April Fool's!

Our biggest fooler, Hannah, has been up to some tricks today! She Suran-Wrapped the potty. Whew! Her sister, Rebekah, barely noticed in time. She used blue toothpaste to make a large smilie face on the mirror. She got up early to make breakfast and if the first pancakes hadn't scorched on the bottom, we all would have been eating circles of cardboard! (The milk was also turned pink). She hid Rebekah's new "favorite" toy- a mother and baby Squirrel Monkey pets under her green towel. We survived! Here are some other funny April Fool's Days:

Pasta on Trees: In 1957, a well-respected BBC news show, Panorama, declared an abundance in an important Swiss crop: spaghetti noodles from spaghetti trees. After including footage of Swiss farmers pulling the fruit off the trees, many viewers called and asked how they might grow their own spaghetti trees.

- You Can Ring This Bell : The Taco Bell Corporation announced to in 1996 that it would be purchasing the historic Liberty Bell and renaming it—as the Taco Liberty Bell. Outraged citizens were only assuaged when Taco Bell asserted it was a joke. When asked about it in a press meeting, White House Press secretary Mike McCurry dryly responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be called the Lincoln Mercury Memorial.

- Extra Fun(nies): In 1997, comic strip readers opened the funny section and saw that their favorite strips looked different. In a grand move, forty-six comic strip writers had swapped strips for the day. Garfield could be found in Blondie, eating Dagwood’s sandwich, and the Family Circus mother was found, with an oddly Dilbert-like hairdo, telling young Billy that he needed to “work cuter, not harder.”

Sources: museumofhoaxes.com and wikipedia.org