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From: Magot
Date: 03-28-2006, 03:25 PM (1 of 13)
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One of my favourite was this: In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room. I have perpetrated a couple of April fools day moments myself - one of my faves was making agar/jelly hands in examination gloves and inserting them into the mens urinals at a lab where I worked. Not a patch on my friend Martin who mocked up a poo sample out of chocolate Angel Delight when he was working at the Public Health Laboratories and proceeded to taste it half way through the morning. Anyone else? love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
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From: Bama
Date: 03-28-2006, 05:17 PM (2 of 13)
A couple of years ago on April Fool's Day, hubby and I told our kids that I was going to have another baby.  Funny how they used to beg me to have another one until they hit their teens.  My sister got her drivers license on April Fool's Day when she was 16. Our mother kept kidding her that it wasn't a real license and she'd have to take the test again. She sent my sister to the store for something and about 15 minutes later she came walking up the driveway and said that the car had broke down. Mother walked about a half a mile back to the car with her and my sis said "April Fool". I remember mother laughing about it. I think I would have been mad. 
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 03-28-2006, 09:18 PM (3 of 13)
I met my husband on April Fools day, 1974...enough said... 
Chrys
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From: esrun3
Date: 03-28-2006, 09:47 PM (4 of 13)
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Jan, you've got me rolling on the floor laughing at the hands!! I dont' tend to pull practical jokes but my eldest was due on April 1. Thankfully he was 2 weeks late! Lyn
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User: esrun3
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From: dmoses
Date: 03-29-2006, 07:50 AM (5 of 13)
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I don't usually think about it until it is too late, but one year, I got ahead of the game. I tacked underwear together, accordion-like, so that when they grabbed the top pair, all of their undies trailed along behind them. It was kinda funny.
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Member since: 02-22-2002 Total posts: 964 
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From: Magot
Date: 03-29-2006, 09:32 AM (6 of 13)
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Lyn, My daughter WAS born on April 1st! love and kisses, Jan
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From: esrun3
Date: 03-29-2006, 11:06 PM (7 of 13)
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Jan, the pranks and jokes that brings to mind. I was so glad my son was late because I could just see him being pranked every birthday! In fact, when I went to birthing classes everyone laughed when I said he was due April 1-and they were adults! LOL
Lyn
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From: Kaitlinnegan
Date: 03-29-2006, 11:36 PM (8 of 13)
The anniversary of my engagement is on April 1.  Lots of people didn't believe it until April 2.I also have to learn all of the fun equipment at the opthamology clinic in the morning April 1 -- I wonder if anyone will try anything funny! We've got some clowns in my class. http://www.sew-whats-up.com - the new home for Sew What's New
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User: Kaitlinnegan
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From: Magot
Date: 03-30-2006, 10:13 AM (9 of 13)
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Mnay years ago - o best beloved - I worked at the Building Research Establishment on wood rotting fungi,(my life is full). There were also many entymologists at this institute who had the happy task of testing insecticides on Termites. Often they would impregnate the wood with the chemical and introduce fat, happy, termite larvae into a large sweetie jar with the wood sample. Little air holes were pricked in the top to let the darlings breath while the munched. One day, whilst strolling past the incubators I noticed small, flying insects buzzing around the place. I examined said creatures and memorising their features went to talk to an entymologist upstairs. I descibed the creature and upon being asked where I had seen such things I replied "they are all over the corridor downst..." She leapt from her chair as an arrow from the bow and burst from the room yelling "TERMITE" at the top of her lungs. Lab doors were flung open up and down the corridor and a stampede of white coated,flapping, frenzied scientists ran down the stairs and began slapping the walls and stamping on the floor in desperation to destroy every last emergent adult. An opportunity was born. April 1st saw me sellotaping cut out ladybirds, resplendant in red and black, to the wall and doors of the downstairs corridor. About 50 of the bugs adorned the area. Casually I went back upstairs to my entymologists friends office. "Do you know, There are beetles all over the corridor downstairs" I said, innocently. After the herd of rampaging scientist headed down the stairs I hastened my way out of the labs and ran for the wood store to hole up until the coast was clear. Strangely, I have no memory of anybody saying anything to me about the incident...... My finest Hour. love and kisses, Jan
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From: swartzrn
Date: 03-30-2006, 10:55 AM (10 of 13)
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I have a cousin who's b'day is 01 April....he always caught it b/c of his b'day..April is always a busy month--my parent's b'days are both in April, my MIL's b'day in April and my b'day is in April..also know some little one's who have b'day's in April. Next month, we'll be gearing up for my little's 2nd b'day--10 May!
Julie
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User: swartzrn
Member since: 02-17-2006 Total posts: 436 
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From: CodyGramma
Date: 03-31-2006, 08:54 AM (11 of 13)
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My kids would get me with this one EVERY year....I am such a sucker! They would put a rubber band around the spray nozzle on the kitchen sink and aim it appropriately so that when I came up and turned the faucet on I got it straight in the face!!! I would also get fooled good by a co-worker each year, so one year I got him good with a dandy that is too long to go into,(it had to do with his position at work and a letter I made look VERY real!) but the next year, when he was looking out the window at work and told me there was a black bear outside, I started to get up and then remembered what day it was so sat back down and told him he wasn't going to get me this time! He finally convinced me to get up and look and when I did I got to see the back end of the bear rounding a corner of a building across the street! Now that I am no longer working and my kids are grown up and gone...April 1st is just another day for me! LOL |
User: CodyGramma
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From: pucktricks
Date: 03-31-2006, 11:49 AM (12 of 13)
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I never really pulled any good ones, but my brother one year dummied up a detention slip for some reason or other. He had my Mom freaking out and everyone was quite put out, until they realized it couldn't possibly be real. Ticia |
User: pucktricks
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 570 
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 03-31-2006, 12:40 PM (13 of 13)
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I used to have a 3 month a year job doing Income taxes.. The co. owner had a wonderful sense of humor.. every year on April 1, when someone came back from lunch, there was a message with a phone number and said 'call this number , they have a box for you' and of course the number was a "casket" co. Mellinnee would hide around the corner and just bend double laughing...We all got more from watching her laughing than the poor butt of the joke...
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