2012 April Fools
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- i_monk0
Anyone who pulls an April Fools prank on the 2nd is getting their ears stapled down.
- oey0
How about inviting a girl you like, after two months getting courage, she says yes you arrange everything and then half hour before you meet she sends a text message saying she has to cancel the dinner because it's a little intense for her?
That's what happened to me today, my 1st of fucking April...
- dbloc0
On April 1, 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page "special report" about San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands. A series of articles described the geography and culture of this obscure nation.
The report generated a huge response. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. However, San Serriffe did not actually exist. The report was an elaborate April Fool's Day joke — one with a typographical twist, since numerous details about the island (such as its name) alluded to printer's terminology.
The success of this hoax is widely credited with inspiring the British media's enthusiasm for April Foolery in subsequent years.
- mg330
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- mg330
That's sick!!!
When I worked at Banana Republic years ago, any lotion left out on our break room table was used by everybody. It'd be done in a day.
I always wanted to put a new bottle of lotion out that was instead filled with mayonnaise, glue, or liquid paper. Glue seems great because as you rubbed your hands together they'd get stuck. Mayonnaise seemed great because that shit is so hard to get off your skin. Liquid paper seemed great because it dries so fast.
I never did it, but maybe one of these days.
- georgesIII0
- hahaha grossprophetone
- FUCKING AWESOME!!!!mg33
- *applausePonyBoy
- ChrisKeegan0
The classic 'Design' April fools was the Guardians 'San Serriffe' island.
- WeLoveNoise0
Virgin Volcanic
http://www.virgin.com/travel/new…
- WeLoveNoise0
Google Nascar
http://www.google.com/racing/
- WeLoveNoise0
Google 8bit map
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=pr…
- tasty0
So I got a dominoes pizza outfit I'm dressing my grandma in. I'm going to have her come to the office as a delivery woman but pretend she took the stairs.
When she arrives winded I'm going to have her ask the girl at the front desk for a glass of water and tell someone the pizza is here – when she returns I'm going to have grandma lay on the floor and play dead.
That's when I get my boss in on the joke – he'll be completely heartless when he returns from lunch as he steps over the body and tells our secretary to deal with the situation quickly because the client will be here in 5 minutes.
- orrinward20
My best office prank was just a revenge prank not even on April Fools.
My colleague directly opposite would always just yell at me to make the tea for everyone (we got on fine but I was the placement student so I was the bitch of the group).
One day when he went down for a fag break I switched a few keys on his keyboard round (this bit is unremarkable) and I lugged a spare keyboard into the back of his machine with it reachable by my feet.
What ensued was a day of torture for him trying to figure out why at random times his keyboard would hang on certain keys or why he seemed to always be hitting Caps Lock, or why when he locked his machine to go out for a fag (we used to lock to prevent joke all-staffers going out).
Maybe a third of the way through the day in his frustration he noticed the N and M key had been switched and then assumed correctly it was me. He gave me a good yelling for breaking his keyboard and how weak a prank it was.
Luckily for him the office had plenty of keyboards so he proudly 'solved' the problem by getting a new keyboard... I think by the end of the day he'd tried about 10 keyboards when I suggested the reason he might be having some trouble is because I had plugged a 2nd one in the back and had been randomly hitting caps lock/shift/holding down keys at times when I could see he was typing all day.
That was very fun!
- mg330
It's probably true nocomply. It's not so much that I enjoy the act of commiting a prank, I just like when they lead to confusion, head scratching, stress, and people being uncomfortable.
I've been working late, and a lot this week, and when I get exhausted my sense of humor takes a turn for the bizarre.
- nocomply0
I'm convinced that mg33 spends about 75% of his time brain storming ideas to prank people.
...not that that's a bad thing.