April Fool's Day . . . a day where Mother Nature can get us...
as well as friends, family, students, teachers, etc.
Today, Mother Nature really got us!
Snow. Check.
Rain. Check.
Thunder. Check.
Lightning. Check.
Thunder. Check.
Lightning. Check.
Cloudy. Check.
Hail. Check.
Windy. Check.
Sunny. Check.
I only remember 2 April Fool's pranks...both as a sophomore.
One was in Geometry (the class I matched Renae and Rob)
Some of the class started pushing one desk at a time out into the hall.
When Mr. McMaster finally turned around, almost half the desks were gone!
The other one was in English.
When Miss Allsop left the room, we were all working.
When she returned, we were all working...except all of the desks were facing backwards.
That, folks...is creativity in the 70s!
I only remember 2 April Fool's pranks...both as a sophomore.
One was in Geometry (the class I matched Renae and Rob)
Some of the class started pushing one desk at a time out into the hall.
When Mr. McMaster finally turned around, almost half the desks were gone!
The other one was in English.
When Miss Allsop left the room, we were all working.
When she returned, we were all working...except all of the desks were facing backwards.
That, folks...is creativity in the 70s!
Worst April Fool's Day. . .
5 years ago.
Two of the teachers on my team kept going back and forth
between their classes all year with pranks.
One teacher wanted to move all of the other class's desks
into another room.
I told him not to do it.
Nothing good would come of it.
(Of course...no one listens to me!)
He did. She retaliated.
We were doing our mock legislative session.
One of the laws was a student couldn't put their hands
in another person's desk.
Her class was taking his entire class to court!
She said their kids would have had to put their hands
in the desks to move them.
I told her not to do it.
Nothing good would come of it.
(Of course...no one listens to me!)
My student was the Chief Judge.
He came to me and said he wanted to resign...because
no matter what would happen, 1/4 of the 5th grade
would be mad at him.
I told Condita she had to handle it all!
(Oh...and he set off a cherry bomb in her classroom that morning, too)
Nothing good came of it.
Best April Fool's Day...
1979
One year before I came to Alpine.
It was
LEGENDARY!!!
For years and years...an entire generation of students
talked about it every April Fool's Day!
The men teachers and staff
(I was only female above 3rd grade when I came...3 teachers each grade)
were behind it.
They pulled the prank on the 4th graders...just the right age.
They lined up all the students, and told them there was a new
outbreak of a disease (made up) and any immunizations they
had had for school would not touch it.
A brand new immunization had been developed for it.
The shots could only be given at the school, because they had
to make sure all students got it!
One of the teachers, his wife was a pharmacist.
She had lots of vials lined up that the students
could see. (water)
They explained to the kids that they had to sign their
name to a paper saying they had received the shot.
Some of the kids started to cry hysterically!
They pulled them out of line and started with them first.
The paper said it was an April Fool's joke.
Pretend shot needle...but would the student act like it hurt,
yell, say "ouch" really loud, or even say they had no problem.
(When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, I remember getting
shots at school from school nurse.)
It went almost through the 3 classes before
one of the kids actually told...and ruined it for the rest!
Touche . . .
Mr. McDaniel
Mr. Vance
Mr. Thompson
(all desceased)
Mr. Brown
Mr. Pool
Mr. Olsen
Mr. Dimond
Mr. Bodell
Principal Brian Page
and
Mr. Bodell
Principal Brian Page
and
Custodians...Mr. Bateman & Mr. Romrell (desceased)
This article was pretty great, too . . .
Jabari Parker's Mormon mission and an extra Sunday general conference session?
High school standout
Jabari Parker attends the NCAA basketball game between BYU and Cal State
Northridge, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. He might be laughing now about the
"news" item about his supposed missionary work while in the NBA.
Ben Brewer, Deseret News
Matt Evans tried to pull a fast one on all Mormon sports fans with his article on Times and Seasons titled "NBA strikes deal with LDS Church for Jabari Parker."
"Today the NBA announced a landmark agreement with the LDS Church to ensure that Jabari Parker’s desire to serve a mission does not interfere with his draft prospects, saying the church has agreed to their proposal to call Parker to serve as a missionary in the city of the NBA team that drafts him," Evans wrote.
The detailed article went on to explain how living situations will be handled, how companionships will work and what type of proselytizing opportunities will be available.
Special attention was also given to how Parker's mission president would handle the situation.
"Church spokeswoman LaDawn McConkie says the church expects Parker’s mission president will be flooded with requests from missionaries asking to be Parker’s companion, but it’s all part of a president’s demanding job," the article said.
"According to ESPN, the mission presidents in the cities with teams most likely to win the draft lottery are already making plans."
LDS Bookstore joined in on the April Fools' pranks with its own press release about general conference.
"Members of the LDS church will be getting an additional two hours of inspiring messages from church leaders beginning this weekend at the 183rd Annual General Conference, President Youknowho of the third quorum of the Seventy announced early Monday morning," the article stated. "The new session of conference will be held on Sunday evening, beginning at 6pm MST."
It was also reported that a "munch and mingle" would take place after the last session on the temple grounds in Salt Lake City.
The Cache Valley Daily also repurposed its April Fools' article from last year, which stated that the LDS Church had purchased Utah State University and would rename it BYU-Logan.
Other satirical content geared toward members of the LDS faith has surfaced throughout the year, including the supposed creation of a popcorn tree and other prank pieces from The BunYion, including "Justin Bieber to Attend BYU by Court Order" and "BYU Statues Break Honor Code."
And Maxine hits it right on the head . . .
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