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27 Mar 07 - 04:13 PM (#2008794) Subject: BS: next month's fools From: autolycus Is anyone planning any ace April fools tricks they'd care to share,(or past successes?)? I. |
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27 Mar 07 - 04:33 PM (#2008820) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: George Papavgeris I had a big success with Shambles 2 years ago (masquerading as someone on his side of some argument only to turn it round later), and he still haunts me about it. But the biggest success in recent years was Dave Bryant's Avril... He left us more than a year ago, and his legacy is great, but Avril is surely a small part of that. |
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27 Mar 07 - 04:50 PM (#2008834) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: skipy April 1st is our 18th wedding anni, our best man is a catter as well! For those of you who know my surname, try booking a honeymoon suite for April 1! Skipy |
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27 Mar 07 - 07:18 PM (#2008940) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: bubblyrat I recently spoke with the landlord of a pub in South Oxfordshire. He was complaining about the fact that he had tried to do his village a favour, by having a glass-recycling skip in the pub car-park, wherein he would dispose of the pub"s not inconsiderable amount of glass bottles, whilst providing a useful facility for his bibulous neighbours.BUT----South Oxfordshire District Council were HORRIFIED and promptly BANNED him from doing any such thing !! Why ?? Because, it seems, the official line is ,that the bottles in which you get ( wine,beer,cider,soft drinks ,) from a pub are made from a DIFFERENT KIND OF GLASS to the ones in the supermarket or off-licence !!( even if they come from the same batch, presumably ! ) . ANYWAY---he is having an official-looking sign made to this effect, with the cautionary warning that anyone buying a drink in a bottle, in that pub,in future , will be deemed to have become personally responsible for the removal and disposal of that, and any subsequent,bottle(s). This sign is going to be erected one day very soon ----but only for the day !!( Sadly !! ) |
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27 Mar 07 - 07:25 PM (#2008944) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: frogprince This takes a certain amount of nerve (or crass), but I thought of it some years ago and finally pulled it off, and got away alive, once. You have to luck out and be introduced to someone's new baby on April 1st. You look at it, look all gooey, and say, awww, that's the cutest baby I've ever seen... APRIL FOOL! |
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27 Mar 07 - 07:57 PM (#2008962) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: ClaireBear The rector of my church is considering moving all the pews to face the vestibule instead of the altar. |
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27 Mar 07 - 11:16 PM (#2009078) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: The Fooles Troupe The April Fooles Day Fooles Troupe Internet Blackout Page Well, they seem to think it is a good idea.... |
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28 Mar 07 - 10:49 AM (#2009493) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: GUEST,ib48 i normally pretend ive got a job,my landlord thinks its hilarious |
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28 Mar 07 - 11:39 AM (#2009556) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Wesley S I heard of someone who run down to the store early in the morning before his wife woke up and bought a lottery ticket with numbers that matched the previous nights winning numbers.And then asked her to check the numbers in the paper. |
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28 Mar 07 - 12:19 PM (#2009589) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: jimlad9 Skipy We are all waiting with baited breath for you or your mate to tell us what your surname is. It cannot be worse than the old english surname Veere. Now in itself thats not so bad but my father in law,now departed was a Veere. To compound the matter he was born on the 1st April 1918 and his wicked,wicked parents christened him Percy. |
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28 Mar 07 - 12:23 PM (#2009592) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: GUEST,WYS I'm not done being this month's fool quite yet. For that matter, I'm still finishing up being 2002's fool in some respects. ~S~ |
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28 Mar 07 - 07:10 PM (#2010033) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: The Fooles Troupe WYS If keep on insisting on that, The Fooles Troupe may be forced to leave here - too much competition! |
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28 Mar 07 - 08:56 PM (#2010134) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Joe_F April Fool, n. A March fool with a month added to his folly. -- Ambrose Bierce |
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29 Mar 07 - 09:38 AM (#2010613) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Amos Favorite American April Fool's jokes by the media A |
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29 Mar 07 - 01:27 PM (#2010868) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: jimlad9 I must be honest and say right away that this did not happen on the 1st April but I think it is worth repeating. On holiday in Turkey I needed a haircut. Being somewhat follically challlenged I did not want a severely short cut and so I asked the Turkish guy who was the receptionist at our hotel for the Turkish words for a light trim. He said that he would write it down for me to hand to the Barber. When I handed it to the Barber he looked confused for a moment and then he said "Why do you want to be circumcised, Sir?" The reception guy was hiding in a broom cupboard when we got back to the hotel. |
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30 Mar 07 - 02:41 AM (#2011465) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Peace 100 Top April Fools' Hoaxes of All Time. |
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30 Mar 07 - 03:17 AM (#2011479) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Peace All that aside, today the House of Commons gave first reading to a Bill that will have April Fools' Day outlawed in Canada. The Bill was first proposed about two years ago when someone announced on radio that due to the economy, any visits by the Queen of England (when she comes to Canada, she visits as the Queen of Canada) would have to be paid for by her. The announcement went on to say that she'd have to stay in a motel if the bill was going to be paid by Canadian taxpayers. That got some idiot in the Conservative Party off his feed and this is the result. I expect the Bill will pass three readings without substantial opposition. This country is getting very very strange. |
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30 Mar 07 - 04:05 AM (#2011497) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: John MacKenzie I'm going to be a spoilsport here, and say I don't find hoaxes in the least bit funny, but then I never liked practical jokes either, as most of them are cruel. G. |
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31 Mar 07 - 10:07 PM (#2012999) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Adrianel One April Fool from Belgian television in the '70s was a report on Japan's application to join the EEC. As much of the EEC's governance is in Brussels, this got the natives quite excited for a couple of days. |
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01 Apr 07 - 12:45 PM (#2013505) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Bill D Many years ago, in Wichita, Kansas, a radio station started early in the morning of April 1 introducing popular songs from their standard playlist...but what came out each time was "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano"....within a short time, people were calling in, and the DJ would take the calls on the air, affecting confusion and misunderstanding. "Why, no sir, I don't understand. That was Patti Page singing "Let Me Go, Lover"!" This went on all day...I suppose they must have played ""When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" a few hundred times, never once admitting anything. |
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01 Apr 07 - 01:45 PM (#2013580) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Charley Noble Someone very dear to me was born on April 1st and I usually just wish her "happy birthday." That's more than adequate for the occasion. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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03 Apr 07 - 06:01 PM (#2015588) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: The Fooles Troupe R.M.S Titanic commits Foolish Act Notes: Today, April 14 1912, the "unsinkable" R.M.S Titanic foolishly struck an iceberg and sank. |
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03 Apr 07 - 07:59 PM (#2015673) Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools From: Mrrzy The best has got to be the spaghetti harvest story. |