Hillary Clinton’s April Fools gag was to tell the press Pennsylvania should be settled with a bowling contest. Well our elections are much like a glorified pissing match so why the hell not?

Unlike politicians and their awful sense of humor, I won’t do lame stuff like change my theme and pretend I sold my blog to a 14-year-old teenage girl. And who is dumb enough to fall for a practical joke on April 1st? Not my readers that is for sure.

So instead of a prank I will regal you with my short tale of the only April Fools joke I have ever done.

As many of you know I was a founding member and first vice-president of a chapter of TKE back in college. At that time a lot of fraternities and sororities were popping up on campus. Nobody wanted to pledge for the existing organizations. They wanted to be all entrepreneurial and shit.

I saw this trend and thought it was perfect for an April Fools Day prank. If everyone wants to start a group up, let’s see how many will fall for a fake fraternity coming to campus.

On that day Alpha Beta Zeta was born. The name was created using the first three letters of the Greek alphabet. I could have gone with random letters I suppose, but I wanted subtle clues that something was not right.

I created flyers with selling points like “David Letterman was a member of ABZ” and “Third-Largest Fraternity in Minnesota and North Dakota” along with the time and place for the meeting.

I made a few hundred copies and had our pledges put them everywhere on campus. If I was going down for this I was going to have accomplices I could take with me.

The meeting time came and about forty people showed up. I know because I checked it out. I was wicked nervous being there so I claimed I was there because as an officer of TKE I wanted to see what the fuss was all about.

It always helps to have a cover story when you are pranking people. Or when being arrested.
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