What’s Your Best April Fool’s Joke?

By startupprincess | Published March 31, 2007

Last year my husband played this trick on me:

After thBrownie squarese kids were in bed he asked me if I wanted a “brownie and ice cream”? And of course I enthusiasticallyE responded, “Yes!” Then in a few minutes he presented me with a brown piece of cardboard cut out in an “E” on a plate with vanilla ice cream. It was very funny and harmless…my kind of joke.

I need some good ideas to get even! Got any good ones? ;) Here’s Wikipedia’s link for inspiration!

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5 Responses to “What’s Your Best April Fool’s Joke?”

  1. Pete Aldin on April 1st, 2007 7:34 pm

    I’m not proud of this one (as i was a lot younger then) but…

    When I worked in a department store, I told the girls who worked in a ladies fashion department that under no circumstances were they to answer a certain extension (phone), as there was a man working on the lines who was testing it. “If you answer it, he will be electrocuted.”

    They believed me.

    Then I rang the line incessantly for 45 minutes. After 20 minutes, the manager of the department had just stopped 3 staff members from answering it and put a sign on it to stop people picking it up. Eventually we got sick of waiting to do the punch line so I had another salesman rush over to them and ask “Why aren’t you girls answering the phone?? The switchboard says there’s a really angry cutomer who can’t get through to you!”

    The manager of the department rushed to the phone, picked it up, held it to her ear …

    ..and I yelled long and loud, then cut the line dead.

    Poor girl was in hysterics. Thought she’d killed the technician.

    I had to apologise earnestly, and my Jackass days were over…

  2. startupprincess on April 1st, 2007 7:50 pm

    Thanks for stopping by and sharing a trick of your past…glad those days are over! ;) I’d be the girl in a panic…I was/am the best person to play tricks on, I’m afraid!

  3. prlinkbiz on April 2nd, 2007 4:49 pm

    I was flying home on April 1st, something I hadn’t really thought much about…until the steward announced we were on the airlines 1 millionth flight…and they were going to take us to Hawaii for three days for an all expense paid vacation to celebrate! It was all in good fun… however, it did make arriving back in Phoenix just a little more disappointing!

  4. startupprincess on April 2nd, 2007 10:40 pm

    Aaah, Phoenix at least sounds warmer than Utah! ;) I’d go for a swim. Glad to see the airlines has a playful sense of humor, I’m sure everyone enjoyed the joke.

  5. Jamie Lentzner on April 3rd, 2007 3:25 pm

    I just did this Sunday one this past Sunday. I sent an email to my employees and I posted it on my blog….I wrote up Marketing 101 for my small business – sandwich boards and those arrows that people dance around with advertising a sale – but for children. I took a picture of my kids dancing around with the signs, standing on a street in front of our office. My employees (and a few readers) actually thought I lost my mind…and was trying to drum up extra business

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