April Fool!

it's bluddie massive!

That's what April Fools Day should be.

Admittedly he hadn't expected her to turn up. Poor girl.

April Fool!

Huge stash of ventilators and medical PPE found in VirginCare warehouse - all is saved! ho ho ho only joking - we're all going to die.

Yeah media storm over the last few weeks has just been preparatory for today.
Keep your head up or the joke will turn on you.
Back to normal from tomorrow then.
Oh no, its after noon so the joke's come back on me.

Forgot all about this (which I would have anyway, now that I'm not teaching), already clicked on two fake links on my FB wall.

Hi guys i am here to reveal i am actually Maximilien Robespierre

Well, it's a laugh, innit *hungrily clicks on link about pasta trees*

https://www.facebook.com/hugh.aylward.9/videos/756327181053549/

One of them was "Canada bans all alcohol sales for next three months"--even in the present circumstances, not sure if that's more or less transparent than pasta trees.

This has been covered on the Public Enemy thread, but apparently when Flavor Flav was fired from the band in early March, that was a long-game April Fools joke to promote their new album that is being released today.

are you fucking kidding me?

Just came across this remembrance by Jack Nicholson about Marlon Brando, who apparently loved April Fools:

Much later, Brando became my neighbor in Los Angeles – for the last thirty years. I still don’t feel comfortable calling the man my friend – hell, he’s Brando – but we shared more than a driveway. As a neighbor, he was perfect, a great guy who was always there for you. He likes his space – and so do I – but as he put it many times, we’d always be watching each other’s back. In thirty years’ time, you go through many areas of life with someone, but I never had any arguments or disagreements with him over anything, the way neighbors do. Of course, Marlon does give new meaning to the phrase “Good fences make good neighbors.” I could write a novel just about our gate. Suffice to say, we’ve had a lot of life pass through that gate.

I treasured the conversations I had with him. He’s a brilliant man with a very eclectic mind. He was brutally honest, with very unusual insights into just about everything. He was very funny, too. Brando’s favorite holiday was April Fools’ Day, and, trust me, the guy pulled a couple of real crackerjacks at my expense.

Some of those pranks will have to remain private. I’m lifelong trained not to talk much about Mr. Brando – that’s the way he liked it, and that’s the way I always was about him. It’s private stuff. I will say the best April Fools’ Day prank he ever pulled on me was the time he sent me a very serious letter. By now we were very comfortable with each other. He wrote me saying he was going to have to sell his place to somebody. I can’t remember exactly who it was, but it was someone perfectly selected, because he knew it would make me uneasy having this person suddenly become the new keeper of the gate. According to our mutual friend Helena, Marlon never stopped laughing about that time he got me to go completely crazy.

wow managed to live this whole day without even realising the date. ha fuck you fools guys

A review of 'The Fool' album by The Fool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjFzJGR3PpE

Was caught by the Covid cafe thing (assuming it is an April Fool's)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7Wwi_1ywY