Best April Fools you've seen today

[DotAndBuzz]

Not the mean crap/things that embarrass people, but light hearted or really smart, believable ones. I'll start:

-Local BBQ place (legendary, food truck, get in line early because it sells out - THAT kind of a place) makes an announcement that they're switching to only veggies, leaving meats behind. Smoked avocado toast, St. Louis spare radishes, etc. 

- Today's NYT Connections was....something. 

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- Younger daughter fell for the one about the new color of golden retriever, SILVER, because it was born near a silver mine. I gave her a look like "are you sure that sounds legit?" And she read me the WHOLE post, 100% believing it.

[sproctopus]

I pretended I enjoyed going to work. OMG, it was hilarious. Everyone thought I liked my job!! I might have to do this one again next year.

[cereal K]

On FB, I saw Dole announcing a new banana sleeping bag. I know it was a joke, but it honestly looked kinda cool!

[expectantsteelerfan]

Our local chocolate company posted their new treat, the spotted lantern fly bar, for a sweet treat with a kick of protein, to put those pesky invasive species to good use.

[sugarbear1]

Connections really threw me! It took me a minute to realize what day it was.

[georgeharrison]

The Seahawks mascot, Blitz, said he's retiring and it broke my heart. Like I actually almost cried. He's my second favorite Seahawk. No "haha, April fools" yet, but I am hoping it is.

[CurlyQ284]

A local bakery makes a bunch of funny cakes like this, so you can take a bite and freak out everyone in the room with you 😂

[fivechickens]

Coach announced a line of toothpaste. I didn’t roll my eyes too much at that one so that’s a win in my book.

[tacokick]

Old Bay launching a line of body care.

I think there are some disappointed Marylanders when they realized it wasn’t real!

[cereal K]

I just got this email from HiSmile (an Australian toothpaste company with a strong SM game that influenced me to get my kids donut and chocolate flavored toothpaste for their Easter baskets:

 

Again...I would probably try one or two of those bc I'm weird like that. 

[InBetweenDays]

Apr 1, 2024 15:02:10 GMT -5 georgeharrison said:

The Seahawks mascot, Blitz, said he's retiring and it broke my heart. Like I actually almost cried. He's my second favorite Seahawk. No "haha, April fools" yet, but I am hoping it is.

Oh my gosh I hope this is an April Fool's! Where did you see it? I need to send it to H and the kids.
Found it!

[cereal K]

Apr 1, 2024 15:06:33 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

A local bakery makes a bunch of funny cakes like this, so you can take a bite and freak out everyone in the room with you 😂

100% would eat! love this!

[bcv513]

Apr 1, 2024 15:06:33 GMT -5 CurlyQ284 said:

A local bakery makes a bunch of funny cakes like this, so you can take a bite and freak out everyone in the room with you 😂

I saw a friend do the opposite and decorate a sponge to look like a brownie. Then she served it to her husband

[liverandonions]

Crumbl posted their sugar cookie and had a finger coming in over top of it and each time it changed colors and they said it was a mood changing cookie

[eddy]

My son got my husband good. He asked if he had to go to school today because he stayed up all night watching One Piece. We don’t allow devices in the bedroom so H was like WTF!! He totally fell for it and then DS got to tell him April Fools. I even participated and added my own dramatic flair to make it all believable. 🤣

[erbear]

We didn't have school today, so we set the kids' clocks back to 7:30 and ran in at 10:30 and were all "get up! you're late for school!!"

I thought it was funny.

[rubytue]

Instagram suggesting a new Olympic exhibition where opposite genders compete. It was fencing specific, but could apply to so many sports. And it would be awesome to see the women smack down on the men.

www.instagram.com/reel/C5OFFH4rSYM/?igsh=Z2FoeXoxbHdob2x4

[mofongo]

Apr 1, 2024 15:02:10 GMT -5 georgeharrison said:

The Seahawks mascot, Blitz, said he's retiring and it broke my heart. Like I actually almost cried. He's my second favorite Seahawk. No "haha, April fools" yet, but I am hoping it is.

This one has me confused, wouldn’t they just replace the person behind Blitz?

[bigoleworm]

Our local police department announced that a Cracker Barrel was getting built in town. I fell for it

[cricketwife]

Apr 1, 2024 14:23:22 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

- Today's NYT Connections was....something. 

lol, I totally didn’t realize that it was an April’s Fool’s joke. I was like “oooh, we’ve never had one like this before!”   I’m so gullible!  🤦‍♀️

My kids like to do any/all of my word games with me and they thought it was great! 

there’s a local weather guy who over 20 years ago did this “report” on the marshmallow crop at a local farm.  It gets replayed every year for fun.  I always get a kick out of it. 

[flex]

I have a monthly subscription of coffee from a roaster in Alaska. Best coffee beans evah!
Anyway, I received an email saying that they're switching from coffee to tea, and offered a coupon code for 20% off of coffee beans because they have a lot of coffee to sell before they switch to tea.

While I was reading the email, I was thinking "what the everlovin' fuck?? I LOVE my coffee!! How can this be???" ::insert a Flex freakout here::

Well, farther down the email I read: "APRIL FOOLS!!! We're not really switching to tea, but the coupon code is not an April Fools joke!"

So crisis adverted--whew! But...I'm not buying an extra coffee beans even with the coupon. They charge $16 for shipping alone. So even with 20% a bag of beans for $18.95, I'd still have to pay over $30. No thank you.

P.S. The subscription I currently have does not charge for shipping, but I can't use the code for my subscription--sad trombone.

[starburst604]

This didn’t actually happen, but a friend joked I should tell H I’ve thought about it and we don’t need lawyers, just a mediator. Then yell “APRIL FOOLS ASSHOLE!” 😂

[katfco]

My favorite was from several years ago. A friend worked in the University Relations department of a school that was on the 8th floor the building. Housing was on the ninth floor, and they redid the reception area of the 8th floor to look like the 9th. The only clue was that instead of Housing, the sign said Hosing.

The video shows people all day doing double takes, retrying the elevator, even going down to the Logan’s trying the other elevator.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SzbulqH0I4g

[DotAndBuzz]

OOOH, I remember the best one that got me in a while.

I discovered the podcast "Crime Junkie" about a year or so ago, and was binging old episodes to catch up. Like, listening to TONS back to back, so had no idea what the original dates were of broadcasts. I hear one about a woman named Estee, and the host (Ashley) in her narration, goes on to tell the story about this woman who disappeared, and who's bff suspected her husband (who moved super fast after the death with his mistress), and seems to have then murdered him, and framed the mistress, but there was never a body, so no one really knows what happened. And I was like HOLY SHIT TAYLOR SWIFT LISTENED TO THIS PODCAST AND WROTE THAT SONG!

Friends, I *typed up a FB message to the podcast* as I was listening to the episode, like "so, I think Taylor is a crime junkie!" Thank God I waited to send it till the end of the episode, because it was an April fools episode from like 2 years prior to the date I was listening, had written the episode around the song (obviously, to everyone but me, lol). The relief I felt when I deleted that message was indescribable.

[rubytue]

A good friend almost got me today. He told me he got a job offer he couldn’t refuse in Korea. And… there are a lot of reasons this was plausible.

[mysteriouswife]

DS came home with a word search to complete and return tomorrow. None of the words in the bank were in the scrambled words. He had H and I working on it for a solid 15 mins. Then he said it was April Fools that his teacher played on them today.

[pizzaandtulips]

Duolingo advertised a Duolingo on Ice show. The trailer for it is pretty elaborate!

[al dente]

This is absolute dad joke territory. My friend put water bottles into shoes and placed them by the kitchen sink in a running pattern. Then told her H there was water running on the floor by the sink.

Visually it was funny compared to reading it back now lol.

[mrsd2006]

I play a word game, and there is a daily puzzle and all the words in the puzzle were backwards. It was fun.

[liverandonions]

Apr 1, 2024 20:47:17 GMT -5 katfco said:

My favorite was from several years ago. A friend worked in the University Relations department of a school that was on the 8th floor the building. Housing was on the ninth floor, and they redid the reception area of the 8th floor to look like the 9th. The only clue was that instead of Housing, the sign said Hosing.

The video shows people all day doing double takes, retrying the elevator, even going down to the Logan’s trying the other elevator.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=SzbulqH0I4g

This is hilarious 😂