Rick wrote:
Fooling our readers is not "lightening up", it's
perpetrating a hoax on them.
That's kind of the point of April Fool's, eh?
I think I have a few "strange but true" topics that I can post
on that day, see if any of the humorless have the temerity to
challenge them, sort of a reverse April Fool. Ideally something
with a chapter in a scholarly book but with no Google hits,
heh-heh. Too bad cookiecutter and megamouth sharks are already
done!
Stan