4. After everyone’s asleep, set all the clocks ahead one hour. Then wake everyone up (at the usual time) screaming about how they overslept, missed the bus, are going to be late for school or work, etc. As they’re all scurrying about, frantic and worried, just lie back and laugh. You stinker.
A nurse that I know played the ultimate joke on her husband after he had pulled a prank on her. She saved the newspaper from April 1st – of the previous year – and gave it to her husband at breakfast. She then led him on with questions like, “What’s going on the world, honey?” She had him going for quite a while till he figured out that these “news” items seemed to have a familiar ring.
From [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge ]Wikipedia (the font of all knowledge)[/url]:
[blockquote] The first written appearance of the proverb “revenge is a dish best served cold” is often credited to the 18th century novel Les liaisons dangereuses (“La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid”). The phrase, “Revenge is a dish best served cold”, was actually borrowed by the British from the Pashtuns and popularized in the West, directing its original source to Afghanistan.[2] The English version of this phrase in that exact wording can be attributed to The Godfather by Mario Puzo, a major bestseller in 1969. However, the phrase appeared in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets as “revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold”.[3] The more well-known wording of this quote is also featured in the title sequence of the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill: Vol 1, accredited as an “Old Klingon Proverb”, referencing the phrase’s usage in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, where it is similarly cited as such. It means that to be successful, revenge should be a considered and planned response enacted when the time is right, rather than a hasty and ‘hot-blooded’ action which will increase the chances of failure.[/blockquote]
[url=http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/?406]Archbishop shaves of his beard: prophetic act for G20 Summit.[/url]
The greatest one ever was when a local radio station morning talk show ran the “news” that the space shuttle was going to make an emergency landing at a local community airport. Nevermind that there was no shuttle up at the time. Nevermind that Edwards isn’t that far away. Nevermind that the airport they picked could in no way handle a shuttle landing. Thousands showed up to view the landing.
Today, their prank was the President had landed at North Island and was scheduled to speak at Horton Plaza at 8:15 this morning. Although they did not achieve quite the crowds of the previous joke, there were still those who can get fooled twice that showed up to see him.
My mother remembers from when she lived in England, lo many years ago, there was a full-length news program on TV about a woman whose boyfriend back in WWII had gone off to be a pilot in the RAF, and then while he was gone a German pilot crashlanded near her house and she nursed him back to health and he fell in love with her. After the war, she found she wasn’t able to decide which one of them she loved more; and so the situation had gone on for years and years, until finally the two pilots had decided to take matters into their own hands, go up in their planes one last time, and see who was the better man. The news program was covering this epic dogfight, and as one of the planes spun down to the ground in burning wreckage and everyone was rushing toward the crash to see if the pilot could be saved, the announcer turned back to the camera and suggested that people check the date… April 1.
OK, so everything Congress and Pres Obama have done up to now was just leading up to today and it was all a joke … right? There’s really going to be a new Cabinet; Nancy Pelosi really isn’t Speaker; Barney Frank really isn’t head of House Banking; Chris Dodd really isn’t in the pocket of AIG; we didn’t really just increase the debt 3X what Pres Bush left us. Boy, what a relief!