I think for April Fools Day, Meh should design the meh button to just keep spinning, with the face never appearing. You know, just to drive every one of us bat sh!$$ crazy.
Years ago, I had a syndicated weekend radio show about computers along with my site where there was more news and you could buy my books.
300 baud modems were out, 1200 baud modems were in. So, for April 1, I "reviewed" a Canadian product that let you connect several old modems to make one faster one.
The photo showed them stacked and I used a wide ribbon cable to look like it was connecting them.
There was supposed to be a Windows 97, but it got pushed back a year. This cancelled my project to update my successful "What is Windows 95" book.
So I worked with our graphic artist and PR person to create an item that was to be a fund-raiser for animal shelters: Kitty Kondoms. Got my "15 minutes of fame" for a while with that one.
I had a pretty complex idea for Meh's April Fools Day.
It is a deferred gratification experiment
Sell the fuku, but the Buy It button is faded and dim. Each click makes it brighter, and it takes a lot of clicks to get it to actually buy one. Like it could take 10 minutes of clicking to get there.
The challenge would be to tease a quicker way to get the fuku. You can pop up a message just offering a fuku, but those fuku's wouldn't have an many things in it.
Also you could have a situation where you give a higher click rate, like each click is worth two, and have multipliers.
or when people are half way there, allow them to take a chance. Give a 50/50 chance of landing the fuku, but if they don't they'll start all over.
The people who do the most work get the best fukus.
Along the way, there would be funny messages to encourage you to keep clicking.
Auto clickers would be a cheat, but you could find a way to give them the lesser fuku.
If you have a swivel shower head, you could do like I do when I'm the first one up in the morning. Or the rubber band around the spray thing on the sink. That's not really a fools, more like an April Naughty.
Waaaaait, so your button doesn't just spin indefinitely like 15% of the time for you anyway? That's the only reason I miss getting my click registered sometimes.
bat shiss?
@Moose maybe he meant bat shoes?
@carl669 That was it!
@carl669 Carl, how many times have I told you to stay out of my closet!!!!
@mikibell ^^^ Make sure to read this in a "Rick" voice ;)
@Moose Guano Loco.
Came here looking for awesome April Fool's day pranks.
Womp womp.
@hollboll bats and penguins in the conference room
@hollboll
flying screaming monkeys for $1 might be considered a prank on somebody
@Strongman But instead of screaming have them give a raspberry.
I wonder :raspberry:
nope
@Mehrocco_Mole How about
Close enough?
Years ago, I had a syndicated weekend radio show about computers along with my site where there was more news and you could buy my books.
300 baud modems were out, 1200 baud modems were in. So, for April 1, I "reviewed" a Canadian product that let you connect several old modems to make one faster one.
The photo showed them stacked and I used a wide ribbon cable to look like it was connecting them.
There was supposed to be a Windows 97, but it got pushed back a year. This cancelled my project to update my successful "What is Windows 95" book.
So I worked with our graphic artist and PR person to create an item that was to be a fund-raiser for animal shelters: Kitty Kondoms. Got my "15 minutes of fame" for a while with that one.
I allowed some cat sanctuaries to take over the project and it morphed into this: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/kitty-overpopulation-cure-tomcat-condoms-
I had a pretty complex idea for Meh's April Fools Day.
It is a deferred gratification experiment
Sell the fuku, but the Buy It button is faded and dim. Each click makes it brighter, and it takes a lot of clicks to get it to actually buy one. Like it could take 10 minutes of clicking to get there.
The challenge would be to tease a quicker way to get the fuku. You can pop up a message just offering a fuku, but those fuku's wouldn't have an many things in it.
Also you could have a situation where you give a higher click rate, like each click is worth two, and have multipliers.
or when people are half way there, allow them to take a chance. Give a 50/50 chance of landing the fuku, but if they don't they'll start all over.
The people who do the most work get the best fukus.
Along the way, there would be funny messages to encourage you to keep clicking.
Auto clickers would be a cheat, but you could find a way to give them the lesser fuku.
If you have a swivel shower head, you could do like I do when I'm the first one up in the morning. Or the rubber band around the spray thing on the sink. That's not really a fools, more like an April Naughty.
Waaaaait, so your button doesn't just spin indefinitely like 15% of the time for you anyway? That's the only reason I miss getting my click registered sometimes.