I pranked my students with the Google Nose video and a slide show of different “smells”. Students were smelling the screen and reporting back to me for this important scientific research.
BMW had a history of placing prank ads in the April issues of British car enthusiast magazines, and many of them were pretty clever. I’ve found the majority of commercial 4/1 pranks to be far more humorous than not, while a hell of a lot of private ones are just plain nasty, brutal, or degrading, not even close to funny.
@kostia I worked at ThinkGeek. We did try to make most of the products. When we would have our Looflipra meetings to figure out what we would, we would also question if it could be real. Obviously some of them we really couldn’t make. But we did try. I still have the Klingon Alphabet Fridge Magnet set somewhere around here.
@kostia@thismyusername Won’t happen. Gamestop only wanted ThinkGeek for the licensing we had. But… if you do look on Gamestops site, and see anything but ‘GeekNet’, that is ThinkGeek. Well was. Unfortunately all the awesome monkeys from ThinkGeek are no longer there. We had Geeklabs which was a team of folks who would build pretty much everything, we would get to see it all. So many things they designed never even made it to the site, as they were too expensive/too niche. Gamestop doesn’t have a team like that. They see what they can buy/get made by someone else/resell. Were as we did it all. Too bad you didn’t mention this when ThinkGeek HQ closed. I donated a bunch of mugs and other items to a local charity shop here. And I know there were a bunch of Black Mesa ones in there. Used, but still perfect condition.
The “IHOB and Pancake King” swtcharoo was a great April Fools joke.
Hellman’s butterfinger mayo and 7 eleven’s Tiny Gulp at .7 oz were cute
I pranked my students with the Google Nose video and a slide show of different “smells”. Students were smelling the screen and reporting back to me for this important scientific research.
@gogrrl
@gogrrl The big one in school this year was planting marshmallows to grow marshmallow plants. Reminds me of the spaghetti tree.
/giphy cringe
BMW had a history of placing prank ads in the April issues of British car enthusiast magazines, and many of them were pretty clever. I’ve found the majority of commercial 4/1 pranks to be far more humorous than not, while a hell of a lot of private ones are just plain nasty, brutal, or degrading, not even close to funny.
@werehatrack 100% agree
I miss the ThinkGeek April 1 emails. A lot.
@kostia More of the April 1st “products” should have been make real. But I give them full credit for the ones they did.
I love my Tauntaun sleeping bag.
@kostia One of my hopes is that gamestop will revitalize the ThinkGeek line.
I need a new Black Mesa mug badly.
@kostia I worked at ThinkGeek. We did try to make most of the products. When we would have our Looflipra meetings to figure out what we would, we would also question if it could be real. Obviously some of them we really couldn’t make. But we did try. I still have the Klingon Alphabet Fridge Magnet set somewhere around here.
@kostia @thismyusername Won’t happen. Gamestop only wanted ThinkGeek for the licensing we had. But… if you do look on Gamestops site, and see anything but ‘GeekNet’, that is ThinkGeek. Well was. Unfortunately all the awesome monkeys from ThinkGeek are no longer there. We had Geeklabs which was a team of folks who would build pretty much everything, we would get to see it all. So many things they designed never even made it to the site, as they were too expensive/too niche. Gamestop doesn’t have a team like that. They see what they can buy/get made by someone else/resell. Were as we did it all. Too bad you didn’t mention this when ThinkGeek HQ closed. I donated a bunch of mugs and other items to a local charity shop here. And I know there were a bunch of Black Mesa ones in there. Used, but still perfect condition.
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!