I don't particulaly like April Fools Day. Everyone always assumes you're full of crap. It's a day where you have to assume anyone who tells you anything, is setting you up. But I now realize that this caution I get over April 1st stems over an incident I was a part of as a child:
I was home from middle school with my bowl of CherriO's and all ready to watch RoboTech and finish up my sugar induced high with some Speed Racer and kimba cartoons, when the phone rang. My sister Diane was calling, sounding a mite frantic. She tells me she needs for me to call our mom, because she at the hospital with a broken ankle, that mysteriously happened at school.
But hey, I'm no fool!! I know it's april first, and Diane wasn't above fooling me. She has successfully in the past. But y'know what? I'm a pre-teen now! I can make my own midday cerial! She ain't putting this one over on me! And I promtly told her "yeah right..." and hung up...
And hours later she came home on crutches and a cast on her leg.
April 1st is the only day where paranoia is actually encouraged. You tell people something, and they automatically assume you're setting them up as a fool. And somehow, we're all supposed to be good natured about this. You made an idiot out of me in public, gimmie a hug you funny funny guy! You're hidious prank has caused me great anguish and cracmed my tailbone...but you say it's april fools day? Well then, touche' my good man! My inner scarring of not trusting you for the chance of a not so astonishing jest will be a padge i'll wear most proudly.
Besides, it's more of a challange to do this any other day, with dry wit and penosh ;)
I propose we change April first from playing pranks on people, to just sneaking up and kicking them on the ass. Anyone can do that without too much prep work. Even the humorless can get in on the fun. And when would you get the chance to put the boot to someone who would otherwise either fire you, or place their fist to your face?
Oh, and you wanna know how to pull a good joke? Back on 12/21/06, I wrote the blog "Pull The String", and it started with the following:
Someone at my work reminded me of this story, and dammit, it would have been absolutly perfect to tell this tale on Halloween! It's weird. it's spoooky. It's true. And it's very much like a henwhey.
According to my sitemeter, 34 people read that post, and that line. Kinda cool, since I really don't know that many people...but NO one asked me, "Whats a Henwhey?"
So, whats a Henwhey?
About two pounds. (rimshot)
I was home from middle school with my bowl of CherriO's and all ready to watch RoboTech and finish up my sugar induced high with some Speed Racer and kimba cartoons, when the phone rang. My sister Diane was calling, sounding a mite frantic. She tells me she needs for me to call our mom, because she at the hospital with a broken ankle, that mysteriously happened at school.
But hey, I'm no fool!! I know it's april first, and Diane wasn't above fooling me. She has successfully in the past. But y'know what? I'm a pre-teen now! I can make my own midday cerial! She ain't putting this one over on me! And I promtly told her "yeah right..." and hung up...
And hours later she came home on crutches and a cast on her leg.
April 1st is the only day where paranoia is actually encouraged. You tell people something, and they automatically assume you're setting them up as a fool. And somehow, we're all supposed to be good natured about this. You made an idiot out of me in public, gimmie a hug you funny funny guy! You're hidious prank has caused me great anguish and cracmed my tailbone...but you say it's april fools day? Well then, touche' my good man! My inner scarring of not trusting you for the chance of a not so astonishing jest will be a padge i'll wear most proudly.
Besides, it's more of a challange to do this any other day, with dry wit and penosh ;)
I propose we change April first from playing pranks on people, to just sneaking up and kicking them on the ass. Anyone can do that without too much prep work. Even the humorless can get in on the fun. And when would you get the chance to put the boot to someone who would otherwise either fire you, or place their fist to your face?
Oh, and you wanna know how to pull a good joke? Back on 12/21/06, I wrote the blog "Pull The String", and it started with the following:
Someone at my work reminded me of this story, and dammit, it would have been absolutly perfect to tell this tale on Halloween! It's weird. it's spoooky. It's true. And it's very much like a henwhey.
According to my sitemeter, 34 people read that post, and that line. Kinda cool, since I really don't know that many people...but NO one asked me, "Whats a Henwhey?"
So, whats a Henwhey?
About two pounds. (rimshot)
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