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PeterKay
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April fools ended 2 hrs ago 
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dave_uk
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Ha.....ha ha......ha ha.
Not only is it well past midday, but that is the most predictable April Fool's I have seen today, and with some of Vanquish's efforts, that's really saying something! 
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vanquish
Joined: Mar 20, 2003
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Oi! Yee!
Anyway, April Fools can last all day you idiots!
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dave_uk
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Aaahhhh, Vanquish!
See below, taken from this link (and pay particular attention to number 10 - I believe Newcastle qualifies as England!):
April Fool's Day
Everything you need to know about the year's funniest day on the net
Friday March 31, 2000
1. Tomorrow is April Fool's Day, the day when it's OK to tell someone their shoelaces are undone even though they're not.
2. Mischief, even something as simple as sewing a friend or family member's underpants together, is elevated to the iconic status of a prank.
3. Why? One school of thought says it's funny to watch them bite through the cotton with their teeth. Another says it's because April 1 has been this way since 1582.
4. In that year, France switched to the Gregorian calendar and New Year's Day dropped back to January.
5. Some people, however, hadn't heard or didn't believe the date change and continued to celebrate new year on April 1. Others played tricks on them and called them April fools.
6. To this day, French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their backs. When the young victim discovers this trick, the prankster yells "poisson d'Avril!" (April fish - but it loses something in translation.)
7. It spread from France, and now there are enough jokes and pranks for everybody to go round - including a cruel genre directed exclusively at computer programmers and net heads.
8. Offline, the world's media enjoy a laugh too. In 1996, the stories doing the rounds included news that Russia's military had developed diamond-studded grenades for nouveau-riche gangsters, Walt Disney had purchased Hadrian's Wall and style-conscious Princess Diana had taken to flying economy class.
9. The Guardian's own prank, a cheeky little ruse telling readers the Queen was setting up a website, turned out to be something of a scoop when www.royal.gov.uk materialised a couple of years later.
10. One word of warning though. If you live in England, you have until midday to perform your prank. The Scots, however, enjoy 48 hours of hunting the gowk (cuckoo) - day two is know as Taily Day and pranks involving the posterior are performed.
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vanquish
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Aye, but who made these up? Theoretically i could joke all year!
I dont believe in bad luck anyhows, only fate 
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