The Monthly [In]Sanity Check - April 2003

Whee! The previous month's newsletter was so fun to make that I'm going to make one for April too! ^^"

AND, this time, it's actually got a cover article!

WHOO HOO!!!

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Well, April the first is coming. And fast. Why not enjoy some good, spontaneous evil for once?

Not harmful evil, just funny evil.

The greatest thing about this spontaneous evil is that pranks for April Fools' Day can be played on anyone!

(Well, maybe not your cranky, detention-slip-happy Spanish teacher, but you get my idea.)

Behold, the only day of the year you can get away with some minor malevolence without getting punished! (Well, that's the idea, anyway.)

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Here are some fine pranks for your folks....

1) Rig hand sprayer so that when someone turns on the faucet, it sprays them in the face.
2) Turn TVs' and computers' volume up a bit, loud enough to surprise but not loud enough to break something.
3) Hide coffee.
4) Change parents'/siblings' MSN IM screen name to something that is completely the opposite of their personality.
5) Fill people's sneakers with feathers/rubber bands/pony beads.
6) Loosely tape strands of thread across the wall in the stairwell, so that they stick to people's clothing unnoticably.
7) Switch the cereal bags in their boxes.
8) Switch dresser drawers around.
9) Unplug siblings' video game systems so they think they're broken.
10) Put paper under the sheets of their beds so that it's uncomfortable when they lie down.
11) Expand on that idea, make it a cackling Halloween mat!
12) Safety pin their undergarments together.
13) Turn photos upside-down in their frames.
14) Turn their clocks ahead so they wake up earlier.
15) Securely attach (by way of duct tape, mayhaps?) curtains and blinds to the frames of windows so that they will not open without force. (Be careful though... they'll get mad at you if the paint peels off the wooden borders of things or if the actual window gets sticky tape goo on it....)
16) Put all the open milks/juices/waters in the back of the fridge.
17) Use clear tape to tape scissors together.
18) Put some oily substance (petroleum jelly?) on the bathroom doorknobs.
19) Use food coloring to dye some ice cubes in their trays the night before April 1st; make sure they are on top the next morning so that your family wonders (well, if they're observant, anyway).
20) Toilet paper your family while they are sleeping the morning of April 1st.
21) Pull the actual pillow out of pillowcases - replace them with heavy books or crumpled paper!
22) Switch the salt and sugar.
23) Do an old fashioned trick! Put whoopie cushions on your family's chairs! Try this to each of your family members and see their and others' reactions!
24) On their key hooks, tape your family's keys together. De-activate if they are late for work.
25) Switch things in your siblings' and parents' lunch boxes.
26) 'Borrow' all the pens/pencils in the house. Rubber band them together (so you know which group goes where in the house when it's time to return them to their places) and watch your family's frustration.
27) Send your family musical e-cards while their speakers are up louder than normal (see #2).
28) Do your siblings a favor and [un-]do their beds for them!
29) Leave something (like a rolled up newspaper) balanced on the fridge door; when someone opens it, it will fall on them. (Do not do this with something messy (they'll make you clean it up) or with something that would really hurt (they'll kill you).)
30) Grab the wrong laundry basket and put the dirty laundry away!
31) Make the default color for your word processor white, or change the color of an important file's type to white. This is the perfect way to make a family member or pal panic, but does no lasting damage. (White on white makes the text 'disappear'.)

These are just the beginning... be even more spontaneously evil and pull pranks on your buds. Can't stand being malevolent towards your friends? Hire them as partners in crime!

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**Adrienne Wolter is not responsible for ANY punishment you get for trying out the pranks listed on this page. Remember that April Fools' Day is about fun for everyone (well, possibly embarrassment for the target of the joke...), not about being hurtful. A good prank does no physical pain.**