I have always disliked April Fools Day, and also all Candid Camera Type shows. I also have great sympathy for the fish in the Cat in the Hat. The Cat is crazy, and the kids are going to get in trouble!
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
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Sophia Brooks - Apr 01, 2010 4:30:34 am PDT #20224 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Steph L. - Apr 01, 2010 4:33:36 am PDT #20225 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Thank you, Google, for reminding me that today is Internet Jackass Day.
Gmail's sign-in/sign-up page has been 95% disem-voweled. I admit it made me laugh.
This morning I told The Boy that a GREAT April Fool's Day prank would have been to wake me up and tell me, "I *didn't* make you breakfast in bed...no, wait -- I did! April Fool!"
He didn't even miss a beat: "You didn't find the breakfast I left for you?"
Frankenbuddha - Apr 01, 2010 4:34:04 am PDT #20226 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I have always disliked April Fools Day, and also all Candid Camera Type shows. I also have great sympathy for the fish in the Cat in the Hat. The Cat is crazy, and the kids are going to get in trouble!
Pretty much the only practical jokes I have any fondness for are the MIT hacks, and even those cross the line sometimes in terms of creating monetary expense and effort for other people.
Also possibly those guys who prank corporations.
Jessica - Apr 01, 2010 4:38:04 am PDT #20227 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm fine with practical jokes as long as they are (a) funny and (b) not harmful.
Back in the old office, we used to prank people's desks when they went on vacation. Sometimes it was just a Fimble in your chair, other times you'd come back to find your cubicle and everything in it neatly wrapped in tinfoil.
Steph L. - Apr 01, 2010 4:39:46 am PDT #20228 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Sometimes it was just a Fimble in your chair
We used to have an inflatable alien who would appear in people's chairs. I don't know what happened to him. Probably went back to the (inflatable) mother ship.
Jesse - Apr 01, 2010 4:49:19 am PDT #20229 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Holy crap -- Amtrak isn't running south from Boston, because the flooding in Rhode Island is so bad. I'm glad (a) I'm not in the middle of a flood, and (b) I don't have a train ticket for today! Or yesterday. Or possibly tomorrow.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 01, 2010 4:49:55 am PDT #20230 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I don't mind the ones that are, say filling up someone's desk area with rubber chickens or something, as long as you do it on a day when the rubber chicken guy doesn't have a big meeting or a lot to do. A lot of practical jokes seem to be center on convincing someone something really bad is happening, and I really hate that!
DavidS - Apr 01, 2010 4:51:10 am PDT #20231 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Has anybody heard from CV? Little worried.
And rightly so as it turned out!
Welcome baby, Luna! May this be all the trouble you ever cause your dear, achey Mom.
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2010 5:10:58 am PDT #20232 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A lot of practical jokes seem to be center on convincing someone something really bad is happening, and I really hate that!
Yeah, I don't think it's funny to cause people great anxiety for no reason.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 01, 2010 5:16:24 am PDT #20233 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My thoughts on April Fools may be colored by the fact that by two best friends in High School played a month long practical joke on me-- One of them was a boy I liked and the joke they played was that the two of them were secretly sleeping together, and I needed to keep their secret, and the boy told me all about it in great detail on the phone every night, because he just needed someone to talk to. And then he called me on April Fools Day, said "April Fools" and hung up. I actually think now, knowing what I do, that it actually wasn't a joke, and he used April Fools to get out of it, but at the time, I was absolutely devasted, because I felt like our whole friendship was a lie.