Rubes getting fooled

[Occhidiangela]

PT Barnum was right.

I bit on this April Fool's Joke. The bait offered was too tempting.

Care to share any successful and witty pranks pulled on you? Short sheeting is not clever, nor witty, when considering thresholds of quality in pranks and practical jokes. Shoes filled with shaving cream isn't either.

Occhi

[Hawkmoon]

*snicker*

I "fell" for this one - just the headline on the linking page, actually - for about a microsecond. Then I checked the posting date, and realized that it was indeed, an April Fools joke. Then, I breathed a sigh of relief!

[Drasca]

The wife of a married couple is currently pregnant, and the hubby being a professional photographer and thus a photoshop expert, doctored up their sonograms. Two heads is better than one, fooling everyone (including me) into believing they're going to have twins.

[ShadowHM]

This one didn't get me, only because I was too lazy to consider going through the effort involved.

Brother Laz report of new game bug

[Kylearan]

Hi,

Care to share any successful and witty pranks pulled on you?

Almost nobody I know does this anymore. I guess most people are too lazy to think much about it, which is too bad - I love April Fool's jokes, even if I am the one falling for them.

The prime time news magazine on TV had a nice one this year: They had a long report (nearly 10 out of the 30 minutes) about an expensive UN project that tries to make the equator visible to man. They showed how some people in Brasilia used yellow paint to mark the line through the rain forest ("often, they would hit natural obstacles like trees"), and they had an interview with a ship crew putting buoys into the ocean ("the UN wanted them to be blue, but that wouldn't have been visible enough in the water"). That was very funny, and well done.


I have a very close friend who I like to pull pranks on each year. She's the perfect target: I see her often enough to know what's on her mind in every-day life, and she still believes most of what I say, despite having fooled her so often. Three years ago, we had her cat at our home for two weeks while she was on vacation, and on April 1st I called her and asked if she had a good insurance. I told her that her cat had peed on the power connector at my desktop, and that the resulting power surge had killed my computer ("smoke is coming out of the case!"). She became very nervous.


Last year, she and her husband were building a new house. One of the reasons for moving was that her current home had been located in the flight corridor of a nearby major airport, disturbing them in their sleeps every night. Now I told her I had read in the newspaper that the airport had finally listened to all the complaints about the noise, and would change the flight corridor - and that their new home would be in it again! I had also read that the village where they built their house was preparing a petition against it, and that she should call the town hall immediately and ask for further information. She was already dialling the number when her husband came home and realized the correlation between my story and the date...too bad.


This year I was sick on that day, so she got spared. Next year, however...

-Kylearan

[Kylearan]

Hi,

This one didn't get me, only because I was too lazy to consider going through the effort involved.

Nice story! But as someone in that thread has mentioned already, it's not fun trying to tell people an April Fool's joke is not an April Fool's joke. If it's too obvious, you better come up with something more believable next time!

-Kylearan