# Thank Thor THAT'S over--April Fool's Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-thor-thats-over-april-fools-day/237871>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 2, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-thor-thats-over-april-fools-day/237871 "2004-04-02T05:30:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-thor-thats-over-april-fools-day/237871/1 "2004-04-02T05:30:48Z")

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It’s now 12:30AM. April 2nd. And I wanted to say Thank Thor April Fool’s Day is over. Cause I hate April Fool’s Day, though it does seem to bring The Fools out. I managed to get through the day without anyone doing anything lame and semi-funny, then shrieking “April FOOLS!” and grinning like a moron.

Who’s with me?

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-thor-thats-over-april-fools-day/237871/2 "2004-04-02T10:38:51Z")

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Your fly’s open.

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-thor-thats-over-april-fools-day/237871/3 "2004-04-02T18:27:45Z")

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…and your socks are untied.

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-thor-thats-over-april-fools-day/237871/4 "2004-04-02T18:48:37Z")

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I, too, hate the silly pranks that most April Fools play; OTOH, I love a good hoax. Like the recent stunt on a San Francisco radio station, wherein the morning talk hosts “April Fooled” their “movie reviewer” into thinking that he was fired; it ended with him flinging a chair at one of the main personalities and storming out. Of course, he was in on it – the real April Fool was the other co-host, who thought the “fired” guy’s meltdown was real.

This year, I wrote a press release from my company stating that we sent all the employees out to buy California Lottery “Quick Pick” tickets with company money ($1000 per person) and won $174 million. One previous year, I wrote an SOP detailing how to run the coffeemaker.