{"id":208,"date":"2009-04-01T18:10:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T02:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2009-04-01T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T05:40:12","slug":"day-49-april-fools-day-jokes-that-require-excessive-commitment-prior-to-the-actual-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Day 49: april fool&rsquo;s day jokes that require excessive commitment prior to the actual day"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Secretly become pregnant and wear large clothing for several months or simply disappear to a writer\u2019s retreat.&#160; On April 1, arrive home and immediately give birth.<\/li>\n<li>Work for a bank until you are trusted enough to handle the money that goes into stocking an ATM.&#160; Write \u201cThere\u2019s an ostrich behind you!\u201d on every bill you stock in the ATM the night before April 1.&#160; Also, raise and train an ostrich to trust you and to squawk \u201cApril Fools!\u201d&#160; When you go to the ATM with your friend, they\u2019ll see the message, scoff at the ridiculousness of it, then turn around and see you riding a talking ostrich.<\/li>\n<li>Create a fake Twitter account for your friend which, through viral means, becomes insanely popular.&#160; Use this as a launching point for registering your friend as a candidate for city council and schedule a speech and rally on April 1 with printouts of his face.&#160; Joke about how it\u2019s funny that your friend shares the same name as a famous politician and convince him to go to the rally.&#160; When he arrives, just before he gets cheered onto the stage, yell \u201cApril Fools!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Plant an assortment of flowers in your friend\u2019s front lawn that, when blooming, spell \u201cApril Fools!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Have identical twins, but raise them in separate environments until they are teenagers.&#160; Then, arrange for them go out one night to the same place and to go to adjoining bathrooms at the same time.&#160; Install a \u201cfake\u201d mirror between the bathrooms and watch as they try to figure out why their reflection is being all weird.<\/li>\n<li>Invest in the field of robotics until research has progressed to a stage where you can get a fully functioning robot hand that looks and feels like human skin.&#160; Replace your hand with the robot hand and go to shake your friend\u2019s hand.&#160; When they shake, send a small shock through your hand, then use the built-in flamethrower to light their pants on fire.&#160; Don\u2019t forget to say \u201cApril Fools!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Become the charismatic leader of a extremist group that wins popular approval and a government position through democratic means.&#160; Ascend in power and over time, transform the country into a dystopian fascist state.&#160; Arrange to have a friend seized and executed on April 1, but as they put on the blindfold, it says \u201cApril Fools!\u201d on the inside of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretly become pregnant and wear large clothing for several months or simply disappear to a writer\u2019s retreat.&#160; On April 1, arrive home and immediately give birth. 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