April 2nd: Better than Christmas.
I am so glad that April Fool's day fell on a Sunday this year. No one noticed that I locked myself in the house while I drew and napped all day, avoiding April-fricking-Fool's. God, how I hate it. An April Fool's joke, by definition, is one that requires a lie/set-up that gets the victim's hopes up about something then the perpetrator pulls the rug out from under the victim, which results in a "joke" that's only funny to the jerk that pulled the prank and/or told the lie. Said jerk then absolves himself of all responsibility for being an ass by saying "April Fool!" Agh, my teeth clench just thinking about it.
Halloween isn't that much better. Nothing gets on my nerves more than an adult who is really into Halloween and uses it as an excuse to scare other adults as well as small children with fake blood and guts and horror pranks and all that.
Easter's next on my list. Easter was fun until I got to catholic grade school, where I learned that the church drags out the holiday for six weeks as they tell six-year-old kids in gruesome snuff-film-like detail over and over, about Christ's final hours. Odd that the nuns in these schools will discuss these horrifying, grisly Roman rituals, but no one will tell these kids where babies come from.
"Mom, how did the baby get in your tummy?"
"Uh... why don't you ask Daddy to put Faces of Death IV in the DVD player again?"
You know what I give up for Lent every year? Jerks, idiots and sub-morons. I've never managed to get through the whole season without them coming back to me, though.
12 Comments:
gotta disagree with you on the halloween thing. My notion on halloween is its the one day of the year where you can be anything you want and no one can tell you otherwise. In my opinion kids need more days in the year like that where the fat kid can be an athlete or the not so smart kid can be an astronought.
Come on... Without April Fool's Day you wouldn't get awesome things like Gmail Paper! That's some funny stuff right there!
Agreed, April fools can be a pain in the ass. Take my girlfriend for instance. All day Sunday, every time she farted she would look at me and laugh and yell "April Fools!" I actually lost count with how many times this happened.
I wholeheartedly agree with you about AFD. It's a hundred times worse on internet forums. (They should disable thread-making capabilities on that day.)
But Halloween...? I agree about the blood and guts, but what about we adults that like decorating the house, passing out candy, watching scary movies and have committed the entire soundtrack of "Nightmare Before Christmas" to memory?
Let me clarify about Halloween; Dressing up, Kids dressing up and getting candy, I'm totally cool with that. In fact, something that makes me angrier than April Fool's is when adults, acting out of fear, or religious zealotry, ban Trick-or-treating.
What bothers me about Halloween is that it seems to becoming a more and more horror-themed-April-Fool's-Day type holiday among adults.
Did you have some type of bad experience regarding AFD? Sounds like you were traumatized at some point, what happened? Parents move all the furniture out of the house while you were at school and put a For Sale sign in the front yard? Or tell you that you were adopted and your real mom is the crazy homeless lady who pushes the shopping cart around town, and they're sending you back to live with her?
Don't you think Halloween is supposed to have some mischievous activity? Kinda goes with the whole "trick-or-treat" idea.
April Fools was not celebrated in my household growing up. Clashed with religious beliefs my mother held.
Didn't celebrate Halloween for the same reasons.
Now, I see the holidays as a pranksters holiday, and if it's cleverly done, great so long as it's of the no harm, no foul variety.
For Halloween...still not much of a fan of the holiday. All for kids having fun and costume parties. That's purely for the fun/social aspect however. Any excuse to get out and drink with friends is a good excuse IMO.
Bill, I think it had something to do with a football being pulled away at the last moment and John landing flat on his back.
TCW, I get that feeling too.
John, what's with the anti-holiday rant? Halloween and Easter? Next you'll be poo-pooing the Fourth of July, Passover, Ramadan and Oaks Day!
just noticed . . . is that a decembrists poster on the wall? are you going to see them on the 13th?
John, what's with the anti-holiday rant? Halloween and Easter? Next you'll be poo-pooing the Fourth of July, Passover, Ramadan and Oaks Day!
I think this is what happens when I write a blog without something strip-related as a topic; I just end up complaining.
just noticed . . . is that a decembrists poster on the wall? are you going to see them on the 13th?
Alan did have a Decembrists poster on his wall. I'm not going to the concert, but look for my post next week where I ask all of you to recommend some new music to me.
Actually, for April Fool's Day I try to choose pranks that involve a mild "gotcha!" rather than making someone look like an idiot. For example, I sealed my housemate's shampoo bottle with plastic wrap, then replaced the cap, so that she couldn't tell anything was wrong - when she went to wash up, however, the shampoo wouldn't pour! Short-sheeting beds and salting toothbrushes are some of my other favorites.
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