Spring has certainly sprung, for my wife has sneakily poured cold water down the back of my pants.

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It's past midday just about everywhere in the world, which means April Fools is dead and gone. @npr takes a look at the mysterious origins of the "hilarious" pranking day. We want to know: What's your attitude to April 1 jokes (choose as many as you like)?

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#Pranks #PracticalJokes #AprilFools #Lifestyle #Culture

"No, that's the point. I grok people. I am people, so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much & because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting."
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I looked at a cageful of monkeys and suddenly I saw all the mean and cruel and utterly unexplainable things I've seen and heard and read about in the time I've been with my own people and suddenly it hurt so much I found myself laughing."
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All practical jokes supported Mike's thesis, even ones as mild as a dribble glass - and when it came to an interne's notion of a practical joke - well, internes and medical students should be kept in cages. What else? ... "Apparently the pratfall is the peak of all humor. It's not a pretty picture of the human race, Mike."

-- Robert Anson #Heinlein A Stranger in a Strange Land

quote #laugh #humor #practicaljokes #human #hurting

Years ago, I was friends with a real trickster. Sometimes if he was at someone's house where the folks had cats, he would shit in the litter box so the cat owners would freak out come time to change the litter.

But then he got caught in flagrante delicto, and there was no explaining it away.

Imagine catching someone shitting in a litter box.

Bonkers.
#PracticalJokes #trickster #KittyLitter #cats #shit

It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Hunting #HuntingSeason #Reindeer #Deertodon #DeerSeason #Pranks #PracticalJokes #Deer #WabbitSeason #Surprises

New #librivox #audiobook: A children’s story with some Shakespeare thrown in for good measure. Surprise House, by Abbie Farwell Brown. https://librivox.org/surprise-house-by-abbie-farwell-brown/

#secrets #PracticalJokes #ShakespeareQuotes

As practical jokes go, drawing a penis on a sleeping dude’s forehead is pretty lame.*

*Unless the sleeping dude is Dwayne Johnson or Prince MBS.

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