April 1st...

[rowangolightly]

First it's da Kidling's birthday. Happy Birthday, Amber!

Second, I really don't care for April 1st as in April Foole's Day. No, I don't. This doesn't mean that I don't have a good sense of humor. It simply means that this is a form of puerile humor that leaves me cold.

I used to be married to a clown. You have NO IDEA how many stupid, moronic, sophomoric jokes I was the butt of during the 14 years of the relationship. Salt in the sugar, vaseline on the toilet seat, rubber band over the handle of the kitchen sink sprayer so when I turned on the faucet I got sprayed, egg in the bottom of a shoe (oh YES, that one went over really well...he had it dumped onto his desk!) and many, many others.

He never, even at the age of 40, stopped doing the 'opening the door against his foot but acting like it hit him in the nose' trick. ha. ha. ha. /sarcasm. So that once when he really did hit himself in the face with the door, I burst out laughing so hard I damnear peed my pants. Really.

We are NOT amused. Don't....just, please don't. This is simply fair warning.

Comments

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

I am so right there with you. I don't get the practical part of the practical joke. They just irritate me.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's it exactly.

[ravenchilde-art.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Some of the gamer humor last night and today has been entertaining. Inevitably, there are some folks who walk right into it as well. ^_^

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Well sure...but being one of the ones who inevitably walks right into it, it ceases to be funny.

One doesn't like to continuously be the butt of the joke.

The rubberband around the faucet ended up being funny though 'cause I left it on there and he got himself later in the day. He was SO pissed. THEN I laughed....

[mljm.livejournal.com]

I don't care for April Fool's jokes either. Just a nice, normal day please.

Wm has gotten me with a few jokes (never on April Fool's though) and does the elevator and hitting his nose trick for the kids, but thankfully he isn't a big prankster.

Now he has been known.... and if we bring the Mercer twins into the mix....

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Well, they elevate it to an art form.

I'm SO delighted to see them on the schedule for Norman Medieval Faire. I am SO making sure that Bruce-bossman goes to see one of their shows. I want them at JRF next year....

[sherwood21.livejournal.com]

So that once when he really did hit himself in the face with the door, I burst out laughing so hard I damnear peed my pants. Really.

I nearly peed myself a little reading that! :D

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

*hehe* Yeah, there's nothing quite so funny as the perennial jokester getting it with his own joke. I just commented the end result of the faucet one to Pete; you'll like that one too, I have no doubt.

[theslice.livejournal.com]

We are NOT amused.

Rose Tyler: [after meeting Queen Victoria] I want to hear her say
Rose Tyler: [she puts on an affected upper-classed accent] 'We are not amused'. Bet you five quid I can get her to say it.
The Doctor: Taking that bet would be an abuse of my time traveling privileges.
Rose Tyler: Ten quid?
The Doctor: You're on.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

*hee* I would love to see that episode. People confuse which of the two female English monarchs said that all the time.

[dleighb.livejournal.com]

My husband loves April Fool's. But, no juvenile jokes for him such as vaseline on the toilet seat. Oh no. One year he rigged up a box and mailed it to his friend so that it would arrive on April 1. When his friend opened it, the "trap" was triggered and that box filler popcorn sprayed everywhere. Oh, and then there ws the year that he wired the light switch to deliver a quick "zap" when it was turned on. Then there was the time he wrapped a co-workers cube in aluminum foil. He wrapped everything so that it was perfectly usable through the day. I think he stopped short of wrapping each individual key on the keyboard.

There are also some with whom he will not play because they have the same devious minds that he has and it could escalate into a bloodbath.

For me, the first year of dating, he just smiled when he walked by. He later told me the joke was the inspired paranoia. I was not amused. He doesn't do anything to me for April Fool's anymore.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

He's a wise man....

[ellipser.livejournal.com]

I don't mind website jokes or ones that get you thinking (like the Gmail bit I posted earlier) but I hate practical jokes. In the past I was always the butt of them (yes, another ex husband who thought they were hilarious) and I would always end up being mortified.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

I LOATHE being made fun of...which some people think is insecurity or lack of sense of humor. No, I just dislike cruelty .

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling if I had been married to that clown he would no longer be "with us." A good candidate for one of my favorite lines, "One morning you're gonna wake up dead."

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

You notice that he's not married anymore...went through one more after me and she didn't last nearly as long.

[ayeamspartacus.livejournal.com]

I detest clowns.
Over and out.

[ladyniniane.livejournal.com]

Amen to that...

[ann-mcn.livejournal.com]

My ex told jokes and made puns. All the time. He used them as a blunt weapon. If I said, "Stop, it isn't funny" he'd take it as encouragement to keep on going. Had a really bad temper on top of the joke-telling, to give a whiplash effect for people living with him.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Sounds familiar....but at least I think my ex has finally learned to control his temper. I'm happy for him and happy for me that I don't have to deal with him.

[starseeking.livejournal.com]

1. I hate clowns.
2. I adore your self restraint.
3. I fail to see why this day "must" be funny.

[stacymckenna.livejournal.com]

I abhor being made to feel a fool. This day triggers all sorts of buttons with me about trust and honesty. ABHORRENCE. HATRED.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Yep. The worst idea in the world is snickering at me when I've done something silly or spilled something or am frustrated with something. The Kidling has learned that the hard way several times. It does not make for a happy Rowan.

[ladykerridwen.livejournal.com]

for the most part people dont pull practical jokes over on me. but ive had 3 really good ones happen.

1. last year at faire, one of the girls was talking about how she never wants kids blah blah blah. the following weekend on the day she was not out her best friends went around saying she was prego. sunday when she came out she had people coming up to her asking if she was and thankfully i wasnt one of them but by late afternoon he came over and let me in on the joke. it was a great set up and i believed him i just didnt want to mention it to her, since i didnt wanna be nosey..... yeah im so glad i didnt.


2. 2 years ago the weekend before april fools weekend 1 of the kids at faire announced at our sunday night dennys post faire gathering that over the weekend Cary Elwys (Princess Bride dude) had died. We all had a moment of silence and were saddened. Monday i went hunting for info, couldnt find squat. Saturday morning at cast call he got up and said "Those of you at dennys last sunday, you all remember the announcement i made....APRIL FOOLS!" yeah bastard.

#3 and the best one yet. 4 ish years ago my staff pulled the meanest yet best trick ever. at midnight i get a text message calling out sick (it was normal for her to do so that way) and at 730 i got a phone call from another girl saying her son was sick and she was staying home (her hubby was in jail at the time so i couldnt exactly make him stay home w/ the kid) and at 830 my only other staff member called in sick. When she called i told her no, she had to come in that there was no way i could work alone. she came up w/ some BS story about cramps and puking and hung up on me. so i try calling my other 2 staff members to get 1 of them in. no answers. call back #3 no answer. im getting pissed off and freaking out because i cant run the office alone, especially at the 1st of the month with rent and commissions and everything. i was loosing it. i was just about to call admin and let them know what my staff had so selfishly done to me when all 3 of them come walking in the back door yelling april fools at me. i was SO pissed off. and to make it up to myself i left work 2 hours early that day..... now its freaking funny as all hell. at the time, i coulda killed them all.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's why I don't like them. My father did a lot of travelling for work. Some sicky called my mother saying that my father had been in a car wreck, either not knowing or caring that she'd been in a serious one just six months before and was a nervous wreck anyway. With my dad on the road, that caused an incident that nearly wound up with her back in the hospital.

If it's not funny *then* even to the one it's being pulled on, I ain't interested in it at all.

[kryspykitty.livejournal.com]

Not a big fan of the "April Fools" concept either, perhaps it's because I am totally gullible and will fall for just about anything (I have this annoying habit of giving the people the benefit of a doubt and taking what they say at face value.Go figure).Or maybe because it seems all the "practical jokes" I have seen have always been somehow mean spirited and condescending to the *victim*.:/

And I think comparing being a prankster to "having a sense of humor" is like comparing apples and oranges.Imho.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY....

[oligonicella.livejournal.com]

Jokes, japes and jests have their place. Anything can be over or under done.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

True. And comedy is in the eye of the beholder. But somebody pulling a trick on me to make a fool of me will end up beholding me kicking their arse.

[ladybarnard.livejournal.com]

My sister texted me this morning to tell me Al Gore was running for president. I totally bought it and spent about 15 minutes on a carefully constructed political rant for my LJ before it dawned on me to fact-check. *blushes*

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

I'm gullible too...of course, that can also be interpreted as being trusting and willing to accept people as they are!

[apocalypticbob.livejournal.com]

There are funny jokes where everyone laughs, and then there are malicious pranks that amuse only the prankster and cruel bystanders.

I enjoy the first and detest the second.

As for clowns...you know how I feel about them.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Yep, indeed....

[ladyniniane.livejournal.com]

I stopped liking April Fool's Day after I read "Stranger in a Strange Land" and realized (like Michael Valentine Smith) that human jokes were most often based on something that caused pain and anguish to someone else. That was a real eye-opener for me.

As for clowns, I freely admit to being coulrophobic. No trigger that I know of, just a basic uneasiness when confronted by one. I avoid them whenever possible.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

That's not what I've been told....

*g*

[gladius-apricum.livejournal.com]

After as long as we've known each other... still, I can learn something new about you.

That's awesome.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

*lol* Yep, there's always something more.

I MISS you, btw.