<p>Aside from the list of April Fools gags pulled at the U of Wisconsin <a href=“The Daily Cardinal”>The Daily Cardinal;
has anyone pulled, or had a good April Fools day joke pulled on them? My s. forgot to turn off his alarm clock in his room, and promptly fell asleep in the basement playing video games last night. That wasn’t an intentional gag, but I didn’t appreciate his alarm blaring at 6 am today…</p>
<p>My favorite of today was the npr story on the iBod <a href=“http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5317505[/url]”>A Perilous Encounter with the I-Bod : NPR;
<p>but I still remember my sister giving me a toothpaste-filled Twinkie when I was 8! (She’d rewrapped it very carefully and then conspicuously hidden it from me while I “wasn’t looking”! Twinkies were absolutely FORBIDDEN in our house–sugar! white flour!–which made it doubly effective.)</p>
<p>This was my favorite story today:
<a href=“http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/401herecomethesons.html[/url]”>http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/401herecomethesons.html</a></p>
<p>Just heard on ATC on NPR about the Positive Opera Company, the owner of which has commissioned the reworking of tragic operas into positive outcomes!</p>
<p>I want audiophile’s to be true.</p>
<p>I have two oldies, both from England. One was the BBC special by David Dimbleby (he, of the sonorous voice who reported on the Queen’s wedding and coronation). He did a segment on the 'spaghetti crop" which convinced quite a lot of Brits that spaghetti does grow in the field, is harvested then dried on what looked like broom handles then packaged, ready to be sold in supermarkets. That was an oldie that re-ran while I was living in England.
The second one was pulled by the Guardian. It consisted of a special pull-out section on a small island nation called San Serife. It had the usual set of articles on the political system, weather, investment climate, human rights record, even adverts. By the end of the afternoon, cars were sporting bumper stickers reading “I’ve been to San Serife.” For those not in the know, san serif is a font type.
The following year, the Guardian pulled another one. It published a mock copy of the French daily Le Monde, and, using Le monde inimitably cautious style in which most verbs are in the conditional, trumpeted that “The End of the World Would Appear to Be Nigh.”
Nothing to report from this year, alas.</p>
<p>My daughter put a clear hair tie on the sprayer at the kitchen sink, so when the water was turned on, the sprayer went full force horizontally. I sprayed myself not once, but twice. After the first time, I laughed and said, OK now take it off so I can use the sink. She said OK, but didn’t do it. It wasn’t as funny the second time, but it WAS funny when we put it back on so my older daughter (the one I visit this forum for) did the dishes, she got a full dose.
Old joke, but funny anyway.</p>
<p>When I was in third or fourth grade, my dad sneaked into my room and my brothers’ rooms one morning and set all of our clocks about three or four hours ahead. He came in screaming that we were late. The bus used to come around 7:00 or so and it was still dark, so we didn’t think anything of getting up in the dark. We ran around, showered, and I think I was sitting at the breakfast table when he told us it was 3:00 AM. An oldie, but a goodie.</p>
<p>My 50th birthday was yesterday, on April Fool’s Day. (Yes, it is true.) Mercifully, no one got me anything mean. When I turned forty, someone gave me a dozen half-dead white roses!</p>
<p>Momofthree, Happy birthday! That was a big one!</p>
<p>momofthree-
Happy BD!!
And Marite-
When I was in grad school they did a whole thing on the news about the spaghetti blight… that there’d been a drought and all the spaghetti trees were going to have a poor crop {{{cut to a picture of strands of spaghetti hanging pitifully on branches of a dead tree}}}. So, I guess the spaghetti thing has made it around the globe!</p>
<p>NEmom and jym,</p>
<p>Merci!!</p>
<p>Can’t find it now but there was an story in the UK about penguins spotted in London park ponds.</p>
<p>This was a rather 4/1 letter to the Times editor:</p>
<p>*Sir, Your naughty April Fools Day report was easy to spot. Having rejected 1) Bearded men have more brains; 2) Soft drinks in cancer scare; 3) Source of the Nile redrawn; and 4) Hottest chilli comes from Dorset, there it was on page 11.
Did you really expect to fool your readers with a tale about people lending £16 million to the Tory party? Were not that daft. </p>
<p>JIM McINTYRE
Retford, Notts*</p>
<p>momofthree:</p>
<p>April Fool’s babies of the world unite! I also am an April Fool (now 24)…happy belated birthday! :D</p>
<p>ophiolite!!! HHHAPPPPYYYY BBB DDDAAAYYYY! Isn’t it a great one? Enjoy the whole year of being 24!</p>
<p>momo’3</p>
<p>Happy bday MomofThree! Oh, the big 5-0! I got it coming next year.</p>
<p>I saw the title of this thread and ironically a few minutes ago my husband was commenting that no kids were home this year for April Fools and that my younger one was not able to pull her joke on me and that he thought of doing it himself but didn’t. He then reminded me what she used to do (he gets very nostalgic about these memories!). So I came on this thread thinking I’d mention it and lo and behold, cal032 in post #7 beat me to the punch. My D would take a hair elastic or rubber band and put it around the lever on the nozzle on the sprayer on the kitchen sink and aim it away from the sink so that when I turned on the water, it came through the sprayer rather than the faucet and it was aimed right at me and my clothes would get soaking wet and she’d laugh and laugh. So not funny on the second or third go around!</p>
<p>I am still trying to picture what the hair tie looks like. Cal032, Suzie, can you link a photo or something? </p>
<p>When I was in college, a bunch of us were having dinner together and one guy got up to get coffee. He kindly asked if anyone else wanted any. One poor soul took him up on it and asked for 1/2 and 1/2 with it. He brought back the little white paper cup with the 1/2 and 1/2 (it didn’t come pre-packaged back then) which she poured into her coffee. She promptly spat it out and asked him what was in the 1/2 and 1/2. He said “Nothing. It’s 1/2 and 1/2. Half mayonnaise and 1/2 vinegar”.</p>
<p>Jym…in my case, I am talking of a hair elastic band similar to a rubber band but meant for hair. It is just a piece of elastic. It is for putting your hair in a ponytail. She may have even used a rubber band…it was one or the other but both did the trick. I would not have noticed it as I mostly use the faucet not the sprayer and so I guess if I had stared at the sprayer, I would see that a band was around the lever on that nozzle holding it down so that the water, when turned on, would come through it, not the faucet but I expected upon turning the water on, that it would come through the faucet.</p>
<p>Susan,</p>
<p>Thanks! BTW, have you seen the Brown Daily Herald today? April Fool’s Edition. <a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/[/url]”>The Brown Daily Herald; </p>
<p>Lots of :)</p>
<p>Ahhhh suzie, I get it! I was pucturing something different-- like the band covering half of the sprayer heads. I dunno why. Clever little kiddos…</p>