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Tell me your funniest April fool?

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SapphosRock · 31/03/2023 19:35

I remember my older teenage brother having a long lie in the morning we were due to go on holiday. My parents drove the car with all our luggage around the corner, we moved all the clocks forward by 4 hours and then hid.

His face when he woke up and thought we'd left him behind Grin

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FranklyADick · 31/03/2023 22:50

I wish I could remember the April Fools my mam used to pull. They we're very clever. As a teacher in a Catholic primary I remember her copying, tippexing and photocopying a letterhead from Ofsted or the diocese. The letter arrived on the heads desk on April 1st stating that the Ofsted/diocese were coming for an inspection regarding new sex education guidance and it contained a line that as the school was catholic that any reference to condoms had to be referring to perforated condoms only.

Bobbybobbins · 31/03/2023 22:53

We did a funny one at school when I was 12. We had sewing and all hid in the area between the rooms. We wrote on the board that the class had been moved to the furthest away and our lovely teacher came in then headed off. Luckily she came back and saw the funny side!!

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SapphosRock · 31/03/2023 22:57

BettyBoopy · 31/03/2023 22:03

Put a leek (vegetable) in the shower or the toilet. Shouted to my husband 'quick there's a leak in the shower/toilet' he came running then boom!

We have leeks in the fridge! Totally doing this tomorrow Grin

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mamaduckbone · 31/03/2023 23:19

I wish we had leeks in the fridge. Dh would totally see the funny side of that one😆

sequincardi · 31/03/2023 23:28

Mumsnet HQ used to do them back in the day

Nannyamc · 31/03/2023 23:35

My sister got married 1st April 1967..my dad had a ta xi...used as bridial, car and his bosses .police called i n during speeches reporting cars had been stolen .. never ever seen my dad move so fast .complete hoax!

MagentaRocks · 31/03/2023 23:35

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

Awful thing to do. April fools should be mild things that don’t humiliate and upset people.

longtompot · 01/04/2023 00:01

Pinch, punch, first of the month!

I always loved the spaghetti plant one 😆

GettingMarriedAgain · 01/04/2023 00:02

DS did a good one a few years ago - painted mean faces on the eggs then called DP into the kitchen to say the eggs had gone bad and got him to look at them. Still makes me chuckle.

ThreeLocusts · 01/04/2023 00:19

I liked the one some years back about G Osborne starting a new career modeling work clothes - he'd been doing the rounds of northern towns visiting factories in high-viz vests.

Amispringy · 01/04/2023 00:34

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

That's not remotely amusing

78gingernuts · 01/04/2023 00:34

I remember one year, we sewed up the y in my dad's y fronts. He worked nights, and didn't notice before he left for work that day. So we were all waiting the next morning to see his reaction when he came home. Luckily he laughed as much as we did. I miss him so much.

SammyScrounge · 01/04/2023 00:47

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

That's cruel.

eenymeenymineymo · 01/04/2023 00:51

I remember our local radio station announcing on AF morning that a beer tanker had tipped over just on the outskirts of our wee town. The beer was pouring out, couldn't be stopped & listeners were told to get down there asap with buckets & flagons to collect all they wanted.

It was a literal stampede - & no beer tanker of course. But the radio host had got down there too with the local paper. Was very funny at the time.

And some very not-amused people hoping to collect free beer.

Thegirlisnotright · 01/04/2023 08:02

One year the kids had mini cereal boxes. I carefully opened the bottom , replaced the cereal with cat biscuits then sealed it up. From the top, it looked like it hadn’t been touched. Kids were very surprised, but still got their cereal which I had kept safe and cat food free.

SeaDee · 01/04/2023 08:33

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

Your work colleague was a wanker

Zuffe · 01/04/2023 08:42

Arriving back from a night out, a fellow student found his room furniture and belongings missing, with the room bedded down with straw and a couple of calves in it.

PuddleglumtheMarshWiggle · 01/04/2023 08:45

One year I put blue food colouring in a bottle of milk and told the 2 teenagers that the milkman had delivered blue milk. They believed me!
Another time I got up at 4am and swapped the milk bottles for beer. I left a note saying that this a substitute. DH was very surprised when he brought the milk in. But also very pleased when he realised that we had both milk and beer.

PuddleglumtheMarshWiggle · 01/04/2023 08:46

That should be blue whale milk!

WitchDancer · 01/04/2023 08:51

Does anyone remember the flying penguins, also done by the BBC?

Snoopsnoggysnog · 01/04/2023 08:57

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

How can you find this funny?

peeweechigs · 01/04/2023 09:35

SapphosRock · 31/03/2023 19:35

I remember my older teenage brother having a long lie in the morning we were due to go on holiday. My parents drove the car with all our luggage around the corner, we moved all the clocks forward by 4 hours and then hid.

His face when he woke up and thought we'd left him behind Grin

How did you see his face if you weren't there?

QueenBeaver · 01/04/2023 09:37

This morning I told my husband there was a leak under the bath. It wasn’t untrue, it’s just us was a leek with ‘April Fools’ written on it!! It helped that the bath panel was off as the plumber had been round this week to fix an actual leak under the bath so it was quite believable when I told him 😆

KnickerlessParsons · 01/04/2023 09:43

StevenB1 · 31/03/2023 19:59

Simple one for me was when one of my work colleagues at the time had bought another one a fake scratch card 🙃 that was it for him, early retirement, buying everyone something nice, he walked out and went home...he wasn't as happy after about an hour 😄

That's just not funny. Practical jokes rarely are.

Girasoli · 01/04/2023 09:47

DS1 and I told DH there was a "bad leak" under the sink one year - cue a big leek with an angry face drawn on hiding amongst the cleaning products.

DH brought me a coffee in bed this morning...with salt instead of sugar. After I congratulated him on his comic genius he did make me a proper coffee.

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