In my former blog, I think about three times I wrote an April Fools joke post.
The first was a bit cruel, as people believed it. I had fallen on hard times and will have to move out of The Highrise into a shabby one bedroom flat. I remember being hopeful that there might be an internet plug at my new shabby flat.
The sympathy comments flooded in but no one seemed concerned about what would happen to Ray.
Now I forget the order between these two. This one, Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance is a stunning war memorial. But it is on a purpose built mound, with steep sides. I reported that the beautiful grassed area around the shrine would be flattened out and paved as parking for the convenience of very aged veterans who wanted to visit the shrine. Commenters were generally horrified, but some were sympathetic towards making it easier for veterans to visit the shrine.
I think my best one was about the Maltby Bypass, which is a sign you see along the motorway between Melbourne and Geelong. Obviously the bypass avoided the town of Maltby, about which I described the lovely town in some detail, and to enforce the point of it being an April Fool's joke, I concluded with, "For some reason, the town has the highest rate of incest recorded in Australia".
In spite of that, still people fell for it. There isn't a town called Maltby. Maltby was a road engineer and part of the road, a bypass, is named after him.
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You're awful! I love these jokes.
ReplyDeleteI know Pixie. Horrible even.
DeleteNaughty Andrew.
ReplyDeleteDo I need punishment JayCee?
DeleteYou still got the child in you
ReplyDeleteI hope so Roentare.
DeleteHa! That last one IS pretty good. It's a good thing Maltby doesn't exist, since you basically slandered everyone in the town. :)
ReplyDeleteIt was a beautiful town Steve, as I described it, full of happy and friendly people, who were a bit too friendly with family members.
DeleteLOL Andrew! Here in Montreal, (nothing to do with April Fool's), we had an event called 'mat night'....the night before Halloween! Anyone living in an apartment building who had a mat outside their door....what we children did was mix all the mats up. So the tenant had to hunt for their mat in the building to see where it was put (in front of another neighbour's door). Harmless, but we children had such fun doing this!
ReplyDeleteThat's so funny Linda. I love the idea of people hunting through their apartment building for their mats. We aren't allowed to have mats outside our apartments.
DeleteHi Andrew, yes, we are not allowed to have mats outside our apartments either. Someone can slip and fall, and when the janitor cleans the floors he should not have to pick up after others.
DeleteBack in the 60s people did have mats outside their apartment.
I briefly fell for CSIRO’s joke yesterday. It was a giant wombat shaped battery named the Wombattery! Bunyip
ReplyDeleteI didn't see that wombat. Yes, CSIRO do make an April Fool's joke. I hope there is a small version of Wombattery for we flat dwellers.
DeleteWas there one about the Gog over the road becoming apartments? I believed that one!
ReplyDeleteIan, hi and I hope you are fine. I had forgotten about that one, and even now while I can remember it just, I can't remember the detail.
DeleteYears ago I often got fooled by online April Fools stories, these days I am much more sceptical.
ReplyDeleteRiver, I am always very sceptical on April Fool's Day, to the point I don't believe real newspaper stories.
Deletelol. Good on you for having a lend of people on April's Fools Day in the past.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, it was fun at the time.
DeleteHumor is often lost in cultural translation.
ReplyDeleteI am so wounded, TP.
DeleteHere, some newspapers used to publish a fictitious story as a joke on April 1. Of course with a disclaimer that it's a joke. But that practice seems to have stopped.
ReplyDeletePradeep, it is still alive and well here, in media and by organisations.
DeleteHeh heh
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DeleteAaahhh.... April Fool's jokes, I never really liked them much.
ReplyDeleteThey amuse me, especially if I believe them.
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