Tuesday, April 01, 2008

April Fools Day Is Halloween for Unfunny People

Or New Year's Eve for amateur partiers. St. Patrick's Day for amateur drunks. Whatever.

It's official sanction for unfunny people: "Come on, let's all be wacky in a non-threatening, completely artificial way!"

This goes double for companies.

And then throw in the people who think "mean" is "funny."

If a prank is worth doing, it's worth doing outside of the socially-designated time.

April Fools Day -- leave me out of it.

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So at about 6:30pm tonight, an Emergency Alert System warning came on the TV -- "Turn to Channel 12 for more information" the voice said (even though the on-screen message read Channel 16).

Since the temperature was supposed to drop 32 degrees (from the beautiful 74 this afternoon), and since we'd been told of possible thunderstorms, I though it was a thunderstorm warning. Possibly a tornado.

Whatever it was, it had to be important -- it's gotta be a great big honkin' emergency if it's going to interrupt a rerun of 8 Simple Rules on ABC Family Channel (channel 12 on my system).

With each passing moment, I grew more uneasy. (The terrorists struck again. The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, Hallelujah! Get the guns and fill the bathtubs, we're heading on down The Road. )

As it turns out, it was an Amber Alert for two missing teens. Not to say that it isn't a personal tragedy, but there's got to be a better way to do these things.

2 comments:

Becky said...

Oh come on Joe...you have to admit that this gag from ThinkGeek was pretty damn funny:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/personalsoundtrack.html

Or the betamax to HD-DVD converter? Or my son's fav - Super Pii Pii Brothers; the new Wii game imported from Japan.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html

Watch the YouTube vids. ;-)

Joelogon said...

ThinkGeek doesn't just wait for April Fools to do this kind of stuff, so they get a pass from me.