Comments on: April Fools Day Crocheted Produce Bag Give-Away

By: Easyaspie

Easyaspie — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:17:14 +0000

A new law has been passed, saying it is illegal to walk around with a red, green, or yellow shirt at streets, for drivers have accidentally mistaken it as the stoplight in the town of Dizzy, Texas. Enjoy!

By: Diane Hudson

Diane Hudson — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:52:36 +0000

My mum once served boiled eggs for breakfast and it wasn’t until we took the lids off we realised they were empty. She had saved them from a previous brekkie and just re-heated them and put them in the cups upside down. One of my favourite memories about Mum.

By: Dmarie

Dmarie — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:32:51 +0000

guess I’m too late for the giveaway, but love those bags!

By: Fr. Peter

Fr. Peter — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:17:42 +0000

I am an ex engineer / race car driver (sorry Beth, but it was a long time ago) and recently received this email from a ‘friend’.

“Natural Collection are offering the ‘all new eco-friendly car turbine’ costing only £299.95. According to the advert the system can achieve over 300mpg and use your own generated wind power (rear turbines) with a self-install system. The rear turbines are said to gather over 6000pW of renewable energy which look to me like wind power turbines on the back of the car. There are also turbines installed in the front bumper grille. Has anyone heard of this system before or know anything about it? ”

Sure had me going as my mind immediately started to visualise the concept and my fingers were quickly typing in the website link… then the date on my on-screen calendar leapt out and hit me.

Always good to know that I am not alone in the ‘One Born Every Minute Competition’.

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:41:46 +0000

I mixed gelatin in glasses of milk one year (the night before) for my kids. In the morning I set a nice breakfast out for them, along with the altered milk. They were so impressed with the breakfast (Mom usually doesn’t fix them a breakfast, they are old enough to fix one themselves), that they didn’t want to say anything to me about the milk…they thought it had “gone bad”. I still chuckle when I think about it. I think the April Fool’s was on me…

By: Moira

Moira — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:09:52 +0000

My friend from Sweden told me that when they switched from driving on the left to the right hand side of the road, to avoid confusion they had the trucks start doing it a week early and then the cars the next week. I’m pretty gullible and believed him for about 10 seconds….

By: behan

behan — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:11:21 +0000

I work at a digital agency, who mocked up and posted to their blog an excellent fake of a new product from Apple: a gesture-driven (no remote control)TV. I think you get to claim “gotcha” when gizmodo picks it up!

I’m pretty sure that using store bags for produce is the single biggest source of single-use plastic in my life… I would love to kick that habit! Thanks, Beth, for all your inspiration. These are beautiful- are there other sources “out there” you can share?

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:57:46 +0000

I nearly brought my coworker to tears this year when I “April Fooled” her. I’ve only been with my company for about 3 1/2 months so I didn’t think it would matter much if I lied and said that I had decided to leave my job. She loves to tease me so I was excited to get her back. I never expected for her to take it to heart. Her face dropped and she almost started crying. I immediately told her it was a joke and thankfully she didn’t hit me! I learned an important lesson though. Never underestimate you worth to your coworkers and leave the April Fool’s jokes to the professionals!!

By: Bryant

Bryant — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:53:19 +0000

Beautiful bags! VegNews posted that Paula Deen was going vegan. I believed it for a few minutes and was so excited! :)

By: Jessie

Jessie — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:38:06 +0000

These are all too funny! The only successful April Fools prank I can recall is the morning I poured about 1/2 of a salt shaker into my dad’s coffee while he wasn’t looking. I can still see the look on his face as he spit it across the room!