Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦Someone suggested not pulling any April Fool's pranks this year and I think we all need to get on board with that.
Because, you know, all this.
Dark Matter Zine@StaceyCornelius Josh Johnson and the guy who hosts the daily show podcast chatted about that and about how April Fools is just fraught now. TBH I tend to think of April fools as being quite nasty, mean spirited. But my fave pranks: an Aussie radio show asked ppl to cut a bit of their lawn & leave it out the front for collection to take to the Antarctic to create a footy field; Princess Di’s very public super weird birthing event so weird that I thought WTF until I remembered it was April Fools
@DarkMatterZine The one prank I really enjoy has been going on for years, on the CBC Radio show As It Happens.
They always have one fake story on April 1. Their writers are fantastic, so it's extra fun trying to figure out which one is the prank story.
One year it was the announcement of a $3 coin. Some listeners fell for it. There were irate emails.
I dislike mean-spirited pranks, but the patchwork footy field is pretty fun.
@StaceyCornelius yes, me too. I like the fun ones though.