This year's April Fool's Day is no laughing matter, reckons Griselda Heppel
Happy April Fool's Day, all! Worksheets - completed before breakfast, of course. Somehow I don’t think there’ll be a lot of pranks played today, at least not in the media. Maybe in households up and down the land cries of ‘Worksheets? What worksh- oh those. Yeah, all downloaded and done before breakfast,’ will strike joy into the hearts of parents – before they discover they’ve been had. But no one will be combing the national press for stories about spaghetti trees or straight bananas, Looks straight to me. and it seems that Google has actually cancelled this year’s April Fools’ jokes, judging that no one will be in the mood. (Though given this example of the best techie prank of 2019 - Spotify… put together a "Discocover Weekly" playlist that is largely disco covers of non-disco songs. - I am tempted to wonder, à la Dorothy Parker, if anyone will be able to tell.)...