April Fool's Pranks?
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- mg33
Anybody working on some good ones this year?
We've got a couple we're pulling at work:
First one is on the people who ride Razor scooters around the office. We're having someone put out a fake memo from our parent company that they recently completed an office insurance and safety audit, and discovered that people were riding scooters. We're going to say that they can still ride them, but will have to wear helmets. We're going to buy some really cheap shitty helmets.
Also, I bought some really old computer books at a thrift store, one of which is an MS-DOS manual from the late 80s. We're going to personalize it on the inner flap with "Property Of: and the name of one of our lead software architects" and we might go as far as to have an actual stamp made with their name on it.
- MarleyMarl0
I think you should read the definition of prank.
- ^ the helmet thing is hilarious, please take photos/ video of it!Meeklo
- utopian0
- Hate to tell you, but it's not working...ItalianStallion
- loads fine for mecuke426
- elahon0
Buy a box of donuts several days before April 1st. Keep them in the refrigerator with the top open until they are very dried out. On April Fool’s Day put them by the office coffee maker so everyone will help themselves!
- after everyone eats them send out a pic of the donuts over your cockfooler2
- a little ring toss eh?lambsy
- fooler2's is the better prankbigtrickagain
- doesnotexist0
I was going to burn a building down then when the owner shows up I'll be all like, "JUST KIDDING!"
- monospaced0
The razor scooter thing is kinda funny, especially if there are enough people on scooters to make it worth documenting, but it singles out a narrow group. Your second idea doesn't seem like it will have much impact, whereas your first is headed in the right direction.
- elahon0
There's the old "saran wrap over the toilet bowl." That always gets 'em. Especially if they have explosive diarrhea.
- You'd have to be pretty dense not to notice saran wrap over the crapper.MarleyMarl
- elahon, what are you, 12?monospaced
- Douglas0
scotch tape over the mouse tracker.
gay porn desktop wallpaper or set as browser homepage.
- fooler20
I had to check the date and make sure this was an actual '10 thread and not one from 1999.... who still rides razor scooters in 2010!?
- vaxorcist0
old... but may work on newbies...
on victims's computer:
1.clean up their desktop, hide icons,etc
2. open a million random web browser windows
3. screenshot
4. quit all apps
5. set desktop wallpaper to screenshot
- dbloc0
similar to the one above...a few years back we took a screenshot of the desktop...opened it in photoshop...made it fullscreen. It looks like the icons are there, but they can't click on anything...
- vaxorcist0
Get some Y2K paranoia books, do the same thing as the DOS book you mentioned, they're "owned" by your senior architects....... hide them in plain sight....
- get a yellow highlighter and go wild at the most worrisome passages in the books too...vaxorcist
- I don't get it.monospaced
- this seems likely to go unnoticedbigtrickagain
- evil10
Last year this guy at work put his roommates car on Craig's List. He listed the car 10k below its actual value. His roommate got calls for days asking about the car.
- this seems more annoying than funny.bigtrickagain
- That is evil and excellent.mg33
- monospaced0
Walk around with an Apple Remote (if you have an office with Macs) and control people's iTunes and Front Row at your will. Not exactly a prank, but it's fun nonetheless.
- jbasnight0
I put tape over the tracking ball on the bottom of every mouse in the company before heading out on vacation. Surprisingly no one thought to look under their mouse for quite awhile...IT dept didn't think it was funny.
(note: tracking ball/prank = 1998ish)- sure it would work with optical mice as wellmonospaced
- Sure does!rodzilla
- Wooo, I just did the same.imadesigner
- jmilligan0
post-it note under the optical mouse - note says "april fools! pass it on"
had someone calling IT about it last year.
