You fool! You foolish fool!

[vovat]

I've been posting a lot recently, haven't I? Well, I probably won't be posting much next week, so it might well average out to my usual posting rate. Anyway, here's a meme:

April Fool
3x1minus1	shaves your house.
bethje	smiles. All the time.
colleenanne	legally changes your name to MoonBeam Cappa.
eagledna	trims your hedge into a replica of the Venus de Milo.
lozenger8	paints your elderly relatives orange.
mikeleffel	glues your car to your bedroom ceiling.
obsessical	enlists you in the French Foreign Legion.
rockinlibrarian	eggs your head.
shadarko	TPs your cat.
yosef	buys you a Russian Bride.
Prank Me

I'm not really a big fan of April Fool's Day now. It was great when I was a kid, and we'd all tell each other things that obviously weren't true, followed by "APRIL FOOL!" Then we'd do the same thing two minutes later. I remember doing this in second grade, anyway. As an adult, I'm not much for pranks and such, but I enjoy the occasional lighter joke. Eric Gjovaag did a bit today about someone finding the original King Rinkitink manuscript. For those of you who don't know and also care, which is probably nobody, L. Frank Baum wrote a manuscript called King Rinkitink, which was never published in its original form. He later revised it to make his tenth Oz book, Rinkitink in Oz. The ending of that one is unsatisfying to many readers, so people are curious about how Baum originally ended it. But I think that manuscript is going to remain in Manuscript Limbo with Jack Snow's Over the Rainbow to Oz (assuming that one was even real).

Since it's April now, that means my dad's birthday is coming up. I wonder what I should give him.

Comments

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

have fun in France :P

[vovat.livejournal.com]

But if it's the French FOREIGN Legion, wouldn't I be more likely to serve in a country other than France? :P I think the FFL actually did a lot of service in Africa, but it's not a topic on which I'm all that knowledgeable.

[eagledna.livejournal.com]

It's funny to me that the April Fool thing about me mentions the Venus de Milo, a statue which I actually made through a combination of time travel and stick-to-it-ive-ness!

But seriously, my daytime work supervisor is crazy, and when I and friends mentioned the Venus de Milo once (in some "things without arms" workplace banter), she came over and said "What's a Venus de Milo?" So every time I hear or read "Venus de Milo," I have to tell that story.

SERIOUSLY!!! :P

[vovat.livejournal.com]

What about the Gummi Venus de Milo? Were you responsible for that?