And because I know you were all wondering, here is My Best April Fool's Day Joke EVAR:

In college, I worked for the Registrar's office. I never abused my position, until senior year. One of my friends had left a note on my car about 2 weeks prior, which said, "I bet when you saw this, you thought it was a parking ticket and freaked out -- (Early) April Fool!!!"

The rules for who was allowed to have a car on campus and how they could get a parking permit were notoriously Byzantine, and even people who had a legitimate parking pass (like me) always worried that some rule would change and they'd park in what always used to be general parking and then find out it had become double secret faculty parking or something.

Anyway.

I typed up a letter to my friend on Registrar letterhead, informing her that her major was being eliminated, and she should contact her advisor to find out what other majors her classes might apply to, and how many extra semesters she'd have to be there to fulfill the requirements of a new major.

Remember, this was senior year, just 5 weeks from graduation.

And then I included another sheet of paper, on which I hand-wrote: "Now that you've recovered from the heart attack....APRIL FOOL!!!! (And don't go leaving notes on my car anymore....)"

I don't think I can ever top that. (And yeah, she freaked out big time. But then was filled with spite and grudging admiration towards me.)

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I'm an April Fool's Day wimp.

Not for April Fool's but because we were generally dicks to each other, I once stole my two best guy friends' wallets, switched everything in them and put them back. I think they hog tied me in retaliation. Or, maybe that was for rearranging all their living room furniture while they were asleep, making it impossible to navigate in the morning before coffee.

One paper back home (not sure if it was the daily or the free weekly) always ran a fairly credible article- weird, sure, never malicious, just...weird- under the authorship of Loof Lirpa.

I'm drowning in laundry.

Ha! I had a similar April Fool's prank in college. I sent a letter to my roommate accusing him of cheating on a test and sending him before the judiciary committee. However, I wasn't entirely heartless and made sure I accompanied him to the post office when he got the letter and did the reveal within ten minutes.

Ten minutes, I should add where he took off straight for his History professor and I had to drag him away from the prof's door.

Impressive, Tep

For me, including the tip off that it is a joke with the heart attack inducing letter is key to the whole thing.

I don't really believe the Simpson's explanation. I thought the calendar used to start with March, which is why when they added days to the end of July and August to honor the Emperors Julius and Augustus, they took them from February. I always figured that the April Fool thing was another iteration of the springtime topsy-turvy role-reversal holidays that there seem to be a bunch of but I can't think of any concrete examples right now.

I would add 2 C of chopped nuts, because I am a sloppy baker who doesn't read recipes all that carefully. I am also an undemanding consumer of baked goods, so it all works out for me.

That is just bad direction-writing. The nuts, that is.

I can't believe the slowness of this thread turnover.

In conclusion, Zckerman's famous pig!

Google brings broadband to the toilet: [link]

Yes, it's Google's April Fools Day page....

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

Possible origins of April Fool's Day. Tep's Simpsons theory makes the list.

My grandmother's birthday is today. Something we've never, ever let her forget.

Info please gives the Simpson's explanation, problems with it, a hoax explanation, spring craziness, and celebrations of the day around the world.

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