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What do you have planned for April Fool's Day?
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Perhaps if one were to simply mention INSTANT COFFEE in a low and dulcet tone.
KGB
Oh, the horror!
Oh, the humanity!
Even dulcet tones don't work...
With very few exceptions, I think "pranks" are just about the worst form of "humor" possible.
The truest, best type of humor is essentially self-deprecating. An acknowledgment that one's own self- or own race, gender, species, etc. is fallible. And the best comedians and humorists, from Mark Twain and Shakespeare to Louis VK and Chris Rock - take advantage of that.
Pranks and April Fools day hijinks are the opposite of that. They usually set up some unsuspecting and innocent person to look foolish, usually through no fault of their own. They are the IED of the humor world. Urinate in your college roommate's shampoo bottle and laugh selfishly and spitefully when he notices something is wrong.
Pranks are essentially terrorism for people too cowardly to do the real thing, but are just as sick in the head.
The truest, best type of humor is essentially self-deprecating. An acknowledgment that one's own self- or own race, gender, species, etc. is fallible. And the best comedians and humorists, from Mark Twain and Shakespeare to Louis VK and Chris Rock - take advantage of that.
Pranks and April Fools day hijinks are the opposite of that. They usually set up some unsuspecting and innocent person to look foolish, usually through no fault of their own. They are the IED of the humor world. Urinate in your college roommate's shampoo bottle and laugh selfishly and spitefully when he notices something is wrong.
Pranks are essentially terrorism for people too cowardly to do the real thing, but are just as sick in the head.
I thought about this and I really know what to do. So must likely will miss out of April fools today
And now we know what happened to The Hindenburg... they served instant, and the passengers went nuts!
Hushed tone: What these passengers don't know is that we've secretly replaced the helium in their zeppelin with hydrogen, let's see if they can tell the difference!
It's not an "across the pond thing" that I am aware of. Some seem to focus on it, I don't and I am across the pond.
One day, I think it would be hilarious to get a news agency ask "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?", or report on a new series of thefts....
told my girlfriend I'm not going to be able to go away to college by her and she started to cry.
I thought I'd surprise one of my coworkers on April Fool's Day by messing with the large bulletin board above his desk, which is full of reference notes. When he wasn't there I unpinned each item, rotated it 180 degrees, and re-pinned it in the same place.
It was that way all morning as he worked, but he didn't notice it until the late afternoon. He was momentarily confused when he looked up at a note and something was fishy about it. Then he realized what I'd done. I'd been listening all day for his reaction, and was glad when he finally said "you got me!"
It was that way all morning as he worked, but he didn't notice it until the late afternoon. He was momentarily confused when he looked up at a note and something was fishy about it. Then he realized what I'd done. I'd been listening all day for his reaction, and was glad when he finally said "you got me!"