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Survey Results Date: Sent Friday, April 9, 1999 Category: None

Rating: 2.82/5 (67 votes) Click a button to cast your vote

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Well, the results are in. We had a total of 779 emails to the gcfl-gullible@gcfl.net address, and 3 faxes. Of all these 563 people actually looked the word. Some of these 563 admitted that they knew it probably was a joke, but wanted to do it anyway. MOST however, had no clue. :-)

I only had one person send me email saying they did not like being fooled, and that they were going to unsubscribe from the list... Oh well... You can't win them all. I guess I still have 42,999 members that took the joke OK.

We actually had 43,583 members at the time of the mailing. That means we only had (563 / 43583) = 1.2917880825092352522772640708533143656930454535025124475139% of the membership fall for the joke. Of course, I imagine 49.6845% or so were just too lazy to look a word up in the dictionary! ;-)

And among the 563 entries, 32 actually did not contain the word! One members obviously thought this was unacceptable, and contacted the publisher!

I have contacted the publishers of my dictionary and they have agreed to replace my dictionary with a more recent update. Just FYI they were very apologetic and they also offered to send me The Snipe Hunting Almanac. This is great because my husband loves to hunt. I would recommend that any other GCFL readers with the same problem contact their publishers. They may be surprised at the response.

Do you really think I'm that gullible? This a joke I'm sure, aimed at people gullible enough to believe this survey. You see, the joke its self is about the word gullible. Gullible people will look the word up for the survey and not even see the definition because they are wrapped up in the fact that word might have been left out of the dictionary. Then they find out that joke was on them and that made them even more gullible because they had the opportunity to see the definition and comprehend the word before they responded to the survey.

Has it not been said that gullibility is in the eye of the beholder?

You guys are knuts!!!

I have performed a quality assurance test of this problem based on traditional Microsoft software testing methods. I have inspected the first ten pages of each dictionary in my office and, based on my findings, I can assure you that the word 'gullible' does not exist.

In my dictionary the word gullible occurs before cynical and jaded. It is right after innocence and not too far from senility. You are correct... it doesn't seem to have a good place in the English language. :-)

Before you read this, please know that I am merely complying with the wishes of the surveyors. I do realize that the probability of the absence of the word "gullible" in any dictionary is highly unlikely. And I am aware that the joke 'did you know the word gullible is not in the dictionary' is often used on people who are easily deceived, i.e. gullible. I want to make all aware of the fact that I am not gullible. But just for the heck of it, here is my answer to the survey.

I have checked my dictionary and it DOES contain the word "gullible". The word immediately before is "lirpA" and immediately after is "loof." My edition is a roll of toilet paper published by Chinese dissidents using a toothpick as a stylus and fermented turnip juice for ink.

I know this is an April Fool's joke but I just can't help myself! I NEED to participate! A few years ago I worked in an office with a new boss that no one liked. Everyone was usually so upset at work anyway by the mere presence of this man, that they didn't think about it being April 1st. So, I sent around an office memo "signed" by the new boss, stating that, due to the recent increase in office workers, we would now all have to address each other over the intercoms by numbers that he had assigned us instead of our names. This, he explained, would make the office run more efficiently since there were too many names to remember. Well, they fell for it! Boy, were they mad at the new boss! No, I didn't get fired (he saw it but he just didn't think it was funny). I let my co-workers stew for a while before I said, "April Fools!" That was years ago and they still talk about it. Signed: #3

My dictionary has the word gullible in it, and my picture is right next to it. I thought that was kinda strange so I went down to my local library to check out theirs. Sure enough there it was. Then I said to myself, "Hey maybe, just maybe, it is only in these few." You wouldn't have asked if it was in all of them right? So I headed to the mall. I walk briskly to the bookstore eager to come to a conclusion of this dictionary fiasco. I asked for the dictionaries and was pointed in the right direction. Then to my amazement, IT WASN'T IN IT I bought it right away. Do you know how much dictionaries cost these days? Then on my way out the door I saw at least fifty others walking briskly towards me then they started to run and shout something about a dictionary and gullible before you can say lickety-split I was being trampled everything went a horrid shade of purple I had a sharp pain in my side and a dull pain in my neck and one of those pains that is neither sharp nor dull in my right leg. That's all I can remember. I write to you from inside the hospital in my all body cast thank-you-very-much! Ha ha April Fools