I like a good sense of humor. Keeps you young. I commented here yesterday about naming my RIR'S. I thought Na & went away. Now, I come back to this. Lord have mercy . At Least, I'll be ready for next year.
Announcement April Fools 2011 - NEW BYC Program & Partnership - Sell Your Extra Eggs!
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I have some bluing.
You bring the bluing, I'll bring some pinking shears, and together we'll go green.
I have some bluing.
You bring the bluing, I'll bring some pinking shears, and together we'll go green.
- Oct 24, 2009
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For what it's worth -
I don't generally like 'pranks' - I tend to take things seriously, and not find the funny in places other people do. And I've gotten tired of being told to "lighten up" when I don't find funny where someone else does. I really don't like jokes or humor that depend on mocking someone else, or making them embarrassed. And no, April Fools is not my favorite holiday ever.
And if I hadn't logged on to complain about the zoning regulations changing in my town, I wouldn't have even seen the thread.
But:
I thought this was *funny* - I fell for it, hook line & sinker, even complaining about the "happy chickens have names" feel-good-greenwash baloney along the way. And trying to figure out how to get the pearl white egg layer so I could get the $0.25 premium! But it was still funny to me.
I realize that some people are in very tight financial situations right now - and I feel bad if some of them got their hopes up. But, seriously, do the math. Ten dozen every two weeks is $60 extra a month. You'd save more than that by giving up in-house internet, and God knows I'd make more than that if I spent two less hours a week on the internet and instead canning, mowing neighbor's lawns, etc. People do need to know how to assess the pros and cons of a situation. If this prank served to make some people re-think the financial pros of raising back yard chickens, then that lesson - however temporarily painful - was, imo, worth it.
(God knows I've had to learn those sorts of lessons myself.)
So - I can see where people didn't care for a prank that involved the promise of money. Except that it wasn't so much a promise as a possibility. Or a suggestion of a possibility.
The old traveling salesmen used to say "you can't con an honest man." If we weren't so eager to make money off people who honestly thought 'backyard eggs from happy chickens' were worth $3 to the producer, well, fewer of us would have been caught.
(And yes, people do pay $3/dozen for not-even-free-range eggs at my local farmer's market.)
Next year, I might remember - and I'll be looking for the joke thread...
I don't generally like 'pranks' - I tend to take things seriously, and not find the funny in places other people do. And I've gotten tired of being told to "lighten up" when I don't find funny where someone else does. I really don't like jokes or humor that depend on mocking someone else, or making them embarrassed. And no, April Fools is not my favorite holiday ever.
And if I hadn't logged on to complain about the zoning regulations changing in my town, I wouldn't have even seen the thread.
But:
I thought this was *funny* - I fell for it, hook line & sinker, even complaining about the "happy chickens have names" feel-good-greenwash baloney along the way. And trying to figure out how to get the pearl white egg layer so I could get the $0.25 premium! But it was still funny to me.
I realize that some people are in very tight financial situations right now - and I feel bad if some of them got their hopes up. But, seriously, do the math. Ten dozen every two weeks is $60 extra a month. You'd save more than that by giving up in-house internet, and God knows I'd make more than that if I spent two less hours a week on the internet and instead canning, mowing neighbor's lawns, etc. People do need to know how to assess the pros and cons of a situation. If this prank served to make some people re-think the financial pros of raising back yard chickens, then that lesson - however temporarily painful - was, imo, worth it.
(God knows I've had to learn those sorts of lessons myself.)
So - I can see where people didn't care for a prank that involved the promise of money. Except that it wasn't so much a promise as a possibility. Or a suggestion of a possibility.
The old traveling salesmen used to say "you can't con an honest man." If we weren't so eager to make money off people who honestly thought 'backyard eggs from happy chickens' were worth $3 to the producer, well, fewer of us would have been caught.
(And yes, people do pay $3/dozen for not-even-free-range eggs at my local farmer's market.)
Next year, I might remember - and I'll be looking for the joke thread...
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ME TOO!!!!
I fell for it for a short while, cuz I am not sure what I am going to do when all 15 of my chickens start to lay....that's like a DOZEN eggs a DAY!!! I'll find someone who really needs them to feed their children and give them to them for 50 cents a dozen, to avoid the charity stigma.
But once I realized it was an April fool's joke, I got a HUGE charge out of reading the names of the chickens and the counter joke of the person who claimed to have spent $200 on chickens that should have gone for food for her 5 or 6 children living in trailer with Gram and granny...LOL
So we'll be harder to fool next year. But I, for one, will be sure to be looking cuz it was fun reading.
edited to fix something I forgot to delete in the quote which TOTALLY changed what the person I quoted said. LOL
ME TOO!!!!
I fell for it for a short while, cuz I am not sure what I am going to do when all 15 of my chickens start to lay....that's like a DOZEN eggs a DAY!!! I'll find someone who really needs them to feed their children and give them to them for 50 cents a dozen, to avoid the charity stigma.
But once I realized it was an April fool's joke, I got a HUGE charge out of reading the names of the chickens and the counter joke of the person who claimed to have spent $200 on chickens that should have gone for food for her 5 or 6 children living in trailer with Gram and granny...LOL
So we'll be harder to fool next year. But I, for one, will be sure to be looking cuz it was fun reading.
edited to fix something I forgot to delete in the quote which TOTALLY changed what the person I quoted said. LOL
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I got this message on my Facebook page. I need to get over to this Forum more often! I didn't know there is an April Fool's Day tradition here! Too bad it's not real
And how many posts do I have to submit to get past 'just hatched'?
Good one!
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Well, you should have made the price 3.01 ... 03/01/11 ... get it???
March 1st? Don't get it.
Drat, 4.01 or 3.32 ...
Well, you should have made the price 3.01 ... 03/01/11 ... get it???
March 1st? Don't get it.
Drat, 4.01 or 3.32 ...
Cattitude
Songster
There is an *ahem* serious side to this thread as well. It got us all thinking about biosecurity, about marketing our product, about NPIP certification, about comfortable housing for our feathered friends. I consider that a bonus by-product of a *shameless and despicable* wonderfully wicked April Fools' Day joke.
edited to correct a grammar error
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