Top 10 April Fools

[Hosakawa Tito]

A few of my favorites played at work from Fool's Day past:

Smear Icy Hot, a clear gel used for relief of sore muscles, on all the toilet seats in the Administration building (ladies included), especially the Superintendent's exclusively private commode.

The Captain's secretary keeps a bowl of "Jelly Belly" jelly beans on her desk. Our free-loading Captain grabs a handful on his way through her office to his every morning. I laced the bowl(after getting permission from her) with some "unusual flavors" that Jelly Belly puts out; Sardine, Vomit, and Booger. For some reason Herr Capitan don't like free jelly beans anymore.

A friend who just made Lieutenant has been coming in early to do PT with the DI's. He's about as scrawny a guy as I've ever met. After a couple of months he's been bragging about how ripped he's getting. So one morning while the Hulk is working out, I come in early and head down to the Quarter Master's supply room. We requisition a XX-SMALL Lieutenant's uniform, and borrowing the locksmith's master-locker key, we switch out our Hero's uniform with the XXS. Man, he's right, he is getting bigger.

Fortunately for my colleagues, I'm off on da Fools Day this year.

[Lemur]

Another kinda funny one. Pirate Bay gets a permanent hosting deal from North Korea.

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Finally a permanent solution for the hosting.

Today we announce that we're moving some of our servers to the North-Korean Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.

After lenghty discussions with the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Il we have decided to start a cooperation.

Some of the reasons are the extremely good bandwidth agreement we get - redundant fibre links, redundant power with diesel to last for four years makes the colocation a very good deal for us.

We are also promised immunity against foreign copyright holders and all of the crew will get North Korean citizenships.

"One of the reasons that we're doing the move is also that the Swedish King still haven't granted us a visit with his daughter. This ignorance towards the cultural benefits of having a site like The Pirate Bay can not be ignored." says Tiamo, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay.

We would like to thank Kim Jong-Il for the opportunity and we would like all of our users to review their current feelings towards this great nation!

[Lemur]

According to the Economist, the Finns are the most enthusiastic April foolers. Unless the article is another April 1 joke ... oooh, the paranoia is getting to me. It's kind of like The Matrix, but without the squid robots, the virtual world or the human gel capsules. Or the hot babes in vinyl catsuits. Or the soundtrack. But beyond that, it's exactly the same.

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Fools' paradise

Apr 1st 2007 | HELSINKI, MALABO AND PARIS
Finland leads the world in weird sports and pranks

THE Finns like a laugh. Famous for an annual wife-carrying competition, for regular success at the world air-guitar championship and record-breaking hurling of rubber boots and mobile phones, Finland can now claim another accolade: its citizens are reportedly the world’s keenest pranksters. Celebrated for a full week at the beginning of April in the capital, Helsinki, and for weeks at a time in rural areas, the traditional “spring joke” in Finland has been raised to a national art form.

This long involved young men trying to catch the eye of women, typically by donning fancy dress (in the cold war a favourite was the garb of Soviet border guards) or through good-natured abduction—often in combination. More recently motorists have learned to watch for fake road-safety signs, which frequently cause springtime gridlock and collisions. Diplomats are increasingly wary of water-bomb attacks at functions—one thin-lipped European ambassador lodged a protest after being drenched in 2005. Even political leaders indulge. In 2003 the government apologised after stating that Finland wanted Sweden expelled from the European Union during a row about pickled herring.

But Finland’s enthusiasm is not unique. Dr Is Poli-Savon, an anthropologist at the Paris-based Fairpooll Foundation, says that in many countries fooling is seen as a celebration of the end of winter. “In modern societies it serves as a rare chance for semi-subversive behaviour within safely defined parameters”, he says. Polls conducted by his team of researchers suggest that, despite suspicions to the contrary, many different cultures do share a common sense of humour.

A surprising number of German adults take part in April Fooling, along with many French (see chart) who mark “poisson d’avril” by sticking paper fish on each others’ backs. Most Iranian jokers choose April 3rd, the 13th day of the Persian calendar, for mild joking. But not absolutely everyone sees the funny side. Adults in Equatorial Guinea, an oil-rich speck of a country in west Africa, are reportedly the least inclined to find anything to chuckle about. Fooling by anyone over the age of 13 years recently became a criminal offence, with exceptions only for the president and his extended family.

[Kanamori]

You forgot about guns and swords and secret agents with viruses.

[zelda12]

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/...047565,00.html

"Tony Blair has agreed to resurrect his interest in acting when he leaves Number 10 after he was approached about a major stage role by his close friend, the artistic director of the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey, The Observer can reveal."

"Some MPs have, however, expressed concern. One senior cabinet minister, who did not wish to be named, said: 'An ambassador arrived at Number 10 the other day to find Tony dressed like a Puritan, waving a crucifix in the air and shouting about chasing out the devil. Fortunately the ambassador had studied The Crucible at UCL.'"

I do hope it was an April fools.