"The Murtaugh List"

"The Murtaugh List"

On the most recent episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted compiles a list of things that would be cool to do when you are , say 20, that wouldn't be as cool when you're 30. Basically, a list of activities that loses appeal as an inevitable sign of aging. Some scenarios in which you might eventually say "I'm too old for that stuff": Pulling all nighters, hanging posters on your walls without frames, playing laser tag while unorthodoxically taking down kids, etc.

Though I am a fan of the concept of April Fools - a vouch for the jack-assery that could potentially be bestowed upon an innocent victim - I never really got into the "spirit". I've never been pranked, I could see through nearly every one in the book, nor did I ever do the pranking, fearful that it would spark a vengeance and a necessary revenge from the other party. But this past April first has ignited some sort of joke bomb in me. I ended up posting a listing on Craigslist as a male seeking male for Evan, and it was quite a success, despite the lack of eroticism. I turned off all the lights in the bathroom as Blyss was showering (though, this isn't very unusual and most often results in entertaining reactions.), meat spinned her homepage (I don't think she will ever figure it out it was me. She hasn't realized the pattern that everytime she takes a shower, her home page magically becomes meatspin), and I taped my unwanted poster of a pale, dead Cedric Diggory sporting a bouffant on her wall. When it comes down to it, it's going to be three years tops before I add April Foolery to my Murtaugh list.