Posted on 04/01/2015 5:13:47 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
My wife used to work for the Hong Kong Council of Academic Accreditation which is the government body that accredits university and trade school credentials in Hong Kong. They had a banquet one April 1 because various beautician or barber schools had received accreditation for their programs. All the big salons were there as well presidents of the various beautician/barber colleges or programs.
Rather than just being a tag along spouse at the buffet table I printed up some fake business cards for a fake hair salon. It was called “Code Red” and under the salon name was the slogan “Saving Hong Kong’s hair from fashion trends since 1994”
I would exchange a card with some self important salon owner and explain that most of my customers came to the shop on Tuesday after having their hair cut by his shop on Saturday. This was great if you could say it with a straight face.
My wife didn’t speak to me for three days
Hooters March 2015, very hot! Link
Is that legal?
I put these up all over school today:
Upon direction from the Office of the First Lady the United States Department of Agriculture has issued a new executive order extending and clarifying the guidelines of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. This new order extends the prohibitions against unhealthy snacks and foods to all school facilities. Therefore be advised that by April 15, 2015 all unhealthy snacks will need to be removed from all classrooms, snack machines, offices, storage facilities, and refrigerators (school owned and private).
Compliance with the above directive will be insured by random USDA inspections and targeted searches based on information garnered from the USDA’s anonymous Snack Tip hotline.
Tipsters may be rewarded up to $500 for valid information of coworker code violations.
Some examples of prohibited foods:
Chips Chocolate milk (unless skim) Frozen dinners
Cookies Pastries (doughnuts) Sports & energy drinks
Non diet cola Candy bars Processed cheese products
Other snacks or home prepared meals that do meet USDA guidelines (leftovers)
The anonymous USDA illegal school snack hotline: 1-800-BAD-SNAK
The Office of the First Lady and the USDA are committed to the long term health of school staff, teachers, and students. You can help us in obtaining our goal of controlling what you eat by voluntarily conforming to these mandates and informing on those who don’t.
Remember, your health decisions are too important to be left in the hands of students, parents, or teachers; we’re the government, let us handle it….or else!
A few years ago on April 1, a local morning DJ read a fake news story about the high incidence of road rage accidents. In response, local cops were making random traffic stops of people drinking coffee while driving.
A coworker - a big coffee hound and a bit on the gullible side - heard this report just as he drove past a cop patting down a motorist on the side of the road. The driver had placed his travel mug on the hood when he assumed the position.
This coworker came in spitting and cussing - “those SOBs; they can’t do that.”
We waited an hour before cluing him in.
The DJ’s other joke - announcing a plan to alleviate morning rush hour congestion by assigning access to downtown bridges by the color of the car, wasn’t as funny to me, but it did result in hundreds of calls to DOT and police.
Beat me to it also....
George Plimpton.
THE END OF THE AFFAIR - SIDD FINCH
by George Plimpton
Sports Illustrated
April 8, 1985
The curious case of Sidd Finch, as revealed by George Plimpton in last week’s issue, came to resolution Monday in St. Petersburg. The eccentric flame-thrower, whose pitches reportedly had been clocked at 168 mph, kept t his promise to tell the baseball world on April 1 whether he’d join the New York Mets or concentrate on the French horn.
The Mets called a 12:30 p.m. press conference at Al Lang Stadium and formally unveiled Finch to the media. Reading from a statement written in a stilted, anachronistic style (he referred to the Mets as the Metropolitans and to Mel Stottelmyer and Davey Johnson as Melvin and David, respectively), Finch explained that the pinpoint accuracy required to harness his astonishing fastball had deserted him. “The Perfect Pitch,” said the Mystic Met, “once a thing of harmony, is now an instrument of Chaos and Cruelty.”
Finch thanked the team for allowing him to try out, in particular “Melvin” for showing him the slide (a phenomenon, he said, unknown in the Himalayas), and apologized to catcher Ronn Reynolds for brutalizing his glove hand.
He then gave a gallant wave and walked away, very much alone.
I can remember in university flyers were put up all around announcing free drinks at one of the student pubs. I paused for a moment but then realized quickly it was an April Fool prank (wondered if anybody actually did show up looking for a free drink, lol).
Several years back our local pub for April 1 had a “Free Beer Tomorrow” promotion. They printed it up in the local paper, had the local jock talk it up. If you brought your college ID you had your choice of beers.
That day the line to the pub was around the block.
Funniest thing I ever seen.
Nice. One time I pranked the office manager by going in and rotating her screen 90 degrees (with the Windows XP keyboard shortcut). She was trying to fix it herself for a bit, then she called me in, because I am the IT guy. I feigned looking for a solution for about five minutes, all the while asking her “what did you do?!? I’ve never seen this happen before!” and her getting more and more worried. That was great :)
Another time, we were switching some desks around in the office, and we moved the new girl’s stuff to this walk-thru supply closet, setting her monitor, phone, etc up on a low shelf, with a little desklamp and even a vase with some plastic flowers. Then we broke the news to her that we needed all the real desks, so she would have to work there. The kicker was we got our boss to come by and tell her that he was the one who had to make the decision, and he really sold it. She almost started crying so we had to stop before it went too far!
Turnthe shower head out.
Hilarity ensues.
‘On April 1, 1980, WNAC-TV aired a fake news bulletin that stated that Great Blue Hill was erupting’
I was watching the 6 O’clock news in Boston that night and thought it was pretty funny. It didn’t occur to me that anyone would believe a small hill was erupting when they could go out their front door and see that nothing was wrong. But many residents of Milton, Massachusetts panicked. One of the higher ups at the station lost his job over this one.
Last night, I removed the showerhead and put one of those little tubes of grape Kool-Aid in the pipe. I punched a bunch of holes in the tube.
Purple water.
Upon further consideration, I've decided (since this is mainly a political forum) that this was one for the ages and was just a tad more hilarious than the Sidd Finch story:
P.S. They got fired for this, but it really put them on the map in the radio business. LMAO.
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