It’s April Fools morning here, and, feeling mischievous, I decided to prank one of my kids.
As he wandered downstairs tousled and scratching his bum I informed him that I’d just heard on the news that there had been a major fire that destroyed his school. That woke him up.
He danced around the loungeroom in his boxer-shorts (not a pretty sight btw) singing praises to the gods for such providence. His older brother hadn’t clued either, so he was just as excited and both of their joyous exclamations could be heard from afar. Teenage boys are not exactly renowned for their loyalty to their places of learning, so they didn’t see this as a disaster…just a damned good excuse for time-off!
I let them rejoice for a while, then when the kid yelled that he had to ring his mates to let them in on the wonderful news I broke down.
I can see this turning into an April Fools Day Pranks thread. Here’s mine:
Here in Australia, the anti war sentiment has been running pretty high, especially among school and uni students. Posters cover every single bit of available space advertising every possible flavour of anti-war sentiment: socialist, pacifist, religous, political etc. Most of them are calling for rallies every day or two.
So last night a mate and I spent a couple of hours and $20 on photocopies advertising a Pro War rally to take place on the UNSW library lawn at midday today. The posters also included a (pretty bloody obvious, I felt) parody of ultra-extreme right wing pro war arguements. Full of
My goal was to send up the Right and piss of those elements of the Left that take themselves altogether too seriously (even though I’m more or less on their side).
Well, I turn up at 11:30 today and every single one of them has been ripped down. I’m just waiting for a long, indignant self-rightous article to appear in next weeks student paper…
Off-topic: The quote in the title of the thread - who said that originally?
A friend was saying it last night (to the point of annoyance) and I couldn’t remember where it came from. Vince Sorrenti? Graeme Bond? Someone else? It’s been bugging me all night…
I was going to burn down my place of employment, but I figured they wouldn’t really get the joke.
OTOH, I am planning to crazy-glue the owner’s desk drawers, after removing the contents. After all the work to open the drawers, I’ll still be able to piss him off by hiding his belongings elsewhere
Mother nature played an evil April Fools joke on me - I had to scrap ICE off my car windows this morning!! OK, frost, not ice, but it was a heavy coat. I was not happy.
Last year, a coworker tried to convince us he’d won a large lotto prize, but he hadn’t researched well enough. I knew as soon as he started describing what he’d won that he was lying. Luckily, he’s out of town this week, so I don’t have to put up with his silly shenanigans.
Incidentally, kambuckta - good job! I was never able to keep a straight face long enough to pull off a gag like that!
