Anybody else playing April Fools jokes on anyone?

[Rapscallion]

One guy at work sent out an all-work email about how the cleaners were going to use strong chemicals on the only stairs to the office, so we shouldn't use it for that hour.

Many people fell for it, which he was chuffed about. However, he wouldn't be that impressed if he realised that we fell for it because it's the sort of stupid thing he'd do.

Rapscallion

[karath]

Little late to this party...only prank I pulled this year was a collaborative minor prank on the senior rep of our team. Real cool guy (his birthday was yesterday and we got the entire floor to sing him a happy b-day)...but April Fools being what it is, a co-worker and I decided to give him an amusing morning.

In about 10 minutes of effort, we'd reversed the writing on his whiteboard and turned papers, posters, and electronics so that they were facing their respective walls rather than their owner. Apparently it took him a minute or two to realize exactly what had happened--as in, he knew something was wrong since his computer monitor was facing the wall, but couldn't pinpoint what had happened to the rest of his workspace--though afterwards he thought it was funny enough that he's left our backwards "Happy April Fool's Day!" on his whiteboard.

I, for my part, haven't attracted enough attention to get any pranks pulled on me. I'm not holding my breath for next year though

[Becks]

Coward.

Not that so much as no one at work has a sense of humor like my former coworkers have.

[Jester]

I neither pulled nor was the victim of any pranks this year.

Coward.

[MadMike]

Things have been really crazy at work, so I didn't have time to prank anyone... except my wife.

A few years ago, in late October, when I was mowing the lawn for the last time of the year, I found a rather large garter snake in the yard. My son told me he saw it again just a couple weeks ago, or one of its descendents, so naturally my wife was on edge about it. She even expressed concern that it was going to find its way into the house somehow.

When I got home from work yesterday, I took my dinner downstairs and got on the computer, as I usually do. In my best panicked, voice, I yelled out, "Holy fucking shit!!!"

She called down the steps and asked what was wrong.

"That snake is in here! I don't know how it got in, but it's in here!'

"Oh my God, are you serious?!!! Oh wait... You jerk! I almost dropped my plate when you said that!"

[dalesys]

One year, as we we nodding off at the end of "the day", I told my wife that I'd used the Easter Egg dyes and colored my pecker green...

Lights On!

She's frantically trying to get the covers down to check...

AF!

[Becks]

I neither pulled nor was the victim of any pranks this year.

Yay me.

[lordlundar]

Somebody managed to get a rude word into my local white pages. I count it as an april fools joke because most people found out about it on April First. Via text message that said "grab your current edition of the White Pages, turn to page 977 and read the seventh name down in the middle column". I'm thinking the text originated with whoever set it up and disseminated from there. That one took at least 9 months to set up.

I have to admit, That one impressed me.

So, I just did a couple minor pranks on my sister this year. The first one I did was short, simple, and sure to drive her nuts: I disabled her wireless network card in her computer so she couldn't surf the net. She calls me into her room and the following ensued:

Sis: I can't get onto the internet.
Me: I know.
Sis: How come? I'm not even getting a connection.
Me: Could be because I disabled your network card.
Sis: Why would you do that?
Me: Check today's date.
Sis: ****! You jerk!
Me:

Yes, I Re-enabled it.

Of course, I wasn't done with her yet. I also pulled out the A/V plugs on her DVD player. That one she didn't find out about until later. I get a knock on my room door.

Sis: Did you do something to my DVD Player too?
Me: Of course.
Sis: Go fix it now.

As I'm doing it she rants and says she's going to install a deadbolt on her door to stop me from doing this again, getting calmed down by being told it's only once a year (HA! yeah right. Like I need the excuse) then brought up saying what else did I do? Max out the TV volume? (I didn't, but I should have)

[Aethian]

How did you guess what I did?

So, I called him up right after school in my car, put on a very sigh-y voice

"Honey, I found out today that I'm pregnant."
"Is this a joke?"
"No."
"Oh my god."
"Will you still stay with me?" (It would have been the previous SO's, not Plaidman's.)
"Yes. I will."
"You know what I'm going to name the baby?"
"What?"
"APRIL FOOL'S JACKASS!"



My coworkers agreed that I got him back really good.

My Aunt did something close to that. Sent my cousins out to the movies, made up a good dinner after pranking my uncle earlier so he was a bit cautious and she gave him a card. On the front was big a glittery, "HONEY WE'RE PREGNANT" Then inside it did "APRIL FOOL'S" with little bunnies holding laugh signs...she wrote at the very bottom... "But it's true."

We bring that card out for my youngest cousins birthday every year.

[SengaKitty]

"You know what I'm going to name the baby?"
"What?"
"APRIL FOOL'S JACKASS!"

That. That was beautiful -wipes a tear from her eye- I didn't end up getting Sir, but didn't really try... I honestly couldn't think of ANYTHING to do to him! That's okay.. i'll get him next year

[McGoddess09]

I dunno, men don't like pregnancy pranks. And girls don't like being prank dumped. Better be careful buddy. She might hold that one over your head for a while.

How did you guess what I did?

So, I called him up right after school in my car, put on a very sigh-y voice

"Honey, I found out today that I'm pregnant."
"Is this a joke?"
"No."
"Oh my god."
"Will you still stay with me?" (It would have been the previous SO's, not Plaidman's.)
"Yes. I will."
"You know what I'm going to name the baby?"
"What?"
"APRIL FOOL'S JACKASS!"



My coworkers agreed that I got him back really good.

[Jester]

I took last April 1 off. This year, I was so on my game.

Pranks attempted: 9.
Pranks without any result: 1.
Pranks failed: 1.
Pranks succeeded: 7.

Only my friend Pilot sniffed me out immediately. My other friends, not so much.

Prank 1: I am scheduled to cover the magic bar for Frank this weekend. At 10:15, just after he knows I get to work, I called him.

JESTER: "Frank, have you left town yet?"
FRANK: "Yeah, I'm in the Miami airport."
JESTER: "I hop you have your phone fully charged."
FRANK: "Why? What's up?"
JESTER: "I just got to work, and things are CRAZY. They fired three bartenders, and they are going to need me to work extra this weekend. Honestly, I don't think I am going to be able to cover the magic bar."
FRANK: (starting to freak out) "Holy shit! What? Are you kidding me?"
JESTER: "Yes. Happy April First."
FRANK: "Damn! Nice one!"

He knew I would try something, as he is almost always one of my targets.

My deadbeat roommate also knew I would try something, yet I nailed him five minutes later. I called him on the phone.

MUSIC MAN: "Hello?"
JESTER: "Dude, where are you?"
MUSIC MAN: "At home."
JESTER: "Good. I have to tell you something. Me and [other roommate] have been talking, and frankly we are sick of this. You need to get all your shit out of the apartment TODAY."
MUSIC MAN: "What?" (starts freaking out audibly)
JESTER: "Hey, Music Man?"
MUSIC MAN: "What?"
JESTER: "Happy April First."
MUSIC MAN: "You bastard!"
JESTER: "Now take out the fucking trash!"

He took out the fucking trash.

I texted Little Red, who works with me at The Bar, that I had been fired. It went something like this. (This is all texts.)

JESTER: "Fuck! I just got fired for smarting off to a customer. I ALWAYS do that. This sucks!"
LITTLE RED: "Oh fuck, I can't believe that!"
JESTER: "I can't either. Why today of all days?" (dropping a huge hint she missed)
LITTLE RED: "Did the customer get mad? Who fired you, Boss Man?"
JESTER: "Yeah, Boss Man. He said he had enough of my lip, and to get the hell out and go look at the calendar."
LITTLE RED: "Fuck you!"
JESTER: "Happy April 1st, Little Red!"
LITTLE RED: "Dam you suck, you got me!"
JESTER: "I LOVE YOU!"

I texted my friend Popcorn that Randy Moss had gotten arrested in an altercation with Miami police that involved guns. Got him. (Just remembered now though that he is a Cowboys fan, not a Patriots fan, despite his being from the Boston area. Whoops! Still nailed him though.)

I got my stepsister believing I was at the Phoenix airport waiting for her to pick me up.

I told my friend Cat, who is getting married in a month, that my deadbeat roommate packed up all his shit and moved out, leaving me high and dry, and that I wouldn't be able to attend her wedding because of that.

And the most evil, vicious prank of the day I reserved for my friend Photo Dude, who, trust me when I say this, really deserved it. I texted him asking him if he had seen the news about the plane that went down in Virginia, that it was our friend Frank's (who WAS traveling today). He was stunned, going so far as to ask me the flight number (which I made up out of thin air) and if it was Continental (sure, why not?). The amusing thing is that the flight I made up happened to be going over Virginia, so had a thread of believability to it. It wasn't till he found nothing on the net AND he noticed the date of the flights he was checking that he realized he had been had. I even texted Frank to let him know that his alleged death had been my best prank. He was amused.

I am, however, waiting for the inevitable "(insert poster here) has died" "prank" to show up on a message board somewhere. That one NEVER goes over well, but idiots still pull it.

Including this idiot. Notice the above airplane prank.

I forgot to do anything this year. Mind you, I don't consider the first of April to be a real requirement for pranking.

"Ferris Bueller, you're my HERO!"

My daughter played an April Fools' prank on me the year she was born.

Her due date: April 1.

Her birth date: April 17.

She's never going to top that one.

That Vile Woman (aka my worst ex ever) is pregnant and due on April 2. I have no idea if/when she has delivered, but many of my more evil friends and myself were hoping that she'd be a day early, and deliver today, April 1. We figured it would be appropriate.

I dunno, men don't like pregnancy pranks. And girls don't like being prank dumped.

No, but that has never stopped the more vicious of us from using those pranks on this day. Is it evil? Is it wrong? Yes. And that is what makes it so beautiful.

[NightWatch]

Heh Heh. I got McGoddess.

I dunno, men don't like pregnancy pranks. And girls don't like being prank dumped. Better be careful buddy. She might hold that one over your head for a while.

[Greenday]

Hahahaha, in that same football game I was talking about before, I posted in the League forum that I was selling my team. Immediately some guy started sending out messages to my players trying to recruit them. What a tool. I made sure to make fun of him for being a moron and more. He'll never live that down.

[edible_hat]

Somebody managed to get a rude word into my local white pages. I count it as an april fools joke because most people found out about it on April First. Via text message that said "grab your current edition of the White Pages, turn to page 977 and read the seventh name down in the middle column". I'm thinking the text originated with whoever set it up and disseminated from there. That one took at least 9 months to set up.

(The name? Peanisbreath. The number has been disconnected.)


ETA: My favourite source of British TV shows suffered a "database corruption" that gave everybody staff privelidges. And they they were hacked by a group called iPlaForOL. (I think they did better the year they replaced their home page with a fake BBC news page announcing they'd been shut down... in reality the BBC know all about them and have no problem as long as they keep the "nothing that's commercially available" rule in place, and have recommended people ask there for shows that aren't in the BBC archives any more)