April Fools

[girliejones]

We were talking a bit about it yesterday and can I just say that I really hate April Fool's Day. It's not just that it gives a bunch of people license to pull out jokes that aren't funny. It's that World Practical Joke Day is focussed on an element of "humour" that is not either clever or funny. Basically, practical jokes work by making someone the

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[capnoblivious]

If you'll forgive the descent into irritating internet vernacular:

THIS.

[girliejones]

Heh.

[lyndarama]

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

[girliejones]

sigh, t'is true

[planeterry]

Heh. The 'M' and the 'N' are two of the keys where the letters have worn away on my keyboard.

[girliejones]

mine is E

[girliejones]

heh. touchtype baby. Again proving - better to be smarter!

[maevele]

/me looks a bit shameful concerning what she JUSt posted.

[girliejones]

Yeah, just read it

[crankynick]

I actually disagree with you - I think it's a fine tradition, particularly as it's played out in the media and the corporate world.

I look at it like this - the morning of April 1 is the time of the year when you have to pay skeptical attention to everything you hear and read, lest you look like a fool.

That can't be a bad thing - if there was a bit more of that for the rest of the year, we maybe wouldn't have some of the problems we do.

[girliejones]

Except that people don't - they go back to reading it noncritically the rest of the year