F-d Up April Fool’s “Jokes”
If I’d paid any attention to the calendar this morning I wouldn’t have bothered turning on my computer. Unfortunately, I wasn’t thinking — as I’m generally not before settling down in front of my laptop with a huge cup of coffee.
As a result, one of the first links I clicked on was in an email from a “friend” who rick rolled me. Bitch. Now that song’s stuck in my head. (Don’t blame me if you click that link.)
Meanwhile, I’d lost a minute of my life.
Then ol’ Linc Twittered about a new blog post in which he announced that he’s been fired. Being the kind, considerate person that I am — before finishing my huge cup of coffee — I clicked through and read about how depressed he was… until I reached the “Happy April Fool’s Day” thing at the bottom.
Great, another 2 minutes of my life that I can’t get back.
After that, my regular reads took me to over two dozen bloggers who thought they’d be cute, funny and original by announcing that they were shutting down their blogs permanently.
Did you get that: two dozen. Which proves it’s neither cute NOR funny NOR original. So why freaking bother?
That’s yet another 15 minutes of my life gone.
Last but not least? I ran across a headline saying that Google plans to organize all human ignorance, and since I’d actually finished my first huge cup of coffee, I saw some possibilities in that. I mean, they’ve already organized what we think we know, why not create a framework for the vast spaces on which we know very little as a way to encourage humanity to fill in those blanks.
Unfortunately, it, too, was a stupid April Fool’s joke (although a damn sight funnier than the “I lost my job” or “I quit the internet” ones, and more original, too).
Even so, that’s yet another minute of my life wasted today thanks to some asshat playing an April Fool’s Prank.
Next year? Next year I’m not getting out of bed on April Fool’s Day. Because, frankly, all you who decided to be “funny” and write joke entries just aren’t worth it.
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Ooooh I got a special mention.
I actually thought of taking my blog offline and throwing up a ransom note with a PayPal address instead. LOL Wonder if I would have gotten any money out of that? 
Now THAT would have been funny as hell.
Only problem, it’s been done before, so I would have felt like I was ripping off the idea.
So was the I lost my job post.
THAT’s an April fool’s joke? Mine was much better. More direct and to the point.
I HATE April Fools Day. I have zero sense of humor when it comes to pranks. I think if my husband comes home with some April Fools joke I very well may literally KILL him.
Christine’s last blog post..Grump, Grump, Grump!
I feel the same way. To top it off, I’m getting a migraine, so that makes me doubly-prone to homicidal anti-AFD reactions.
At least that was a creative Rick Roll.
Lately, my kids have needed extra attention and every second of internet time I have is borrowed time, so you can imagine that I was annoyed at all the stupid April Fool’s Day posts I read.
The most annoying was a group blog with three back-to-back joke posts by three different posters. Lame!
Yep, between homeschooling and doing blog consultations/design, the three hours between dawn and when my son wakes up are my only non-borrowed time, too. (Well, it’s borrowed from sleep so I can maintain my own 5 blogs.)
I get pretty resentful of having that time wasted, too.
Three back-to-back ones? That would put me over the edge.
Growing up with a father whom possesses a sadistic sense of humor that in my 35 years of life, I’ve found that is common of most men who identify themselves as Irish, I learned to HATE April 1st way before the age of 5. He never stops trying. There was the year that he called me two days after having two wisdom teeth pulled to tell me that that they had said on the morning news that the dentist who pulled my teeth had been arrested for molesting patients. See? Sick and sadistic. This year’s “joke” was when I called my mother he had her prepped, it’s spring calving season and he knew I’d be asking about that and she said the sixth calve was born this morning with two tails. As if I wasn’t prepared for some idiotic thing from that end of the phone line to eventually work its way into the conversation. April 1st needs to go away. I say we keep Feb. 29 and let April 1st only come once every 4 years.
Chelle’s last blog post..My Little Transfomers!
I’m all for that. At least it’d give people time to think up pranks that are actually clever.
There’s some good plain old wholesome April Fool’s day fun over at http://www.thinkgeek.com/
One year I wasn’t paying attention to the date and I ordered their then newest product: Caffeinated Meatloaf. I still think it’s a good idea. :-\
Mad William Flint’s last blog post..Ferriss
Hey, I’d order that caffeinated cereal by the crate if it weren’t a joke.
To say nothing of that dual Betamax/HD DVD unit.
I pulled no pranks this year, which made some people suspicious. (”What’s he up to?”) Go figure.
CGHill’s last blog post..The First National Bank of Spitzer
Maybe you should play your pranks on April 2 and make that your joke.
No, really, I did read Rambo: First Blood Part II last night.
I don’t know if that’s more funny or less funny than had it been a joke.
Actually, doing the blog thing for April Fool’s Day is as old as blogging, or having a Web site, itself. I don’t get any amusement out of expected and therefore forced humor.
Brian J.’s last blog post..Book Report: Rambo: First Blood Part II by David Morrell (1985)
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I only had one prank pulled on me and it was funny. Guess I got lucky.