Merry Mischief!

Being festive should always involve strong aspects of human emotion, though I prefer the more positive ones myself... One I appreciate a lot is being scandalous, in any not quite devilish sense, which is why most people learn to love April Fool's Day, unless, of course, their experience with it involves shitty practical jokes...

There is something about the physicality of the latter, whether bad or not, that is not directly appealing to most: if part of the joke rests on how slow one is to get out of the way of a falling backet of water, it's just bland.

Not to mention that people may be hurt as well.

You see, jokes are a primarily encephalical endeavour: the point is to trick the other party, not to hurt them; if you can do so at their own game, so much the better.

Here's a thought: use tradition to your advantage; people will try to stick to it by all means possible, or be hesitant enough for all of you, them included, to laugh at the expense of tradition itself.

Above all, of course, have fun!

About the RRS...

It's not that I don't recognise they can be and have been in error; for instance, I was one of the most ardent critics of Rook Hawkins' errors in his transcription of Greek... What I, however, find most relevant is that they shape up and learn from their mistakes.

To err is human; to deny your errors, however, is twice the fault.

Of Trolls and Goblins...

An interesting phenomenon with trolling on the Internet is that these people are the psychological analogue of real-life attention-seekers, most particularly the variety that revels in causing societal disruption. They feel empowered in the process.

Having come back after a long time of absence (mostly due to a lack of time to pour my personal thoughts on matters here), I deleted various anonymous comments.

And that is all the attention these trolls should get — reducing them to goblins...