Any good April Fools pranks?

Got an email from OpenTable about their new, exiting app with lickable photos of menu items.

Good one. :slight_smile:

This one, from Oberlin College: http://new.oberlin.edu/home/april2016/index.html

http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2016/04/incoming-students-to-receive-their-own-husky-puppy/

Chili’s just sent an email out today, I’m totally interested!

https://twitter.com/Chilis?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Massmom, that is so clever and cute! :slight_smile:

http://thefw.com/2016-april-fools-day-jokes/

KET (Kentucky Educational Television) had this in their e-mail blast this morning:

Start your April off right! ‘Downton’ premieres Sunday

The eagerly anticipated season 8 premiere of “Downton Abbey” is Sunday — just in time for the beginning of April. Tune in for Mary’s shock upon the surprise return of Matthew and everyone’s delight at her decision to be nice to Edith for once in her life.

And PBS has announced the popular series has been renewed for another 10 seasons! Be there when the Dowager Countess faces down Hitler, Rose becomes BFFs with Wallace Simpson, and all of Downton Abbey braces for Beatlemania.

https://www.hipcamp.com/district-of-columbia/forested-estate-tent-camp/garden-lawn

There’s a cute one on my FB proclaiming that so-and-so (my friend) is the “new voice” of car navigation systems, written like a press release.

My D’s birthday is today. Last night after she went to bed her bf changed all the clocks in the apartment, including her cell phone
 Then this morning he woke her up in a panic saying they slept through their alarms. She thought it was MUCH later than it was and she was late for work. After a few minutes of her rushing around he started laughing and she figured it out.

And this from Virginia Commonwealth University:

http://news.vcu.edu/article/VCU_announces_new_tattoo_requirement_for_current_and_prospective

Did anyone else see the Donald trump ad? He talks of running as a joke, and he can’t believe he’s still in the running. But really, folks, vote for Hilary. Then the banner comes on at the bottom, April Fools Day.

This one about Stanford: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/opinion/college-admissions-shocker.html?_r=1

From the U of MN – maybe Bucky Badger should apply?

https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/goldy-gopher-retire

NYT said they were going to end the crossword

George Mason School of Law changing their name to Antonin Scalia School of Law, or ASSLAW. Oh wait, no they’re actually serious.

As an aside, I can actually see how such renaming could increase applications from law school applicants from certain political and social demographics


Nothing so far about JHU u getting rid of the “s” in “Johns”?

The Washington Post has a pretty good list of April Fools Day pranks out on the Internet so far:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/04/01/a-comprehensive-updating-and-upsetting-list-of-2016s-april-fools-day-hoaxes/

All very funny. Really hoping the “Krispy Kreme will now let you 3D print a doughnut” one was true. I mean, c’mon, you know there’s a market for that
 :wink:

A friend who is a recent PhD graduate in IR was depicted by another friend in a press release-like post that she has been hired by a committee working to revive the Holy Roman Empire to the point it can initiate hostile takeovers of Europe and the rest of the world including North America. :smiley:

It’s not the greatest of April Fool’s Day pranks, but my son pulled a prank on FB that I got a big kick out of. He’s quite popular on FB so whatever he posts gets immediate attention of over 700 FB friends from across the country. Because of the April Fool’s Day also coinciding with college admissions announcements, he posted “I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS! IT IS WITH GREAT HONOR TO ANNOUNCE THAT I HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN ACCEPTED TO

TRUMP UNIVERSITY! WOOOOOOOOO YEAHHHHHHHHH”

He intentionally made enough space before the last line for the suspense and the anti-climax. With all high school kids anticipating their friends’ college admissions result posts on FB, it really was effective. Don’t know about you folks, but that made me rolling in laughter!