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[apocalypsos]

Well, it's nice to see that I'm not the only one who despises this unholy of unholy days. Maybe it's because I'm gullible on Olympic levels, I don't know.

Everybody else is threatening violence for pranks. I, however, am threatening wish fulfillment. You want to tell me you're pregnant? I'll show you what I learned from that book my mom got me for Christmas, "How To Win Friends and Magically Inseminate the Unsuspecting." Want to tell me you're not feeling well and you think your appendix has burst? Finally, a reason to use all that knowledge I gleaned from "ER" reruns! Heard a rumor the President's been assassinated? Give me twenty minutes, cab fare and a two-by-four and I'll go check.

So, yeah. My hatred of April Fool's Day knows no bounds.

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[aint2nuts.livejournal.com]

I love April Fools. I played a joke on my kids. Told them they weren't going to school. My son got worried though, since he is in testing all week. He was afraid he would have to make up the testing on Friday and he got worried. At that point, I felt pretty darn bad. He laughed when he found out it was April 1st though.

I think my daughters were just happy there was no school.

[cleobourne.livejournal.com]

/me runs to add post to her memories

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

I hate April Fools day because it's my birthday. It's not that I hate my birthday, it's that I hate that people always say something like "Boy your parents sure must have been fooled"

Yeeeeah... no one's thought of THAT one before.

Fuckers.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

My parents's wedding anniversary is tomorrow. At the time they got married, my mom was a little over three months pregnant with me. I consider myself lucky no one has ever asked me if I was the April Fools's joke.

Oh, and happy birthday. :)

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

My brother was due on December 24th, several years ago (and managed to be two weeks late and over 13.5lb, the little fucker) but anyway, my parents were doing calculations to figure out when Mom had conceived, and they noticed something interesting.

For a baby to have been born on December 25th, it should have been conceived on May 1st.

One suspects God of having the last laugh.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

April 1st. I swear I typed April 1st.

It makes more sense that way.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I mean, surely you've heard the old traditional British poem?

Hooray, hooray, the First of May!
Outdoor shagging starts today!

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Heh, no, I've never heard that.

But I bring quotage. Adolescence of P-1 by Thomas J. Ryan. The main character and his girlfriend have sex... oh, some distance from the actual road. The author tells us the details are left to our imaginations, but then adds,

"The details weren't left the imaginations of the occupants of the two cars that stopped to watch along the road winding through the valley below them. Gregory waved feebly to them as he rested. They waved back. It was a momentary source of wonder to him: the detail the naked eye could perceive at a distance of half a mile."

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

My mom and I did a little figuring once, and for me to have been due on September 26th that year (both me and my brother were three days late, though), she would have had to conceive on Christmas night. I was a late present. :)

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Aww, cuteness... *grins*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I loathe April Fool's Day. When I was nine, and my dad was the coach of my softball team, he sat me down one fine Saturday (April 1) and told me, completely straight-faced, that he'd traded me to another team. I'd have to turn in my jersey and go to their practices and I couldn't even talk to my "former" teammates. He kept this up until I started crying.

I am cataloguing movie news sites' AF jokes on my blog, though.

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan. It's just mean-spirited, and I never got the knack of pranks. So much effort... so little pay-off.

I already had a friend tell me she's pregnant, and it's only 10 am. Rar.

Right there with you

[kakoshen.livejournal.com]

I have never and will never understand how willfully deceiving people is supposed to be funny. Fooey to the whole idea.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Dude. I basically just switched off my mobile phone and hid until well after noon. It's the only sensible option.

No, it's not cowardly. It's intelligent. Intelligence and cowardice are a long way apart.

And it worked. Cowardice involves failure (if you succeed through cowardice, it's not cowardice. It's cunning). So I'm clever, and safe, and un-joked.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to call off of work because I know I'm going to get pranked and I know exactly who's going to do it. What Lieutenant Asshat is going to do is subject to debate, but it's going to happen.

*sigh* I suppose I'll just slog through the day, then pacify myself with liquor or porn or something come tonight.

Oh, wait, we get our paychecks today. *eye roll* Okay, now I know what's going to happen.

[akacat]

I've heard Bush has been assassinated. You can bill me for the cab fare.

*waits*

[azurelunatic]

Now you've just gone and disappointed us!

Tom Foolery

[theliel.livejournal.com]

April Fool's, near as i can tell, relates to the story of Tom Fool.

the fucker ot pranked people into committing suicide.
so yha, it's a mean spirited tradition living on. my part: i loathe this day with a passion unkown to most mortals. and if i could i'd just deal with it in the same fashion one usually deals with naughty mosquitos or the goddamn asian ladybugs(biting smegtards)

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Aw, I like April Fool's. :) Last year, I wrote a Spike/Riley slash story and posted it in the LJ (me, the really doesn't get slash poster child - it was amusing).

This year, I made up funky, fake panels for writercon. Good fun!

And, of course, the preteen had to score off me this morning with "Your shoelace is untied, Mom". Heh. Wouldn't be April 1 without that. :)

[ampersand.livejournal.com]

Actually, the origin of April Fool's Day had to do with a calendar change, if I remember right - people who went around insisting that April 1 was still the first day of the new year were "April Fools" and could be played tricks upon because they were not so bright. ... Of course, this could be my brain being weird on me.

I don't play pranks. I'm too lazy. Good pranks involve too much effort, both in the setup and the ensuring that nobody actually gets hurt.

[acetal.livejournal.com]

Thanks what I remember too.

Quite frankly, April Fools Day always annoys me. Sure, there are some neat stunts some people do that are amusing and harmless, but there's always someone who thinks it's amusing to pretend to have commited suicide, joined the army, gone to Russia and been conscripted into the army, or something else. Particularly on the internet where you can't actually reach across and smack someone upside the head.

Plus I live in New Zealand. It's already well into April 2nd here by the time people in the U.S. even think of doing something.

[azurelunatic]

You have to admit that my giving Darkside a Spotted Dick will be hilarious.

I mean ... innuendo, giggles, and PUDDING! ...well, ok, cake. I cheated.

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

It means my flist is being spammed.

God damn it.