# Ever been invited to an April Fools day party? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529 "2016-03-29T15:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/1 "2016-03-29T15:39:59Z")
Going to one this Friday night. Never been to one before. What to do? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/2 "2016-03-29T15:41:55Z")
Don’t go; the invitation itself is the prank. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/3 "2016-03-29T15:51:38Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Don’t go; the invitation itself is the prank. Or, are you lying, and the “the party’s a fake” the prank, and the party is actually real? And then when I miss it, I get pranked? Go. Don’t go. Go. I’m frozen with prank fear. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/4 "2016-03-29T16:20:44Z")
I usually drink too much and play with the dog. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/5 "2016-03-29T16:25:29Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Or, are you lying, and the “the party’s a fake” the prank, and the party is actually real? And then when I miss it, I get pranked? > > Go. Don’t go. Go. I’m frozen with prank fear. And that’s the real April Fool’s joke. It’s a hipster uber-meta 21st Century April Fools joke. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/6 "2016-03-29T16:47:06Z")
My birthday is April 1st. I’ve been invited to _lots_ of April Fool’s Day parties. Usually, I’m a no-show. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/7 "2016-03-29T17:41:25Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I usually drink too much and play with the dog. At my last April Fool’s party I got so drunk I blew chunks. Yeah, but everybody does that sooner or later! You don’t understand. Chunks is the host’s dog. Beware. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/8 "2016-03-29T18:06:24Z")
When did April Fools parties become a thing? I am so tragically unhip… Or am I being whooshed here? That’s a side effect of being tragically unhip. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-invited-to-an-april-fools-day-party/750529/9 "2016-03-29T18:35:44Z")
Don’t go, you’ll all [be killed!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090655/?ref_=nv_sr_1)