Remember April Fools Day when you were a kid? Everyone trying to think of the most clever thing to try and trick everybody else. Like the teacher who gave you a pop quiz with nonsense questions. That happened to me in eighth grade. Mr. Beal at West Jr. High. He was a cool teacher, so for him to just 'spring' a quiz on us was unheard of. Then he was so serious as he handed out the quizzes. This was eighth grade English class, so a quiz could be intimidating. Then he gave it to us. Now I don't remember all the questions, but here are a few.
- If a plane crashed on the border of the USA and Canada, as cooperating nations, where would the interment of those not dead occur?
- Who is buried in Grant's tomb?
- What day is today?
- If you read through the quiz first; then you don't need to answer any questions.
And many more like this. After a couple minutes some kids started to snicker and giggle at the ones who were still filling out the quiz. Then we all knew. Mr. Beal has us going. We were fooled.
Well online April fools takes on a whole new life. Just look around today and see what there is. Google had one this morning that I thought was clever.
Google changed it's name.
Then ABC created a spin off from LOST - already!
Happy April Fool's Day!
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