Pity the fool who celebrates April Fools

I loathe April Fools Day. I have always loathed April Fools Day, from the time when children used to scream ‘April Fools!” in shrill voices after completing some type of unfunny prank to today.

And now today, with the internet, it can be April Fools every day. How many times have you seen someone fall for a fake story on the ONION? Or even fake news from the mainstream media..?

But the worst of the worst in our modern times are these undoubtedly fake ‘news’ stories that passed around from reader to reader on April fools day.. I saw a few really unfunny stories the moment I woke up this morning. For example, a website I follow that reports actual legitimate information regarding solar flares announced that a killshot had exploded from the sun and we were doomed to die. So tacky, so not funny.. and so possible one day in the future that it is REALLY not humorous at all.. I equate that with the Weather Channel giving fake tornado reports and alarming entire towns that imminent destruction is on the horizon.

Other definites to expect on April Fools: The fraud stories that your favorite celebrity has died.. the tales that some weird scientific discovery has just be made..

Perhaps the very most annoying April fools jokes still come from terrestrial radio of the 20th century. Disc jockeys who are aging and still want to be the next ‘Jerky Boy’ come up with some of the most ludicrously unfunny ‘pranks.’

But with every holiday we ‘celebrate’ there is a root meaning behind it.. no different for April fools. The 1st of April is really a day with an intention that you do thinks to make other people look like fools. True fools.. Jokes on them kind of stuff..

There are ancient precursors to the modern April fools day found in Roman and Medieval feasts..There are different customs of jokes from around the world..
Some think that there are religious reasons why April fools pranks started.. and if religious history is involved, no doubt pagan rituals also abound. People do trace April fools back to some pagan traditions..
And yes.. going full steam ahead down from the pagan path to a point of no return,  some people even equate April fools to Satan himself.

In the end, we know this:
Don’t trust any news link you read today.

Try to maintain your composure when some annoying co worker shouts “APRIL FOOLS!!!” at you..
Know that it’s only one day, and it’s almost over.
And this: You will find out a lot about the ‘sense of humor’ of people—especially those who have no ability to tell jokes or be funny at all and still try today.. so often those without any common sense of humor will have an immense belly laugh at their own jokes..

The good news is that as a tradition April fools pranks are pulled before noon of the day—those done after bring a curse and bad luck to the prankster.. then who’s the fool to be pitied?

Yes they happened.. The "best" internet April Fools jokes of 2013

I say “best” in quotes because I truly hate this yearly tradition.. 

Yes they happened.. The "best" internet April Fools jokes of 2013

The top ten stories that sound like April Fools jokes. But they aren't

1. Until 2012, Pepsi used aborted fetal-cells to flavor soft drinks


2. There have been so many suicides in China among workers making our iPhones that factories had to put up suicide nets


3. Wikileaks helped bring out information that DynCorp contractors were involved with a child sex ring..


4. There is a brewing water crisis—one so bad that rivers and lakes are drying up across the planet


5. Very recently, the mega rich withdrew their money from Cyprus banks—right before looting..


6. Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act, and the NDAA. He often signed bills despite his ‘reservations’


7. There are black sites across the world where children are tortured in front of their parents


8. Fear of Chinese censors is so intense that video game makers change their games


9. North Koreans are eating their own children because of extreme hunger


10. Each year, up to 800,000 children go missing in the United States

So sorry to be such a downer on such a ‘funny’ day.. But that’s just what I do.

April fool.

April Fools day.. when we somehow keep up the tradition of mocking those who don’t follow the Gregorian Calender. 

But the one tradition I have come to despise about today: Fake news stories that get plastered all over the web are get believed by people who forget it’s April Fools Day.

Seriously, reality is so mind-bending that I don’t want to be barraged by fiction.. Reality is much worse. However, today it will occur, because that is just how it goes.. 

I bet there will be some ridiculous headline and news story that makes the big time .. and it will prove fake. I almost don’t want to read a shred of information today for fear that it will be untrue.

I don’t find any of this funny, or amusing.. It’s rather annoying, to be perfectly frank. 

But here we go.

Be a fool on April fools..