Thursday makes for fun day of practical jokes
My advice for everyone this week is to drop out of Central Michigan University and pursue a career in underwater basket weaving.
Also, the best way to receive an A in that difficult class is to write your entire final paper with macaroni noodles.
April Fools!
Granted, this may not be the best prank ever played on a reader for April Fool’s Day. Last year, British publication The Guardian announced it would publish solely via Twitter.
A more complicated farce appeared in Sports Illustrated, detailing a fake New York Mets prospect who threw a 168 mile-per-hour fastball after training in a Buddhist monastery.
The first letter of each word in the article’s subhead reportedly spelled to readers the article was an April fool’s Day joke.
Google is a professional in April Fool’s Day jokes, launching several per year. Notably, Google launched “Gmail” right before April 1, 2004, leading many to believe the service was another hoax.
As we are all aware, “Gmail” is very real.
For those out there with very real crushes on very real nerds (I myself am included in this group), a quick search of Google pranks is a great conversation starter. I am not kidding.
Various events exist worldwide because of April fool’s Day, including the Edible Book Festival.
If you are interested in “eating your words,” you can visit books2eat.com. Say you’re looking to pull a prank. Where do you start? Roommates, family, co-workers and friends are all great targets.
My favorite jokes are those that are not harmful, including placing hard-boiled eggs in the regular egg carton, rubber-banding the kitchen spray nozzle, switching keyboard keys, and wrapping everything someone owns in tin foil.
A lot of jokes work well in the office, provided your office is not an entirely professional place. A joke that never fails is placing tape under the ball of every computer mouse so none work properly.
As aforementioned, roommates are perhaps the best targets of all. If your roommates are heavy sleepers, you can set every clock in the house two hours early. Anything involving glue also is a great idea, such as gluing every pen cap a roommate owns to its pen.
Other suggestions are placing shaving cream in roommates’ socks and rubbing Vaseline on toilet seats and car door handles.
As my roommates are active April Fool’s participants, I am hiding my socks, car, anything I own with a handle and my egg carton.
If you need more ideas, you can visit aprilfoolzone.com or thefoolsday.com. The most important thing to remember today is to not play a prank you would not personally find funny.
The second most important thing is to keep your questions coming for next week’s advice column!
As a reminder, you can contact me via e-mail at farre1hl@cmich.edu, or anonymously on my Formspring account at formspring.me/HilaryFarrell.
