April Fool, anyone?

[ClaesGefvenberg]

April 1st is approaching. So... Have you planned any April Fool jokes? If so, I'd like to hear your plans, and later how they turned out. Or: Have you been on the receiving end?

Let's hear your tales...

/Claes

[Virgil]

Good thought Claes. I have not given it any thought. Perhaps I can get some ideas. :D

[papayahed]

Where do I begin.....

At a previous place of employment some of the pranks played were:

Slowly over several weeks we made a guys cubicle smaller and took bets on the day he would notice

Aluminum foiled my bosses office (Similar to the pictures floating around in emails)

Found a picture of a coworker, cut out the head, blew it up to normal size, stapled it to sticks and we all walked around being "Bob". Bob's boss also created "Shut up Bob day" So if Bob started talking anybody could say "Shut up Bob" On those days we would put a circle with a line through it on our Bob heads.

Same picture we miniturized and put little bob all over the place.

Desk drawer were filled with packing popcorn

oh, semi inappropriate magazine subscriptions showed up in peoples names

I'll see if I can remember anymore, please note these were collaborative efforts and I am not an evil genius.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I'll admit it: I am an infamous prankster: Those are two of my most successful pranks from previous years. I both cases I used our company intranet:

One year I posted an alert, saying that Dihydrogen Monoxide (Not my idea from the start, but I shamelessly nicked it :p ) had been detected in our facilities, and went on to explain the danger in great detail:


Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.

That really got people on their feet for a while. Dihydrogen Monoxide is usually known as what? ;)

Our computer network was a bit on the slow side for a while, so I conspired with the IT people on an updated software enabling us to run dual clients to boost processing (We use thin clients instead of an ordinary PC network). The only problem would be that the dual client users would hog further resources from the other users, and that users would have to apply for dual client status because of that. We also provided some pictures and graphs to prove our point. We got some applications before the word got out, and some people complained about the further reduction in bandwidth they would be subjected to. :lol:

/Claes

[Schokokeks]

That really got people on their feet for a while. Dihydrogen Monoxide is usually known as what? ;)
Common water ! :lol:
Claes, you are shameless ! :D

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Common water !Correct: H20

Claes, you are shameless ! :DCorrect again. Totally shameless, and enjoying it to the best of my ability :lol:

/Claes

[kilted exile]

A fun little trick I played one year whilst at college, and which those of you living in dorms should be able to do quite easily.

Required:

Big roll of clear heavy duty plastic
Supply of tacks/drawing pins


At around 3 in the morning you go around all the rooms on your floor and put a sheet of the plastic on the outside of the door, then you wait and see how many people walk into it when they get up in the morning.

[Schokokeks]

Correct again. Totally shameless, and enjoying it to the best of my ability :lol:
:lol: At least that's a witty joke (I mean you theoretically could dismantle it if you gave it a moment's thought :D), and not one of the super nasty sort kilted has just provided an example of :p. I'm so glad we don't share the same dorm ! :D

[ClaesGefvenberg]

(I mean you theoretically could dismantle it if you gave it a moment's thought :D),Yes, that's the way I want them: "-Awwwww, you got me", and then laugh together.


and not one of the super nasty sort kilted has just provided an example of :p. I'm so glad we don't share the same dorm ! :DYeah, I hear you. :lol: Mind you, I have heard about a far nastier variant of that one, where the plastic was applied over the loo. I will leave the rest to your imagination, but don't do that. I did not hear about it first hand, but apparently nobody was laughing, and all (very warm place) broke out, which I can rather understand. Not my idea of a funny joke.

/Claes

[AimusSage]

Yeah, I hear you. :lol: Mind you, I have heard about a far nastier variant of that one, where the plastic was applied over the loo. I will leave the rest to your imagination, but don't do that. I did not hear about it first hand, but apparently nobody was laughing, and all (very warm place) broke out, which I can rather understand. Not my idea of a funny joke.
/Claes
I'm familiar with that one, fortunately, I was on the clean side of the joke, meaning I had nothing to do with it, but was also not the one to use the toilet.

[Asa Adams]

I'll admit it: I am an infamous prankster: Those are two of my most successful pranks from previous years. I both cases I used our company intranet:

One year I posted an alert, saying that Dihydrogen Monoxide (Not my idea from the start, but I shamelessly nicked it :p ) had been detected in our facilities, and went on to explain the danger in great detail:


Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.

That really got people on their feet for a while. Dihydrogen Monoxide is usually known as what? ;)


/Claes
Brilliant:thumbs_up

A fun little trick I played one year whilst at college, and which those of you living in dorms should be able to do quite easily.
Required:

Big roll of clear heavy duty plastic
Supply of tacks/drawing pins


At around 3 in the morning you go around all the rooms on your floor and put a sheet of the plastic on the outside of the door, then you wait and see how many people walk into it when they get up in the morning.

Classic!:lol:

[Taliesin]

I'll admit it: I am an infamous prankster: Those are two of my most successful pranks from previous years. I both cases I used our company intranet:

One year I posted an alert, saying that Dihydrogen Monoxide (Not my idea from the start, but I shamelessly nicked it :p ) had been detected in our facilities, and went on to explain the danger in great detail:


Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.

That really got people on their feet for a while. Dihydrogen Monoxide is usually known as what? ;)

Our computer network was a bit on the slow side for a while, so I conspired with the IT people on an updated software enabling us to run dual clients to boost processing (We use thin clients instead of an ordinary PC network). The only problem would be that the dual client users would hog further resources from the other users, and that users would have to apply for dual client status because of that. We also provided some pictures and graphs to prove our point. We got some applications before the word got out, and some people complained about the further reduction in bandwidth they would be subjected to. :lol:

/Claes

We remember doing that one in ninth grade. It is quite an old joke, but still good.

We have heard of solomonical wisdom in a court case about 1st April.
Some kind of newspaper made a joke news about a well-known citizen in town on the 1st of April. The citizen felt that this kind of news was bad for his creed or whatever so he went to court about the piece of news and demanded .
And the court decided that the newspaper must print an apology and explanation that no such thing had happened.... on the 1st of April in the following year.:p

[Schokokeks]

Mind you, I have heard about a far nastier variant of that one, where the plastic was applied over the loo. I will leave the rest to your imagination, but don't do that. I did not hear about it first hand, but apparently nobody was laughing, and all (very warm place) broke out, which I can rather understand. Not my idea of a funny joke.


I'm familiar with that one.
Baah, that is just disgusting.
It dawns on me that up to here I must have been living in an idyllic safety bubble - nobody I've heard of has ever done anything like that :rolleyes:.
And another thought: Is it telling that the pranksters among us revealing their tricks so far are all male ? ;)

[Poetess]

I haven`t planned anything yet :( but hey I have an idea
i`ll go to school with my hand wrapped and stuff, i`ll say it`s broken then try to do sth that shocks them with it!

[AimusSage]

You know, there is a very 'funny' joke in the netherlands that's actually not a joke. The tax returns for the year all have to be filled out before april 1st. :sick:

That's their idea of a funny joke. I find it amusing because I don't have to pay a dime, in fact I'm on the receiving end of the cash flow :D

[Scheherazade]

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[Logos]

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[Taliesin]

It is our sad duty to inform you about a sad, sad news
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EDIT: Oops, wrong topic. We accidentally posted this in this April Fool topic. Funny how such sad things happen on a such day that is supposed to be funny and happy, eh?

[ClaesGefvenberg]

It's getting close again... Does anyone have any April Fool ideas for 2009?

/Claes

[NikolaiI]

April Fools is my birthday. Growing up I did not enjoy the jokes! :D:D Please don't play any on me here. :p

[sprinks]

Our Drama class will probably do something. Last year we got another teacher to tell our teacher that she had a call, and so she went off to the office and we ran out of the room and hid. We ended up in another classroom, hiding under desks. We were in there for so long that we eventually went back to the room, but the teacher was still not there. So we sat around for a while, 'til our Deputy Principal came in and started to ask where our teacher was. He was about to tell us all off when the Drama teacher and the teacher that told her about the "call" came back in, and they all started laughing - turns out she'd worked out what happened when there was no call and she went back to find all us students gone, and so went and got the Deputy Principal to come and tell us off for revenge. Only she ruined it because she came back too early :lol: :D

[PoeticPassions]

April Fools is my birthday. Growing up I did not enjoy the jokes! :D:D Please don't play any on me here. :p

I just avoided the April Fool's thing... was born on April 2! :D

I think the only successful joke I played was in college when I called my mom (well actually my boyfriend called my mom for me) told her she should sit down for some news and said, "your daughter is pregnant, and she wants to keep the baby, and I don't know what to do...she won't listen to me, please try to talk to her..."

My mom almost fainted... I could hear my sister in the background yelling something... and then I got on the phone and started cracking up :)

she didn't find it that amusing, but later said it was a pretty good joke.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Only she ruined it because she came back too early :lol: :DStill, a pretty good comeback... :thumbs_up ...which is something to look out for. I have pulled so many stunts over the years that I need to keep looking over my shoulder all the time. There is always someone out to get me. :lol:

/Claes

[imthefoolonthehill]

I'm rigging a smoke detector into a sort of trip mine (one of annoyance, not death). I plan on scaring the pee out of someone in the near future.

[Lily Adams]

I thought it was November. @_@

[Chava]

Is it a scandinavian thing to put tags on people's backs?

[Lokasenna]

I've had a couple of good ones.

In our last year of school, some friends and I stole all the clocks, and hid them in. Then we put up lots of post-it notes where the clocks had been, saying things like "Doesn't time fly?" and "Procrastination isn't the thief of time... I am!" It went down rather well.

Another good one, particularly if you're living in halls, is to get into someone's bathroom (easier if its communal), then unscrew the shower-head and pop a stock cube or an Oxo cube in there, then seal it back up. Next person who goes for a shower gets coated in a mysterious brown substance, and that magically dissolves while they run to get the overseer, leaving them looking a bit mental. It's great fun!

[Taliesin]

Two words: Rick Astley

[ClaesGefvenberg]

It's getting close again... Any plans for innovative April Fool stunts this year? I have some ideas, but have not settled for anything yet.

/Claes