So, how was that April fools?

MrRoboto

Any jokes, any pranks?

at the office we plastic wrapped the entice work station of one of our co-workers and had our IT guy write a note saying that the station had to be quarantined.

This is the only pictures I have right now

This is halfway there



here we got some more rolls



battery died with that las pic...

So, what did you do?

Sail

There was zero pranking done among any of the people I hang out with. Slightly disappointing I guess, but meh.

kage_rod

Sweet prank. >=3

All of my April Fools tomfoolery (ha ha puns) come straight from the internets. I don't participate in anything in the real life.. Never have.

Did learn some stuff about Religion and other such things. =3

Dkong

At school, one of the morning announcers said that today was the last day of school....Yeah, it was so lame and obvious that it was an April Fools day joke that it wasn't even good for a laugh.

At home, I installed tight VNC on my sister's laptop, then went to town on her. I kept moving the mouse erratically, which got her to thinking the mouse was busted. When she was in Firefox I either did a ctrl+t, ctrl+1-9, ctrl+w, or ctrl+tab to make her think Firefox was acting up. Then, on a move that more or less busted me, I opened up foobar2000 when she got up for a bit to get something to eat, and I made a global hotkey of alt+x to start and pause the music. When she sat back down, I rickroll'd her. It was funny, but she immediately knew I was behind it. She doesn't know how I'm doing it, though....so I'm gonna milk this for all I can get.

Also, I was thinking of being really evil and making autohotkey scripts that change a letter on the keyboard (preferably a letter key) to function as caps lock. That idea went down when her antivirus software picked up my script as a potentially malicious file when I tried to copy it over from my flash drive.

Katsoup

The President of the school sends a Letter of Resignation to all of the student government people. One of the guys posts the letter on Live journal. People go crazy. Then the president proceeds to send this email out to everyone:

To paraphrase Mark Twain, “rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.” To the students who posted my “resignation” letter on livejournal, and to all of you, Happy April Fool’s Day!
Sincerely,
Thomas J. Schwarz

Fucking pwned.

Conan-San

At my anime club meeting, I had it set up that instead of showing episode 21 of Gundam 00, the club got a face full of Gundam 0079.

I could not contain myself above their "WTF"ing.

Of course, the first thing that was said once the episode of Gundam 00 was put on was "Oh my god, Amuro has gotten a haircut!" in response to Setsuna.

Sir_Xander

All I got was a laugh from someone pulling the fire alarm about 5 mins. before school ended. Other than that, there was the thinkgeek products that elicited a laugh.

Norvu

"There's a fish on your back" is a good one for those easy April Fish. One of the guys at work asked where "Bill" was, Bill being our boss. I said I had no idea (he was talking to me but hidden behind a wall) and the other guy began complaining about him and calling him a, and I quote, "wanker". Bill stepped out with a very smug face.

I wish I had known what that fish was going to say before he opened his mouth =P but oh well.

HMTKSteve

The only April Fools event I took part in was changing user titles around on my forum. The other admins and I tried to be creative in adjusting titles. Most of them were inside jokes or a play on words for their normal title (Icicle Gym Leader became Popsicle Gym Leader, Beacon Gym became Bacon Gym, etc...)

onewild

It passed without event this year for me, which could be because I didn't have any access to the Internet. Anyway everybody knows this was the greatest April Fool's ever.

mr_pink

I found an email in my bulk mail folder for ZipZoomFly.com sales dated April 1. They send out a weekly newsletter on sale so I didn't think anything suspicious at first, except that the April first date made me pause. So I opened the email to read about the sales this week and they all seemed normal... except the highlight item at the top of the page.

I clicked the link to investigate this strange item and indeed it was their April Fool's Joke. But I have to give them bonus points for putting the item in their database with zero inventory (shows up sold out - but you can auto-notify when it comes back in stock) and they took the trouble to make product shots of this and write up a product description with tech specs.

Brilliant. See the details here: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=610771

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=610771

Rym

Emily punked her boss and many of her co-workers. ^_^

Viga

Emily punked her boss and many of her co-workers. ^_^

Do tell.

iruul

Heres a great prank that would be to Scott's taste. Go to someone's house or bedroom at least a year before you actually want to reveal the prank. Replace all their lights with special UV clear lights. These are commonly used in many biology instruments to increases the speed of genetic mutations in bacteria for stress adaptation experiments. You can easily obtain these if you belong to a college compus or just order from any research equipment distributor. The ones you want are the ones that will fit in normal domestic bulb sockets. Simply replace all of someone's lights with these. After about a year, go up to their face, point at them, and go "HAHA! I gave you skin cancer!" Let the halarity ensue.

Apreche

Heres a great prank that would be to Scott's taste. Go to someone's house or bedroom at least a year before you actually want to reveal the prank. Replace all their lights with special UV clear lights. These are commonly used in many biology instruments to increases the speed of genetic mutations in bacteria for stress adaptation experiments. You can easily obtain these if you belong to a college compus or just order from any research equipment distributor. The ones you want are the ones that will fit in normal domestic bulb sockets. Simply replace all of someone's lights with these. After about a year, go up to their face, point at them, and go "HAHA! I gave you skin cancer!" Let the halarity ensue.

Ok, there's a line.

Zeehat

Heres a great prank that would be to Scott's taste. Go to someone's house or bedroom at least a year before you actually want to reveal the prank. Replace all their lights with special UV clear lights. These are commonly used in many biology instruments to increases the speed of genetic mutations in bacteria for stress adaptation experiments. You can easily obtain these if you belong to a college compus or just order from any research equipment distributor. The ones you want are the ones that will fit in normal domestic bulb sockets. Simply replace all of someone's lights with these. After about a year, go up to their face, point at them, and go "HAHA! I gave you skin cancer!" Let the halarity ensue.

Ok, there's a line.

Couldn't something like this result in jail time? The hilarity will not be there then.

iruul

Heres a great prank that would be to Scott's taste. Go to someone's house or bedroom at least a year before you actually want to reveal the prank. Replace all their lights with special UV clear lights. These are commonly used in many biology instruments to increases the speed of genetic mutations in bacteria for stress adaptation experiments. You can easily obtain these if you belong to a college compus or just order from any research equipment distributor. The ones you want are the ones that will fit in normal domestic bulb sockets. Simply replace all of someone's lights with these. After about a year, go up to their face, point at them, and go "HAHA! I gave you skin cancer!" Let the halarity ensue.

Ok, there's a line.

Couldn't something like this result in jail time? The hilarity will not be there then.

Haha, I am obviously kidding. Just trying to poke at Scott's sense of humor in terms of pranks.

Schnevets

Two decent ones happened at my school:

My French teacher's this really, really old guy, and he's always late to class. When I entered, I saw there was a popup on his computer (some dating service, nothing suggestive, though) so I did the old "switch desktop backgrounds" trick. He went to close it, couldn't, and I chuckled while he tried solving the problem on his own (including restarting the computer). I finally told him it was a joke and fixed it when he was about to call the school techies.
For the record, I wouldn't consider the guy a part of Scrym's "You can't work a computer you are not fit to be a teacher!" policy. He's 65, about to retire, and can actually manage gradebooks/work applications better than a few others I know. He just doesn't grasp all the features/settings.

Also, the principal made an announcement last period demanding certain students come to his office. It started with the usual overachieving people (basically the people ranked 1-4 in my class) and everyone thought "Oh, they probably got another scholarship or something." Then, he called for one of the worst kids in the grade and everyone was shocked, wondering what it was. A few of the more gullible kids in my class were wondering what it was until they called "April Fools!" 3 minutes later.

konistehrad

I got RickRolled by my roommates ... for real.

Starfox

Couldn't something like this result in jail time? The hilarity will not be there then.

Jailarity ensues?

Rochelle

I got RickRolled by my roommates ... for real.

That's pretty freaking awesome. I lol'd a bit from those pics.

Viga

I got RickRolled by my roommates ... for real.

This is now my desktop. Hilarious! Fucking A!