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hate when cannot tell is something is april fools joke. i hate april fools. bah humbug.
Does anyone else think this has gotten harder over the past decade or so? Or is my memory just failing me? It’s not so much that April Fools gags have gotten more sophisticated, it’s that the world has gotten so bizarre that even Onion-like gags seem disturbingly plausible. In a world that has people like Michele Bachmann and Steve King serving in the U.S. Congress, how do you top real life?
