Friday, April 01, 2011

The Nth-Order April Fool

Some pranks I really appreciate but most are really not that interesting. I think saying something that is not true and be exhilarated about that others believed it is lame and ordinary. For eg just saying to someone hey see there is a lizard behind you and she turns back to see it and you start shouting April Fool .. April Fool .. this is very kiddish. There is absolutely no originality and any tension related to the confusion whether it's true or untrue. I am not boasting but mostly out of laziness when I used to be inactive and somewhat fat and lazy kid, such a joke was too mundane and boring for me to fall for. I would not even care to turn to see a lizard in high school it was just too much physical effort with little trade-off if not done. At worst the lizard would jump at me .. it would still be okay and less effort for me than for me to turn my head and look at the lizard on the wall. I would call such April Fool pranks first order.

I like to make pranks myself but of a different order. A second order April Fool prank would be stating a truth that no one knows about and there is immense confusion about it among the people. A third order would be where it's actually a false statement but think of it as true and think of it as a second order April Fool which I am saying to fool the lesser people. For eg if you are not actually married and you say I got married guyz .. then people think that you are saying a true statement which no one would believe and hence making others April Fool and doing that they are actually getting fooled. In the same way you can define Nth order April Fool. It can be defined as where the value of N is itself a confusion. That is no one really knows about it (except for a few chosen ones to keep the game on) and everyone else is just guessing ..
Is the statement true? Is it false? Is it actually false but said in a way so that people get fooled thinking that a true statement is said to appear as a false statement? Is it actually true but said in a way so that people believe it is for April Fool? Confusion .. that is April Fool for me .. confusion is the very essence of a good prank and I try to make the most of it sometimes hurting others too but that's for some other day!!

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