Okay, maybe I missed it, by I can’t see another thread on this subject this morning … just gotta know how gullible you all are.
Me? Naw. I’d never fall for any of that crap.
Lucy
(Though I have to admit that nowadays I find that it’s much easier to send the newbies after that Breggs and Scranton Model 36AA Lefthanded Skyhook - I always had a hell of time finding it …)
One time my best friend came on instant messenger and told me his wife was pregnant. This is not something I would have expected to hear in a million years (ok maybe just 10 years) and it damn near made me fall off my chair.
He was kind enough to remind me of the date just a few minutes later. Woosh!
A couple years ago NPR did a story about how because of the low-carb diet popularity, people weren’t eating pancakes any more, and as a result of the lower demand for maple syrup the maple trees were not being tapped and hence were exploding.
They made it sound plausible enough to me for a bit, but when they mentioned that some amount of people were being killed by the maple-tree explosions that’s when I remembered what day it was.
I swear, they made it sound more plausible than I did!
RevTim, I think NPR offers a CD of their April Fool’s Day news stories. I heard the one a few years back about how the government was going to fund medical insurance for pets, and I was this close to calling my congresspeople.
On April 1 about 10 years ago, I was at work and got a call from my manager’s wife that she was going into labor. I interrupted a meeting to tell him, and he didn’t believe me. She wasn’t due for a couple weeks. They had an April Fool’s baby.
I submit to you the meanest prank I’ve heard of:
Himself is an acquaintance of a guy in our small town, who has been dating the same woman for about six years. She really wants to get married, but he doesn’t. He’s gunshy because his first wife essentially took him for every nickel he had. Nevermind that the new woman isn’t like that at all, has a good job of her own, and will inherit an enormous wealthy farm as the only child when her parents die, so she doesn’t have any need to go golddigging. All of this is widely known, small towns being what they are.
Several years ago, on April 1st, he went down on one knee and asked her to marry him. She accepted ecstatically. Then he said, “April Fool!”
I don’t know why she didn’t slay him on the spot. Worse yet, they’re still dating. She must be incredibly forgiving.
This moring I got out of bed and went into the kitchen to make the coffee when my phone rang. I picked it up, it was Mom and she asked how I was and all that. Then she said she was going through some old paperwork that belonged to my grandmother and found out something really interesting. “You know our relatives over in Germany?”, she said. “Well, we’re part Jewish. Happy Passover”.
Just when I started to identify with the holocaust victims she said “April Fools!” :smack: I should have known better after the time she told me we were related to Eva Braun. My family is weird.
I told my 8 year old niece that pretty soon her baby nose will fall off and her adult nose will grow in. She’s not 100% satisfied that it’s true but she’s still terrified. Ha-ha, what an evil uncle I am.
Maybe my mom will clear things up tonight.
Not something that happened to me, but something I did to a co-worker who was also heavily into world of warcraft and knew that i was in the closed beta … I had found out through casual conversation that she hated the blizzard WOW site and never surfed there to read up on anything, and first thing in the morning I usually played wow for a bit until I had to go to work [we both were working evening shift.]
I knew that the april fools prank blizzard was planning was to announce ‘wisps’ [the ghost form of dead elves headed back to their bodies] as the new alliance race … so I did a print screen of my dead beta test elf and cropped it so you couldnt see the ghost icon and emailed it to myself so she could see the landscape of one of the new zones … <evil grin>
It took her husband surfing to the WOW site and showing here the after-april fools announcement before she stopped believing that the wisp was the new alliance race … 
How about self-setting clocks that thought today was the begining of daylight savings time?
“You are one hour early to work! April Fools!”
Today, during an election training session for the party, our general manager came charging in, brandishing her Blackberry, and shouted, “Harper dropped the writ! We’re going to the polls on May 7!”
NPR’s finance show marketplace has a series of profiles about various careers. Today they featured a guy who was a “wallet” for an extremely wealthy man. He went on to explain that as well as cash and credit cards, he also carted around his boss’ laptop and other stuff. It sounded reasonable enough at first, and then it just got weirder and weirder. He talked about how he never knows the boss’ schedule, so if he’s ever “stolen” (his boss’ term for kidnapping) he wouldn’t be able to reveal his boss’ location. About the time he had to fill the wallet with c-notes because they were dining with Trump and the Donald refuses to handle bills in any denomination under $100. How he had to live with the boss 24/7 because if the boss wanted to buy something from Amazon at 3AM, he had the cars, or wanted to take a drive, he carried the license.
It built up to the weirdness so gradually I didn’t catch on until he mentioned that a benefit of switching careers would be that he would be able to work more than one day a year in early April.
This is from years ago, when I was at college, but I still remember it.
We had a games room in our college: mostly pinball games, a few video games, all playable for a quarter (this tells you how long ago this was). There was a machine on the wall of the games room that would change a dollar bill into four quarters.
I also knew all the folks at the campus radio station, which broadcast to a number of places; among them, the cafeteria and the games room.
So I was in the radio station one April Fool’s morning, having coffee and talking with the DJ. He had to go on the air at one point, and when he did, he calmly announced that the dollar changer in the games room was giving five quarters for a dollar.
Apparently, the dollar changer machine ran out of quarters in a half-hour. People in the games room tried it, people came from the caf to try it. But each time it did what it always did: gave four quarters for a dollar. I don’t know how many got just what the machine was designed to give, but folks kept feeding it dollar bills, because, y’know, it was on the radio and all…
Still one of the best April Fool’s pranks I remember.