Who's the Fool?
By pumpkinjam
@pumpkinjam (8763)
United Kingdom
April 1, 2017 3:15am CST
Today is, as you may know, 1st April. Often referred to as 'April Fool's Day'. I have no idea of its origins and I'm not really interested enough to look it up. However, if anyone happens to know about it, please feel free to pop it in a comment.
Now, I hadn't written anything on my WordPress blog for a while and I thought a fake news story for April Fool's Day would be a good opportunity to get it going again.
I thought of a few possibilities - 'new breed of venomous cat found in suburban area', 'flying piranhas invade town' and that sort of thing. However, I wanted it to be at least almost believable. I also wanted images to go with it. So, I settled on something else.
At my most recent count, I had had 5 visitors since I put it on just under an hour ago. Two 'likes' from Facebook friends but I don't, so far, know if anyone has fallen for it. I will edit the story later and let everyone know it was made up.
Have you fooled or been fooled today? Do you have any favourite pranks?
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6 responses
@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 17
It's good to be able to spot it. Some are obvious, others are often believable. I liked one that said Subway was introducing an ice-cream range which included tuna flavoured ice-cream!
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@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 17
@LadyDuck I'd try some of them. :) I would probably try a tuna ice-cream but I'm quite sure that was just an April Fool from Subway!
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@LadyDuck (471506)
• Switzerland
3 Apr 17
@pumpkinjam There are more weird ice-cream flavours than tuna. Look at this list of REAL weird ice cream flavours.
Mister Softee never peddled ice cream like this!
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@mgeet111 (30)
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1 Apr 17
Today is a working day in India.Mostly day to day work schedule is so tight,least scope for pranks.(best left for Sunday) By the way, in India each of our 29 states have a day in the yr.designated as their State Day.Today, is
Odisha day. Hope you enjoy!
.
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@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 17
I know a few people who would have pulled an April Fool's stunt with colleagues on the day!
@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
3 Apr 17
@pumpkinjam , I think a favourite sport star of mine fooled me this time. This time of year always leaves me wondering.
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@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 17
People are often wary of the day! It's funny when people don't realise what day it is and get fooled by fake news, though.
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
5 Apr 17
@pumpkinjam I think that's what happened to me, I only realised on the 2cnd that he must've pulled a fast one.
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
1 Apr 17
Everybody is very careful about it. We can not make others Fool this day. But, in the Mess I am eating in, the counter staff informed me that the State Bank is winding up all its branches and going to operate from a single building and that it was announced in the night by the Prime Minister on T, V
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@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 17
There are some very silly things that people believe, and then, of course, those things that could be true. I don't like any Fool jokes that upset people. If it's not hurting anyone, and you come clean in a short time, it can be fun.
@abhinalstrikr (4111)
• India
1 Apr 17
Even i would like to know about how it began
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@pumpkinjam (8763)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 17
Perhaps we can get some research done and make a discussion about it. :)
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