What April fool's jokes have you fallen for?
A couple of years ago one of the Swedish Internet newspapers had a great service! By looking into your computer screen, focusing on a red dot, you could get a picture of yourself. Yes, I did it. Yes, the shot of me was a monkey. I am glad no one saw me doing that…
A couple of other jokes that have worked out well here in Sweden:
– A ship full of the finest vodka ran aground outside the Swedish west coast and tons of boxes filled with vodka were floating towards the beaches. Thousands of Swedes went to the beaches to catch a box…
– In the 60s when TV was broadcasting in b/w you could turn it into color by skewer a nylon sock on your TV set. Didn’t work…
Or today’s joke in the biggest newspaper:
United Nations will limit all Internet access for Swedes by 2013.
Do you have any embarrassing memories from when you actually bought an April fool’s joke?
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…what the eff…my account has been hacked? Look at my avatar and account name above…
…LOL…or did I just fall for another joke…yeah….:)
Duh I just fell for one on here. People, this is Fluther’s April Fool’s joke!!! hahahaha
I fell for this one too! I was like.. “huh?! O_o! What’s going on.. Why is my name and profile picture so weird.. why is everyone’s?” lol!
LOL nice, falling for a joke while you are talking about falling for jokes.
I fell for this as well.
Sweden sounds awesome.
I live in Rochester, NY. The university’s website this morning claimed that the university was moving to Rochester, England because the weather here was too nice (!)
Because I hadn’t had coffee yet, I actually believed it for about 5 seconds…
(Oh yeah, and I love my new avatar! :)
It was rumoured that pigs were seen flying over Buckingham Palace,turned out to be a police helicopter.False alarm there then.
I just thought “damn, I look better today!”
I suppose at some point I will get my tree-house back, but I’m liking this guy look for a while.
I don’t fall for ‘em, but yo momma does!
I once had a girlfriend tell me she was pregnant and I totally bought into it because she was very convincing. That April Fool’s joke went over like a lead balloon as you might imagine.
I love my new avatar picture and screen name too. Kind of. Where’s my eagle??? =)
let’s see what MY new avatar looks like…
AND they screw up your name as well!
I hope this doesn’t affect all the lurve I was hoping to earn today.
find. me. somebody to lu rve! find. me. somebody to lu rve!
Yea, I thought Fluther had been hacked, but then I remembered that it’s April Fool’s day!
Count me in on this one too. I was about to report a bug.
@timsilverflyenew I thought it was a prank at first
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When I was 6 I had just gotten home from school. We pulled into my driveway and my mum looks shocked and goes “oh god look at giant crab!!!!”. I foolishly swung my head around and stared at the end of my garden….I felt quite foolish.
Last year my ex girlfriend told me she was pregnant. And I forgot what day it was, so I was totally freaking out.
I fall for pretty much all jokes… and not just on April Fool’s Day. I’m a very gullible person.
I think the best one I ever played was in 8th or 9th grade when I convinced all my friends that Daylight Savings Time had been canceled and that it wasn’t going to happen that year.
One April Fools coincided with my day off and work called me at home to tell me a check had gone missing and the vendor said they gave it to me specifically. Har har but I’m way too consistent with the money handling so when I gave cell phone silence the party on the other end sighed and said, “oh, just forget it. April Fools and have a great day off”.
Today it was me who called into work to schedule an emergency two weeks off. I usually pull a good 70+ hrs a week so my boss thought I was joking but I wasn’t. Har har har.
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@stratman37 “Don’t you want somebody to lu rve, dooooon’t you need somebody to lu rve, won’t you lur ve somebody to lur ve, you gotta find somebody to luuu rvee..!” lol =P
@whyigottajoin don’t get me started kiddo, I’m an old classic rock DJ and this could get ugly ; }
hahaha good one aprilsimnel. i dont really fall for april fools jokes because people only play dumb ones around here lol
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