Home General Chat
If you need urgent support, call 999 or go to your nearest A&E. To contact our Crisis Messenger (open 24/7) text THEMIX to 85258.
Options

April Fools!

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
Anyone done any good ones? I'm hungover and can't think of any good ones. Used to do great ones when I was at school. My mate rang my Mum up and said she was from Kelloggs and we had won a family holiday to Florida, my mum was so excited and rang the school and got me taken out of class to tell me. Felt a bit bad, but it was funny!

Anyone spotted any on the news? I saw something on teletext saying teaching about the holocaust was going to be banned in case it offended Muslim pupils, SURELY that is an April Fool? A crap one too!

Comments

  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Google's new TISP (Toilet ISP) broadband service - completely free and supported by adverts. They send you a reel of fibre optic cable which you flush down the toilet, connect one end to your computer and their crack team of plumbers will connect you up within 60 minutes.

    I'm thinking of signing up :p

    www.google.co.uk
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Time is up for any new April Fools' jokes now I'm afraid as it's after midday.

    BTW, post 1111 :-)
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I text my flatmate earlier (who's down in London seeing his girlfriend this weekend) that there was a fire in the flat because he left his fan heater on over the weekend, he's only due to get back later tonight and he's now shitting himself :lol:
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Doofay wrote: »
    Google's new TISP (Toilet ISP) broadband service - completely free and supported by adverts. They send you a reel of fibre optic cable which you flush down the toilet, connect one end to your computer and their crack team of plumbers will connect you up within 60 minutes.

    I'm thinking of signing up :p

    www.google.co.uk

    Ok, just for the record, I mentioned this first in the other thread :grump:
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ShyBoy wrote: »
    Ok, just for the record, I mentioned this first in the other thread :grump:
    Just for the record, who actually gives a shit :p
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What other thread. Couldn't see any. Forgive me.
    Text my sister and said I was pregnant and my bf had proposed.
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    katchika wrote: »
    What other thread. Couldn't see any. Forgive me.
    Text my sister and said I was pregnant and my bf had proposed.

    BritJames got shot dontya know. Find the thread entitled 'shot'. :)
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I thought this was an April Fools story at first, but it turns out it's actually true. :rolleyes:

    http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2047496,00.html
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Miffy wrote: »
    I thought this was an April Fools story at first, but it turns out it's actually true. :rolleyes:

    http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2047496,00.html

    That's unbelievable.
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lol miffy that made me laugh.

    Although maybe the 10 yr old was continually bullying the other one. In which case, a good scaring will do him some good :). I think most 10 yr olds use gay as a normal not so vulgar offensive term, like twat. I reckon if I found out my kids had been receiving emails like that off someone I wouldn't be too happy, but probably wouldn't call the police. Tell them to delete the emails and ignore them. Then if it got worse or carried on speak to the parents!
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm not inventive enough to think of April Fools pranks but my boyfriend did one today which he's been setting up with his mates all week.

    A friend of ours has just got back from his Marine Biology placement in the Seychelles where he was studying some rare form of crab. When he got back he had loads of essays to write for his portfolio and so got various people (my other half included) to proof-read them before he had to hand 'em in for the Friday deadline.

    This morning he rang up our mate and asked him if he'd looked over the essays again before submitting them. He said that he hadn't looked at them in detail and then my boyfriend went on to "confess" that they'd all got together and decided to change "crabs" to "craps" using the replace function in Word so all his essays were about the "rare craps of the Seychelles". He went APESHIT :lol:
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Now THAT is funny. :lol:
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ShyBoy wrote: »
    Lol miffy that made me laugh.

    Although maybe the 10 yr old was continually bullying the other one. In which case, a good scaring will do him some good :). I think most 10 yr olds use gay as a normal not so vulgar offensive term, like twat. I reckon if I found out my kids had been receiving emails like that off someone I wouldn't be too happy, but probably wouldn't call the police. Tell them to delete the emails and ignore them. Then if it got worse or carried on speak to the parents!

    Gay means happy according to the dictionary...

    1. having or showing a merry, lively mood: gay spirits; gay music.
    2. bright or showy: gay colors; gay ornaments.
    3. given to or abounding in social or other pleasures: a gay social season.
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    briggi wrote: »
    I'm not inventive enough to think of April Fools pranks but my boyfriend did one today which he's been setting up with his mates all week.

    A friend of ours has just got back from his Marine Biology placement in the Seychelles where he was studying some rare form of crab. When he got back he had loads of essays to write for his portfolio and so got various people (my other half included) to proof-read them before he had to hand 'em in for the Friday deadline.

    This morning he rang up our mate and asked him if he'd looked over the essays again before submitting them. He said that he hadn't looked at them in detail and then my boyfriend went on to "confess" that they'd all got together and decided to change "crabs" to "craps" using the replace function in Word so all his essays were about the "rare craps of the Seychelles". He went APESHIT :lol:

    :lol:
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There was a brilliant article in the Telegraph today about the London Olympics being shared with France to save costs and that Ken Livingstone was planning to move some of the more specialist events to Caracas out of regard for his long-term hero, Hugo Chavez.
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i forgot it was april fools! well it was kind of at the back of my mind as it's my friends birthday today so i know it's april fools but i didn't make the connection with april fool = pranks! oh well!
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    tee he, that's pretty funny. what's april fools for anyway?
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Found another - searching for 'April Fools' on youtube came up with 'Searching for videos is temporarily unavaliable'. Either that or searches actually were temporarily unavaliable, but it seemed to happen every time I searched for that and nothing else :p
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I phoned my Mum at 8:30am to tell her that I had won the lottery jackpot the night before.
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    me and a mate went to a joke shop the other day and i found a fake pregnancy test that permanently says 'pregnant' on it (blue line etc)

    i got one, and very intentionally left it in my sisters' bathroom bin during one of my mums' cleaning sessions - knowing that my mum would find it and go mental (my younger 16 yo sister is the only one who really uses that toilet so i knew my mum would think it was her)

    my mum then proceeded to barge into my sisters' room and demanded to know why my sister hadnt told her, taken precaution etc etc - while i innocently hid next door and laughed my arse off.

    eventually i had to go in and admit it was a joke because my sister was getting quite upset :rolleyes: im not in her good books at the moment
  • Options
    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    soraliah wrote: »
    me and a mate went to a joke shop the other day and i found a fake pregnancy test that permanently says 'pregnant' on it (blue line etc)

    i got one, and very intentionally left it in my sisters' bathroom bin during one of my mums' cleaning sessions - knowing that my mum would find it and go mental (my younger 16 yo sister is the only one who really uses that toilet so i knew my mum would think it was her)

    my mum then proceeded to barge into my sisters' room and demanded to know why my sister hadnt told her, taken precaution etc etc - while i innocently hid next door and laughed my arse off.

    eventually i had to go in and admit it was a joke because my sister was getting quite upset :rolleyes: im not in her good books at the moment
    That's evil!

    ...but funny too I guess. :D

    My only successful prank I remember was a few years ago, my mum was driving me home from school, and wanted to get a newspaper on the way. We stopped next to one of these stores that sell them, and I just asked the guy manning it what time it was (my mum could see me but not hear me).
    Then I went back and told her they'd ran out, so we went to another one where I did the same. I did that 3-4 times before telling her the truth. :D

    Another one was at school, for some reason that I forgot we had a computer class in the teachers' office instead of the computer classroom. Me and 2 other guys sitting at a computer pretended to have found a file with students' grades and read them aloud. The teacher came running!
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    katralla wrote: »
    tee he, that's pretty funny. what's april fools for anyway?

    I think it's because the Pagan new year starts on April the 1st, so the Church decided that anybody who was a Pagan, and thereby celebrated welcomed in the New Year on April the 1st were all "April Fools"
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ok, a brief look on the internet does nothing to confirm that, however, i did hear somebody say it on TV once, and as we know TV never lies.
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mr Orange wrote: »
    Ok, a brief look on the internet does nothing to confirm that, however, i did hear somebody say it on TV once, and as we know TV never lies.

    Unless you heard it on April Fools day and didn't realise :p
  • Options
    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was reading a book that referred to a pub quiz team who realised they could piss everyone off by naming themselves "Ladies and Gentlemen This is a Bomb Scare Please Move Outside Immediately and Do Not Return Until Given the Official All-Clear". That's pretty funny 'cos it would freak people out when the scores were read out.
Sign In or Register to comment.