Kurt had one of the girls that works for him tell him that she was pregnant for April Fool's Day. For one thing, that's totally overdone. Plus, she's been married for a couple of years, so if she were pregnant, it's not that surprising. Kids sort of happen when you're married.
The one time the pregnancy thing did work on me was when my boss in Virginia told us his wife was pregnant on April Fool's Day. Of course, we all thought it was just an April Fool's joke and didn't really believe him. Also I guess we just assumed they didn't want kids or they couldn't have them because they hadn't had them yet, and my boss was already in his early 40s. It didn't help when he himself told us that it was a joke, so we all laughed and told him he got us good. But then it turns out that she was pregnant, and with twins no less! So now my boss has two quite adorable sons that are now about a year and a half old.
The morning djs for one of the radio stations in Seattle decided to pick on one of the nearby cities for April Fool's Day, which didn't turn out quite the way they wanted it to. The two men broadcast that morning that the city's water pipes were contaminated with a chemical called dihydrogen monoxide -- the chemical name for water. A very clever joke, yes, and one that most people wouldn't get. Even in chemistry class, water is simply called "water," whether you refer to other common chemicals by their common name or their chemical name, like calling salt "sodium chloride." I have a bachelor's degree (granted not in chemistry) and worked for nearly a year in a chemistry lab and never knew that water's chemical name was dihydrogen monoxide. So I don't wonder that more people didn't get the joke.
The problem I have with it is when people started freaking out and calling the utilities district's emergency line to ask what was going on, the djs refused to explain the joke. The city's utilities district pleaded with the djs to explain that it was just water they were talking about, but it was only after the morning show ended at 10am that the joke was revealed.
It was a great joke to pull, and it's funny as well. But the djs wasted a lot of people's time and money to have the utilities district respond to what wasn't really an emergency because people were genuinely frightened that their water was severely contaminated. I just think they ought to have 'fessed up to the joke a lot earlier, when the city's utilities district asked them to. If fairly educated people have no idea what dihydrogen monoxide is, how can they expect the general public to know?
It's not enough to simply blame the ignorance of the city's residents.