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[cleolinda]

Teresa Nielsen Hayden collects the day's jokes and pranks (thanks, particle_person). Ask Peeves is probably my favorite so far.

And before we get any further, you should know this: I loathe April Fool's Day. Mostly it goes back to a childhood joke ("Hon, we're trading you to the other softball team") my father played on me that actually made me cry (and he still kept going! didn't let up until my mother went after him!), but it was no picnic running a movie news site on April 1, either. On some of the sites I covered (you will recall--or not--that the purpose of my site was to post a breakdown of about fifty websites' movie news for the day), the writers were good enough that you could tell they were joking by the end of the story, and you could figure out what they were spoofing. Other people either couldn't get the joke across, or just didn't want to and spread actual misinformation. And then there were the stories you'd read and just assume they had to be fakes: "Remaking House of Wax? With Paris Hilton? Oh, shpfffff, good one!" You'd end up putting out the rumor fires for weeks afterwards.

All of this is a really roundabout way of saying: if you so much as look at me cross-eyed today, I will stab you.



P.S. I'ma see Sin City in four hours! WHEE!

Comments

[amiens.livejournal.com]

Oooh! You know we're going to expect an update after you see the movie! I'm serious! I want to know what you think of it, even if I've planned on going anyway ^__^

[bibliotech.livejournal.com]

April Fool's both sucks and blows.

[adoresixtyfour.livejournal.com]

It's versatile like that.

Can't wait for "Sin City in 15 Minutes"...

[dtwirler.livejournal.com]

Word.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I've had to decree my LJ an April-Fools'-Free Zone (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sigma7/146544.html) because of the typical April 1st madness. Too often the Internet pranks err on the side of cruelty or just abandon the humorous aspect of the day, and that doesn't seem like fun to me. (Google, as always, does it right (http://www.google.com/googlegulp/).) So I'm not playing this year. If ever.

And your dad...uhm, wow. It takes effort to be that heartless. I'm very sorry you had to endure that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, we don't speak now. So there's that.

And yeah, I actually like stuff that's clearly just having fun with the day--Google Gulp, Ask Peeves, Go Hug Yourself. No one would actually believe those are real, unless maybe they forget what day it is for two seconds. It's the stuff that actually tries to fool people that upsets me.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Oops, I totally forgot that you'd mentioned the April Fools thing before, and I thought you were kidding when you said you didn't like it. *is sorry* Cruelty is never nice; it doesn't matter what day it is.

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

*looks at you cross-eyed*

Oh, I'm sorry. :-)

I haven't had any pranks played on me today, luckily. And I plan to keep it that way. *hides*

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

Thank god April Fool's Day has precisely 26 minutes left over here before it's OVER for another year. And I have escaped this year (thus far) unscathed. Thank god nobody in my family finds April Fool's Day funny...

[reannaremick.livejournal.com]

I'm stuck at work til 5 and then I have to wait on my brother - so I probably won't get to see it til midnight tonight ;_;

I have to say I also loathe April Fools Day. In fact when they first announced the Sin City release date I thought it was a joke, lol. Only now that I know people who've seen it am I relaxing.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

ELEVEN HOURS FOR MEEEEE!!!!11

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

12 hours for me! :p

Happy April 1th. ;)

[hail-atlantis.livejournal.com]

Your dad sounds like a mass of suck. (I base this also on the fact that you mentioned, earlier, thinking that he might want to prank your mom.)

I hate April Fool's Day a lot. It's like the official holiday of mean.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Your dad sounds like a mass of suck.

You have no idea. Seriously, I'm talking "haven't spoken to him in seven years," "had state troopers knocking on my door" suck.

[hail-atlantis.livejournal.com]

You poor thing. Both sides of my family can be evil, but they've never called the cops on me.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, they were looking for him. Also the FBI, at one point.

[pride4u2.livejournal.com]

Go look at Startrek.com (http://www.startrek.com). I just had to check that after what they pulled last year. It turns out they've done it again.

[missmp.livejournal.com]

Nine hours for me.

I am so glad my boyfriend is an awful liar, because I tend to fall for anything. And I'm not a good sport about it either.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I hate this holiday for the most part. I'm completely gullible and frankly find no humor in the meaner aspects of the day in which people just try to make other people look stupid with no attempt at humor at all. Making someone feel like an idiot is NOT funny, especially when the person has every right to believe you. Okay, diatribe over.

As for good ones, http://filmforce.ign.com does a nice little number in claiming that they have the "inside scoop" on Star Wars VII.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

I like April Fool's Day, but not the mean tricks. I mean, all I did was call a truce with my usual prank partner and then we went around and TP'd the doors shut of the other friends in our building.

Good times. They revenge themselves with silly signs on our door, and everyone's happy.

And then there's my icon for today.

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

*loves your icon for today*

*cracks up*

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

I don't like April Fool's Day at all, and I do my best to avoid all those who think it would be amusing to pull a prank on me. I just don't have that kind of sense of humor. I like reading or seeing things that are clever-funny, not uncomfortable-funny, which is what AFD always turns out to be.

As for your father, if you would like to share his address I can arrange for a 'nice' little giftie to be sent to him from the wilds of Massachusetts... :)

[state-champion.livejournal.com]

I like reading or seeing things that are clever-funny, not uncomfortable-funny, which is what AFD always turns out to be.

I second that. I also hate being the center of attention, so when someone pranks me I just seethe.

Something my co-workers did was pretty funny. They all called in to their boss saying how they were going to be out for various reasons, and then all showed up anyway. Hee! That was good. Luckily it was just their boss' type of humor.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I would, but I don't know it. Yeah, the estrangement's that bad.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

well, I happen to be fairly good at tracking people down, so if you ever do want something disgusting sent to him, you let me know! *lol* I'm sure you'd rather just not have any contact at all, which I can understand.

Lots of hugs!! (and no cross-eyed looks because I like not dying.)

[girlfrom10thave.livejournal.com]

All of this is a really roundabout way of saying: if you so much as look at me cross-eyed today, I will stab you.
Dude... I'm not going to do anything stupid (especially as I loath April Fool's Day too), but I'm happy to know that a shank won't be involved as part of the punishment.

Have fun watching Sin City!

[stillxmyxheart.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with you about April Fool's day. I hate it with a fiery passion. Stuff like MuggleNet and HPANA is fun, but other stuff... meh. It's like the sadist's Christmas...

[dtwirler.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing Sin City today as well, at 1:40. I can't wait!!

[shiningshadow26.livejournal.com]

Yay for Sin City! I'm going tomorrow, hurrah, but I may just be tempted into reading any rhetorical recaps you have up first ;)

And by the by, I'm just gonna be wearing sunglasses 'round here now. And chainmail.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

P.S. I'ma see Sin City in four hours! WHEE!

Well, yah, if you're going to see Sin City, you really will be in the right mood for stabnation.

Yarha, 'Stab Nation' Like 'Alien Nation' but Unlike 'Carry Nation'

[icydroplets.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous! No one will go see Sin City with me. I'd go by myself, but I have no idea how to get to the theatre :P.

I forgot it was April Fools Day and thankfully, my roommate did too. I heard all about my friends stories though, including putting plastic wrap on a toilet seat and shaving cream in someone's pockets.

[andromeda-77.livejournal.com]

All of this is a really roundabout way of saying: if you so much as look at me cross-eyed today, I will stab you.
*fit of giggles*

I know exactly how you feel.

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

I don't like April Fool's Day, either. I abhor it. Ooo, I wanna see Sin City so bad. Not fair.

*looks at you cross-eyed*

*runs away giggling madly*

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

*Quickly throws newly-made Sugarpie von Lovejoy account in the wastebasket*

A couple years ago, when i wrote news for a movie website, I punched up a fake article about Spider-Man basically being tossed out due to heavy competition from Attack of the Clones, as well as a sequel for A Beautiful Mind featuring a psychology teacher with Tourettes Syndrome. Both readerships thought the stories were real. Even though my "source" was a hyperlink to a page admitting the prank.

[the_powerlines.livejournal.com]

OMG! Didn't you hear? Sin City is all a big April Fools Day prank! THERE IS NO SIN CITY.

*crosses eyes* :P

*dodges knife*

[scolixa.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I first thought when I heard when they were releasing it! That would be the most awesome prank in the world.

[ex-krazycat651.livejournal.com]

I'm the same about april fool's jokes.
My brother told me my father was dead when I was six, and ever since I've just not cared for the whole damn thing.
(understatement!)

[maverickgirl.livejournal.com]

See, I never pull April Fool's jokes. Till today, anyways, when I called my mother and said I had been arrested for posession of marijuana and was being taken to the sheriff's department. I didn't quite get to the part where I was probably going to go to prison for posession with intent to traffic - I started feeling bad. Guess this is why I never take advantage of the holiday.

[leucocrystal]

I loathe the "holiday" too. Mind, I don't have some reason specifically like you -- it just happens to annoy the crap out of me, lol.

P.S. Caught the midnight show of Sin City last night. IT IS AWESOME. Enjoy! :)

[adoresixtyfour.livejournal.com]

I've had a burning hatred for this "holiday" since grammar school, when girls would tell me how cute I was and tell me how much they wanted to hang out with me, and just as I was actually buying it, they yelled "APRIL FOOLS!" and ran away giggled. (No, that didn't scar me for life--why do you ask?)

[denimjo.livejournal.com]

...would you mind terribly if I found a way to track those bitches down and beat them half to death with a baseball bat? That was incredibly cruel.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

i dislike April Fool's day also. Luckily I had no jokes played on me. Lucky you for getting to see Sin City. Some weekend soon my sister and her boyfriend may come up and taaake me...casue he wants to see it too (*tries not to get her hopes up*)

[edda.livejournal.com]

My April Fools Day was basically just crappy, with no Funny to even it out. (I was kind of hoping my bank was kidding about the latest overdraft, but apparently not.)

GOD I want to see Sin City.

Picked a sort-of random post

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

Not really. I talked to lego_hoti on fanficrants yesterday. I asked several things, including if she had made her kewl icon and could I use it. (The Snape 'sit down, shut up' one.) I've snagged it for my own amusement, but won't actually use it until I have permission. I've got your name on it now, since she said you made it. I still won't use it unless I know it's okay.

That said, you look like an interesting person. I'm very new to LJ and am only just starting to use the Friends feature. I'm not all that certain of the 'rules' or anything. I just make comments and read comments and see who looks interesting. I go to their LJ and see more about them. If they look interesting (either in a fandom way or in a personal way), then I ask about doing the friending thing.

Is it okay if I put you on my friends list? I've got to read more here, but I get so distracted because a post leads me to comments which leads me to users, which leads me to other posts/sites/comments/users/communities, and I could spend far too much time doing this. It's all so new and interesting.

I do plan on looking at your icons. I am not certain I've ever heard the word 'craptastic' before. I think I might borrow that one, as well. (yoink!)

Re: Picked a sort-of random post

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Welcome to LJ, then. Other people have different rules (mostly, "These icons here are for taking, but you have to credit me"). Pretty much all of mine are made for people to take, because--what am I going to do with 500 icons? Particularly the "Movies in Fifteen Minutes" (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=m15m) icons, which is where the Snape icon comes from. It's kind of crappy to just lie and say, "Ooo, look at this icon *I* made!" if it's someone else's, but really, beyond that, I don't care, myself.

I just make comments and read comments and see who looks interesting. I go to their LJ and see more about them. If they look interesting (either in a fandom way or in a personal way), then I ask about doing the friending thing.

Really, that's how I've always approached it. "Friend" is such a loaded word here--I really think of it more as "blog bookmark" or "people I like to talk to," so anyone who wants to friend me is free to. Unfortunately, I've friended so many people back that I've hit LJ's max capacity and can't friend anymore. But the "friends list" thing actually doesn't mean that much to me--it's more the people who actually come to my journal and interact, so if you ever want to drop in and say hi, feel free. : )

The Friend term

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

Indeed, what I consider a 'friend' is not the same as what someone else does. That's the LJ term.

I simply wondered if you minded if I put you on my list. I am scared of what max capacity must be. I have less than 20, I think, and the posts each day are still too numerous. Still, there are so many interesting people out there. I don't mind if I'm not friended back. My journal is mostly to link writing to, although I'm actually making entries. Nowhere near so many as you. I have no idea if anyone is reading them, but it doesn't matter very much. They're there if anyone wants to.

Re: The Friend term

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, no, I understood what *you* meant--I mean that *LJ* is using a loaded word. I think we're both on the same wavelength in terms of just wanting to read people's journals.

The max capacity seems to be 750--basically, people found me through "Movies in Fifteen Minutes," and I friended anyone and everyone back just to be nice, and now it's unmanageable. Ah, well.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars...

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

I like April Fool's Day, and think it's a damn shame some people ruin it for everybody by using it as an opportunity to get away with being mean.

A proper April Fool's joke is played on someone you like, and its proper effect is to make them first laugh, then gleefully plot how to get you back. It's supposed to be a day of clever, playful mischief that leaves everybody chuckling together when it's over, not fuming or crying.