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by spendlove Moderator ( edited 01 Apr 2015 ) 01 Apr 2015

This morning my laptop behaved very strangely.



The mouse scroll wheel worked as if the control key was pressed, so it enlarged rather than scrolled.


I couldn't open emails, and each time I tried to log out of them, a new window opened, but behind the one I already had.


Eventually I switched off and rebooted after which everything was back to normal.


Have I been April Fooled? It has just turned 12 noon so the rest of the day should be safe!

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by lbrow 02 Apr 2015

Hmmm I missed it. It was april 2 before I realized it was April. Have had 2 sets of company the past week. 1 set going to Michigan from Fl. and another set going to Fl. from Michigan. to busy to keep up with the date. LOL/Lillian

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by Patricia109 02 Apr 2015

We used to play lots of harmless pranks on each other when I was under 12, 50 years on & now nobody does anything - fun or irritatingly bad....
What happened?? err, I am in Australia.

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spendlove by spendlove 02 Apr 2015

There were a lot in the news here in UK.

greysewist by greysewist 05 Apr 2015

There were a couple of things on the news in Aus. A car supposedly in a sinkhole outside a major TV station and a mayor requesting everyone working in the city to wear nametags (someone said this was inspired by a Seinfeld show) -people were to have pay docked if they didn't do it :)

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by 02kar Moderator 01 Apr 2015

it was a huge day for kids when I was growing up in the northeast of the USA.

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by asterixsew Moderator 01 Apr 2015

Sounds fun or not as the case might be.

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asterixsew by asterixsew 01 Apr 2015

Just a thought do other countries have April Fools Day as the UK does or is it one of the quaint things that we do?

spendlove by spendlove 01 Apr 2015

In France they have Poisson d'Avril - the April Fish

graceandham by graceandham 01 Apr 2015

Yes in USA. I went to my son's work and told of his fellow workers it is his birthday and to be sure to tell him happy birthday (not his birthday). So he'd get little messages all day long.

hejren by hejren 02 Apr 2015

We have it in Denmark too

mops by mops edited 03 Apr 2015

And in the Netherlands as well.
Nice one on the regional TV and radio station. The Zoo in Emmen is renovating (which is true) and they needed a temporary solution for the penguins. A local school had offered an area and the children were asked to come dressed in black and white to make the penguins feel less stressed. Don't know if or how many people turned up to watch, there are always a few gullible ones.

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by brittanycooper 01 Apr 2015

Somebody had to do it if April Fooled. Personally I bet it's just your computer exerting it's muscle. Reboot always works for me.

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