Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?

Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:

> Oh, for those who don't have the "holiday" where they live, April Fools Day
> is April 1st, and basically you play jokes on people, but usually (and maybe
> this isn't true?) reality jokes (e.g., my faux e-mail).  So, for example,
> leaving a bucket of water above somebody's door so that it falls on their
> head when they open it is not an April Fools-type joke.  Am I right on this,
> or is it all types of jokes?
Where I come from, a proper _aprilskämt_, as we call it, has to involve making
someone believe something. That something should be as outrageous as possible,
of course.

We also have the tradition Jan mentioned of faux newspaper articles. Today, a
paper in the south of Sweden apparently had an article about a proposal to
illegalize such jokes in newspapers ...


                                                         Andreas