Unicorns at the Zoo, Stornoway on airbnb: April Fool’s!
Posted April 1, 2016 12:13 pm.
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The best April Fool’s Day prank I ever pulled did not fully take off until about a month later.
Every April 1, my brother and I would come downstairs to find our spoons taped to our placemats. There were other, minor, jokes my parents played, but that one sticks out because it happened every single year.
One year, my brother and I decided we would get our revenge: We hilariously replaced the sugar in the sugar bowl with salt.
Less hilariously, my parents don’t eat a lot of sugar, no one got pranked, and we forgot about it. UNTIL. Yes, of course, until: my parents had company for dinner, a woman took her coffee with sugar, and no one — including my brother and I — realized what had happened.
And that was the best April Fool’s Day ever.
The offerings in 2016 were much more elaborate.
The Toronto Zoo put out a press release announcing unicorns would be coming to the zoo, just after the pandas left. The Zoo used the Latin name Elasmotherium Sibiricum before revealing it was, in fact, a prank.
Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose tweeted that Stornoway (the home of the leader of the official opposition ) would be listed on Airbnb for $29.4 billion a night (the amount of the Liberal deficit).
Over at blogTO, writer Amy Grief joked that the Rogers Centre would revert back to its original name of the Skydome, even quoting made-up spokesperson Avril Tromper. The Huffington Post wrote that Ted Cruz was leaving American politics to run for the Conservative party in Canada.
Swiss Chalet announced it was retiring its Chalet Sauce (the cruelest joke of all?), while Sony announced that after 30 years, and timed to the release of the new Ghostbusters movie, it had finally made a real-life Proton Pack.
Tom Mulcair joked that he was shaving his beard, complete with a foamy bathroom selfie, while Pride Toronto said they were banning selfie sticks for this year’s festivities.
Perhaps this would have been funnier if there hadn’t been a two-hour subway delay: the TTC announced that pop cans could be used for proof of payment (POP) and released a video about it. The prank follows previous years, where the TTC announced that it was introducing personal subway cars, and building condos on the platform at Bessarion and Chester subway stations.
What’s the best prank you’ve ever pulled?
