Reality being what it is, April Fool jokes generally fail. But, to feed your appetite, here and here are some largely unfunny gags, though I did like the Vilcus Plug Dactyloadapter. The problem is, of course, knowing what is or isn't a gag. This hunt for condom testers, for example, seems wildly implausible, but it is datelined March 29th and it seems unlikely the BBC have taken to running phony stories on any day they feel like it. Bulgaria buying a fleet of 32 Porsche Cayennes to use as ambulances feels improbable, but this is dated March 30th and this is, let's face it, Bulgaria. And what of the Plagiarism Museum? Who can say? But, in spite of the March 31st deadline, I'm sure the news that Sir Alex Ferguson blames reality TV for the attacks on Steve McLaren is a gag. 'We have a mocking situation in this country now,' is a bit of a dead giveaway. But what of this epistemological nightmare from Amanda Marcotte's sensational and sporadically intelligible Pandagon blog? A gag or not? It brought to mind Freud's question - 'What do women want?' And it provided an answer - 'There is no way we - or they - can ever know.'
A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
You want a brilliant April 1st joke? Try buying Glastonbury tickets. Complete and utter chaos yet again. Nice to see pre-registration has worked so well.
ReplyDeleteChin up, Johnny. Vilcus Plug Dactyloadapter users report that 'those that survived reported a feeling of euphoria and well being.'
ReplyDelete'What do women want?' Of course they don't know what,
ReplyDeletethey just know they want MORE.
My bloody car is a joke! Sorry, bad day.
ReplyDeleteWe are here to help in any way we can, Lee.
ReplyDeleteHow reassuring. Well its a classic Mini Cooper and the problems started way back in...... God I'm boring myself!
ReplyDeleteImagine really being fooled by something on April 1st but it wasn't meant to be funny but was because of it. That would be very funny!
ReplyDeleteAmanda wrote that Hugo got a terrific post up.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it I can't get beyond that first sentence?