A day when you can mercilessly prey on the trust of your friends and sabotage relationships without worrying about their feelings? A day when you can ignore the rules of social norms and outwardly lie to the people you care about? A day when you can essentially mend any qualms with the slip of "April Fools!" afterward? It's ridiculous! Especially when the most popular "pranks" are just excuses to be mean in ways one usually cannot. A quick google of "pranks" brought up this example perfectly.
Some of the most popular practical jokes are...
1. Not Tasty
Take a box full of candy you know the victim likes (Whoppers work good). Remove the candy and replace it with Play-Dough in the shape of candy. Watch him/her be surprised when they get offered Play-Dough candy! (Be careful not to let them actually eat it though!)"
how is that funny... you're simply forcing someone you care about to eat play doh. they were probably really excited about the candy and you just ruined their day, and your friendship. Jokes on you.
2. Sour Joke
Put a few drops of green food coloring in the milk to make it look as if it has soured. When someone pours it in the morning, they will think it has gone bad.
How is that funny... you're just forcing them to go out and spend money that they probably don't have on milk that they definitely don't need, probably furthering their fiscal problems until they go into debt and enter into a deep depression and turn to substance abuse to solve their problems.
Haha?
3. Old News
Take a few pages from the inside of last week's newspaper, and substitute them for today's issue. (Sports pages work great, or comics--whatever is the victim's favorite section!).
okay, really, how is this in any way funny. First off, who reads the paper. Second off, when the paper isn't available, how difficult is it to snag your smart phone and look up whatever information needed? Third off.... no.
4. Not My Plot>> NEW <<
Leave a list where you know your victim will "accidentally" find it. On the list, state several devious but cryptic plans for pranking your victim. Then, never carry any of the plans out, leaving your victim wondering when the impending pranks will begin.
Actually, this is the only one that I like, and incidentally, it's the only one that I did. I told my poor roommate that I was "too tired to think of anything to prank her with." She however, thinks very highly of me, and is now expecting an onslaught of pranks, which will never come. Ha. Joke's on her. April fools!
So, as another April Fools day comes and goes, I am again left without a prank. I am okay with that, because no one "got" me, and also, more importantly, no one hates me because I swapped their Whoppers for Play-Doh.
So, as another April Fools day comes and goes, I am again left without a prank. I am okay with that, because no one "got" me, and also, more importantly, no one hates me because I swapped their Whoppers for Play-Doh.
Hi Sarah, Thanks much for your past posts. The April Fool's pranks are goos, and I appreciated your you laugh lurker description. Even though you are not too good at undercover, you got something out of the assignment. And thanks much for your conversations with Thiago.
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