[Nate]

Okay everyone, tell us all about the greatest April Fool's Day Joke you've ever done or seen. I mean funny jokes, not ones that are just cruel.

I don't think that this is a joke because it hit the news yesterday but it seems weird enough. The Australian Minister for Immigration Amanda Vanstone got in trouble yesterday because she had a bunch of refugee kids for a big PR breakfast and she fed them chocolate croissants. Yes that's right, chocolate croissants. Personally I don't see what the problem is.

This one is my favourite prank but it needs to be done with a group of people towards one or a few others who don't know it. It seems to work best if done to people of the female variety.

In normal conversation drop in a mention of the movie "The Protector". If they don't pick up on it, try it again another day (don't do it too soon or it will look obvious). If they ask you what movie you mean, act incredulous that they have never seen it and start talking about Whitney Houston starring as a singer and Kevin Costner as her 'Protector'. If they tell you that that movie is called 'The Bodyguard' tell them that they are thinking of another movie. Then continue describing The Bodyguard as best you can, up to and including singing the song 'And IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIII will always love youOUOOUOUOU" as badly as possible. If they still insist that you are wrong start asking your friends what they think. Of course, they will agree with you so the victim will bring in their friends to agree with them. You and your friends must then create as much confusion as possible by arguing as loudly as possible, recounting the plot, making mentions of the phrases "Academy Awards", "laser gun in a camera", "No, really it was his friend all along", "Silver armout in the music video", "and then they kissed at the end", "Kevin Costner in a sling at the airport", "Tom Green and a dead moose" and finally 'And IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIII will always love youOUOOUOUOU". Feel free to argue amongst yourself about plotlines just to confuse things ever further. Remember: the movie you are talking about is not "The Bodyguard". That is another movie. You can make up a plot for that if you want.

Eventually you will get the victim to a wonderful point where they start doubting that they are correct.

ADVANCED LEVEL: This is one you do alone, without telling your friends. Right in the middle of the loudest discussion yell out "NO, you're thinking of the movie with Whoopi Goldberg playing the psychic, 'Spirit'" and try and get someone who is in on the original joke to fall for it and unthinkingly respond with "No that's Ghost!" before realising what you have done and feeling a bit silly. What can I say, it worked on me.