• April Fools Day Jokes are a time honored tradition. On April Fools' Day people often play pranks and tricks on one another, whether in the office, in the classroom or in the comfort of your family home.

  The best April Fools Days Jokes are paid on people you like a lot—and who are likely to respond in kind, whether in the next few minutes or next April 1st. The funniest ones are when you tweak a person's normal reality just enough to be worrisome, and then let it grow until they catch on by themselves.

• Fast Facts

  1. Date: April 1
  2. Origins of the holiday are unclear but the tradition is at least several hundred years old
  3. Not a national or federal holiday
  4. Celebrated in some European countries
  5. Elaborate April Fools jokes are the stuff of legends
  6. April Fools day food recipes often involve making sweet foods out of salty ones, using food coloring to add a new spin to an old recipe, or burying odd things in the center of traditional food

• Classic April Fools Jokes

  Classic office jokes include booby trapping office chairs so that they slowly drop down over times, adding special "flavors" to coffee, and creating fake office gossip about sudden firings or promotions. Classic children's jokes are whoopie cushions, and plastic dog poop left in surprising places.

  Teachers who want to razz their students can give silly pop quizzes, swap desks around the classroom. pass out unsolvable word problems and tell 'science stories' that aren't.

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