Title: I have a sense of humor.  Really I do.<p>I just don&#x27;t find being pounded with systematic absurdity for an entire day every year as being very funny.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to solve it.  It seems every single company and publication that communicates via the web has a corporate communications department or something that thinks it&#x27;s a corporate priority to come out with something for April Fools. The Internet systematizes, amplifies, focuses, fully resources, funds, schedules, plans and implements high production value foolery.  Corporate drone: &quot;Larry, Sergey, have you signed off yet on this years $4M April Fools budget? How are we going to attract and recruit the best engineers unless we&#x27;ve got a reputation for the very best and most foolish April Fools trickery?&quot; Ugh.<p>It&#x27;s just kind of silly and boring and makes we wish April 2 would come as soon as possible. As I read the Internet on April 1 I just try to self filter out all the silly unbelievable garbage. Most news sites (including HN) are hardly worth reading April 1.<p>You know when someone who thinks they are funny insists on telling lame jokes, and the audience feels an obligation to give an acknowledging guffaw? It&#x27;s like an whole Internet day worth of that.<p>I feel like the Grinch Who Stole April Fools but really it has to be said.  If you&#x27;ve got it in mind to do some fine ol&#x27; foolin then maybe the classy thing to do is leave the foolin to others and spare us one more depressingly lame absurdity.
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