2012 April Fools
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- georgesIII0
- hahaha grossprophetone
- FUCKING AWESOME!!!!mg33
- *applausePonyBoy
- 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.
- omg0
- mg330
- 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.
- 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...
- i_monk0
Anyone who pulls an April Fools prank on the 2nd is getting their ears stapled down.
- mg330
Fill all desk drawers with blood!
- CALLES0
this would be more effective if say... you bake a cake or something that resembles a human turd and put in the middle of the area were people are able to walk
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- mg330
If any of you have friends that are police officers, I think the ultimate joke would be to have them come to your office and convince office administration that you've done something horrible, and take you out in cuffs. Something that will make coworkers cringe: ex: as you're being walked out, writhing around, scream something like "I only looked at the porn, I never saved it or distributed it!!" That's certain to shock them!
- all my police officer friends have taken Monday off, for that reason.Fax_Benson
- are you fucking serious?bliznutty
- LOLmg33
- no, they're all working - no holiday days left.Fax_Benson
- "I never touched her!" "She never told me she was 14!"mg33
- Prank yourself... Yea... Good idea there ...set
- mg330
And, the one that I'm hoping to do at my office is this:
We have three microwaves together on one side of the kitchen. It's a frequent "pass through" area to the rest of our lounge - the aisle is probably 4 - 5 feet wide. A sink and low counter are on the side opposite the microwaves.
I've thought about taping down very official looking tape on the ground, forming a rectangle from the microwave counter area extending to within one foot of the counter with the sinks. I'd also put up a super official looking laminated "warning" sign stating that when microwaves are in operation, everyone is to stand behind that line at all times (and include some nonsense about microwave radiation) and state that it's for people's safety, etc.
This would allow for only a foot of space that could be walked through; everyone would have to wait until people moved, and they'd have to shimmy through when the space was open.
It'd make it really tense in there and no doubt strike up a big debate about whether microwaves are really dangerous or not.
- Put a fake hand in the microwave. NO ONE will be walking by there again.MSTRPLN
- ebertzjaw0
April fools on April 2nd? Nah,
Your example ideas are gash too. Jeremy Beadle was doing shit like that 25 years ago.
- RIP (1948 – 2008)Fax_Benson
- when he got to heaven they all gave him a big handthatblokemike
- CanHasQBN0
^ That is the weirdest prank. With the climax being people having to shimmy through a narrow passage... and possibly discussing microwave radiation.
Seems like a lot of trouble resulting in minimal effect.