What is your favorite April Fool’s hoax? Could you have been convinced that spaghetti grows on trees?
April 1-7
Something to do with April Fool’s Day. What do you think is the funniest April Fool’s joke ever? Me? I think it is the spaghetti tree hoax broadcast by the BBC on April 1, 1957. Yes, I’ve written about this hoax before, but it was so funny, that it deserves to be written about again.
I find it amazing that people actually believed that you could grow spaghetti on trees.
How many people today would be fooled by such a broadcast as this?
Think of the most unbelievable, the funniest April Fool’s joke and/or stunt that you can possible think of and write about it.
Here’s another idea I just found: marshmallow trees! I don’t think this was an. April fool’s joke, but it would’ve made an awesome one. Watch the video yourself.
April 8-15
A very strange thing happened on the first day of spring last month. I am a weather observer for the National Weather Service. When I feed my outdoor cat each morning is when I check to see how much if any precipitation that we received the day before and overnight. This morning I fed Cheeto before I walked over to check my rain gauge.
I had taken the top to my rain gauge out with me as well as the tube to put back inside it. We had had snow about a week earlier, and when we have snow, it needs to land inside the large cylinder. So my rain gauge didn’t have anything on top of it.
Much to my amazement, and I really should have taken a picture of it, there was a bird inside the rain gauge cylinder! Inside of it! I don’t know how long it had been in there, but when it saw I was right next to the cylinder, it freaked out and was trying its hardest to get out of there. I felt so very bad for the little thing! It wouldn’t stay stil long enoughl for me to get a good look at it, but from what I saw, it looked a lot like a chickadee. Just the perfect size to fit in the cylinder, but there wasn’t any room left for it to get out.
Instead of snapping a picture first, I removed the cylinder and laid it flat on the ground. The bird took flight immediately.
So why did this bird land in the rain gauge?
Was it part of a group of teenage birds that flew over the area and one of them dared this bird to land in the rain gauge?
Instead of daring him to land in there, did they bet him? Did they trick him?
Or did he simply land on the edge of it and fall in?
April 16-23
Your character owns a jewelry store and has come up with a very unique way of guarding the diamonds in his jewelry displays: he uses a lobster to guard them, Of course this lobster has somehow been trained to recognize and be friendly to the owner of the store, but now the owner has mysteriously died during the night.
How do you train a lobster? Can a lobster even be trained? I don’t know, but what you’re going to write is going to be fiction, so I’m sure you can think of a way.
Who is the new owner of the store? Is this lobster friendly to him or her? Do they want to keep using this lobster as a guard?
April 24-30
In a furniture store, a male lion somehow gets inside and falls asleep on a display mattress. Your store is in the middle of a large city, so where did this lion come from? Is there an animal sanctuary nearby?
Who discovered the lion asleep on the mattress? Did this person get away uninjured?
How was the lion convinced to leave? Did he leave willingly or did it take a bit of convincing for him to leave?
I did say he somehow got inside, but I think the more important question is why. Was he trying to get a break from another lion? Was he seeking shelter?
You can have a lot of fun with this one.
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