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

Being a Giant Squid Greeter myself, I know exactly how much time, effort, and dedication goes into the title.

Now that we've welcomed the new Greeters, BevsPaper, luvmyludwig, and OhMe, I'd like to give a much-deserved shout-out here to the fantastic Greeters from this past third quarter, Joan4, kab, Rajays, and a_willow.

Also, a "welcome back" to JustBon-Crochet-Designs!

And surely, I can't let this opportunity go by without a big thank-you to the Giant Squid Organizers, bdkz and rms, whose tireless devotion is manifested at each and every day at Squidoo.

Thank you all for being the, well, just the coolest!

Here's to all of Squidoo having an even more successful fourth quarter with the New Giant Squid Challenge.

Listening to Joan (Lensmaster Joan4) and Kate's (Lensmaster mukunda22) radio show was great tonight — while I could hear it. I missed so much of it that I will have to download it and listen to it later.

My computer is still acting up; I never know when it will start its little temper tantrums.

Anyway, I just want to give a shout-out to Joan and Kate and thank them for having some of our fellow Squids on there.

Here is the link to the show. Tuesdays at 6pm EST. Download tonight's show if you want to. I think they had both Deborah (Lensmaster GypsyOwl) and Jacqueline (Lensmaster jacquelinestone) on there. Yes, I missed a lot! LOL