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posted by on Saturday April 01 2017, @08:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the strange-days dept.

If you haven't noticed already, today is April 1st, otherwise known as April Fool's Day.

Writers are a creative lot and very occasionally use this day as an excuse to let their creative juices flow — as they are often granted some discretion by those who watch over their work.

In years past, I've had times where I decided I'd just give up on surfing the web at all, given the plethora of nonsense that got posted. "Sure, it might have seemed funny when you wrote it, but it sure didn't do much of anything for me." I know I am not the only one who has felt this way. Once in a while, though, I do stumble upon a real gem that makes me bust out laughing.

Given all the noise of the half-baked stories out there, the well-crafted prank stories can be hard to find. Let's use this story to post links to the best April Fool's Stories. Funny stories are, of course, desired. So too are bizarre, but genuine, stories. Bring it on!


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  • (Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Saturday April 01 2017, @08:42AM

    by FakeBeldin (3360) on Saturday April 01 2017, @08:42AM (#487532) Journal

    One of the oldest and most beaten-to-death April Fool's jokes has got to be "your shoelace is untied".
    One day, I managed to put a spin on it that had me laughing out loud for a solid 10 minutes though :)

    One April Fool's day, during my student years, I was at the study association. This club had a bar in its main room, and a small room housing a few computers for working on association-related tasks, door between the two. The bar was on the opposite corner of the main room from the door to the computer room. From the room, you could see the bar and the couches in front of it, but not much more. The bar was used weekly for a social evening, but there were also snacks and non-alcoholic drinks there that you could grab at any point in the day.

    I was working at one of the computers, when a friend walked in behind the bar to grab a coke or somesuch. This was a reasonably normal bar: floor to chest-height. I called out to my friend (of whom I could see the top 3rd at best), from behind my computer, and said "Hey! Your shoelace is untied."
    The reply: "oh thanks", and he looked down and bend over to correct his shoes at that point.

    Just to be clear: there was a couch, a coffee table, and a 1.4m high non-transparent bar between his shoes and my eyes.

    I recall that everyone in the room lost it at that point :)

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