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A moment later everyone was startled by what sounded like the explosion of a firecracker. It was a trick knife that exploded when Hank started to use it.

Suddenly and with no reason at all a candle went out. In a few minutes out went another, to be followed by others at short intervals. In a very short time the table was in darkness. As soon as possible we relighted the candles and the meal progressed.

When Ruth discovered a big spider on the sweet peas the girls were horrified. It turned out to be a fake as were the crickets which filled the sugar bowl.

When Teddy passed the pickle dish a huge butterfly flew from under it and sailed across the table. Of course, the boys had to retrieve the butterfly and examine it and then try it again and again.

All these paper novelties are inexpensive and can be purchased at any novelty shop. The trick with the candles was simple. Cut a candle clear across through the wick any distance you wish from the top, depending on how long you want it to burn. Then heat the severed parts and press wax together. The cut is not then noticeable. The candle will burn until it gets down to the cut wick when it goes out.

By the time the dessert of upside-down cake an appropriate April Fool’s Day dessert had been devoured, these young moderns were ready for an evening of fun. They were much intrigued with that very appropriate April Fool game of “I Doubt It.”

There were eight youngsters. We used two decks of playing cards shuffled together. The cards were all dealt around the table. The object of the game is to get rid of one’s cards.

The first person playing starts with ones or aces. He picks a given number of cards from his hand and says, laying them face down in the center of the table, “I am playing three aces.” If he looks honest and you think he is playing just three cards and they are aces, no one “doubts it.” The next person in line plays twos, the third threes, etc. At any time anyone playing may “doubt” the honesty of the player.

If the player has misstated his play and someone “doubts” it, the player takes the whole pile of cards which has accumulated in the center of the table. If he has stated his play correctly, the doubter takes the whole pile. If it is the players turn to play fours and he does not have any, he substitutes something else and still announces he is playing fours. Perhaps he will get by with it and perhaps his bluff will be called by a “doubter.”

The winner gets a prize and the loser (the one with the most cards in his hands when the game is finished) gets a dunce’s cap.

This game turned out to be so interesting that the evening was gone and it was time to go home before anyone realized it. The youngsters declared the party had been the most fun of any April Fool party they could remember. As they left for their homes they were still trying to get “April Fool” on each other.

There is no wrong in saying that it is a day for youngsters. A day full of doubt. Fool your party guest, it will delight them more.

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

Many observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline and has yet to yield concrete achievements in peacemaking.

President for less than two weeks. Is this some kind of sick joke?

Let’s take a look at the president’s first 12 days in the White House according to his public schedule to see what he did to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize:

January 20: Sworn in as president. Went to a parade. Partied.

January 21: Asked bureaucrats to re-write guidelines for information requests. Held an “open house” party at the White House.

January 22: Signed Executive Orders: Executive Branch workers to take ethics pledge; re-affirmed Army Field Manual techniques for interrogations; expressed desire to close Gitmo (how’s that working out?)

January 23: Ordered the release of federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries. Lunch with Joe Biden; met with Tim Geithner.

January 24: Budget meeting with economic team.

January 25: Skipped church.

January 26: Gave speech about jobs and energy. Met with Hillary Clinton. Attended Geithner’s  swearing in ceremony.

January 27: Met with Republicans. Spoke at a clock tower in Ohio.

January 28: Economic meetings in the morning, met with Defense secretary in the afternoon.

January 29: Signed Ledbetter Bill overturning Supreme Court decision on lawsuits over wages. Party in the State Room. Met with Biden.

January 30: Met economic advisers. Gave speech on Middle Class Working Families Task Force. Met with senior enlisted military officials.

January 31: Took the day off.

February 1: Skipped church. Threw a Super Bowl party.

So there you have it. The short path to the Nobel Peace Prize: Party, go to meetings, skip church, release federal funding to pay for abortions in foreign countries, party some more.

Good grief.

I killed just over 100 tonight.

It only took me about an hour. I guess if I had had more resources, I could have done in some more but 100 a night is an OK result.

When I saw them sitting there – although my obsession is fairly well controlled  - when I saw them they were harmless. I had to walk past. That was what I had been conditioned to do – to walk on past them. But it’s difficult. They were watching me. When they look at me, I’ve got to look back. You just know you’re being looked at don’t you. It’s like when you’re walking down the road in Italy on 1st April with a fish pinned to your back. It’s their April fool – they call it “pesce d’aprile”. You just know they’re watching you.

They were alive when I saw them at first. They were sitting passively, like aristos going to their death in the Place de la Republique, the tricoteuses clicking away, in time with the periodic thud of the blade on the aristos’ necks, a second one as the head dropped into the basket alive still for a few seconds, the eyes blinking once before closing in death.

My victims didn’t want to look at me. They knew.

I shuffled them into some sort of order, discarding those that had died before I got to them: shock, suicide, poison – who knows how or why. It’s always this way you never get a complete batch to dispatch. Disappointing in some ways.

I selected the knife. A long thin blade. Sharp. An easy handle. I caressed the handle, making it one with my arm and hand. I tested the blade carefully against my thumb. You could feel the sharpness; you could see the edge glinting in the glare of the fluorescent light, casting flashes of light on the walls, across the victims.

Those who were alive, were about to die. Unlike the gladiators, “nos moritui te salutamus” did not cross their lips. They remained tightly closed. It was as decreed and they knew that.

I played with some of them, teasing them, scraping the knife sometimes roughly, sometimes gently against their coldness, before allowing them to commune with their God for the remaining seconds of their life.

I prepared the death chamber.

I threw them inside and sealed the entrance.

They died calmly as if they expected to die this way.

I opened the seal and scooped the mussels on to the three plates and after thickening the soup ladled a few spoons of the creamy liquor over the top.

Buon appetito.

Why? What did you think this post was about?

JohnF

I am aware that “April Fool” (1964) had some great songs. But even I was not awrae of this song.

As it turns out, I think this song is perhaps the best song of the movie. This song is a duet song sung by Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur. It is written by Hasrat Jaipuri and music is composed by Shankar Jaikishan. This song is a romantic song as well as a boat song picturised on Vishwajeet and Saira Bano.

Rafi is divine as ever, and the same can be said about Suman kalyanpur. What sweet and melodious voice she had !

Song-Kah do kah do jahaan se kah do (April Fool) (1964) Singers-Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur, Lyrics-Hasrat Jaipuri,MD- Shankar Jaikishan

Lyrics

kah do kah do jahaan se kah do ishq par zor nahin
kah do kah do jahaan se kah do ishq par zor nahin
mar jaayenge ik doosre par machegaa koyi shor nahin
kah do kah do jahaan se kah do ishq par zor nahin
mar jaayenge ik doosre par machegaa koyi shor nahin
kah do kah do jahaan se kah do ishq par zor nahin

teraa tasavvur sataaye subah-o-shaam
pyaar bharaa toofaan uthaaye subah-o-shaam
sapne suhaane dikhaaye subah-o-shaam
dil ki zubaan par rachaa hai teraa naam
haay tumsaa kahaan se laaun
jahaan mein koyi aur nahin
haay tumsaa kahaan se laaun
jahaan mein koyi aur nahin
mar jaayenge ik doosre par machegaa koyi shor nahin
kah do kah do jahaan se kah do ishq par zor nahin

deep kahin jale patangaa wahin jaaye
chaand kahin khile chakoraa wahin jaaye
phool kahin mahke to bhanwraa wahin jaaye
dil kaa papeehaa tere hi paas aaye
meraa dil hai wo paagal panchhi
ke aisaa to chakor nahin
meraa dil hai wo paagal panchhi
ke aisaa to chakor nahin
mar jaayenge ik doosre par machegaa koyi shor nahin
kah do kah do jahaan se kah do ishq par zor nahin

pyaar ki agan mein jale hain do badan
kam nahin hogi ye pyaar ki lagan
pyaar hai wo sholaa bujhegaa naa kabhi
chaahe kitnaa paani giraaye ye gagan
pyaar itni haseen zindagi hai
ki aisaa koyi daur nahin
pyaar itni haseen zindagi hai
ki aisaa koyi daur nahin
mar jaayenge ik doosre par machegaa koyi shor nahin
kah do kah do jahaan se kah do ishq par zor nahin

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Lying is an evil characteristic, which all religions and systems of ethics warn against and which man’s innate common sense (fitrah) agrees that it is wrong. Those who possess chivalry and sound reason also say this. Truthfulness is one of the pillars on which the moral survival of the world depends. It is the foundation of praiseworthy characteristics, the cornerstone of Prophethood, the result of taqwaa. Were it not for truthfulness, the rulings of all divinely-revealed laws would collapse. Acquiring the characteristic of lying is akin to shedding one’s humanity, because speaking is an exclusively human trait.

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The technology behind Google’s great results
As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google’s search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.

Building upon the breakthrough work of B. F. Skinner, Page and Brin reasoned that low cost pigeon clusters (PCs) could be used to compute the relative value of web pages faster than human editors or machine-based algorithms. And while Google has dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of our service on a daily basis, PigeonRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.

Why Google’s patented PigeonRank™ works so well

PigeonRank’s success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. The common gray pigeon can easily distinguish among items displaying only the minutest differences, an ability that enables it to select relevant web sites from among thousands of similar pages.

By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.

When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber-coated steel bar with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases. Those pages receiving the most pecks, are returned at the top of the user’s results page with the other results displayed in pecking order.

Integrity

Google’s pigeon-driven methods make tampering with our results extremely difficult. While some unscrupulous websites have tried to boost their ranking by including images on their pages of bread crumbs, bird seed and parrots posing seductively in resplendent plumage, Google’s PigeonRank technology cannot be deceived by these techniques. A Google search is an easy, honest and objective way to find high-quality websites with information relevant to your search.

Data

PigeonRank Frequently Asked Questions

How was PigeonRank developed?

The ease of training pigeons was documented early in the annals of science and fully explored by noted psychologist B.F. Skinner, who demonstrated that with only minor incentives, pigeons could be trained to execute complex tasks such as playing ping pong, piloting bombs or revising the Abatements, Credits and Refunds section of the national tax code.

Brin and Page were the first to recognize that this adaptability could be harnessed through massively parallel pecking to solve complex problems, such as ordering large datasets or ordering pizza for large groups of engineers. Page and Brin experimented with numerous avian motivators before settling on a combination of linseed and flax (lin/ax) that not only offered superior performance, but could be gathered at no cost from nearby open space preserves. This open space lin/ax powers Google’s operations to this day, and a visit to the data coop reveals pigeons happily pecking away at lin/ax kernels and seeds.

What are the challenges of operating so many pigeon clusters (PCs)?

Pigeons naturally operate in dense populations, as anyone holding a pack of peanuts in an urban plaza is aware. This compactability enables Google to pack enormous numbers of processors into small spaces, with rack after rack stacked up in our data coops. While this is optimal from the standpoint of space conservation and pigeon contentment, it does create issues during molting season, when large fans must be brought in to blow feathers out of the data coop. Removal of other pigeon byproducts was a greater challenge, until Page and Brin developed groundbreaking technology for converting poop to pixels, the tiny dots that make up a monitor’s display. The clean white background of Google’s home page is powered by this renewable process.

Aren’t pigeons really stupid? How do they do this?

While no pigeon has actually been confirmed for a seat on the Supreme Court, pigeons are surprisingly adept at making instant judgments when confronted with difficult choices. This makes them suitable for any job requiring accurate and authoritative decision-making under pressure. Among the positions in which pigeons have served capably are replacement air traffic controllers, butterfly ballot counters and pro football referees during the “no-instant replay” years.

Where does Google get its pigeons? Some special breeding lab?

Google uses only low-cost, off-the-street pigeons for its clusters. Gathered from city parks and plazas by Google’s pack of more than 50 Phds (Pigeon-harvesting dogs), the pigeons are given a quick orientation on web site relevance and assigned to an appropriate data coop.

Isn’t it cruel to keep pigeons penned up in tiny data coops?

Google exceeds all international standards for the ethical treatment of its pigeon personnel. Not only are they given free range of the coop and its window ledges, special break rooms have been set up for their convenience. These rooms are stocked with an assortment of delectable seeds and grains and feature the finest in European statuary for roosting.

What’s the future of pigeon computing?

Google continues to explore new applications for PigeonRank and affiliated technologies. One of the most promising projects in development involves harnessing millions of pigeons worldwide to work on complex scientific challenges. For the latest developments on Google’s distributed cooing initiative, please consider signing up for our Google Friends newsletter.

Note: This page was posted for April Fool’s Day – 2008.

A Day Will Come . . .

When The Whole World Will
CELEBRATE

Your NAME

Yur FAME

Your PERSONALITY

Your THOUGHTS

Your VIEWS

But Keep In Mind

April Fool Comes Once A Year

Congratulations

Its Ur Day ;->

When I was a kid, wearing a swimming costume used to be a big deal for Bollywood actresses. Wearing such costumes was considered against the Indian culture and tantamount to exposing. Thus we used to read interviews from virtuous actresses saying that they would never wear such revealing dresses in their movies.

My message for all those virtuous Bhartiya Naris. Dear actress ji. Do not make a virtue out of your incompetence. You do not have the figure worth “exposing”. You are lucky enough to get roles in Bollywood. You are not good enough to get roles in western movies if you were born there. So cut out the crap and shut your mouth. You mean to say that female swimmers are exposing when they compete in swimming competitions ?

There were of course actresses in Bollywood who acted in swimming costumes. Sharmila Tagore and Saira Bano were the pioneers in wearing such costumes.

Here is one of the first swimming costume song that I have come across in a Bollywood song. It is from “April Fool” (1964). This song is sung by Rafi and lip synced by Vishwajeet. The piccturisation shows many ladies swimming in the swimming pool making some perfect formations. The picturisation is great and must have made quite a splash during those days.

Sahir Ludhianvi has written this song.

I must say, I was quite impressed with the picturisation of this song. Even otherwise, the song itself is worth listening to, and it was quite a popular song during its time.

Song-Aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne(April Fool) (1964) Singers-Rafi ,Lyrics- Shailendra,MD- Shankar Jaikishan

Lyrics

aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne mere paas aa
aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne mere paas aa
aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne mere paas aa
ho ho ho aa gale lag jaa

aabaad hai tu meri dhadkanon mein meri jaan tujhmen basi hai
baadal se jo aas hai mor ko mere dil ko wo tujhse lagi hai
ik teri muskaan angdaayi leti huyi meri taqdeer jaage
ik teri jhalki chali aaye pal mein meri manzilen mere aage
aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne mere paas aa
aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne mere paas aa
ho ho ho aa gale lag jaa

mat aazmaa tu mere pyaar ko khel mat yoon meri zindagi se
ulfat ke maaron ko kyaa maarnaa jaan de dete hain jo khushi se
ye husn jisko mile jaan-e-jaan bedili usko sajti nahin hai
ho khu-ba-ru chaand se jo haseen berukhi usko janchti nahin hai
aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne mere paas aa
aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne mere paas aa
aa gale lag jaa mere sapne mere apne mere paas aa
ho ho ho aa gale lag jaa

Congratulations to Val for the TH Ning being featured in the official Ning Blog!

Funny… if you look at the screencap they used, it was grabbed on April 1, and shows Shenae’s April Fool’s joke that Cherrytree dropped the English album. Please note that that blog IS an April Fool’s joke. As happy as I am for the site, I don’t want this feature to start up rumors. It was just a bit of April Fool’s Day fun.

In Bollywood movies, action takes place mostly in India where everyone speaks Hindi/Urdu. But sometimes the action would take place in the Western counttries as well. There, even the Westerners would speak Hindi/Urdu and the western cabaret dancers would sing a cabaret song full of words like “ishq”, “husn” “haseena” etc. I suppose words like “blonde”,”bombshell” etc were not in use in West those days.

Here is a song from “April Fool”, where our dashing hero Vishwajeet, on hot trail of baddies meets who he thinks is Madhu, but who in reality is her look alike called “Rita Christina”. Though a westerner, she seems well versed in the manners of Bollywood and she promptly bursts into an introduction song that goes “Main hoon Rita Christina ai ai ai ai yaa”. Well, now I know that western people too say “ai ai yo”, with just a minor change in accent. I always knew that Indian influence had struck far and wide even four decades ago.

Song-Mera naam Rita Christina (April Fool) (1964) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Hasrat Jaipuri, MD-Shankar Jaikishan

Lyrics

Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa
main hoon Paris ki haseena
ai ai ai ai yaa
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa

Palkon beech sajaa loon tumko
ankhon me bithlaaun
apne dil me rakh loon tumko
duniya se chupaaun
Palkon beech sajaa loon tumko
ankhon me bithlaaun
apne dil me rakh loon tumko
duniya se chupaaun
dil ki baat nazar se kah doon
to main samjhaaun
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa
main hoon Paris ki haseena
ai ai ai ai yaa

aanken meri neelam jaisi
pyar ke do paimaane
aisi madira kahaan milegi
pi le o mastaane
aanken meri neelam jaisi
pyar ke do paimaane
aisi madira kahaan milegi
pi le o mastaane
aaja dil ki aag me jal jaao
o nadaan parwane
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa
main hoon Paris ki haseena
ai ai ai ai yaa

kyaa rakha us paar na jaa tu
o raahi albele
manzil tere paas khadi hai
tu baanhon me le le
kyaa rakha us paar na jaa tu
o raahi albele
manzil tere paas khadi hai
tu baanhon me le le
duniya ki har cheez usi ki
sholon pe jo khele
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa
main hoon Paris ki haseena
ai ai ai ai yaa
Mera naam Rita Christina
ai ai ai ai yaa

In Italy we are reading today about a lot of discussions whether to fix the referendum date in coincidence with European elections on June the 7th 2009. The purpose: saving 400 million euros to be assigned to Abruzzo (quickly renamed Bossi-tax). Some questions arise:

1. which referendum are we talking about? I live in Italy and usually read newspapers but in the last weeks I didn’t find much about a referendum to take place.
2. why discussing about it?

Answers:

1. Looking for some hints about referendum’s subject I found something here and there. The referendum is about our electoral system. According to referendum’s promoters the aim is to simplify our system and prevent the formation of large coalitions of parties just in order to obtain the majority bonus. We don’t want to enter referendum’s subject itself. What is quite curious is that so much attention about this referendum comes only because of discussions collateral to the importance of referendum itself.
2. The only answer I can find is just a quotation by Shakespeare: this seems, as usual, a typically Italian “Much ado about nothing”. If we are to go to vote and we take into account all works and costs it implies, it seems quite obvious which is the most rational choice about dates. On all Italian headlines there are great titles about whether to assign ‘5 per mille’ to Abruzzo or whether to introduce a special tax (for people whose income is above a threshold of about 130.000 euros) for helping people hit by the earthquake. So why is still even argument of discussion the choice of a date if it can save money for the same purpose?

For what I can find out on foreign newspapers this news didn’t appear. And maybe there are grounded reasons… April the 1st has passed by and so should also its April Fool.

What is ‘5 per mille’: it’s a small percentage (5/1000) of italian taxes about which each citizen can decide a special destination (non-profit organizations, cancer research centers and so on).

Elisa Camozzi

By Calvin Palmer

Russian surgeons performing a biopsy to confirm a serious tumor in the lung of a 28-year-old patient claim to have found a two-inch fir tree growing inside him.

Artyom Sidorkin complained of pains in his chest and was coughing up blood. Doctors at a hospital in Izhevsk in the Urals feared he had cancer.

“We were 100 per cent sure,” said surgeon Vladimir Kamashev of the Udmurtian Cancer Center. “We did x-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumor.”

He decided to perform a biopsy and was amazed to see green needles from a fir tree.

“I blinked three times, and thought I was seeing things,” said Kamashev.  “Then I called the assistant to have a look. He nodded with shock.”

The two-inch fir tree was removed. It was too big to have been inhaled or swallowed and doctors believe the patient must have inhaled a small bud that began to grow inside his lung.

The needles of the spruce tree touching his capillaries were the cause of his pain.

“It was very painful but to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me,” said Sidorkin. “I’m so relieved it’s not cancer.”

The tree has been preserved for further study.

Of course in the Russian Orthodox calendar, today is April 1.

[Based on reports by The Daily Telegraph and MosNews.com.]

April Fool. Frankly speaking, I have no idea if it’s April Fool, April’s Fool or April Fool’s. So I thought it would be cute of me if I used all the variations in this article.

Why on earth do we need to dedicate a day solely to prank someone, to stop all of work for a day of which the significance I truly don’t comprehend?

It’s funny because I am in the communications line, and whenever we need to schedule a deadline, we exclude the first of April.

“You’re kidding right? It’s April Fool’s.”

And I think, “Why? Do you have plans?”

Check your calendars now, I’m sure it’s the freest day you have had in months. No deadlines, no casual gatherings of sort, because people are so sure you would bail.

I can’t tell you how long it has been since someone pulled an April’s Fool prank on me. Probably because I’m already 23 and people don’t think it would be appropriate [anymore]. There was a time whenever I came back home from school and my mum would probe, “anybody tricked you today?” and I would tell her all the funny stories and we would laugh.

I guess when we grow older, we really do have a lesser range of topics to talk about with our parents, because a lot of things seemingly don’t matter anymore.

Someone twittered, “Why can’t booking in [back to army camp] today be a joke, man“.

Indeed. This is the one widely popular day when news of demises and accidents has to dwindle and be at an all time low because everyone and anyone would be all skeptical and go, “you’re kidding right?“

And crying he is, the friend of the victim can only go “what do you mean I’m kidding!! Can’t you see these tears I’m crying?” All this time clueless to the fact that it’s April Fool’s day and he just got punk’d.

Oh, tell someone clingy you love her; that ought to show her.

And if April’s Fool is a day so widely recognized, shouldn’t it be declared a Public Holiday, to be up there along with Christmas, Deepavali or Labour Day?

I mean, you mark this day to celebrate some thing: the no-matter-how-much-money-you-have-you-cant-buy-that-look-off-his-face Prank of the year, and you can’t even honour it? And because this year’s April’s Fool falls on a Wednesday, it means that we wouldn’t have to work.

May I suggest, World Aids Day, Children’s Day (because you know, all the kids would be at home and their parents have to be too), World Osteoporosis Day be made Public Holidays as well. And Valentine Day too! I figure people would be lethargic after the entire sex marathon, of which of course, I’m uninvited to.

What a genius idea! Wow, can you begin to calculate the number of Public Holidays and thus, “slacking days” we’ll all be entitled to?

Well, quite frankly, I’m rooting for an April’s Fool Public Holiday simply because I can shut myself at home and not be fooled by my highly conniving colleagues.

And it’s really really sad that we should only have this one day that we can all sit down and mastermind a plan that’s set to send everyone in a paroxysm of laughter. Save the victim of course.

We’re all faced with sad realities of life; what’s with facing 364 days of rejection, at least 12 days of menstrual pain (I said at least, already!), 256 days of feeling fat, 365 days when God doesn’t respond to our prayers, at least a month of bad hair do because you went to the wrong hairdresser – and to alleviate all the pain we only have one day, 24 hours, and however many minutes it is we have in a day.

The world needs us to laugh more, that’s what I’m trying to drive at. That’s why now we have people who organize “laughing clubs” and all they ever do in the morning is laugh their heart out.

That to me is pathetic because I hate it when people laugh for the sake of laughing, usually at my ludicrous joke just to patronize me. A patronizing laugh; it doesn’t get any more awkward than that.

But I’m not advocating laughing at the expense of someone’s embarrassment or misery either. For some reason people like to step on others when they’re down – what’s up with that?

It just aggravates the whole “my life is so screwed up and now I’m the center of all things ridiculous?” outlook on life the person might already have.

I don’t appreciate pulling a prank, or having a prank pulled on me, but I sure don’t mind being an onlooker. But I honestly don’t get the deal with it. Maybe people just need to wise up and be smarter in the choice of jokes they crack.

I read an article somewhere; it was about the debacle of Britney Spears. Written at the time when she shaved off her hair and people started throwing words around like “depression”, “long gone” around – that the author questioned, what kind of a world do we live in where people revel in watching homemade videos capturing footages of young children get rammed into walls, of people falling off the roof and hurting themselves?

And instead of running over to help, all the cameraman did was stand there and chortle at the senseless mishap. And we are all like the cameraman. We laugh at people’s literal downfall. We laugh at the person whose face is smeared with butter cream.

Having said that, don’t get me wrong, I welcome April Fool like I welcome Valentine Day. I have no business with these days, but I think it’s important to worship its significance if ten thousand others are doing it. It’s like religion; it’s cool to follow suit.

Make everyday an April Fool’s day, and not in I-have-an-ulterior-motive sense. While the idea is to pull a cheap joke on someone, I think the true significance of April Fool is to unite people together and to make each other laugh. So go all out and make it a goal to evoke someone into laughing, everyday. It’s a beautiful thing.

My mom just tasked me with the job of jotting down the winning numbers for the lottery this week.

I thought I should slip in her numbers somewhere; that ought to show her.

So I’ve had an email from the 2009 Canadian F-word Awards, and apparently I’ve been nominated for Best Feminist Blog – International.

That in itself strikes me as highly unlikely.

Then, the fact that the link they sent me is broken makes me start to think that maybe somebody’s avin’ a larf.

Pfft. And I was all excited there for about 30 seconds.

ETA: Curtseys to the lovely Pale Cold at ACR for fixing the broken link for me, and to the equally lovely Matt Bastard for the nom. Figured it’s getting serious (heh) so added the clicky-linky-logo in a desperate bid to appear perfessional and a deserving recipient of everybody’s votes

ETA: Ah well, maybe another time…
*pouts*
*eats chocolate*

This post was originally written on the 1st April, but I couldn’t post it until today, and believe me, it’s no April’s Fool.

Today is the 1st of April… the dreaded “R” word raised it’s ugly head today, no not recession, the other one, redundancy. I heard from two more friends, that they were made redundant today, both have been with the companies for a number of years and neither were expecting to be called aside.

Are they taking it badly or personally? thankfully not, both are up beat about it, of course they’ve heard the same thing from everyone, “Oh it’s the best thing that could happen to you” etc, mmmmmmm, no not exactly, winning the bleedin’ lottery would have undoubtedly been a bit of a better day, but then again, it’s only a job for crying out loud, it’s not as if somebody has died. Yes I agree, you have to look at the positives in these situations, the slate is clean, there’s no obstacles, there’s nothing stopping you getting on with all the things you’ve been putting off for ages.

I too realized that things had to change in my office today, but I’m in a different position, I’m a company Founder, so one of those that gets to decide who stays & who goes, (although trust me, that’s no privileged position, it’s not easy making those types of decisions, or nice telling someone), but we’re doing OK at the moment so there’s no redundancies on the cards, but even still someone had to go, and that someone was me!

I’ve too many other things on the boil, I can’t give my all to Cordovan at the present, so it would be unfair to all those that have worked with me the past decade for me to continue in my present capacity, so I’m stepping back. I’m not stepping down, I’m simply stepping back, I’m still sitting on the board & actively helping where I can (or is that interfering where I can), but I’m out of daily operations, it was a hard decision, I’ve spent 10 years building the company, but I’ve also spent the last couple of years ensuring it could function without me… it can, there’s no doubt in my mind there, if there was I wouldn’t step back, they’ll be fine.

It’s not easy letting go, but I’ve resigned myself to the fact that it’s the best thing, my focus has to be somewhere else now, there’s interesting times ahead, but I’m looking forward to the challenges, standing still would be boring, and that’s really not me.

Alamak, boring nya.. tak tahu nak buat apa… rasa macam kosong je hidup aku ni..is3..dah la semalam aku tak post entri langsung…hmm… kalau kamu seboring aku apa kata terukan membaca entri ni k..mungkin ia dapat membantu..hehe..

korang tahu tak apa keadahnya domino tu? mesti tau kan.. kalau tak tau x taulah camner aku nak cakap..hehe..tanpa berceloteh panjang apa kata korang layan je video2 domino  dibawah ni…

hehe apamacam, best tak..hehe..kalau tak puas tengok video ni apakata korang buat je domino sendiri pastinya memberikan kepuasan..hehe..

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In case you missed this article about the “sex talk 800 line.”

I am wondering how the issuer of the toll free number was feeling when the mistake was discovered. Is it possible that was a private number that he/she may have use often in the past and gave out by mistake? Or was it an honest mistake?

I am hoping myself that it was a late April Fool joke on the press.

Odd news that’s for real
REALLY?
April 06, 2009

You got April Fooled

CROOKS, take note: never rob a bank on or around April Fool’s Day.

On 31 Mar last year, Brian Davison, 32, barged into a bank in Exeter and ordered cashiers to hand over the money.

Otherwise, he would reach into his bag, pull out a gun, and shoot them.

A UK court heard last week that a bank patron then calmly walked up to Davison and said: ‘It’s April the first, isn’t it mate? It’s April Fool’s Day.’ He then grabbed Davison’s bag and showed the cashiers that it was empty, reported The Telegraph.

Davison fled the scene but was later arrested and has now pleaded guilty to affray.

Suspect nabbed after calling 911

COULD David Maksimik be the most unlucky crook in the world?

Police say they caught the bumbling crook who, after robbing a bank in Connecticut, crashed his getaway car and fled by bus and taxi, only to make it home and find his roommate dead.

Authorities found the stolen US$4,000 after Maksimik, 59, called 911 to report the roommate’s apparent suicide in January.

Police responding to the suicide say they found the bank money inside a bag on Maksimik’s bed.

– AP.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/sunkopitiam/messages?msg=26074.1

'Mr Monkey's popularity has turned Mr Hobbit, aka Gollum or is it Smeagol Rigg green with envy'

Mr Monkey spent most of his weekend trawling through the archives of his blog and has realised how much time and effort he’s spent establishing it as South Tyneside’s Premier blog.

Unlike certain local bloggers, Mr Monkey has no need to promote himself at every available turn by linking to other blogs, using multiple sites linked to each other, posting comments on the ‘big boys’ sites (Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes) with links and pingbacks to his own site nor does he spend hours on Face Book, Twitter, message boards and chat rooms telling anyone who’ll listen to visit his site .

Mr Monkey relies on content and word of mouth which explains why Mr Monkey’s Blog is the most talked about blog in South Tyneside even after a week of posting nothing.

This chimp has spent the last week wondering how many of you were taken in by his April Fool prank - and yes for a moment, Mr Monkey did consider calling it a day because he genuinely believed that he’d achieved all he set out to do.

However, reading some of the comments left by bloggers and seeing the interest in his investigation into election fraud, perpetrated by council leader Iain Malcolm, CLICK HERE, plus yesterday’s post by a local blogger ‘advising’ bloggers not to visit Mr Monkey’s Blog and ‘warning’ people not to refer others to it – all this from a so called libertarian and lover of free speech - has put  paid to any thoughts of retirement Mr Monkey had.

Congratulations Mr Hobbit, you gave me the kick up the arse I needed!

Sur France 2, cette émission m’a bien eu!  Je l’ai regardé le premier avril avec ma femme, et je l’ai dit, “je me demandais souvent si les éoliennes pourraient ralentir la rotation de la terre.”  J’ai vraiment cru cette emission!  Mais aujourd’hui je découvre qu’elle était un “poisson d’avril.”  Heursement, je ne suis pas seul … regardez le 114 commentaires ici.

Bien fait France 2!

This report on France 2 (scroll down for the video) totally fooled me on April 1.  It’s a news report about studies showing that windmills have the unintended effect of slowing down the Earth’s rotation.  Presented in a completely straight-faced style, it apparently fooled many more people than me, as evidenced by the 114 commentaries to this post.  When I saw the report, I said to my wife, “I’ve always wondered whether windmills would slow down the Earth’s rotation,” and I kept looking in the press for stories about this … until today, when I finally did a search on Google, only to discover, to my horror, that I’d been duped.

Well done, France 2!