Here are a few pranks I’ve seen so far today that I’ve really enjoyed -

“University President Dan Mote, who will resign his post in the fall, announced yesterday that to leave his final mark, he will push hard to get the school’s mascot changed from the diamondback terrapin to the endangered giant panda.”
Panda to be university’s new mascot | The Diamondback, University of Maryland’s campus newspaper

“The Johns Hopkins University announced today that it is bowing to the inevitable and officially changing its name to “John Hopkins.” ‘We give up,” university President Ronald J. Daniel said. “We’re fighting a losing battle here. And we strongly suspect the extra ‘s’ was a typo in the first place.’”
The “S” is out: We’re “John Hopkins” now | Johns Hopkins University

“Plenta™ (128 fl oz) and Micra™ (2 fl oz) cups arrive in Starbucks stores this Fall. Derived from Italian word for plentiful or small, the Plenta™ delivers coffee lovers record amounts of the world’s finest coffee beverages while the Micra™ delivers a quick and satisfying morsel of goodness.”
Starbucks Listens to Customer Request for More Sizes | Starbucks

“Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.”
A different kind of company name | Google

I’ll add my finds throughout the day as they unfold.

What are some April Fools’ Jokes you’ve seen today?

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I was in good spirits, apparently, and jumped onto my bed. (Yes, I jumped. Who did I think I was? A five-year-old kid??)

Well, I must have used a bit too much force because I went sailing across the bed and the next thing I know there’s a big thud and I’m on the floor with a skinned knee.  

How I disguise myself as an adult most of the time, I don’t know. I couldn’t make this stuff up even if I tried.

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In any case, I’d like to share another misadventure with all of you and, this time, I hope there won’t be any dissent on whether it is, in fact, eligible for “misadventure” status.

Last night, I was invited to watch a movie in Georgetown…

Earlier in the night I partook in a Happy Hour at Urbana, a nearby hotel bar – although that description does it a great disservice. For a variety of reasons, I just don’t carry cash, instead choosing to charge my expenses. On this particular night, I happened to have just enough to pay my share and so, without thinking anything of it, I paid in cash along with everyone else… (Sometimes, it’s nice to just fit in without being difficult.)

So, I’m back home from Urbana, getting ready for Georgetown, and my first instinct is to take a cab there. Quick and simple, right? Well, it was just about that point that I realized that I had literally three dollars in cash to my name (plus some quarters I’m saving for laundry). No problem – I decided that I would simply find a cab that took credit cards and I would be all set.

As a backup, my roommate and I even looked up a bus that would take me from where I was to where I needed to be and found even better news – the bus came every 8 minutes! Everything was solved: I would simply hop onto the D6 and take it to Georgetown using my SmartTrip (a Metro card that serves as a debit card and that I had previously preloaded with money).

I calmy walked the few blocks needed to catch the bus – which, ironically, is basically right in front of Urbana – only to find that the D6 does not, in actuality, run every 8 minutes as I had thought (I don’t know what schedule my roommate and I had looked at). I had, of course, just missed the bus and the next one wasn’t scheduled to come by for another half hour.

It was onto Plan B – I waved over a cab (even that took a while – did I mention that there was a “wintry mix” of snow, sleet, and freezing rain coming down?) and asked to be taken my destination specifying I’d be paying with a credit card (sometimes I’m just too damn honest). The cab driver laughed and told me no cab would take a credit card, but he could drive me to the ATM up the street so that I could withdraw money. I politely declined.

Using my quick-thinking skills, I decided I would call my friends who lived across the street so that they could bring me down some cash. Yes, the same friends that I had at Happy Hour with and, yes, the ATM was still just up the street (although in the opposite direction). I called and no one picked so I decided not to waste anymore time and to simply walk the almost 2 miles…

Why I thought this was the best, quickest solution, I have no idea. Can I blame the two glasses of wine I had consumed earlier in the evening?

Part of the plan, I think, was to walk far enough so that I could then convince a cab to take me the rest of the way with just my three dollars. What I sorely overestimated was the number of available cabs in DC on a slippery, wet night in a residential neighborhood… I did manage to stop one cab who told me it would be $3 for me to just get in, so I kept walking.

But then, thankfully, I conjoled another cab driver who was on his way to Virginia to just let me “catch a ride” as far as I could… He was nice enough to drive me all the way “home” for free! I wanted to tell him how I really do believe in Karma (this week, anyway) but decided to just thank him and get out quickly!

So, I arrived at my intended destination at bit late, jeans soaked, sweaty and a bit worked up. But, you know, I really enjoyed that walk…

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HOW TO START JANUARY 20TH WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK

1. Open a new file in your computer.

2. Name it ‘George Bush’.

3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.

4. Empty it from the Recycle Bin.

5. Your PC will ask you: ‘Do you really want to get rid of ‘George Bush?’

6. Firmly Click ‘Yes.’

7. Feel better?

GOOD!

In a hour or so we’ll do Dick Cheney!

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Please tell me how it is possible for someone born in 2008 to be registering for a website? And many sites have policies that those under 13 can’t register, so wouldn’t it make sense that the last possible year be 1995? (Don’t get me started on how unlikely it is that someone who’s 100 is registering…)

The argument can be made that this involves updating the pull down menu yearly – but doesn’t that have to happen anyway so that 2009 is added?

I know this is a really crazy thing to zero in on, but it irks me every time. Let’s use some common sense here, people!

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New Dancing With The Stars Partners!

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