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[rocknload]

If you have no reason to lie to me, I am operating under the assumption that you aren't. This isn't unusual, or stupid; it's actually necessary for communication. When people are already assuming you're telling the truth, it's surprising what they'll believe. Most won't believe in spaghetti trees, obviously, but when you have that advantage over other folks you can get them to think an awful lot.

So, anyway, when you take advantage of this by saying something completely reasonable and believable and then go, "Haha! You should've known! April Fools!" then you aren't clever, you're just sort of a dick.

I don't mind a good prank, but no one knows how to do it, damnit! And so I hate today.

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[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

What happened? :(

This is why my April Fool's posts are just efw-style posts.

[unicorn]

I lie with a straight face to people in person all the time! But it is more a function of deadpan sarcasm and everyone recognizes it. I tend not to try to prank people because that's the extent of my lying, in general.

My mom told my dad when they were both fifty that she wanted another child for April Fool's Day, though, and hearing the description of how all the blood drained out of his face will never not be funny.

[neversince.livejournal.com]

Did you believe Fox Cancelled Joss Whedon?

[elspeth-vimes.livejournal.com]

I actually forgot what the day was until I saw the special editions of the campus "newspapers." (They get quote marks because they suck.) I admit the fact that almost no one I know cared did have me relieved, I lose patience with April Fool's pretty fast. :/

...Though I feel compelled to tell of a not! April Fool's prank my father once pulled. He had never been introduced to a group of friend my mom had made, so he went early to one of their parties (without mom) dressed as a priest and for hours fooling everyone into thinking my mom was somehow married to a dour Anglican minister.