaloo", "soiree", "buoy", "adjacent", and "nipplesplosion". Although I may have made that last one up.
AppleTamer at 08:02 PM on 03/31/08
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You fools, May 31st was just an ingenious April Fool's prank McWhertor played a day early to coincide with LOTROs joke. YOU ALL FELL FOR IT! LONG LIVE THE SUPREME PRANKSTER.
male roof blower (CFB) at 08:12 PM on 03/31/08
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Now April Fool's jokes aren't going to work because you've left a big reminder to everyone that tomorrow is April Fool's Day.
Toprem at 08:17 PM on 03/31/08
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If they actually went through with it, that would top EQ's prank of making all player models display as just the red wire frame skeletons last year for it. There's a patch tonight for EQ, but they said it wasn't for an april fools' joke, dunno if that can be trusted or not though.

How bad is it when I want those wire frames back because the game's models suck so bad :OX.
Polywhirl at 08:17 PM on 03/31/08
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@ShaggE: To buoy his spirits, McWhertor decided to visit a little soiree. However, to his major dissapointment, his incontinence caused him to suffer a nipplesplosion and turn the whole thing into a giant hullabaloo.
There. Feel better?

@Michael McWhertor: It's because we're all subconsciously jealous. You get to live a life we only dream of. To help alleviate the suffering of not getting to be you, we scrutinize everything you say, and tear it apart when we can, in a desperate bid to buoy our minuscule egos.
Michael McWhertor at 08:24 PM on 03/31/08
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@Polywhirl: You know, sometimes I'd just appreciate a "Hey, another post without a 'teh' in it, McWhertor! Keep up the good work!" But I still appreciate your honesty. You drunk?
Michael McWhertor at 08:25 PM on 03/31/08
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@ShaggE: You have a "buoy" friend in Polywhirl! Vocabulary match makin'!
Spiffyness at 09:05 PM on 03/31/08
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@ShaggE: Hullabaloo is a kickass word, especially when used in context of a Muse album.
$Image of Digitalguardian VII: Revival! A Commenter\'s Comeback!$ Digitalguardian VII:... at 09:06 PM on 03/31/08
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This how april fool's is done.
VioletArrows at 09:11 PM on 03/31/08
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Maybe I should install that trial...
cokpendejo at 09:25 PM on 03/31/08
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one shot cook recipe: yourself
labrats5 at 10:18 PM on 03/31/08
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Damn, it's April fools already. Better start spreading rumors:

Starcraft 2 is coming out in '07!
Merfolk a playable race in WOW!
Master Chief is really Captain Planet!

Should hold me off 'til I wake up.
The_Inquisitor at 11:23 PM on 03/31/08
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Maybe I'm just tired.

Or maybe it's because I tried that game, and I felt it was awful grindfest dren.

But I totally failed to find anything funny in that site.
yashichi8bit at 11:56 PM on 03/31/08
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@The_Inquisitor: Ah come on, "Crush your foes into 6, 12 or 20 pieces!"...thats comedy!
Jamie_W at 01:58 AM on 04/01/08
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April Fools that are this obvious are just really shit. This wasn't funny. April Fools are only worth doing when they have the ability to make people believe.
Tei at 02:00 AM on 04/01/08
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Lotro: The Minigame (also include raiding)
Captain Impulse at 02:17 AM on 04/01/08
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@Jamie_W: It's a spoof event. Same as the holiday events in WoW. Do you really have to shit on it that much?
Mara at 02:59 AM on 04/01/08
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They still haven't added the smurfs that they announced exactly a year ago!
TrevWolf at 03:01 AM on 04/01/08
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I hope this doesn't run afoul of the current class balance system. Otherwise they'd end up with egg on their face and hen-pecked by irritated subscribers. Chicken.