“Slovenian artist Franc Grom drills a hole in an empty egg shell in Vrhnik, Slovenia on April 9, 2009. Grom drills thousands of holes into egg shells to create unique Easter eggs of fragile beauty.”
“A polar bear bites a mock Easter Bunny stuffed with food at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina on April 9, 2009.”
The problem is everyone, especially on the internet, is so clever now, and hip to the joke—that is the primary tone of 90% of all communication these days, “in on the joke”—so all the fun has just been leeched out of the pranks. You know no one at all will buy it, and everyone, at the same time, is expecting it, so it’s actually just this depressing obligation to make a joke that you know no one will actually enjoy. Google has to “outdo” themselves every year with a stupid new pretend feature or application, and the only time it’s ever been funny was when they actually for-real announced Gmail on April 1, 2004.
— Gawker - Today We Won’t Post a Rant On How Lame April Fools’ Day Is
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Over the years, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life has become a Christmas classic—a heartwarming, eye-watering parable about virtue being its own reward. The story of George Bailey, the big-hearted proprietor of Bailey Savings & Loan, is morally uncomplicated. Bailey is a generous lender and lenient collector; his rival, a miserly, hard-hearted millionaire banker named Henry Potter is an unrepentant villain who derides Bailey for his lack of business acumen and lax lending standards. … But consider this: Perhaps Mr. Potter wasn’t just a heartless Scrooge. Perhaps Mr. Potter, in the absence of sufficient regulatory oversight, was the one voice of sanity keeping the good people of Bedford Falls from over-leveraging themselves.