What Dirty Tricks Did You Use for April Fool's? 121
zxnos asks: "What evil, underhanded, dirty mean trick did you pull on April Fool's Day? Since I arrive in the office first, I wrote a little routine to go off when my coworkers tried to open the application that we all work in. It said: "Sorry, you arrived late for work today. The application you have requested is unavailable." The only response was 'OK' and would then close the application. What did you do?"
I.... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I.... (Score:2)
Heh... (Score:1)
That's nothing... (Score:2)
Re:That's nothing... (Score:2)
back in the day (but not too far) (Score:4, Funny)
Re:back in the day (but not too far) (Score:2)
Uhm, buddy? I don't know how to say this politely. Unless you're younger than 15 years old, JavaScript didn't exist for any definition of "back in the day". Java itself hasn't even been around for more than 10 years (1.0 was in 1996, but you might think about 1997's 1.1 [wikipedia.org]). Java came to be between 1996 and 1999 [wikipedia.org].
And I'm not even that old. I don't even remember Jimmy Carter being president.
Re:back in the day (but not too far) (Score:2)
Re:back in the day (but not too far) (Score:2)
Re:back in the day (but not too far) (Score:2)
Are you sure? [etymonline.com]
(Of course, I agree with the comment as regards the crappy languages by the same name.)
April 1st (Score:5, Interesting)
Suddenly there was an alarm, and people in hard hats were coming through saying there had been an "earthquake" and that everyone needed to get under their desks.
Seems my first day at work coincided with the annual earthquake drill.
Or had it...?
Well, it had, but thanks to years of April 1st conditioning, I hopped up just to make sure there wasn't a crowd of people around the side of the cubicle laughing at the new guy.
Re:April 1st (Score:1)
Strange because at my elementry school we have had 2 firedrills on in like 3 grade and one 3 days before last school day - stupid because the school would be spilt and half the kids would not be there next year.
Re:April 1st (Score:1)
Boring (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Boring (Score:5, Insightful)
and there you fail to see the reason for april 1st to exist, it's a social contract that on that day - and that day only - you're allowed to fool someone just for laughs and they can still trust you for the rest of the year.
i was just too lazy to do any tricks. and well, i'm the kind of a bastard that forwards people to the ah so famous "i'm watching gay porno" site for a joke on a normal day anyhow too.
Re:Boring (Score:2)
Re:Boring (Score:2)
That comes along when you become talented at what you do.
Got a guy fired (Score:5, Funny)
While the article was vague on details, it essentially said that my friend was going to be replaced (he's the manager of one of the top-teams, sadly).
Of course, I topped it off with a small picture saying he was owned thoroughly
Apparently, he had his phone up, ready to call the people mentioned in the article before he saw my picture...
"I really hate you right now. I've never had such a shock. I don't wanna talk. *click*"
That's how a phone-conversation went five minutes later
Optical Mice (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Optical Mice (Score:1)
Clear tape (Score:2)
Re:Clear tape (Score:2)
Re:Clear tape (Score:2)
He was reduced to password protecting everything and locking it down hard to stop us, even to the point of swapping out his machine for one with a locking case so we couldn't just reset his BIOS password. The tiny piece of tape on his cable had him tearing things apart looking for a software trick since that's what he
Flipped desktops upside down (Score:5, Funny)
Most of the Dells in our school computer lab have Intel Extreme Graphics chipsets, which support screen rotation. So, right before the school closed at 5:00 PM, I logged on to each one, rotated the screen 180 degrees, and logged off.
Plenty of people saw it and responded with varying degrees of humor, annoyance, and confusion. It got quite a notice before I had to turn them back right-side-up (many people can't log in with the screen upside down, and people needed to use them...)
But I love being at a school [commschool.org] where the tech people don't mind these things as long as others can still use the computers.
Re:Flipped desktops upside down BTDT (Score:5, Interesting)
On April fools, the hardware guys went around and crosswired the monitors of a handful of people's machines, including the guy who wrote the original code.
So people flipped their machines upside down, and went to work with the debuggers. After a while, just before admitting defeat, one of them cracked the case on his machine and noticed the fresh solder joints on the deflection coils.
It was a good day.
It was the same day a competitor's hardware group at $bigBlazingHydrogenBallofDeath put Scott McNealy's ferrari in his office.
the AC
Re:Flipped desktops upside down (Score:1)
Dirty tricks are bad form (Score:2, Interesting)
Example of a bad trick: Someone unclear on the concept of nice versus mean told me as an April Fool's joke that my sister (who lives far away) called to say she will be visiting next month. This would be very happy news for me. Then she said it was an April Fool's joke; in reality I probably won't see my sister for a couple years. It was very disappointing to learn the truth.
A better trick would be to say some (fake
Re:Dirty tricks are bad form (Score:2)
Re:Dirty tricks are bad form (Score:2)
oh- hold on a second!!!
Better examples of Mean Tricks... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Dirty tricks are bad form (Score:1)
Dirty trick (Score:2, Informative)
What we did (Score:5, Funny)
beleleleleeep.... blehlehlehlehloop (Score:2)
please tell me that none of your systems have soundcards
Best trick (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:Best trick (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Best trick (Score:3, Funny)
Our boss is pretty cool, so ... (Score:3, Funny)
[ Back history: Last year, we gave someone else a real toilet to sit on instead of his office chair. We had to keep the toilet theme going.
The best part is -- out of pure coincedence and a previous scheduling conflict -- our new VP arrived that same morning to make a presentation to the whole center. He loved it so much, he agreed to show our video of the build-up during his presentation, and ended up using it to lead off his deal.
I wish I had somewhere to put the pics up that would survive the Slashdot Death Ray, but alas...
Re:Our boss is pretty cool, so ... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Our boss is pretty cool, so ... (Score:1)
Showed up (Score:5, Funny)
It THOROUGHLY confused people. They are still talking about it.
Re:Showed up (Score:2)
Heh. we never got around to it, but one year we were going to put a sign on the men's room door that read "Danger: Gas leak". We weren't sure, though, if anybody'd get the joke.
Re:Showed up (Score:5, Funny)
The system administrator made him take it down after a month or so because the janitor refused to enter and it was getting really messy in there.
Re:Showed up (Score:2)
Skipped Slashdot (Score:3, Insightful)
I thawarted April Foold (Score:1)
Re:I thawarted April Foold (Score:2)
The oldies are the best... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The oldies are the best... (Score:3, Funny)
Another (rather subtle) one is to swap over the monitor, keyboard, and mouse connections of adjacent pairs of Macs in a lab. Everything appears to work as normal until you put a disk in and it appears on your neighbour's desktop... (Obviously, this works rather less well in Windows.)
Re:The oldies are the best... (Score:3, Funny)
Once I wrote an X program that did while (1) XWarpMouse(a few random pixels).. It made the cursor jump around like mad and *everybody* picked up their mouse and looked at the bottom. What did they expect to see - a spastic roach in there or something?
Re:The oldies are the best... (Score:1)
Re:The oldies are the best... (Score:1)
Re:The oldies are the best... (Score:4, Interesting)
I was in the Army from 1995 to 1998. All the office machines were running Win95 (our field equipment ran Unix... hooah!). Anyway, Windows 95 had a fun "feature"... click the start button, hit escape, then ALT-minus. Select "Close".
Bye-bye start buttons on all of the machines, and nobody knew how to reboot them softly. (One way was to hit alt-F4 while the desktop is displayed.)
Anyway, the first sergeant, commander, supply sgt, training NCO (who was also my boss), and others I got took it well, since I was the "computer person" in the unit and assured them no permanent damage had been done.
Re:The oldies are the best... (Score:2)
Consistent? Microsoft?
Re:The oldies are the best... (Score:2)
Re:The oldies are the best... (Score:2)
Too true, too true.
Swat! (Score:5, Funny)
Alumni Site (Score:2)
April fools, I put a big Classmates.com advertisement on the homepage asking people to click on our new sponsor.
Fake Harvard acceptance letter (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fake Harvard acceptance letter (Score:1)
I finished the day by telling my school administrator that I had been offered significantly more money to work at another school, and would be leaving after my contracted period without renewing. After her face went totally white and she looked at me pitifully, I reminded her of the date.
Aviation April-Fools Humor (Score:3, Funny)
But as a pilot I got a kick out of the April Private Pilot [privatepilotmag.com] magazine. In their "Pilot Products" section there were announcements for three new products. One was a bike rack for your Cessna, complete with picture of bike and rack bungied to the wing of the plane. Another was for a harness for the "airport dog" that was specially designed so even a "23-poung pug could pull a 1,972-pounc Cessna 182" around the airport (prices yet to be determined). Finally, a new type rating requirements for airplanes equipped with "steam gauges" was introduced.
All of the articles were completely dead-pan, and it wasn't until I got to the last one that I realized the joke.
I Took /. Seriously (Score:1)
cleaned desk (Score:4, Funny)
I told a friend to use Slashdot as his news source (Score:2)
My joke (Score:3, Funny)
Replaced corporate web site w/ Hamster Dance (Score:1)
So on April 1st that year, I took the external IP of the internal corporate network, & made a front page of the site that was filled with images from the hampster [sic] dance [hampsterdance.com] site, complete w/ the sound file- the site still showed
Friends fiance (Score:2, Funny)
The Standard (Score:2, Funny)
got my roommate (Score:5, Funny)
I was pranked. At least I thought I was... (Score:1)
Fun with Extensions (Score:3, Funny)
He was happily using his computer, until after a few minutes the mouse made a squeaking noise and dropped a little turd. After the second time he figured it out, made a mental note to tell me off when I got back, and removed the "mouse turds" extension (actually the double-extension). Upon reboot, his text was now flipped L / R, making his computer totally unusable.
By the time I got back he had all sorts of theories about the extension installing things before removing itself, other dependency checks, etc. He had been taking out and putting back that mouse turds for hours. It didn't occur to him that if you want straight text you can just flip it twice, and that there was probably another extension in there.
printer fun (Score:2)
At least one person bought it.
oops (Score:1)
Anyone else run into that?
News! (Score:2)
Re:News! (Score:2)
My Prank (Score:2)
He still hasn't figured it out. Now he uses headphones.
OS/2 support (Score:1)
Got a couple people wound up.
In 1985.... (Score:2)
But for this year, I simply installed xroach on several computers. Ppl who had never seen it. Apparently, they really thought that the compu
a friend of mine.... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:a friend of mine.... (Score:2)
no really, is the app publicly available?
thanks.
Re:a friend of mine.... (Score:1)
Not in April, but still funny.... (Score:5, Funny)
Home Page swaps = fun (Score:3, Funny)
Sold! (Score:1)
What worked in my favour was that I pulled the prank at 12:01 Australian time which is GMT+10, so most people didn't know what hit them as it was still March 31st where they were. :D
Gosh I'm evil... :D
April fools prank contest (Score:1)
But that is just what we do.
http://prank.org/phpBB2/ [prank.org]
Microsoft. (Score:2, Funny)
-:sigma.SB
The biggest April Fool gag ever thought of (Score:2)
Out to Lunch (Score:1)
We have RFID door keys and an intranet page that shows who's in and who's out. People can also sign themselves in or out on a separate page. I signed everyone in the company out to lunch at 4:01pm using a SQL query.
I was actually home sick for the day, so I didn't get to see the reaction. Apparently, news traveled quick, though. I got a call from our general manager an hour later.
Last year, my wife and I carefully changed our kids into their pj's during their afternoon nap (the oldest was 4 1/2), ma
hehe (Score:1)
Dont think April 1st will save you... (Score:1)
Funny e-mails (Score:1)