It is difficult to determine exactly when Tim Wiedman began to deteriorate on the concept of an April Fool's jokes in the office. E 'was shortly after his hair had been burned.

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Wiedman was an assistant in a fast-food joint, at the time, and wear one of those hats with tissue paper. His colleague Rick thought it would be a riot - and a tribute to an April Fool - by hiding behind his companion, and put his hat on fire.

Rather than creating a slow-burning, however, the manager's hat gag is as a bonfire on the Fourth of July. "He had to withdraw, throw on the ground and smother the flames, " recalls Wiedman, now a professor of Commerce in Lincoln, Nebraska. "I sang, and for several weeks, it seemed that I wa going bald. "