Spring 2009 - Issue 5

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April Fools for April Fools’

Anatol v. Zitzewitz, Staff Writer

April Fool’s Day always comes with many funny surprises that sometimes are nice, but in certain cases this can be unpleasant to the person whom a prank is being played on.
Following is a list of some pranks that work wonderfully on April fool’s day, and also some select jokes to keep your laugh-repertoire on the latest status.

Prank

In class: Change the dry-board marker your professor uses into a permanent marker. His lecture will not be forgotten so fast…If this prank is too extreme you can instead pour soap into the water-spray-bottle your teacher uses to lubricate the blackboard, that way it will be nearly impossible for him to put notes on the backboard when he writes with chalk.
You can also change the time of your in-class clock so that you will maybe be released from class early.

Joke

My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table. 
My wife asked, “Do you know her?”
“Yes,” I sighed, “She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.”
“My God!” says my wife, “who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?”

Prank

Pour Kool-Aid on your roommate’s towel, use the same flavor Kool-Aid as the color of your roommate’s towel. For example if the towel is red, use the red strawberry or cherry flavor. Now, when your roommate gets ready to dry himself off after showering his body will be tainted in whichever color his towel was. Caution, this may burn in the eyes and takes lots of work to wash off.

Joke

Talking about wedding-gifts, a woman said, “I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 200 in less than 5 seconds.”
Her fiancée brought home a bathroom scale.

Prank

Pour laxatives into your victim’s morning coffee; then notice how often he will visit the restroom during the course of the day. A less extreme version is putting a fat chunk of green wasabi onto your classmate’s lunch sandwich. It will be a spicy experience.

Joke

A woman is standing in her pajamas, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not
happy with what she sees and says to her husband: “I feel horrible; I look old, wrinkly and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.” 
The husband replies, “Your eyesight is as good as it was forty years ago.”

And one more joke for the road

A man and a woman were asleep like two innocent babies.  Suddenly, at 3 O'clock in the morning, a loud noise came from outside, disorienting both of them.  The woman, bewildered, jumped up from the bed and yelled at the man: “Holy crap! That must be my husband!” So the man jumped out of the bed, grabbed his clothes and jumped naked out the window. He cut himself on the broken glass, landed hard in a mud-puddle, and ran through a thorn bush and to his car.
A few minutes later he returned, went up to the bedroom and screamed at the woman: “I AM your husband!”
The woman yelled back, “Yeah, then why were you running?”

Hope I gave you some enlightening April fool’s ideas for next year, and also wish that one of these jokes put a smile on your face. Cheers (-;