Filed under: April 1
There I was yesterday, bragging about all the April Fool posts I’d written that had tricked people … feeling kinda-smug with myself … when I was informed that actually, the biggest fool of all fools, is me.
OK, that is not new news to anyone, but this is different because the very nice and clever Jon Evans of System 1 fame, dropped me a note to let me know that a post I wrote – albeit on April 29th, 2024 – was based on errrrrm, his April Fool.
D’OH!!!!
Given I wrote it a few weeks after the event suggests I didn’t see it on April 1, but even that is no excuse for my stupidity. Because while there have been times they’ve said stuff that I feel has been more subjective than objective – overall, they’re one of the good guys. An organisation that not only believes in creativity but wants to help it win.
So how the fuck I didn’t stop and say to myself, “hang on, this doesn’t feel like them” suggests that either:
A. I was stupid.
B. I was having a bad day.
C. I was triggered by the corporate speak arrogance.
[Which shows how well written it was because it sounds like many who mean it]
D. All of the above.
What’s even worse is that no one fucking pointed it out to me.
Sure, I had stopped allowing comments by then – but that doesn’t normally stop people writing to me to say I was an idiot. But in this case, they didn’t. Instead they literally let me get on my soapbox and announce to the World I was an April Fool …
Which is possibly the best result Jon could get.
Which is why I’ve asked Jon for his address, so I can send him a congratulatory gift … because that is pure genius.
And I am pure fool.