Such a basic, childish one but harmless.
When I was 10, I called my elderly Granny and said that someone had called our house looking for her.
I said he’d left his name, a Mr. C Lyon. And that it was to speak about an order of fish.
Gave her the local zoo’s phone number.
Next time I saw her she gave me a pretend skelp and called me a cheeky monkey.
Simpler times.
When my partner and I were about to complete on our first house, we had an issue with searches that a gabian wall in the garden didn't look solid. She was always a little worried about it.
April 1st rolls around so I whip up a very obviously fake email from April I, our new estate agent, telling us the wall had fallen during the night.
I sent it, we had a nice little laugh. The wall collapsed on April 2nd. We laughed a lot less.
My parents called my grandparents on April 1st to tell them that their first grandchild had arrived the evening before.
My grandmother laughed and hung up.
That was more than 40 years ago and I was born 3 weeks early 🙃
I have a friend who is just one of those people that end up in mad situations, been in the papers a couple of times, been in movies, talks his way backstage to party with celebs etc.
Rang his mum up on 1st of April to say he was a dad. Haha Hehe very funny mate.
Turns out he was telling the truth.
The thing was he still lived with his mum and kept it secret the whole time. For no reason.
My cousin did this to my uncle and aunt. Except there was the added "bonus" that the new arrival was airlifted to a bigger hospital, as that was the best place for a baby as premature as her.
This happened in Australia, where distances between hospitals are a bit bigger.
About three years ago my friend put on Facebook the street he lives on had installed a speed camera. It was very believable as it was a very long busy road and a few months prior had installed speed bumps due to numerous reports of speeding and minor accidents happening.
I didn’t believe him, he sent me a photo where he photoshopped a camera just outside his house. He told me to come have a look, so I did after work, it was dark by the time I left work. Couldn’t see anything then boom a flash in my rear view mirror. I was like wtf messaged him I’ve been done by it for speeding.
It was him hiding in his garden with a camera lol.
today my dad sent me a picture of when it had snowed in my hometown going "I can't believe we woke up to this today!"
he got me for about 10 seconds until I realised the date
My dad played the ultimate prank and decided to die on April 1st.
My brother texted me to let me know, and it was one of those texts that decided to get stuck and resent, so I woke up to about 50 texts saying "dad's dead"
To be honest, totally expected.
To be fair my dad would be thrilled to have is death announced by a seemingly unending chorus of text message chimes, each one matter-of-factly stating his demise.
About 20 years ago when the internet was just taking off.
I went to the pound shop and bought a cheap laurel and hardy statue (back then the pound shop actually sold everything for a pound) .
I printed off a fake invoice/receipt for their £500 statue and a "certificate of authenticity" along with a letter thanking them for their purchase and that they have signed up to a subscription service and would get another "comedy greats" statue every month for the discounted price of only £400.
This letter had lots of clues that it was a wind up and from me.
It had my mobile phone number.
A made up email address something like "[email protected]".
My address (I just missed the town off but included the postcode)
The date was 1st April.
The product reference code was "gotchafoolapril1"
I parcelled all this up and posted it to my Uncle to arrive on 1st April.
I was expecting a phone call or even an e-mail however there was no word.
It turned out that he completely missed the clues, so he froze his bank account and cancelled his credit cards.
My aunt was on holiday visiting relatives in Ireland at the time and she was left with no money for 4 days untill a new account and cards could be sorted out.
It took me several years before I owned up , simply because he was always going on and on about internet safety and how he almost got ripped off.
To be fair. If I read I had paid 500 quid for something would be check my back for the transaction and then probably re read the letter and figure it out from the email
That's a good point. He did say over 20 years ago so definitely wasn't a thing. So it would have been easier to cancel everything via the phone then risk more money possibly disappearing. You are absolutely right
The fact you were talking about this being 20 years ago, I was like “damn the pound shop has been around for ages, £1 must be worth like £20 now days” realised I was a teenager and going to the Poundland, and 20 years ago isn’t a long time now.
We've lost 2 TV's to kids on the last 4 years. My wife was up with the kids this morning and found a YouTube video which makes the TV look like it's been smashed.
Thankfully my reaction was to put my head in my hands, and not to instinctively punt my youngest out of the window.
Got me though, in fairness.
I saw that done with someone in vr. While they’re in the headset put a hard surface like a tea tray in front of their hand so they punch it, then they remove the headset to be greeted with that broken screen. Genius.
My parents' village is currently locked in a debate around having a 20mph speed limit and has been for some months.
The parish council clerk today posted on Facebook that they're set to become *the first village in [region] to trial being a car free community*.
My local area FB page announced they (small area) were merging with Nearby (much larger area). There was a poor attempt at photoshop but some people probably still believed it.
Back in the 90’s, our local newspaper did the same thing. It was just a once weekly paper and just happened to be published on the 1st that year.
They had an article that the local council was merging our town with a nearby town as they were expanding closer and closer with each new housing development.
It was a big two page spread. It was hilarious.
And for the next couple of issues they had to print large retraction articles as loads of people took it too seriously.
I know what must of the comments would be.
1. It's bad for cars to go so slow.
2. Cars going slow cause more pollution.
3. How are children going to learn road safety if they don't see fast cars?
Hotel Chocolat sent an email about a rainforest type thing they were going to do in Cambridgeshire, with chocolate infused rain and whatnot. I clicked the email because I thought it wasn't that far fetched - we have the Eden Project in Cornwall after all!
I'll admit I didn't read the email properly - never do - and didn't notice the "pick your own chocolates grown from the cacao tree" bit which would've made it slightly more obvious it was an April fools joke. But now I'm just sad I won't get to stomp about in chocolate rain puddles.
The best one for me will always be the BBC one about the flying penguins. I genuinely fell for it for a good while because I just never expected an organisation like the BBC to play a joke like this. Wasn’t on my radar at all. And it’s just brilliantly done.
https://youtu.be/9dfWzp7rYR4?feature=shared
For the longest time all media organisations had a bit of fun running fake but almost believable news stories, the BBC included. It was like they were all trying to see who could get one past their readers/viewers etc. They wouldn't even let on to it until the next day.
I remember when the London Eye was being built, there was a period of time in Spring when it lay horizontal on the Thames before being hoisted up into its vertical position. One of the national news outlets (I forget which, could have been BBC) reported that a ferris wheel was too complicated and that we would now have the Millennium Merry-Go-Round!!
There was a post using that photo recently that it was on a lease and had been taken down to go back to France. A Norwegian friend of mine was sad she would never see it again
I remember one of the big morning shows (Lorraine maybe) said a new diet pill was coming out that would help shed stones in days. A lot of people were furious that it was an April Fools! It was so obvious as well haha
Every year I remember the time [Rock FM in Preston told listeners the QE2 would be visiting.](https://mikewhalleyblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/the-strangest-april-fool-joke-i-ever-heard/). There's some charm to the fact that nor only did people turn up, but the radio did go down and interview people. The funniest thing is as the article says "how disappointed would you be if you were on the QE2 and were told you are docking at Preston".
RIP Rock FM. Hadn't listened to them in a while - probably since they left Preston.
But why hits Radio Lancashire? Surely going back to red rose radio would have been better?
Invicta FM did one in the 90s where they said some old shipwreck had begun spewing cash on to a beach front (memory is hazy, somewhere on the south coast). The joke went a bit far because traffic was gridlocked by people rushing to the coast to grab some of this “cash”
Back around 1976, I attended the local primary school (Cookridge in Leeds). The class teacher, who was very popular to us seven year olds, was called “Mr Doyle”.
I still have fond memories of Mr Doyle but one day, he announced he was leaving the school and this would be the last we saw of him. The entire class cried and cried. He had to explain it was an April Fool Joke.
Part of the mental baggage I carry.
He may have inadvertently damaged the mental health of a class of children.
Edit: when the year was over the class was gutted that Mr Doyle wasn’t going to be our teacher the following year.
Back in the 80s I went all around our house in the early hours of April 1st putting all the clocks and watches one hour forward.
Dad got to work nice and early as my younger brother stood outside the newsagents waiting patiently for the papers to be delivered so he could do his round. At 5.00 am.
I covered a batch of hard boiled eggs in chocolate and wrapped them in cream egg wrappers in 2018, when April fools was on Easter Sunday. That went down SO well with the family that I think I'm going to leave the country for the next one!!
Do you think it’d be a step too far to do this with vinegar eggs? If you leave an egg in vinegar the shell dissolves until you have a translucent, held together, quite bouncy, but completely uncooked egg. Imagine thinking you’re biting into a chocolate egg but it’s just a raw egg.
Yeah I’ve talked myself out of it. It’s a bit too far.
As someone who loves creme eggs and obsessed with it, this would make me immediately cut off contact with someone who decides to traumatise me with eggy chocolate taste
Evil
Helped a friend move apartment last year. Left behind in a cupboard was a box of CDs and a lot of them were homemade music compilations. I found a blank one and wrote on it with a sharpie. “15 Bitcoin” and slotted it back in amongst them. He found it about an hour later and he went crazy with excitement. He was devastated to find it was empty. I felt bad
I asked my friend if he did anything with the CD, he said he put it in a car boot sale. Said the bloke that bought it for £1 quickly got in his car and shot off home.
Dad told me to to come upstairs in the morning, knock on the bedroom door and ask my Mom why the tv and vcr player had gone?
I did, she jumped out of bed, flew down the stairs, into the living room , didn’t see the little side table that had been left out, tripped over it, hit the deck and my dad behind her shouting April fools
When my dad saw her face his face dropped, my mom had a bloody nose and bit her lip so hard it drew blood
TV and VCR stood there untouched
It’s the sole reason I don’t play pranks, and probably the third angriest I’ve ever seen my mom
It’s still a sore subject now 30 years later
I got Suspended from school for selling cigarettes
I think the angriest is my dad pushing her in a swimming pool when she was fully clothed on the way back to the hotel
It’s a miracle she hasn’t divorced/maimed/murdered him, yet.
Ha we are, you have to be able to be able to be made fun of in my family or you won’t survive it’s just what we do, occasionally the line gets crossed but it’s always in good spirits
Paulton's Park had a good one with a Blue Flamingo this year.
https://twitter.com/PaultonsPark/status/1774693432180531410?t=j3Q0ttmfoM9gHWhKCHCMYg&s=19
My wife told me she was pregnant with our unexpected 4th child on April the first. How I laughed.
Who laughing now when a 3 year old comes into our room at 6am saying they’ve poo’d themselves after eating a whole chocolate egg and family bag of gummy worms.
A couple years ago I devised a plan to slightly annoy a co-worker of mine. Every morning the management teams got together to discuss what was going on in the building for the day.
I told everyone it was this co-workers birthday. Told all the residents of the building it was her birthday. All day she was receiving happy birthdays, we even through her a little party, got her some gifts. She was mildly annoyed most of the day but I did enjoy myself.
When I was a kid my mum told us to wake up dad saying we’d woken up from a loud bang from the garage. Mum immediately said “oh god I hope the ladder hasn’t fallen on the car”… not long before he’d put hooks on the garage wall and hung the ladder up, and he was so precious about his car that always had to be in the garage (mum had to park on the drive). The look on his face as he ran out into the garage was priceless. He’s not easily pranked but that one was brilliant.
When I was probably around 8 or 9 I stayed at a friend's the night before April 1st (great idea from the parents). Needless to say we did the usual cling film over toilet bowl, scribbled in the newspaper, that kind of thing - which was all discovered so didn't trick anyone for a satisfying April fools. However, we'd also taped the light switch inside the fridge down so it wouldn't come on. My friends mum freaked the fuck out thinking the fridge had broken and demanding to know if we turned it off. We then revealed the April fools and had won the day. Felt like Kings at aged 8 or 9.
This reminds me of a prank a colleague played on a quite eccentric guy with a tendency for profanity we used to work with.
He taped down the receiver button on his desk phone, so when he answered it, it just carried on ringing. Unfortunately for the pranker, his reaction to the target's swearing and banging the handset on the desk gave himself away, resulting in a torrent of abuse.
Fascinating horror YouTube channel (it’s not actually horror) did a very good video
https://youtu.be/MTGUwBsAfbQ?si=eJHl3D4X6qvZR_zD
About the glass tower disaster, took us a while to realise it was a video pretending the towering inferno was real. No excuse because last year it was a video about the amity shark attacks…
Koi Footwear nearly got me this morning, mainly due to my disappointment at possibly not being able to buy their shoes any more.
Their email said that they were merging to become a 100% a petting zoo in Manchester (something to do with their line of cute animal shoes) and I was like "what!?! Noooooooo" for about a second then realised the date.
Told the boss that piranhas has escaped from the local Sea Life centre and had got into the water supply, so be careful when going to the loo. She believed me.
A couple of years before that, the big boss had sent round an email that you had to get permission from your manager to go to the loo. A couple of the girls on the team believed it and were ranting about it. Of course, the rest of us played on this. The email automatically deleted at noon.
I heard on the radio on the way to work one year they were going to be trialing projecting adverts onto the moon. Think I ranted it for ages before someone reminded me the date.
I wrote a spoof interview with Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma for a small gaming website that fooled a bunch of bigger sites. It was very obviously fake, the interview was conducted by Ms April Fule, for one, but was still cited on Wikipedia’s Twilight Princess page for years after.
I run a community ukulele club, have a lot of older folks that come along to it. We usually have a theme and do songs from the theme.
Last April 1st I emailed round a load of heavy metal songs for us to do the next meeting. Slipknot - People = Shit, Napalm Death - You Suffer (famous 1 second long song), 666 Number of the Beast and so on. One of the old dears printed out all the songs ready for the next meet up.
Earlier today I “forwarded” an email from Michael Eavis asking if we would play Glastonbury on the main stage before Shania Twain. So many of them have fallen for it, I have had to let them know it was a joke. The same old dear said she had been messaging everyone letting them we would be playing Glastonbury. 🥲
I was in Asda once shopping with my partner. After wandering off I couldn’t find her. So I went to customer service and said I lost my mum. The rather bemused lady at the desk did several tannoy announcements saying my partners first and last name and her son is waiting for her at the customer service desk, which my partner ignored. It was only when they full named her that come to the desk, after seeing mr standing there she thought it was hilarious.
I filled my mom's mint oreos with toothpaste. Then, about an hour later, I felt really bad and went to get rid of them, and she already ate them. She didn't notice... but I was so panicked I explained what happened and now I'm reminded often about feeding her toothpaste.
Age 11 onwards I'd put toothpaste underneath my parents' doorknob. First year my dad screamed bloody murder and was pissed off the entire morning. Mum woke up because of him and was highly amused. They'd forget and I'd repeat it the next year. Sometimes it hit dad, sometimes mum.
Made mum a coffee, but instead of using coffee granules we used gravy instead - kept the milk and sugar in it as well. Was even better when she took a big gulp
I told my husband I bought another horse this morning. Had pictures of me with it and even went to pick it up using my horse trailer and sent him pictures. It didn’t go down very well lol.
Back in the 80s and 90s, my dad used to edit the newsletter in our small town in Cornwall. One year he published what was clearly a joke article, which then got a little out of hand.
Here’s the subsequent news report from our local paper a few weeks later:
“April spoof leaves MEP staff red-faced
AN APRIL 1st article in a community newsletter has caused embarrassment on the faces of workers in the local MEP's office.
The spoof story, which appeared in last month's Lostwithiel Newsletter, concerned a scheme to dam the River Fowey and use the tidal flow to generate our electricity for the town.
The article, written by local photographer Jonathan Barker, went on to state that this was "to comply with EU regulation that towns with populations of over 2,000 must produce 75 per cent of their own power by the year 2010."
A research student sent a cutting of the article to Robin Teverson, MEP for Cornwall and Plymouth, asking for more details of the project as she wanted to write a thesis on the scheme.
Phone calls to colleagues in Brussels, the National Rivers Authority and other official organisations failed to shed any light on the plan, so finally the MEP's staff rang the editor of the Lostwithiel Newsletter, Julia Reynolds of Quay Bookshop, to ask the source of the story.
Julia informed them of the publication date of the last Newsletter, and a gentle smile of satisfaction came over her face as the penny dropped.”
When I was a kid me and my brother came up with the idea of switching salt and sugar labels. Unfortunately for us grandpa decided to make pancakes for breakfast and was very sad when it turned out salty 😭 to this day I feel so bad
One year my parents replaced all the toilet roll with cut up newspaper and told us that they couldn't afford toilet roll anymore... We weren't a wealthy family so I believed it.
My parents were dismayed when they found out that I used said newspaper.
Mum’s a Duran Duran mega fan. I mean, never misses a show, got all the merch etc etc.
I ran into the kitchen this morning with my phone pretending to read the headline “Simon Le Bon, aged 65, found dead at his home”…. My mum screeched and FELL to the floor.
Immediately felt bad and told her it was April fools. She hasn’t quite forgiven me yet
When I was around 10 (I’m 35 now) I was sat downstairs watching cartoons and my sister who was 13 at the time had what she described as a brilliant April fools prank to play on my mum. She explained what was going to happen and I eagerly agreed.
Now what to know first is that my mum at the time was a nurse in intensive care. She’d just gotten off the night shift and so had only gone to bed around 8am.
At around 10am we put my sisters plan into action. I stood at the bottom of the stairs where the smoke alarm was and pressed the button, keeping my finger on it. My sister flew into my mums bedroom telling her “the house is on fire! The house is on fire! it’s real bad” etc etc.
Mum instantly dives out of bed butt naked. Grabs my sister and starts dragging her out of the bedroom asking where I was. My sister got scared so quick and was like “April fools April fools, mom it’s an April fools!!”
My mum actually calmed down super quick and just went back to bed.
My sister came back down and we’re both like “whew! Don’t know how I feel about that!”
Later on that day we learned from my mum (who surprisingly was laughing about it and still does to this day) that we all were actually in a really bad house fire when I was a newborn. Polystyrene ceiling all caught flames, was super bad and mum had to get us all out then. So yeah we inadvertently brought trauma back into the house. Still feel guilty about it. Thanks sis!
Scottish Power has introduced a system today, where you have to queue to log in to your account. Unbelievable.
Sadly, I don't think it's intended as an April fool joke.
https://imgur.com/a/LnEMs3h
When I was still in high school, I faked a letter from my school principal, saying I had been suspended for bad behaviour. The letter didn't arrive in the morning post, I went to school and forgot about it. I got home to find my Dad raging and off with me, before he started bollocking me about my behaviour and how could I be so stupid.....not helped with me sniggering and laughing. I told him Happy April's Fools! He saw the funny side of it....but had already phoned my mother who had left work early, was even more furious and ready to unleash hell on my arse! We didn't leave it too long before we told her it was an April Fools.....! Mum took a little longer to see the funny side of it!
RAF Luton, a parody account that regularly gets AV enthusiasts riled up, posted some photos of planes with real information and it was honestly funnier than its usually jokes about planes taking off in 7.175 seconds and costing £800.85
The best prank I’ve been done by must have been about 15+ years ago. Back when Facebook was ubiquitous, when everyone used it. We had a messaging chain about 15 of us where we would send funny videos to each other, we had it going for about a year or so.
Two of the guys got together to prank us. They knocked up a DM from Facebook (even got the legal council’s name) on headed paper saying that we had 7 days to get everything we wanted to back up from our accounts (pictures, videos etc) before our accounts would be permanently suspended for copyright infringement/sending videos against FB terms and conditions. We started shitting ourselves.
10/10 prank
It was April 1st 2020. The country was in lockdown. My wife heads up a department at a college and has a team of about 8 teachers. At the time, they were all working remotely from home due to COVID lockdown rules.
So, she emailed her whole team and asked them to submit the capacity for their homes in order to hold summer exams. Legitimate exam areas would be work desks, dining tables and breakfast bars where each student could be facing a different direction, or would be 1 metre apart if seated next to each other. The college would then assign each student to a teacher's house to sit their exams.
I didn't expect any of them to take it seriously, but I guess we were living in uncharted times in 2020, so this probably made everyone a little more susceptible to this prank.
Only 2 called it out as an April Fools, about half of them responded with genuine questions or estimates on their capacity and a couple of them had a real panic about the thought of having students turn up at their house.
Overall I think this was our greatest ever April Fools... Thought up by myself, and executed brilliantly by my wife!
When we were kids we waited till the weekend late at night, then called every rental place asking about their services and left our friends name and number. When the businesses opened again they were all calling him thinking they had an easy sale.
He told.us he was getting calls for weeks
I woke up to a nice cold glass of salt and sugar water from my 8 year old to take my tablets with. I got him back by cutting one of his snickers bars in half lengthways and I sprinkled some garlic powder in between. Superglued the wrapper closed and put it back in his egg box.
I remember years ago at school, someone played a prank saying the toilets were out of service, this did not go down well, as the caretaker was going to call the plumber
I also remember someone as well pretended to have their arm in a sling, this came back to bite him , as he did break his arm in secondary school
In 1987, in January, there was a lot of snow. Schools were off for over a week. My dad was the head teacher of a small school in a village in Kent. During assembly, he told the school that due to the time off at the start of the year, the Easter holidays had been reduced to one week. The entire school groaned with disappointment until one bright pupil at the back yelled out "April fool, sir?".
I’m slightly embarrassed I fell for this one, but I was 8 I think and I was super hyper because it was my birthday…
Mum told me about a report on the news that a farmer had a cow that was unwell, so he fed the cow oranges to help it get better, he noticed after a few days of feeding this cow oranges that the milk at a citrusy flavour. He then experimented with feeding some of his cows strawberries and some bananas and lo and behold he had milk with hints of strawberry and milk with hints of banana and was now selling natural Strawberry and Banana flavoured milk.
I started talking about how cool this was and he could make chocolate flavoured milk as well.
My mum eventually reminded me that the date was April 1st and it was a fake report.
There is this YouTuber who moved his recording setup back from his rented office to the original house he used to shoot from. Was funny to see the backward move.
I had to work hard to avoid an April fools prank back in 2021. After many years struggling I'd finally managed to become pregnant at the end of lockdown. Due to my previous medical history we decided not to tell anyone until we were sure this one would stick. Time went on and due to complications it was never the right time to announce our pregnancy due to how high risk it was. I was admitted to hospital again at the end of the pregnancy and it was decided to just deliver baby the moment I reached 39 weeks. Problem was that 39 weeks was 1st April and there was no way I could call my parents and announce I'd had a baby since nobody knew I was pregnant, so for the 2 nights in hospital I was stressing even more. Luckily for me my stubborn child decided to start my contractions and he was delivered 1st on the list on 31st March ☺️
Such a basic, childish one but harmless. When I was 10, I called my elderly Granny and said that someone had called our house looking for her. I said he’d left his name, a Mr. C Lyon. And that it was to speak about an order of fish. Gave her the local zoo’s phone number. Next time I saw her she gave me a pretend skelp and called me a cheeky monkey. Simpler times.
That's really funny, and harmless too. My kind of joke.
“*sigh* the lions have been pranking the humans again.”
Sea lions 🦭
I love this one! Doesn’t hurt or upset anyone and just makes people laugh 😊
Except for Mr Lyon who didn’t get his fish order!
r/Pingu nabbed it # NOOT NOOT
Pingu is [annoyed](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1b/78/cb/1b78cb7413e0c5d3aec66e0508a5b4d5.jpg)
Poor Mr Lyon 😂
Say that to people who work at the zoo on April 1st.
How will they ever recover from such hurt and upset?
They definitely take it out on the animals.
Fuck! Another prank call!? Time to go clobber a mink!
Albert Ross was the one I fell for.
Read that as Lee-on and was lost before reading the comments lol
That's really sweet!
When my partner and I were about to complete on our first house, we had an issue with searches that a gabian wall in the garden didn't look solid. She was always a little worried about it. April 1st rolls around so I whip up a very obviously fake email from April I, our new estate agent, telling us the wall had fallen during the night. I sent it, we had a nice little laugh. The wall collapsed on April 2nd. We laughed a lot less.
Manifested it by accident 🤣😂
Loolllllll 😂😂
LMAO
My parents called my grandparents on April 1st to tell them that their first grandchild had arrived the evening before. My grandmother laughed and hung up. That was more than 40 years ago and I was born 3 weeks early 🙃
Happy birthday for yesterday 🎂
Thank you I had a lovely day
Sorry I forgot to get you something. I've got a dog poop bag and a crumpled post-it note in my pocket? You can choose one but not both.
Ooh what does it say on the post-it? Might make the difference in the choice.
It's a drawing of a penis (a pretty good one imo)
As in it's a good drawing, or a good penis?
What was her reaction when she discovered that it was the truth?
My grandmother was a pretty complicated woman. She never liked it when my mother told this story on my birthday.
hehehehehe
I have a friend who is just one of those people that end up in mad situations, been in the papers a couple of times, been in movies, talks his way backstage to party with celebs etc. Rang his mum up on 1st of April to say he was a dad. Haha Hehe very funny mate. Turns out he was telling the truth. The thing was he still lived with his mum and kept it secret the whole time. For no reason.
My cousin did this to my uncle and aunt. Except there was the added "bonus" that the new arrival was airlifted to a bigger hospital, as that was the best place for a baby as premature as her. This happened in Australia, where distances between hospitals are a bit bigger.
About three years ago my friend put on Facebook the street he lives on had installed a speed camera. It was very believable as it was a very long busy road and a few months prior had installed speed bumps due to numerous reports of speeding and minor accidents happening. I didn’t believe him, he sent me a photo where he photoshopped a camera just outside his house. He told me to come have a look, so I did after work, it was dark by the time I left work. Couldn’t see anything then boom a flash in my rear view mirror. I was like wtf messaged him I’ve been done by it for speeding. It was him hiding in his garden with a camera lol.
proper long con of a joke that.
Love his commitment to that prank! 5/5
Bet he sat in the hedge giggling to himself for a good hour waiting for you.
This is hilarious
today my dad sent me a picture of when it had snowed in my hometown going "I can't believe we woke up to this today!" he got me for about 10 seconds until I realised the date
As it happens, I got a snow picture today, from 2020
My dad played the ultimate prank and decided to die on April 1st. My brother texted me to let me know, and it was one of those texts that decided to get stuck and resent, so I woke up to about 50 texts saying "dad's dead" To be honest, totally expected.
Damn. If he's actually dead the news deserves at least a phone call or something.
To be fair my dad would be thrilled to have is death announced by a seemingly unending chorus of text message chimes, each one matter-of-factly stating his demise.
Exactly the same for my dad, loved being the centre of attention.
Bloody typical
About 20 years ago when the internet was just taking off. I went to the pound shop and bought a cheap laurel and hardy statue (back then the pound shop actually sold everything for a pound) . I printed off a fake invoice/receipt for their £500 statue and a "certificate of authenticity" along with a letter thanking them for their purchase and that they have signed up to a subscription service and would get another "comedy greats" statue every month for the discounted price of only £400. This letter had lots of clues that it was a wind up and from me. It had my mobile phone number. A made up email address something like "[email protected]". My address (I just missed the town off but included the postcode) The date was 1st April. The product reference code was "gotchafoolapril1" I parcelled all this up and posted it to my Uncle to arrive on 1st April. I was expecting a phone call or even an e-mail however there was no word. It turned out that he completely missed the clues, so he froze his bank account and cancelled his credit cards. My aunt was on holiday visiting relatives in Ireland at the time and she was left with no money for 4 days untill a new account and cards could be sorted out. It took me several years before I owned up , simply because he was always going on and on about internet safety and how he almost got ripped off.
What did he say when you told him
He took it fairly well, but that was probably because it was quite a long time after.
This has tickled me. 🤣🤣🤣
To be fair. If I read I had paid 500 quid for something would be check my back for the transaction and then probably re read the letter and figure it out from the email
But if it’s before internet banking that would be a pita - getting a mini statement from the cash machine or even having to go to the bank!
That's a good point. He did say over 20 years ago so definitely wasn't a thing. So it would have been easier to cancel everything via the phone then risk more money possibly disappearing. You are absolutely right
Genuinely this is both hilarious but also quite a good response from your uncle.
Scammers evrywere luv. Shared Mogadishu xXx
Thinking of you babes, shared in East Timor
Shared ISS hun. Stay safe xx
The fact you were talking about this being 20 years ago, I was like “damn the pound shop has been around for ages, £1 must be worth like £20 now days” realised I was a teenager and going to the Poundland, and 20 years ago isn’t a long time now.
be honest. that was a hotmail or yahoo email address.
We've lost 2 TV's to kids on the last 4 years. My wife was up with the kids this morning and found a YouTube video which makes the TV look like it's been smashed. Thankfully my reaction was to put my head in my hands, and not to instinctively punt my youngest out of the window. Got me though, in fairness.
Lmao doing that on my husband before the day is up!
I saw that done with someone in vr. While they’re in the headset put a hard surface like a tea tray in front of their hand so they punch it, then they remove the headset to be greeted with that broken screen. Genius.
I'd have been fucking livid. The kids would have learned some new words if they'd tried this.
My parents' village is currently locked in a debate around having a 20mph speed limit and has been for some months. The parish council clerk today posted on Facebook that they're set to become *the first village in [region] to trial being a car free community*.
My local area FB page announced they (small area) were merging with Nearby (much larger area). There was a poor attempt at photoshop but some people probably still believed it.
Back in the 90’s, our local newspaper did the same thing. It was just a once weekly paper and just happened to be published on the 1st that year. They had an article that the local council was merging our town with a nearby town as they were expanding closer and closer with each new housing development. It was a big two page spread. It was hilarious. And for the next couple of issues they had to print large retraction articles as loads of people took it too seriously.
Top tier shitposting. How awful have the comments been?
I know what must of the comments would be. 1. It's bad for cars to go so slow. 2. Cars going slow cause more pollution. 3. How are children going to learn road safety if they don't see fast cars?
Ah yes, that ought to teach them, hitting them with cars. Slow cats* cause less pollution fyi but I'm sure you know Edit: *cars
> Slow cats cause less pollution fyi Of course, but what about cars?
Dammit
You forgot “taking rights away from car owners”
> Cars going slow cause more pollution. Drive away from the pollution real fast, its genius.
now that's turbo shitposting. can't be mad at that.
What a brave person. Bet he got some shit for that
She, but yes. The comments are pretty strong.
Hotel Chocolat sent an email about a rainforest type thing they were going to do in Cambridgeshire, with chocolate infused rain and whatnot. I clicked the email because I thought it wasn't that far fetched - we have the Eden Project in Cornwall after all! I'll admit I didn't read the email properly - never do - and didn't notice the "pick your own chocolates grown from the cacao tree" bit which would've made it slightly more obvious it was an April fools joke. But now I'm just sad I won't get to stomp about in chocolate rain puddles.
Put Chocolate Rain into YouTube. That'll cheer you up.
Please don't put me into YouTube
How long have you waited for your name to be said indirectly haha
It happens from time to time, I just comment when I see it mentioned lol
Put it into xhamster. Not sure if it'll cheer you up but it's worth a try?
"I look away to take breaths so you can't hear it through the mic"
Isn’t it just “I move away from the mic to breathe”? That’s the version I’ve chosen to remember anyway.
Ahhh maybe. It's been over a decade since I have watched it haha.
The Oxford and Cambridge crews felt the same way on Saturday.
A few years back Wahaca and Wagamama announced a colab, katsu burritos and suchlike. ...I was genuinely a bit excited until I noticed the date.
Some stay dry while others feel the pain
The best one for me will always be the BBC one about the flying penguins. I genuinely fell for it for a good while because I just never expected an organisation like the BBC to play a joke like this. Wasn’t on my radar at all. And it’s just brilliantly done. https://youtu.be/9dfWzp7rYR4?feature=shared
BBC did do that spaghetti harvest bit in 1957.
They said Big Ben was going digital when I was a kid.
I had completely forgotten that. Wow.
For the longest time all media organisations had a bit of fun running fake but almost believable news stories, the BBC included. It was like they were all trying to see who could get one past their readers/viewers etc. They wouldn't even let on to it until the next day.
I remember when the London Eye was being built, there was a period of time in Spring when it lay horizontal on the Thames before being hoisted up into its vertical position. One of the national news outlets (I forget which, could have been BBC) reported that a ferris wheel was too complicated and that we would now have the Millennium Merry-Go-Round!!
There was a post using that photo recently that it was on a lease and had been taken down to go back to France. A Norwegian friend of mine was sad she would never see it again
I've never seen this it's amazing!! 😂
I know! I mean if you had to imagine a penguin flying, it would be EXACTLY like it is in this video 😂
I remember one of the big morning shows (Lorraine maybe) said a new diet pill was coming out that would help shed stones in days. A lot of people were furious that it was an April Fools! It was so obvious as well haha
Every year I remember the time [Rock FM in Preston told listeners the QE2 would be visiting.](https://mikewhalleyblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/the-strangest-april-fool-joke-i-ever-heard/). There's some charm to the fact that nor only did people turn up, but the radio did go down and interview people. The funniest thing is as the article says "how disappointed would you be if you were on the QE2 and were told you are docking at Preston".
RIP Rock FM. Hadn't listened to them in a while - probably since they left Preston. But why hits Radio Lancashire? Surely going back to red rose radio would have been better?
Invicta FM did one in the 90s where they said some old shipwreck had begun spewing cash on to a beach front (memory is hazy, somewhere on the south coast). The joke went a bit far because traffic was gridlocked by people rushing to the coast to grab some of this “cash”
Back around 1976, I attended the local primary school (Cookridge in Leeds). The class teacher, who was very popular to us seven year olds, was called “Mr Doyle”. I still have fond memories of Mr Doyle but one day, he announced he was leaving the school and this would be the last we saw of him. The entire class cried and cried. He had to explain it was an April Fool Joke. Part of the mental baggage I carry.
Aw sounds like Mr Doyle deserved that little ego boost
He may have inadvertently damaged the mental health of a class of children. Edit: when the year was over the class was gutted that Mr Doyle wasn’t going to be our teacher the following year.
Back in the 80s I went all around our house in the early hours of April 1st putting all the clocks and watches one hour forward. Dad got to work nice and early as my younger brother stood outside the newsagents waiting patiently for the papers to be delivered so he could do his round. At 5.00 am.
See this year you would’ve just been a really helpful little chap!
I covered a batch of hard boiled eggs in chocolate and wrapped them in cream egg wrappers in 2018, when April fools was on Easter Sunday. That went down SO well with the family that I think I'm going to leave the country for the next one!!
Do you think it’d be a step too far to do this with vinegar eggs? If you leave an egg in vinegar the shell dissolves until you have a translucent, held together, quite bouncy, but completely uncooked egg. Imagine thinking you’re biting into a chocolate egg but it’s just a raw egg. Yeah I’ve talked myself out of it. It’s a bit too far.
As someone who loves creme eggs and obsessed with it, this would make me immediately cut off contact with someone who decides to traumatise me with eggy chocolate taste Evil
Helped a friend move apartment last year. Left behind in a cupboard was a box of CDs and a lot of them were homemade music compilations. I found a blank one and wrote on it with a sharpie. “15 Bitcoin” and slotted it back in amongst them. He found it about an hour later and he went crazy with excitement. He was devastated to find it was empty. I felt bad
Had a good chuckle. Would've been great if you had time to put a little gag file on the CD, like a rick roll.
I asked my friend if he did anything with the CD, he said he put it in a car boot sale. Said the bloke that bought it for £1 quickly got in his car and shot off home.
Oh my god. You could charge a tenner, and then just write the same thing on another cd. Forget printing money, it’s more economical to sharpie money.
For legal (and comedy) reasons you should probably write and record a song called "fifteen Bitcoin" and burn that onto all the CDs.
Dad told me to to come upstairs in the morning, knock on the bedroom door and ask my Mom why the tv and vcr player had gone? I did, she jumped out of bed, flew down the stairs, into the living room , didn’t see the little side table that had been left out, tripped over it, hit the deck and my dad behind her shouting April fools When my dad saw her face his face dropped, my mom had a bloody nose and bit her lip so hard it drew blood TV and VCR stood there untouched It’s the sole reason I don’t play pranks, and probably the third angriest I’ve ever seen my mom It’s still a sore subject now 30 years later
Please tell me about the twice you saw your mum angrier.
I got Suspended from school for selling cigarettes I think the angriest is my dad pushing her in a swimming pool when she was fully clothed on the way back to the hotel It’s a miracle she hasn’t divorced/maimed/murdered him, yet.
I feel you must help her plan a revenge prank on him to get him back for all these shenanigans 😂
I’m staying out of it
Provide an alibi
Sounds like you guys are a fun family :)
Fun for everyone but mum anyway! 😄
Until you find out he held her under the water until passers by dragged him away
As long as she says April fool's after the deed is done it's okay
Ha we are, you have to be able to be able to be made fun of in my family or you won’t survive it’s just what we do, occasionally the line gets crossed but it’s always in good spirits
Paulton's Park had a good one with a Blue Flamingo this year. https://twitter.com/PaultonsPark/status/1774693432180531410?t=j3Q0ttmfoM9gHWhKCHCMYg&s=19
Er, why are you doing this today? Did you miss all the announcements that this April Fool's Day has been put back to the 2nd because of the leap year?
Nice try
My wife told me she was pregnant with our unexpected 4th child on April the first. How I laughed. Who laughing now when a 3 year old comes into our room at 6am saying they’ve poo’d themselves after eating a whole chocolate egg and family bag of gummy worms.
https://x.com/duolingo/status/1774784158121779693?s=46
They must have spent a fortune on this
Full site as well which carries it on. https://seatgeek.com/duolingo
They even made all the songs on Spotify 🤣 https://open.spotify.com/album/2igT4o8J4ldF4CLLauFmmF?si=tbTRl6hpTM6PImIPT0sVnQ
Brilliant. But that took a dark turn...
Where is my son, they took my son!
A couple years ago I devised a plan to slightly annoy a co-worker of mine. Every morning the management teams got together to discuss what was going on in the building for the day. I told everyone it was this co-workers birthday. Told all the residents of the building it was her birthday. All day she was receiving happy birthdays, we even through her a little party, got her some gifts. She was mildly annoyed most of the day but I did enjoy myself.
When I was a kid my mum told us to wake up dad saying we’d woken up from a loud bang from the garage. Mum immediately said “oh god I hope the ladder hasn’t fallen on the car”… not long before he’d put hooks on the garage wall and hung the ladder up, and he was so precious about his car that always had to be in the garage (mum had to park on the drive). The look on his face as he ran out into the garage was priceless. He’s not easily pranked but that one was brilliant.
When I was probably around 8 or 9 I stayed at a friend's the night before April 1st (great idea from the parents). Needless to say we did the usual cling film over toilet bowl, scribbled in the newspaper, that kind of thing - which was all discovered so didn't trick anyone for a satisfying April fools. However, we'd also taped the light switch inside the fridge down so it wouldn't come on. My friends mum freaked the fuck out thinking the fridge had broken and demanding to know if we turned it off. We then revealed the April fools and had won the day. Felt like Kings at aged 8 or 9.
This reminds me of a prank a colleague played on a quite eccentric guy with a tendency for profanity we used to work with. He taped down the receiver button on his desk phone, so when he answered it, it just carried on ringing. Unfortunately for the pranker, his reaction to the target's swearing and banging the handset on the desk gave himself away, resulting in a torrent of abuse.
my dad made fake adoption papers and gave them to me 😂😂
"Damn... I really shouldn't have brought this up on April Fools..."
Every post and comment over on r/ireland has to rhyme. It’s pretty funny.
looks like the mods are [serious](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/eQWzDGjayB) about it too lol
We have every photo in the house where you can see [our son’s face covered with a photo of Rick Astley](https://i.redd.it/ullmyfcniurc1.jpeg).
You've known each other for so long.
Fascinating horror YouTube channel (it’s not actually horror) did a very good video https://youtu.be/MTGUwBsAfbQ?si=eJHl3D4X6qvZR_zD About the glass tower disaster, took us a while to realise it was a video pretending the towering inferno was real. No excuse because last year it was a video about the amity shark attacks…
Koi Footwear nearly got me this morning, mainly due to my disappointment at possibly not being able to buy their shoes any more. Their email said that they were merging to become a 100% a petting zoo in Manchester (something to do with their line of cute animal shoes) and I was like "what!?! Noooooooo" for about a second then realised the date.
I got got by that! I was devastated and then I told a friend and realised as I was saying it how stupid it sounded and then checked the date.
Told the boss that piranhas has escaped from the local Sea Life centre and had got into the water supply, so be careful when going to the loo. She believed me. A couple of years before that, the big boss had sent round an email that you had to get permission from your manager to go to the loo. A couple of the girls on the team believed it and were ranting about it. Of course, the rest of us played on this. The email automatically deleted at noon.
When I was a teenager, the S*n newspaper printed an item they claimed was printed in flavoured ink. Not the last lie they ever printed...
Got to hand it to them, posting shit 365 days a year must take its toll .
Was this just your excuse to lick page 3?
That’s top tier bants, fair play
YouTube's LockPickingLawyer has uploaded a video about his 36" King Dick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2PuE6ELmg
I heard on the radio on the way to work one year they were going to be trialing projecting adverts onto the moon. Think I ranted it for ages before someone reminded me the date.
I wrote a spoof interview with Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma for a small gaming website that fooled a bunch of bigger sites. It was very obviously fake, the interview was conducted by Ms April Fule, for one, but was still cited on Wikipedia’s Twilight Princess page for years after.
I run a community ukulele club, have a lot of older folks that come along to it. We usually have a theme and do songs from the theme. Last April 1st I emailed round a load of heavy metal songs for us to do the next meeting. Slipknot - People = Shit, Napalm Death - You Suffer (famous 1 second long song), 666 Number of the Beast and so on. One of the old dears printed out all the songs ready for the next meet up. Earlier today I “forwarded” an email from Michael Eavis asking if we would play Glastonbury on the main stage before Shania Twain. So many of them have fallen for it, I have had to let them know it was a joke. The same old dear said she had been messaging everyone letting them we would be playing Glastonbury. 🥲
i think these are the best pranks ive read about in this thread so far. that poor lady lol
Thanks! I put a lot of effort into them 😆
I was in Asda once shopping with my partner. After wandering off I couldn’t find her. So I went to customer service and said I lost my mum. The rather bemused lady at the desk did several tannoy announcements saying my partners first and last name and her son is waiting for her at the customer service desk, which my partner ignored. It was only when they full named her that come to the desk, after seeing mr standing there she thought it was hilarious.
I filled my mom's mint oreos with toothpaste. Then, about an hour later, I felt really bad and went to get rid of them, and she already ate them. She didn't notice... but I was so panicked I explained what happened and now I'm reminded often about feeding her toothpaste.
Age 11 onwards I'd put toothpaste underneath my parents' doorknob. First year my dad screamed bloody murder and was pissed off the entire morning. Mum woke up because of him and was highly amused. They'd forget and I'd repeat it the next year. Sometimes it hit dad, sometimes mum.
This is a UK legend from BBC Panorama back in 1957: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo\_wkxH9dU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU)
Is this the spaghetti trees? I'm betting it's the spaghetti trees.
It was the spaghetti trees!
Made mum a coffee, but instead of using coffee granules we used gravy instead - kept the milk and sugar in it as well. Was even better when she took a big gulp
It’s like a fancy Bovril!
I told my husband I bought another horse this morning. Had pictures of me with it and even went to pick it up using my horse trailer and sent him pictures. It didn’t go down very well lol.
Back in the 80s and 90s, my dad used to edit the newsletter in our small town in Cornwall. One year he published what was clearly a joke article, which then got a little out of hand. Here’s the subsequent news report from our local paper a few weeks later: “April spoof leaves MEP staff red-faced AN APRIL 1st article in a community newsletter has caused embarrassment on the faces of workers in the local MEP's office. The spoof story, which appeared in last month's Lostwithiel Newsletter, concerned a scheme to dam the River Fowey and use the tidal flow to generate our electricity for the town. The article, written by local photographer Jonathan Barker, went on to state that this was "to comply with EU regulation that towns with populations of over 2,000 must produce 75 per cent of their own power by the year 2010." A research student sent a cutting of the article to Robin Teverson, MEP for Cornwall and Plymouth, asking for more details of the project as she wanted to write a thesis on the scheme. Phone calls to colleagues in Brussels, the National Rivers Authority and other official organisations failed to shed any light on the plan, so finally the MEP's staff rang the editor of the Lostwithiel Newsletter, Julia Reynolds of Quay Bookshop, to ask the source of the story. Julia informed them of the publication date of the last Newsletter, and a gentle smile of satisfaction came over her face as the penny dropped.”
When I was a kid me and my brother came up with the idea of switching salt and sugar labels. Unfortunately for us grandpa decided to make pancakes for breakfast and was very sad when it turned out salty 😭 to this day I feel so bad
One year my parents replaced all the toilet roll with cut up newspaper and told us that they couldn't afford toilet roll anymore... We weren't a wealthy family so I believed it. My parents were dismayed when they found out that I used said newspaper.
Mum’s a Duran Duran mega fan. I mean, never misses a show, got all the merch etc etc. I ran into the kitchen this morning with my phone pretending to read the headline “Simon Le Bon, aged 65, found dead at his home”…. My mum screeched and FELL to the floor. Immediately felt bad and told her it was April fools. She hasn’t quite forgiven me yet
Unrelated but I really like Never Gonna Give You up as a song, irrespective of it being a meme or not.
When I was around 10 (I’m 35 now) I was sat downstairs watching cartoons and my sister who was 13 at the time had what she described as a brilliant April fools prank to play on my mum. She explained what was going to happen and I eagerly agreed. Now what to know first is that my mum at the time was a nurse in intensive care. She’d just gotten off the night shift and so had only gone to bed around 8am. At around 10am we put my sisters plan into action. I stood at the bottom of the stairs where the smoke alarm was and pressed the button, keeping my finger on it. My sister flew into my mums bedroom telling her “the house is on fire! The house is on fire! it’s real bad” etc etc. Mum instantly dives out of bed butt naked. Grabs my sister and starts dragging her out of the bedroom asking where I was. My sister got scared so quick and was like “April fools April fools, mom it’s an April fools!!” My mum actually calmed down super quick and just went back to bed. My sister came back down and we’re both like “whew! Don’t know how I feel about that!” Later on that day we learned from my mum (who surprisingly was laughing about it and still does to this day) that we all were actually in a really bad house fire when I was a newborn. Polystyrene ceiling all caught flames, was super bad and mum had to get us all out then. So yeah we inadvertently brought trauma back into the house. Still feel guilty about it. Thanks sis!
Pretty good mum there I reckon.
Scottish Power has introduced a system today, where you have to queue to log in to your account. Unbelievable. Sadly, I don't think it's intended as an April fool joke. https://imgur.com/a/LnEMs3h
When I was still in high school, I faked a letter from my school principal, saying I had been suspended for bad behaviour. The letter didn't arrive in the morning post, I went to school and forgot about it. I got home to find my Dad raging and off with me, before he started bollocking me about my behaviour and how could I be so stupid.....not helped with me sniggering and laughing. I told him Happy April's Fools! He saw the funny side of it....but had already phoned my mother who had left work early, was even more furious and ready to unleash hell on my arse! We didn't leave it too long before we told her it was an April Fools.....! Mum took a little longer to see the funny side of it!
Every year my sister leaves out a cup of coffee with salt in it, and every year either me or my mum fall for it
RAF Luton, a parody account that regularly gets AV enthusiasts riled up, posted some photos of planes with real information and it was honestly funnier than its usually jokes about planes taking off in 7.175 seconds and costing £800.85
For April fools this year I helped my partner in the garden giving him a false sense of hope that I might be actually into it.
outdoors isn't for everyone
[this one in Legal Advice UK](https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/s/ISgqkVTEyW) It goes on a bit ….
That was good. I liked the subtle bits like "deformation of character".
heh! That's a good one!
My ten year old daughter came out of the bathroom this morning and whispered to her mother that “it started”
IGN did a fake trailer for Titanfall which had Optimus Prime as a DLC playable character back in 2014 God I wish that was real
The best prank I’ve been done by must have been about 15+ years ago. Back when Facebook was ubiquitous, when everyone used it. We had a messaging chain about 15 of us where we would send funny videos to each other, we had it going for about a year or so. Two of the guys got together to prank us. They knocked up a DM from Facebook (even got the legal council’s name) on headed paper saying that we had 7 days to get everything we wanted to back up from our accounts (pictures, videos etc) before our accounts would be permanently suspended for copyright infringement/sending videos against FB terms and conditions. We started shitting ourselves. 10/10 prank
It was April 1st 2020. The country was in lockdown. My wife heads up a department at a college and has a team of about 8 teachers. At the time, they were all working remotely from home due to COVID lockdown rules. So, she emailed her whole team and asked them to submit the capacity for their homes in order to hold summer exams. Legitimate exam areas would be work desks, dining tables and breakfast bars where each student could be facing a different direction, or would be 1 metre apart if seated next to each other. The college would then assign each student to a teacher's house to sit their exams. I didn't expect any of them to take it seriously, but I guess we were living in uncharted times in 2020, so this probably made everyone a little more susceptible to this prank. Only 2 called it out as an April Fools, about half of them responded with genuine questions or estimates on their capacity and a couple of them had a real panic about the thought of having students turn up at their house. Overall I think this was our greatest ever April Fools... Thought up by myself, and executed brilliantly by my wife!
https://www.play-birdle.com
When we were kids we waited till the weekend late at night, then called every rental place asking about their services and left our friends name and number. When the businesses opened again they were all calling him thinking they had an easy sale. He told.us he was getting calls for weeks
I woke up to a nice cold glass of salt and sugar water from my 8 year old to take my tablets with. I got him back by cutting one of his snickers bars in half lengthways and I sprinkled some garlic powder in between. Superglued the wrapper closed and put it back in his egg box.
Put on my coat and shoes. Put the dogs lead on and then shouted "APRIL FOOLS" in the dogs face. I then took off my coat and shoes. Edit - punctuation
I remember years ago at school, someone played a prank saying the toilets were out of service, this did not go down well, as the caretaker was going to call the plumber I also remember someone as well pretended to have their arm in a sling, this came back to bite him , as he did break his arm in secondary school
In 1987, in January, there was a lot of snow. Schools were off for over a week. My dad was the head teacher of a small school in a village in Kent. During assembly, he told the school that due to the time off at the start of the year, the Easter holidays had been reduced to one week. The entire school groaned with disappointment until one bright pupil at the back yelled out "April fool, sir?".
I’m slightly embarrassed I fell for this one, but I was 8 I think and I was super hyper because it was my birthday… Mum told me about a report on the news that a farmer had a cow that was unwell, so he fed the cow oranges to help it get better, he noticed after a few days of feeding this cow oranges that the milk at a citrusy flavour. He then experimented with feeding some of his cows strawberries and some bananas and lo and behold he had milk with hints of strawberry and milk with hints of banana and was now selling natural Strawberry and Banana flavoured milk. I started talking about how cool this was and he could make chocolate flavoured milk as well. My mum eventually reminded me that the date was April 1st and it was a fake report.
I painted the words “I Love City” on my MUFC loving son’s back before he woke up this morning. Also changed his phone background to the City logo.
Wife said she was pregnant this morning, my heart was beating double time.
Guys remember… the game
Cbeebies have got a new presenter. There's a video on their Facebook page introducing him.
There is this YouTuber who moved his recording setup back from his rented office to the original house he used to shoot from. Was funny to see the backward move.
I told my wife our friend had given birth to a little girl this morning. HA WHAT A LOSER! They had a boy!
I had to work hard to avoid an April fools prank back in 2021. After many years struggling I'd finally managed to become pregnant at the end of lockdown. Due to my previous medical history we decided not to tell anyone until we were sure this one would stick. Time went on and due to complications it was never the right time to announce our pregnancy due to how high risk it was. I was admitted to hospital again at the end of the pregnancy and it was decided to just deliver baby the moment I reached 39 weeks. Problem was that 39 weeks was 1st April and there was no way I could call my parents and announce I'd had a baby since nobody knew I was pregnant, so for the 2 nights in hospital I was stressing even more. Luckily for me my stubborn child decided to start my contractions and he was delivered 1st on the list on 31st March ☺️