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April Fool’s Jokes, Anyone?

Posted by DFO

March 31, 2009 5:25 p.m. • 15 comments

At the Seattle P-I’s Big Blog, blogmistress Monica Guzman shares several ideas from readers re: April Fool’s Day pranks, including: “Put a package of cookies in a trash can. As people walk by, pull out a cookie, and say “Wow, a perfectly good cookie!” Then eat it.” And: “I set my co-worker’s Microsoft Word auto-correct feature to change “the” to “teh” and “a” to “an” as she typed.” Remember: Tomorrow’s April 1.

Question: What is the best April Fool’s Day prank that you’ve pulled?

15 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

sibulsky on March 31 at 5:51 p.m.
I was the tour leader for the CDA Youth Orchestra’s 2001 tour of Southern California…45 high school musicians from all over North Idaho
We’d spent the previous day at Disneyland…and a day and evening doing ‘musical stuff’. During the long bus ride back to Anaheim from Northridge everyone was tired, but looking forward to the next day at Universal Studios. It was April first…I was sitting in the front of the bus and took the Tour Guide microphone.

“Congratulations everyone” I said, “you did a great job with our joint performance with the Northridge Youth Orchestra. In fact, their conductor was so impressed with your performance, that he’s arranged through some friends for a special treat. Instead of Universal Studios tomorrow, we’re going to get a personal guided tour of Yanni’s house!” (1-one thousand, 2-one thousand, 3-one thousand, as groans and moans rolled through the bus)….April Fool!!
hhuseland on March 31 at 6:35 p.m.
This isn’t an April Fool joke, but April 1 marks the 9th anniversary of the day I had my last cigartte, and that’s no joke! Cold Turkey it was. I relapsed twice or so in my dreams while sleeping but never in reality.
Bent on March 31 at 6:46 p.m.
Good for you Herb. I have 1 year and 5 months smoke free…
Cindy_H on March 31 at 7:20 p.m.
Last year, I very seriously announced at the dinner table that it looked like we’d have another member of the family in seven months.
My husband and the teenagers were disbelieving, amused and relieved in that order.
My nine-year-old cried.
Who knew he’d been praying for a baby brother since Christmas?
cantyoureadthesigns on March 31 at 7:41 p.m.
Spaghetti Harvest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI
Arch_Druid on March 31 at 8:01 p.m.
My oldest brother is my mother’s April fool’s joke, since he was born on that day. Poor guy.
Don_Sausser on March 31 at 8:51 p.m.
Yes Steve, I was there and remember the “Yanni” April fool joke, but I don’t think many of the youngsters even knew who Yanni was!
JohnA on March 31 at 10:31 p.m.
I told someone today that it was going to be very sunny and warm tomorrow. :)

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.