Knowing how the RCC works, there probably is a Patron Saint of Folks In Their Second Infancy… wonder who it is? Our Lady of Good Hope, maybe? I’m afraid to look it up!
AFAIK, the only thing they did for April Fool’s this year was show *The Room *again. And the suicide scene in that isn’t graphic at all, at least from a gore standpoint. I’d be more worried about exposing children to Tommy Wiseau’s creepy naked flesh.
Regardless, I fail to see how this is a problem unless you’re mindlessly using the TV as a babysitter for small children.
Yup. Someone posted about their photocopier at work being turned into a voice-activated one; that was funny. Calling someone up and telling them a loved one died - never funny. Ever. I guess the problem with April Fool’s Day is that there are always the assholes who don’t get it - it’s not a day for being mean or jerkish or just saying stupid things; it’s a day for good-natured leg-pulling.
Partially too, it’s hard to come up with a funny, clever prank. There are a lot of people that like the idea of playing a joke or a prank, but just aren’t really imaginative enough to come up with a good one, so then you wind up with 900 people all posting photos of positive pregnancy tests to Facebook.
Being subtle is the key and not overplaying your hand. At one work place, I would open a car-freshener and taping to the bottom of a desk in a lab 10 minutes before lunch. People get pissed off from the stink, but then they go to lunch, and I remove said freshener before they get back. One was sure that an office secretary was wearing some sort of pine tree perfume. Repeated the same trick for years. Nobody ever caught on that it always occurred on April 1st.
A friend sent me one of those real-looking lottery tickets in the mail. I was really jazzed for the few minutes it took to realize I’d been fooled. I did the “right thing” and sent him a real-looking check for half of it along with a letter telling him how much I needed the money and that it was going to help me out so much, how much I appreciated his friendship and, of course, how the only ethical thing I could do was give him half to enjoy as much as I would enjoy mine.
I like this one. My daughter is the only one out of all her friends who can’t stand Justin Bieber.
I see you at least knew how to spell his name. :smack: