Mine & my siblings' was when we were little kids. (sm)
Posted By: Topaz on 2009-04-01
In Reply to: What is your best April Fools joke? - sm
I lived in Southern California in an area where everyone had citrus trees in their yard, because everything used to be commercial citrus orchards back then. There was an infestation of something called 'red spiders' that were killing orange, grapefruit and lemon trees. Our yard had lots of beautiful Valencia orange trees in it, which my dad took loving care of - fed them special tree food, etc. (We always drank home-squeezed orange juice!)
So on April Fool's day, not long after there had been lots of talk about red spiders being found in trees in our area, we all came running into the house that morning, and breathlessly told our dad, 'We found RED SPIDERS all over the tree by the swing-set!' We acted all shocked & upset, dragged him by the hand out into the backyard, and kept pointing and saying, 'Look! Don't you see them?!' He'd look and say no, he couldn't see them. 'But they're REALLY tiny!' we said, 'You've got to get really, really CLOSE to see them!'
We finally had it so he was practically touching the tree with his nose, and then we all yelled 'APRIL FOOL'!!!
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I only have one and I wish I could give him siblings.
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Consider homeschooling her.
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Don't know about your God, but mine
my God is more forgiving than that!
She is not doing anyone any harm, so to say she will burn in h*** for celebrating the fun part of Halloween, not evilness, is the whole reason I do not attend church!
I never did it with mine. For one, I would have been
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Mine is up
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Have red/white/blue/silver these. Looks awesome. Have lights up outside too!!!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Mine would be...
Laxatives
Laytex gloves
a metal detector
mine too
have to light a fire under his butt in an attempt to get him out of the house.
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Two of mine have had and he will run
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Yes, mine are
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ok, here's mine...
Awesome: Ellen Degeneres (sp?)
Lame: Oprah
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I hope you have family you can talk to and get support from. If you need to email me, please feel free. I just know how you feel and I hurt for you right now, but I promise you, it'll all be okay.
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I got mine a GPS....sm
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mine are like that too.
The last time one of them was home he straightened out one my cupboards and they like to cook with me and play board or card games.
That is exactly how I fix mine, YUM! (nm)
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First mine said he was gay
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If you're lucky, he's just curious. But you really need to get the truth out of him, and be prepared for the worst. If he's really confused about his sexuality it may take him years to figure out who he "is" and what he really wants, so it may be difficult for him to tell you the truth because he might be in denial about it himself.
Mine was only 10 or 11, but she had - sm
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I knew when she didn't want to do anything but sit on the couch and stare off into space. No longer wanted food or attention, just occasional water, and kind of a blank stare. Was also out of breath all the time. So I had a long talk with her about it, and she just seemed to be saying, "Do it - I'm ready."
Well here's mine (sm)
I can lean on the slacker side sometimes too so here is what I do: get my tea- start half an hour early - read any interesting news on Yahoo, check and respond to emails, look at MTstars ;-) - just get that out of the way. Through the day I tell myself I can't switch over and check email or anything until I have done a certain number of minutes, etc., which earns me an email break. I also have motivational music on my computer - like The Blur's Woohoo! song that I play in between when I am doing things that don't require listening, like sending my work and things like that.
here's mine
 Life is good, I am SO blessed!
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yes, I got mine on 05/02
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I'd rather be where you are but here's mine:
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Mine does this too
And I am in my 20s. I have them sometimes many times a day for a week straight or so. I am going to my cardiologist again soon but I assume it is nothing to worry about because they dont seem worried. I have a feeling they will do a Holter or something, but it is so hard to catch them because it seems it essentially just does it when it feels like it.
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Mine is....
"hisself" instead of himself. Drives me crazy.
Here goes mine..
ax instead of ask,
beedroom instead of bedroom (I think that's an Australian thing) or for that matter, betroom instead of bedroom
Daytawn instead of Dayton (& from residents too!)
The use of the f-word & the s-word in every other sentence... (if not every sentence)
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Mine are:
warsh for wash (a common Hoosier-ism, I guess, but I still hate it)
liberry for library
chimbly for chimney
and my mother-in-law pronounces crayons "crins" 
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and of course he doesn't remember this anymore but my hubs asked him the other day if he wanted a hangaburger. He just thought his dad was weird. LOL Kids are so much fun.
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