I was going to put “I’ve had another stroke” in the heading and then the article was going to read “Of genius” and describe some new project or something.
But Kathleen was afraid her phone would explode. And then everyone would get mad.
Okay fine. Happy April Fool’s Day.
Screw it.
PAD
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You could tell us about the new projects anyway.
Unless there isn’t any, and THAT is the real prank.
He just did that on the Crazy 8 blog:
http://www.crazy8press.com/2015/03/30/what-im-working-on-peter-david/
Personally, I prefer to use April Fool’s Day as a day not for pranks but to celebrate the great fools of world folklore. Like the good people of the village of Chelm, who built a roof over their sundial so the rain wouldn’t get it wet or who burned down a house in order to rescue a cat from the roof.
True visionaries, those guys.
Sensible, level headed wives are no fun.
Ain’t that right, Jenn?
Around the same time you had your stroke I was in the hospital going through chemo for AML. I also had a similar idea for a joke, at least I’m keeping good company in the humor department.
PAD you still have time to dress up as a teddy bear and … (oops that’s another joke). Regardless, I’m happy you did not put Kathleen through listening to many concerned friends, family members and fans expressing their condolences.
The best April Fools joke I’ve read so far today is one from CERN:
Breaking news: CERN researchers confirm existence of the Force
https://twitter.com/CERN/status/583147747710263296
Google’s Pac Man maps is also pretty good.
May the Force be with you;
May the Fourth be with you; and
Live long and prosper.
CERN missed a bet by not having a picture of Stephen Hawking lifting a spaceship.
Yeah, some jokes would be really funny but just shouldn’t be done. A couple of years back, I was editor of the Worldcon at-con newsletter, and came up with a lead story for the hoax edition. It involved printing five different versions of it, each the same save for the lead headline. Which would’ve been Wins Best Novel Hugo, Results Leaked, where each version would’ve had a different Best Novel nominee in place of .
Everyone I ran it by agreed it’d be hysterical, but that I’d be killed by the nominees (most of whom I could outrun, but some had staffs for ranged weaponry and/or scooters). So instead I went with a picture of Toastmaster John Scalzi handing a wad of $100 bills to the con chair with a story and headline claiming in an example of good old fashioned Chicago graft, Scalzi had bought his way into the position and possibly a Hugo.
The CERN one’s my favorite as well this year.
Peter, while I’m bummed that you didn’t get to go with the gag (sounds good to me), I can see Kathleen’s side of it. I’m just glad you’re still here to think about such gags!
Tim,
It’s a pleasant surprise to see your post here. It’s been a long time since I’ve read and/or responded to one of your posts.
I usually don’t like April Fools’ Day humor — it almost always feels like telling friend a lie, then making them feel dumb and gullible for having believed it — but I really like the simple elegance of this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4aJey9QZM Hah!
James,
Thank you for sharing. This is very clever and has a great wink-wink-nudge-nudge-know-what-I-mean quality. My youngest daughter is a Wonder Woman fan. She will love the video.
Hah, that was the one I was gonna link! (…I just learned of it a couple of hours ago. I’m a little behind the times, OK?)