April Fool's Day is the recognized day of practical jokes. Most people are caught by at least one harmless joke. Some people do manage to go to extremes and upset their friends and loved ones.
Some of the recent big perpetrators of such jokes have been the always trust worthy Google, Microsoft and Youtube. Even Neopets has tarnished their reputation on this well-known day for pranksters.
Google has come up with some real winners in the past such as Google TiSP free in-home wireless broadband service and Virgle where Google announced a joint project with the Virgin Group to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars.
Google’s apparent love of April Fool's Day caused many people to believe the new Gmail with 1 gigabyte of storage for emails to be a hoax when it was announced on April 1, 2004.
In 2009, President Barack Obama was said to have ordered Chevrolet and Dodge to pull funding for NASCAR. This was reported on the Car and Driver website.
My good friend and Squidoo lensmaster Joan4 has a prankster hubby. Whitey is legally blind and yet still finds a way to play a prank on Joan every year even after more than 50 years of marriage. Joan tells us all about it in her lens April Fool’s Day Pranks.
Joan’s birthday is April Fool's Day. How would you like to wake up on your birthday and know you have to have your game face on even before you get your face washed?
Joan even shares her birthday with Mad magazines Alfred E. Neuman.
Did you forget that Big Ben is going digital and that Canada issued a three dollar coin? Burger King will bring back their left-handed Whoppers and I will be ordering a new Spaghetti tree from Italy.
What do you suppose Whitey was able to prank Joan with this morning?
Happy Birthday, Joan! We love you!
Visit: April Fool’s Day Pranks.
Image Credit: The Joker by ZazzleHolidays
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Happy birthday, Joan! We love, love, love you. And that ain't no April Fooling!
I enjoyed hearing about those pranks and hoaxes, Holley. I definitely want one of those spaghetti trees!
And a very happy birthday to you, dear Joan!
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happy birthday joan! I read that lens some time ago and I think it's great. Did he get you this year?
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That is too funny! I just found out that lens was chosen as LOTD too! Happy Birthday, Joan!
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I've been enjoying all the April Fool's Day pranks around the web today. I love that Joan's lens was the Lens of the Day choice, too!
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I can't wait to see what Joan's hubby planned for her today. Do you think he realizes how many people all over the world want to know? I liked your setup since I hadn't heard about some of those other pranks.
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Oh Holley it is great that you featured Joan's lens today on her birthday and that was so cool to see it setting there in the LOTD corner of the dashboard.
We just all love her so much!
Well, sadly I was a day late, but I still jumped over there and wished Joan a Happy Birthday and congratulated her on LOTD.
I am so glad you reviewed this lens Holley! It was a lot of fun and it has been a hard week for me. It is nice to laugh!
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