Tomorrow (yeah,yeah I know it’s still technically Sunday night for a bunch of us but we’re pretending it’s Monday already, ok?), for those of you who don’t have a calendar, is April 1st, AKA APRIL FOOL’S Day. Or, in the words of the immortal Mark Twain: April 1st: The day upon which we are reminded of what we are the other 364.”
I came across this little jewel of a list that I thought I’d share in case anybody still needs to do their last minute April Fool’s shopping. No need to thank me. I live to be helpful. Enjoy!
2008’s Top Ten Adult April Fool’s Day Pranks:
The Covert Clicker
Easily concealed in your pocket, this fun device can control volume, change the channel, or turn the TV on & off. Imagine the fun with this at a crowded sports bar just before the winning play.
The Toilet Monster
This prank item attaches to the inside of the toilet bowl by suction cups. When someone lifts the toilet lid, a monster’s head pops out! It’s guaranteed to scare your victim pantless! As an added bonus, your wife will never yell at you for leaving the seat up again.
Funny Crime Scene Tapes
They look like authentic crime scene tapes, but come in many hilarious styles including, “Idiot Zone,” “Do Not Feed”, and “Messy Office”. Great to use on a co-worker’s cubicle!
Embarrassing Magnetic Bumper Stickers
Stick them on other people’s cars and don’t worry about damaging the car; these stickers are magnetic. They come in many styles including, “Pay Cuts for Cops” and “Will Strip for Money”.
Fake Parking Tickets
These bright, neon orange, fake parking tickets are sure to pass off as real. Make your friends get that pit in their stomach when they see the ticket on their windshield from a distance!
Fake Lottery Tickets
Authentic looking lottery tickets reveal a winner every time. $10,000-$20,000 to every sucker who receives them. To make matters worse, there are insults on the back when they read the fine print.
Exploding Golf Ball
It looks like a regular golf ball, but when someone goes to hit it, it blows up into a cloud of smoke-like powder. Perfect to liven up any golf match.
Prank Envelopes
These hilarious prank envelopes are a lot of fun. Coming in 8 different styles from “Viagra Users Anonymous” to “Sheep Lovers International”, it’s sure to embarrass anyone who receives it! Send one to someone’s office so all of their co-workers can see it.
Shocking Pen
Take the hand buzzer prank one step further with a shocking pen. Use it around the office and no one will ever swipe your pen again.
Spilled Coffee Cup
It looks like an authentic coffee spill. Leave it on a co-workers desk full of important papers and watch them panic!
So, get out there and get all April Foolish Mumpers!
I think he knows it’s on Tuesday–he’s pretending that it’s Monday already and saying “tomorrow”, meaning Tuesday.
My sister lost her job on April 1. She was let go due to illness. She died that August.
I only ever did one April Fool’s Joke. I put salt in the sugar bowl at home when I was about nine. Boy, my mom did not like April Fool’s Day. There was no laughter. :eek:
I kinda like the golf ball–but then to me golf is a good walk, ruined.
Hi all! I missed most of last weeks thread and I’m ready to take my wet noodle flogging. I will try to do better this week, but no promises. Monday is the end of the month and we will be trying to get as many sales as possible in, then Tuesday I’ll be swamped getting it all to accounting. Wednesday I have a hockey date with LabRat, I’m sure Thursday will be busy, Friday is the last hockey game of the regular season (crossing fingers for playoff spot). Saturday night and Sunday will be spent with the **LabRat ** again. We went to see Horton Hears a Who! today. What a cute movie. No, neither one of us have or want kids, but we both love cartoons. After the movie he swung into the Carraba’s parking lot and asked if it would be OK if we ate where we had our first date. Awwwww! We even got seated at the same table. Awwww! Things seem to be going well.
Hope you all have a great week if I don’t get to pop in again.
I hate April Fool’s Day… Dad stopped getting me when I was about 12 and I FLIPPED on him (it wasn’t funny, it was rather cruel actually and he hasn’t done any pranks on me since either… so I’m glad for that at least).
I have a job interview later this week, so hopefully that goes well.
At the moment I feel way too hot so I’ll go turn down the furnace and pour myself a cold glass of water. Or maybe I’ll step out in the snowy night for a couple minutes.
I remembered why I never watch Cold Case, I almost always want to cry at the end (even though they inevitably catch the person who did it). Tomorrow night (since it really IS still Sunday) I have to watch Corner Gas, because Dog the Bounty Hunter is gonna be on it!!
My sister’s divorce was final on Apr 1 - she always felt it was appropriate.
It’s way closer to Monday than I want it to be, as I am still awake. The rasslin’ is still on, but my darling daughter assures me it’s the last match. So I should be snoozin’ soon. This is definitely a point against future son-in-law.
And I don’t do April Fools pranks. In fact, I don’t understand the appeal of pranks - humiliation?? I dunno. Except I do think the fake crime scene tape would be pretty funny.
I think we need to start a new tradition - April 1 is *Chocolate Love Offerings to *FCM ** Day. Be the first on your block to bestow extravagant offerings upon me. It will make your April 1 all that much more special. No, really, it will.
Tasch the Pasch has been thoroughly brushed out and is now in the tub being bathed by my daughter. She gets to use some wonderful tropical scented shampoo and conditioner, and after her feet soak a bit I will trim her nails, brush her out again, and take some photos.
Any of you knitters want a bag full of red and cream pom fur to have spun into yarn?
Rebo, your flowers are lovely. I don’t plant the regular petunias (or geraniums) anymore because just as they begin to bloom the rain comes and melts the flowers. The wave petunias are fabulous on the other hand. I love making baskets of dark purple wave petunias and sapphire lobilia, maybe it’s just that so many of our days are overcast, but those two colors together just seem to glow in the gloom. And yay for cute doggies!
An appropriate OP swampster! I have been racking my brains trying to think of how to fool the kids. The best one ever was when my kids got up individually and both fell for “There are doughnuts in the oven for breakfast”. While they were a bit disappointed that there were no doughnuts, they agreed it was a most excellent fool. Now that they are older it’s harder to fool them.
Yay doggio for almost vacation!!!
Skiffman is stomping around and being trollish, so I better see what his ailment is. :rolleyes: Photos when Tash is dry.
I’m not a big April Fools celebrater, but I loved several of the possibilities in the OP. The crime scene tape is my favorite, though. My mom was a major prankster as a teen. She and a group of friends would go to someone’s vacation home for long weekends and committed all kinds of mischievous acts.
Funny OP, swampy! I’m glad I don’t have my younger students on April 1st (they’re my M/W class).
mmouse, yes there is a Krispy Kreme somewhere in Chicago, but not in any of the neighborhoods I hang out in. In Seoul they’re all over the place.
Dinner was nice - it was wonderful seeing everyone again. We hung out at the restaurant we frequented as grad students - mmm, nostalgia. The weather is crap though. Ugh.
Interesting list of April Fool’s jokes, Swampy. Since March 31st is my son’s birthday, the biggest April Fool’s joke he pulled on me was being born a day early. I figure he did it just to aggravate me. He succeeded. (And he’s been aggravating me ever since!)
Anyway, I shall have to contemplate whether I want to do anything to Papa Tigs. I’m sure he deserves something. I’ll think on it. I have no bad associations with the day, unlike some of you folks. Harmless pranks are always enjoyable, as long as they’re not mean-spirited.
Mornin’ all. About to go to work. Don’t worry, swampy! It was well and truly Monday here when you posted the new MMP! I love a good April Fool’s joke. More on that later when I get to work!
When I was a kid, I’d rubber band the handle on the kitchen sprayer. This soaks whoever next turns the water on. Bahaha, I know.
I basically squandered the entire weekend.
I found a bar magazine at an Irish-style pub near here. It has bar ads and photos and some off color cartoons and jokes. There was also this totally NSFW & bizzare…er…writing by a squirrel…columnist?
Link broken and uploaded to anon photo hosting to keep my name off that weirdness. It’s a little hard to make out but I sure wasn’t going to type it out.
I have a very, very boring calibration with a trainee at a giant petro-R&D facility in a nearby suburb tomorrow and Tuesday. Ya, that’ll make the hours fly by…
I agree that April Fools should be fun, not mean. I am a nice MMPer!
Very good to see you MBG, you have been on my mind.
Well, Tascha has been brushed, trimmed, bathed, blow dried and had her nails clipped. She hates having her nails clipped and spazzed out with the first one, which caused me to nick the quick. So of course the rest of her nails were a struggle, but it’s done…for now. My daughter’s mil (and what does one call one’s daughter’s in laws? I guess I’ll have to just call her Tricia.) has picked her up. She has a huge yard and lots of time to help Tascha lose that extra weight. One of my very important things to get is enough crates with doors so I may crate them for their meals, it would certainly help with portion control as well as arguments over which dog gets which bowl. Anyway, here is one of the photos I took of her, still a bit dampish, but otherwise just my pretty Tascha.
Now I can’t breathe and need to find my inhaler, and take some meds, maybe watch a movie and go to sleep. See you guys on Monday!
