They'll finally hear our voice.
Joker's Wild
Ah, April 1st. All over the city today, practical jokes are coming off with the well-oiled perfection of a Navy SEAL team in action.
Mary Ellen Hindin was in on a yuletide prank when she worked as a paralegal at a D.C. law firm. "As Christmas approached one year, we decided it was getting too expensive for everyone to buy presents for everyone else," she said.
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They agreed to instead draw names out of a hat. But when the boss wasn't around, one of the associates announced he was still going to buy a present for the big guy, even if he didn't pull his name from the hat. The rest of the staff decided to teach this brown-noser a lesson.
They fixed it so all the names in hat were the same: the boss's. And they announced that anyone who drew his or her own name would have to buy a gift for the office.
On the evening of the Christmas party, the staff gathered in the boss's office to open presents. The first person drew from the hat and announced the recipient. A look of shock came over the apple-polishing associate's face when his colleague said she'd drawn the boss's name.
"As we went around the room, everyone had a present for the boss," said Mary Ellen. "What made it even more hilarious was that the boss was an incredible egomaniac and he was absolutely thrilled that he was getting all the presents."
Since he drew his own name, the boss bought a TV for the office.
April 1st Prediction
Sources close to baseball say that naming rights for RFK are close to being secured. I hear that interested parties include United Parcel Service, the Kennedy and Johnson presidential libraries, British rock groups Emerson Lake & Palmer and the Electric Light Orchestra, and a well-known toenail fungus remedy. In other words: UPS JFK LBJ ELP ELO Lamisil Field at RFK Stadium.
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