Tell me your April Fool's day Pranks
4@PilotJim tricked me with this post, and now I'm in the mood to start thinking about April Fool's (or regular) pranks.
@galmaegi, @harrison, and I all pulled off what we thought was a good one last year. Who has suggestions for this year?
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Doesn't work every time on the day of....but fill an umbrella with the hole punch left-overs from the office printer/hole-puncher and wait...
Even if it isn't raining that day, the inevitable will happen.
@musmagic But we don't have an office hole punch....well, I don't think we do anyways.
@MEHcus shirley you have some glitter lying around
@medz @mehcus - I seem to recall confetti . . .
@medz Really? No one? Fine. They don't have any glitter, and don't call me Shirley.
@cinoclav @musmagic @medz @kdemo Let's send them our own hole punch leftovers!
switch the m and n keys for somebody who can't touch type
we did this to a project namager amd he couldm't properly semd enails for basically am emtire day, which is essemtially his omly job
@Lotsofgoats That's really neam.
I believe this didn't happen on April Fool's day, but I was pretty impressed.
@galmaegi the horror... the horror.
I think I've mentioned it before, but... drop a handful of squished brownies onto the shower floor while taking a joint shower with your partner. Play it off like you're really embarrassed about it. Bonus points if you then pick it up and eat it.
you want a good one? here's a "prank" my uncle pulled on one of his golf buddies years ago at Myrtle Beach.
buy one of the PAZ egg dye kits.
Remove the victim's showerhead.
place dye Pellet in said showerhead.
re-install showerhead.
wait.
the dye WON'T wash off. it has to wear off.
the orange is "best", as you don't really notice it until you get in sunlight.
@earlyre I heard a story of somebody doing that with silver nitrate on a submarine once (sub sailors have a lot of time on their hands and get cabin fever). The beauty of that is, you can't tell anything is up until you are exposed to sunlight and it turns dark blue-gray. Hint: look up Argyria.
nobody tops alert box.
When I used to go to Fark years ago, they had some good ones, mostly involving fake control panels that let you pretend you could move news to the front page.
Also, when sites were using Cornify, that was pretty good (maybe substitute goats instead of unicorns though).
We threw a surprise engagement party at the office for a co-worker who wasn't getting engaged. Invited the extended team to the surprise party. Ordered (and paid for) a nice cake to be delivered. Et cetera.
It was a surprise.
As a bonus, people from satellite offices received the mass Outlook meeting invite, but many didn't hear it was a prank. So when they came to HQ, weeks or months later, some offered their congratulations on the impending nuptials.
I got married... :) No wasn't a prank :)
Work at a K12 school so can't go all out, but I think this would be great in a teachers lounge.
@rileyper ...or drop off at the police station.
@Kyser_Soze They'd probably finger print the box and make your life a living hell.
On a windows pc, press print screen to capture the desktop, paste in paint & save as a pic. Set that pic as the background and then uncheck show icons. Then move the bar from the bottom of the screen to the top and set it to auto hide. That way double clicking icons or clicking the start button do nothing!
@Kyser_Soze My brother did that to me when I was in high school. I lost a background I really liked that way because I'd just set the wallpaper using the web browser and his prank got rid of it. In the meantime the artist had put his work behind a paywall. I found one later that was kind of similar, but I never thought it was as good.
@Kyser_Soze Make it even more challenging, rotate the screen upside down and then rotate the display 180 degrees (Intel shortcut is ctrl alt ↓ or set it in the display properties).
Then the mouse will move opposite, watch them struggle all over the place.
@The_Baron I did that to my boss..felt evil after a few minutes ;), but fun for the first few!
@jqubed If you haven't cleared your internet cache, that image may still be in there.
Last April 1 my sister froze her children's cereal bowls filled halfway the night before. Topped them off in the morning and enjoyed two confused sleepyhead middle schoolers.
Put a handwritten sticky note on manager's desk from SVP that said she stopped by to meet real quick on her way to a meeting but would stop back by at 4:30. Very urgent. (the catch was my manager was planning on easing out really early to catch a flight for vacation) When she got to her desk, she began cursing like crazy!
I manipulated the office phone system to where I could call someone's extension, then quicky transfer them to another phone. It made them call each other. It was really funny to watch them be confused.
In high school, a friend somehow got a master key so we came in one night while the building was being used for a Spanish-language church and made our English classroom into a beach. It had 550lbs of sand, a large kiddie pool with 20 or 30 live goldfish, beachballs, a chaise lounge, an inflatable shark, a beachball net, and a little hula girl on the projector. Little did we know that the school and installed security cameras the day before, so we got our "see the principal" slips before the first tardy bell even rang. Our punishment was to clean it up, which meant I got to skip Government class that day.
Came up with this one when I was 12, still works.... for those who use coffee cups that are white on the inside, a nice dose of salt in the bottom does wonders. Can be done in the Styrofoam stacked kind also for a shotgun approach.
Lame one here that will only get noticed by 2-3 people:
Dominos lets you swap toppings no extra charge on any pizza ordered online.
And specialty pizzas are always on sale on their mobile device.
So, order the meat lovers and swap every topping for a veggie. Same order, get the veggie pizza, swap everything for a meat.
Pretty sure it'll get spit on.
(1) Tape a thumb tack to the pad of your index finger. Now pick up your buddies soda can so the thumb tack punches a hole in the side of the can right below the opening. Instant dribble cup.
(2) Drive through the fast food drive thru in reverse. Extra points if you can keep a straight face while looking at the people behind/in front of you.
@Mehrocco_Mole ... and make your passenger pay/pick up. Or drive forwards thru in an English car.