<p>One thing that happens on 1 April every year are troll posts here on CC that some people believe. As the calendar switches to the first of April in different time zones next week, be sure to apply plenty of skepticism before replying to any unusual posts you see. There have been some amazing, heart-wrenching, and totally made up stories posted around that time of year here on CC in the last few years.</p>
<p>I am new to CC, so thanks for the heads-up.</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads-up. </p>
<p>But, I was kind of hoping this was a thread of suggestions for gag gifts to send to the kid at college....</p>
<p>April Fool's Day was a big holiday at our house when the kids were smaller.</p>
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<p>I would be happy to see that kind of subject drift in this thread.</p>
<p>Wisconsin has our spring election that Tuesday, a state judge position and a few others for some. I wonder how many of those new voters on campuses who voted in the February primary to help decide the presidential candidates will bother with this one.</p>
<p>We were in the midst of our 10-day, 5-school, 3-state college visit marathon when I picked up a student paper at the college we were visiting and stuck it into my bag to read later that night. What a bizarre set of issues this college was dealing with...........took me some time to realize what day it was.</p>
<p>If you are visiting a college on April 1, do not take seriously anything written in the school newspaper that day!</p>
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<p>Good point. As I recall, the Minnesota Daily at my alma mater has a humor issue each year on April 1st.</p>
<p>Does anybody remember the furor over the George Plimpton story in Sport Illustarted on April 1, 1985. Here is a link to this classic story. Cannot believe that it was 23 years ago. Yikes, I must be getting old!!!!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.strongmemories.com/toppage8.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.strongmemories.com/toppage8.htm</a></p>
<p>Oh, yes, that's a classic sports story. My favorite is the BBC story about spaghetti. </p>
<p>I'm feeling slightly nostalgic - after 20 something years next week I can turn on the kitchen faucet on April 1st without checking to see if (yet again) someone has taped the sprayer handle down and pointed it straight out....
Sigh.</p>
<p>Yep, don't take everything at face value on April 1st.</p>
<p>Then there was the special Guardian (UK) issue on a small country called San Serif. By day's end, there were bumper stickers proclaiming that "I've been to San Serif."</p>
<p>A hearty thank you. My kiddos are a bit overdue for care packages from home but I've lacked inspiration and a winter bug has just wrung me out. Since this mom has been accused of possession a bizarre sense of humor anyway - April 1 sounds like a perfect target date to make amends. Plus the timing works just right for mailing purposes!</p>
<p>The April Fools joke that never ended:</p>
<p>I lived in the western suburbs of Chicago, where there is a tall tower in OakBrook designed by Helmut Jahn (it's famous around here). I noticed that the light caused an optical illusion on the building and caused it to appear to be leaning. This phenomenon is well known to the Greeks, who purposely put bows in the shape of columns to make them appear straight in the sunlight.</p>
<p>On April Fools day, more than a decade ago, I stopped by the "regulars" at the Dunkin Donuts and told them: "the tower's leaning. Come out and see for yourself." They did. That afternoon, the fresh spring leaves provided the darkness, and the light was just right. I fooled them all. The next day, I said to a friend that I should probably tell those old guys at the Dunkin Donuts the truth. He said not to tell them yet--besides no one would believe a girl would know that much about physics.</p>
<p>More than 5 years later, I picked up a Chicago Tribune newspaper, and there was an article claiming that engineers had done an extensive study on Helmut Jahn's building, and it was not leaning as rumors reported it to be. No mention, however, that the MIT engineers had determined it was merely sunlight.</p>
<p>Dragonmom...I have to thank you for the laugh. I passed your prank story on to my prankster D. She let me know this morning that she had indeed taped the sprayer handle down. This didn't stop me from forgetting and nailing myself but I had to leave it and my d and I were rewarded with every member of our family blasting themselves with water. DH was last and it was a doozy...ds came down stairs daid he had a headache would dad please get him a cup of water and an ibuprophine. Choking back the laughter he and I watched and I'm still laughing at the memory of the sight and sound of my husband getting an April Shower in our kitchen. Thanks a million for a great shared family memory!!!</p>
<p>^^^ you can also use a rubber band, then you don't have to deal with stickyness on the sprayer.</p>
<p>One of the best ones I did to my mom and dad when I was young, was to switch the sugar and salt in their respective holders. So they ended up putting salt in their coffee first thing in the morning... I don't think they found it too funny, but I can still remember laughing till my sides hurt... then being invisible for the rest of the day!</p>
<p>Wow! This is interesting reading.</p>
<p>Don't people know an April Fool's Day joke when they see one?</p>
<p>It was a spoof as noted further down in the article.</p>
<p>Click here:
Richard</a> Evan Schwartz</p>
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<p>Is there any truth in this?</p>