A March 2006 survey by CareerBuilder.com reported that 33 percent of workers played a practical joke on a co-worker and 17 percent said they planned office tricks for this year's holiday.
Being on a college campus makes practical jokes easier to accomplish. However, some AU students forgot about the unofficial holiday. Jobin Abraham, a sophomore in the Kogod School of Business, forgot to play jokes on friends.
"I was supposed to play jokes on people, but I forgot all about it," he said.
Milla Savelieff, a senior in the School of International Service, said one of the best jokes ever played on her happened six years ago.
"On April 1, 2000, my mother told me she was pregnant," Savelieff said. "It took me hours to realize it was April Fool's Day, but I guess that didn't matter. My brother Anthony turns six this October."
Andrew Roohi, a sophomore in SIS, began talking about a potential prank to play on friends months ago.
"A few months ago, my girlfriend and I were talking about how funny it would be to say we broke up and see how long it took for the gossip to get around," he said. "My girlfriend ended up changing my relationship status to being in a relationship with another girl and she was married to one of her female friends. Half of our friends didn't believe us and the other half thought that we were really taking a break."
Journalists celebrated April Fool's Day across the globe, writing both fake news stories and tales of jokes that people played on friends and relatives.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has joined forces with Britain's right-wing opposition to unseat Prime Minister Tony Blair after Martin's wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, met the conservative leader's wife at yoga class, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
According to the CareerBuilder.com survey. The top three pranks of 2006 include changing the caller I.D. on a co-worker's phone to read "Mr. Kitten" every time they call someone, placing random objects from people's desks in a vending machine and placing a live goldfish in an IV bag in a clinic.
Food is a common theme in April Fool's Day pranks, according to the Portage Daily Register, a newspaper in Wisconsin.
Mary Summers, a Wisconsin elementary school teacher, sent via e-mail a description of an April Fool's Day joke, according to an article in the Portage Daily Register. Summers she said spent months explaining to her remedial reading class that she had found a store in Madison that sold "edible worms." She kept mentioning the worms, and when Summers' April 1 birthday rolled around, she told her kids she was bringing the worms in as a treat.
Summers made a variety of noodles covered in chocolate as "worms" and took Polaroids of the class trying them. The children wrote stories about tasting the worms.
