Ask #1 Muchacho - April Fool's Dead
Friday, April 4, 2008 at 09:08AM
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Dear #1 Muchacho,
What is your take on April Fool's Day? It seems like these days, big companies and publications make it so commonplace to commit "wacky" pranks, that a lot of the surprise is taken out of the occasion. Is April Fool's Day played out?
Cheers,
-Expecting the Unexpected in Chicago
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Expecting in Chi-town,
Let me first start by saying I love pranks. A well orchestrated prank can be more satisfying than sex. A roommate of mine once lost a bet to me, and my prize was that I could wake him up in the middle of the night, however I wanted, with no repercussions. He was expecting a bucket of water or even antiquing (see jackass). Instead, I wired up a pair of high powered Klipsch speakers under his bed and cranked the volume at 5am.
The speakers were playing a halloween sound effects cd which featured a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. The screaming was so real, it was hard to listen to even knowing it was fake. My roommate awoke thinking some innocent girl was being butchered the floor below him. He tried rallying the rest of the roommates to rescue her. After everyone explained what was going on, he dropped to his knees and started crying. Now that's a prank!
As far as April Fool's day being played out; I blame the internet. I remember when certain newspapers would include a fake section on April 1st and it was mildly entertaining. Now every web site on earth is prepared to play a craaaaazy "prank" on you, that you end up navigating through web pages the same way you traverse through a Phish concert. At first it's intriguing that everyone is offering you doses, brownies, and buds, but after 10 minutes it has become so commonplace you just want to throw out a stiff arm and mow everyone down so you can get through the crowd.
I mean seriously, do I really need service providers playing pranks on me? I'll take piss in my shampoo bottle over Youtube Rick Roll'n me any day. If you're going to prank me, at least make it funny. Throw some plastic wrap over my toilet seat and then dose my coffee with some Visine. Can someone please tell web publishers, that making something inconvenient doesn't make something funny. It's the equivalent of the guy at Starbucks filling your coffee up half way and then realizing it 20 minutes into your subway ride home. You're left wondering, was that suppose to be funny or did someone fuck up?
I think people should boycott April Fool's day and start pranking people a week later, when they least expect it.
-#1 Muchacho
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Reader Comments (2)
I think April Fool's should be limited to stink bombs and whoopee cushions. Maybe the occasional faking of your own death.
you the man #1