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  3. Listen to the main menu options.
  4. Enter the number of the Prank you have chosen.
  5. Enter your Victim's telephone number and press # when they answer to start the windup.
  6. Your Victim will then believe they are talking to a real person and continue to interact with the recording.
  7. You can secretly listen in while the joke is being played on the Victim so you can hear both the windup and the Victim's reaction at the same time.
  8. If you hang up the call will end; if your victim hangs up you will be given the option to call back or choose another.

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The Origin of April Fools Day

The exact Origin of April Fools is still unclear, although some say it was celebrated soon after the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar, which replaced the Julian Calendar. This adoption was happening at different times in different countries, but generally within and around 1852.


The origin seems to relate to the First Day of Spring. In the old Calendar the First Day of Summer was on May 1st, but Pre-Christian cultures still regarded the First Day of Spring to be May 1st and it was the people who celebrated prematurely who became known as April Fools.

The only thing we can be sure of is that over time there has been many headlines in the media relating to famous April Fools Windups, such as:

Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest, the spaghetti weevil, had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. It was in fact filmed in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

You may also be interested in the History of April Fools Day.

 

We have a Collection of Hilarious April Fools Pranks that you can use to windup your mates or enemies & listen in secretly to their reaction!

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