Danny Natz’s friend made Facebook a target for an April Fools’ Day joke.

“My buddy changed someone else’s birthday on Facebook so everyone was wishing him a happy birthday without him knowing it,” said Natz, a freshman communications major. “It was really funny because he had no idea what was going on.”

Today marks April Fools’ Day, or All Fools’ Day. The day is marked by hoaxes or practical jokes on friends, enemies and neighbors.

Freshman French major Kaylee Babbs said her and a friend thought about putting toothpaste between Oreos for an April Fools’ Day joke, but they have not done it yet.

Other students have gotten jokes played on them in the past.

“My Aunt Elise’s child was born on April 1st and my uncle told everyone in my family that it was a boy when it was actually a girl,” said Lori Wolc, a senior special education major.

Melissa Troc, a freshman special education major, said in her senior year of high school, her mom set the clocks forward so it said it was 6 a.m. when it was really only 5 a.m.

“We woke up and rushed to school and when we got there nobody was there because we were an hour early,” Troc said. “I was kind of angry at my mom for doing that.”

Kayla Peterson, a junior elementary education major, said her grandmother used to always short sheet her family’s beds on April 1st.

Other students have read amusing jokes done to other people that were posted on the Internet.

“I read something about these women who told their boss that they were all pregnant and that he couldn’t tell anyone,” said Courtney Shepard, an elementary education graduate student. “It was really funny because he thought about 15 of his female workers were pregnant and he couldn’t say anything about it.”

Rachel McKibben, a junior elementary education major, said a guy asked her out and she told him yes on Aprils’ Fools as the joke.

“I felt really bad about it, and we are friends now but he was pretty upset about it at the time,” she said.

Ashley Buziecki, a junior management major, once put Saran Wrap around the toilet, much to the disdain of her father and brother.

Freshman biology major Liz Smith once put fake blood and a cast on and told all her friends she injured herself in high school.

“I put ketchup and a wrap around my leg and pretended to cry,” she said. “Everyone wanted to know if I was OK, and got mad when they found out it was a joke.”

Heather Holm can be reached at 581-7942 or haholm@eiu.edu.