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Title: United SpongeBob Press Release
Post by: cmonkey on April 01, 2006, 08:58:38 am: United SpongeBob is proud to announce that it has purchased a rival SpongeBob Fan Site, SBMania (http://www.sbmania.net), for an undisclosed sum. Cmonkey was quoted as saying, "World Domination doesn't come cheap, but I had to buy them out some time." The SBMania staff was unavailable for comment, as the windows on their new Bentley were rolled up. Cmonkey announced the plan for World Domination at a United SpongeBob shareholder meeting last week, during which he also announced that all United SpongeBob staff members must convert to the Church of Scientology (bless the holy Xenu and his Thetans) or be fired.

EDIT: Yea, nevermind. The check bounced, so SBMania is going back to normal. Forget Scientology too, I got kicked out for making fun of Tom Cruise.
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Post by: SpongePussy on April 01, 2006, 09:54:13 am: Oh I don't think I will although I am a member here.
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Post by: Chrono on April 01, 2006, 10:00:23 am: Oh snap, what about members? Im good with joining the Church for Scientology...

Except April Fools ended for me an hour ago :(
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Post by: SBSP9134 on April 01, 2006, 01:49:09 pm: Riiiiiiiiiiight cMonkey.

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Except April Fools ended for me an hour ago :(

Nice. :)
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Post by: Chrono on April 01, 2006, 03:12:57 pm: Quote
Riiiiiiiiiiight cMonkey.

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Except April Fools ended for me an hour ago :(

Nice. :)
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-_-' You ruined it...so badly...
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Post by: SBSP9134 on April 01, 2006, 03:35:44 pm: :biggrin:
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Post by: Dragon Of Grief on April 01, 2006, 03:37:38 pm: Scientology... is fake =O

*waits to get sued by Tom Cruise*
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Post by: IceFox on April 01, 2006, 03:48:19 pm: April 01, 2006
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Post by: ssj4gogita4 on April 01, 2006, 03:48:57 pm: Quote
April 01, 2006
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If you think April Fools day has something to do with this, you're not as smart as you think you are.
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Post by: spongegor on April 01, 2006, 04:01:25 pm: good, SSJ, Talk sense into those idiots, you guys are the crackest for April Fools.
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Post by: IceFox on April 01, 2006, 04:14:16 pm: Quote
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April 01, 2006
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If you think April Fools day has something to do with this, you're not as smart as you think you are.
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I never said I was smart.

(Nor do I think I am)
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Post by: SBSP9134 on April 01, 2006, 04:14:44 pm: Yeah. This is some stupid ::Dolphin Noise::.
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Post by: spongegor on April 01, 2006, 04:17:32 pm: Quote
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April 01, 2006
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If you think April Fools day has something to do with this, you're not as smart as you think you are.
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I guess he meant it as a figure of speech.
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Post by: IceFox on April 01, 2006, 04:38:38 pm: What keeps me from believing this are these two things -

April 01 2006

and

when SZ merged with SBC there was months of talking beforehand, the community was given the info on heads up, all that stuff. All of a sudden, AND ON april 1, just doesn't cut it for me as true.
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Post by: carterhawk on April 01, 2006, 05:53:10 pm: There isnt months of heads up available. the brothers who are paying the server bill decided they were tired of the site and cancelled the account. in a little over a week our host is canceling our entire account. this deal had been on the table for a while, they took it up. it was basicaly sell to cmonkey and let USB take over, or all the content would sit on someones hard drive never to see the light of day again....
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Post by: No Username on April 01, 2006, 06:18:48 pm: All im gonna say is ill believe it when April 1st is over and the site still reads"internal server error"
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Post by: Patrik on April 01, 2006, 06:33:25 pm: Oh no! The link to the SBM forums doesn't work! *crys*
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Post by: carterhawk on April 01, 2006, 06:35:35 pm: wtf?
i dont know what they are doing, hopefully the site will come back up soon, so everyone can say goodbyes, etc. there seems to be some kind of message up now, with an incredibly ugly ::Dolphin Noise:: image.
http://sponge-buddy.net/ (http://sponge-buddy.net/)
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Post by: Patrik on April 01, 2006, 06:43:20 pm: (http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/6921/sbmaniatombstone0dq.jpg)
*sob sob*

(http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/7320/sbmania4043at.th.jpg) (http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sbmania4043at.jpg)
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Post by: Teddi on April 01, 2006, 07:45:11 pm: Im with you.
SB Mania was awsome. So much detail on it.
Oh well, hopefully, the guys who sell it will regret it ever waking moment for the rest of their lives. :D :D j/k.
We'll move on :)

(Oh, and the site is back up.. for now)
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Post by: spongegor on April 01, 2006, 08:29:04 pm: So,like USB is combinding with SBMania??.
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Post by: Patrik on April 01, 2006, 10:48:42 pm: ^Sorta like that. cmonkey is going to handle sbm now. (i think?)
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Post by: Square_The_Shape_Of_Evil! on April 02, 2006, 05:59:02 am: This sucks. I can't believe SBM's going to die on sunday! Hey guys! Maybe we could use that time machine site to go back in time to where it was SpongeBuddy Mania. One more favor, could you change my name to King Krabs? :p
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Post by: ti89titanium on April 02, 2006, 06:24:56 am: dude, it's still up...
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Post by: abney317 on April 02, 2006, 07:12:07 am: is this an April fools, or are you serious
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Post by: SBSP9134 on April 02, 2006, 07:28:18 am: It's definitely an april fools joke...
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Post by: ti89titanium on April 02, 2006, 07:30:24 am: but some people thought it was serious
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Post by: Sb129 on April 02, 2006, 08:03:52 am: Wow,does this mean I'm a member 2 times?I'm member of both sites. :tongue:
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Post by: Square_The_Shape_Of_Evil! on April 02, 2006, 08:48:12 am: It's not a April Fools joke. Otherwise they would of mentioned it by now since it's April 2nd!
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Post by: ti89titanium on April 02, 2006, 09:24:16 am: true, I am starting to believe it. Wow. SBMania had so much more spongebob content than this site...
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Post by: Patrik on April 02, 2006, 11:36:59 am: Quote
This sucks. I can't believe SBM's going to die on sunday! Hey guys! Maybe we could use that time machine site to go back in time to where it was SpongeBuddy Mania. One more favor, could you change my name to King Krabs? :p
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You mean http://archive.org (http://archive.org)? I'll be copying the website so everyone could browse it in the future. And at archive.org they have like only 3 entries for sb mania.
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Post by: Elizabeth Rose on April 02, 2006, 12:24:25 pm: This was so real. Why else would I convert to Scientology?
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Post by: bub1028 on April 02, 2006, 12:37:07 pm: NO! I loved SBM. It was so awesome... *sniff*

Oh, and if this is a joke... ARRGH!
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Post by: carterhawk on April 02, 2006, 12:50:13 pm: A few posts back, someone mentioned this site doesnt have a lot of *content* like SBM. that would be one of the reasons why cmonkey offered us money for our site, to help USB grow into a better, more complete spongebob site.
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Post by: spongegor on April 02, 2006, 02:03:49 pm: Quote
but some people thought it was serious
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Cause there idiots.
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Post by: spongedude on April 02, 2006, 03:40:29 pm: Wow. I guess you've gotta have something taken away before you realize the value in it.

Yea...I'm just a bystander here. Found out this morning in an email. Too bad too. :-/
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Post by: carterhawk on April 02, 2006, 03:50:19 pm: I hope spongey gave you a fair cut, you were kind of just doing nothing...
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Post by: SBSP9134 on April 02, 2006, 04:23:03 pm: It was all a ::Dolphin Noise::ing joke. cmonkey oh! What the ::Dolphin Noise::?
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Post by: williambob286 on April 02, 2006, 04:37:57 pm: http://www.sbmania.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6820 (http://www.sbmania.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6820)

PROOF
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Post by: Teddi on April 02, 2006, 04:51:23 pm: It IS an April Fools Day joke. Check out the SBM forums :)
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Post by: ti89titanium on April 02, 2006, 05:00:19 pm: wow. I was skeptical at first, but it went so long, I was doubting myself... nice joke, though. I haven't seen one this good in a while.
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Post by: williambob286 on April 02, 2006, 06:06:06 pm: Wow, I just get annoyed with the stupid ::Dolphin Noise::hell pranks of people selling it. SM's was the best <_>

Just say it

APRIL FOOLS!
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Post by: Roger on April 02, 2006, 08:06:08 pm: -__- Meh. It was figured out fast and all the attempts to make it more believable were too elaborate.
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Post by: carterhawk on April 02, 2006, 09:51:04 pm: i would have taken it much further, but spongey is a wuss :p
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Post by: williambob286 on April 03, 2006, 04:08:52 am: April Poop. That's april fools 2007 XD

Although, nice one, although the skin should've been the USB default converted to IPB 2.1.4
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Post by: spongegor on April 03, 2006, 06:26:50 pm: I don't really like April fools, cause all the fools come out in april,
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Post by: bub1028 on April 06, 2006, 03:42:19 pm: Good joke. I couldn't believe the owners of SBM would do something like that.