Topic: April Fools Jokes I Have Played

[purple_skwirrel]

Any ideas?

Has to be cheap and easy  

Oh, and clean, I work in a "professional" office...


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APRIL 1 2005:  title changed to "Jokes I Have Played"

So, what did YOU do?  

[BoTTleKid]

Raid someone's desk of all their belongings.

[purple_skwirrel]

Raid someone's desk of all their belongings.

LOL, can't...love to, but people are pretty sensitive about their "space".

Last year I freaked out my boss (in accounting) by telling her we just bought a $5000 computer for the office and I needed to know what expense code to put it under.

She went real quiet (I was on the phone with her) but I'm sure her eye was twitching...

I went on to say, "Oh, and there's one more thing."

She slowly says, "And what would that be?"

I simply said in a monotone voice, "April Fool."

She then says, "You won't know where, you won't know when, but I'll get you back for this," and she staretd to laugh.

I know, I know, boring office humour...guess you had to be there  

[bigbenjamin]

Here are a couple of ideas:

OFFICE PRANKS

-- Does your office have desks with drawers that can easily be removed? If so, try this; when there's no-one else in, swap a few drawers around. It doesn't matter who they belong to, although the effects are best if the victims don't know each other. Don't swap too many because the effect is best when most people are oblivious to the trick! Hiding a sticker with 'April Fool!' on it at the bottom or the back of each drawer and keeping a poker face will also help to keep suspicion away from you. Especially if you swap one of your own drawers!

-- Superglue a pen cap to the pen and ask people if they can get it off for you!

-- When your computer friend has left their desk, make a screen capture (print screen) of the person's desktop (preferably with a program open). Go into Windows Paint program and paste. Save as a bmp. Load the picture as the person's background. Sit back and watch them double clicking and rebooting fruitlessly. (Note: you can also create a bmp of an entire black screen and do the same. The mouse moves, but there's nothing to click on if you hide the icons!)

-- One of the easiest (and arguably most effective) computer tricks to set up is this. It will only work if you are in an office where the computers are arranged so that one is opposite another on the same desk; i.e. if the computers weren't there, you'd be looking straight at the person opposite you. All you do is swap either the keyboards or monitors between two computers that are back-to-back - but you don't unplug them. So if you swap keyboards, the keyboard you have is now plugged into the computer on the other side of the desk, and vice versa. When the person opposite you types something, nothing comes up. Until you start typing...

-- Changing the keyboard settings to use the 'Dvorak' layout is also a good prank. Most people don't know that the keyboard layouts can be switched at all, and the only keys that are common between the Dvorak and standard 'Qwerty' layout are 'a' and 'm', so people spend a lot of time typing gibberish and running virus-checks.

-- If you can get the keys to the car, park it by a busy road with a prominent 'For Sale' sign in the window (front and rear). Then put a really low price on it and the number of the victim. They will get calls all day.

Cheers !

[purple_skwirrel]

Here are a couple of ideas:

OFFICE PRANKS

-- Does your office have desks with drawers that can easily be removed? If so, try this; when there's no-one else in, swap a few drawers around. It doesn't matter who they belong to, although the effects are best if the victims don't know each other. Don't swap too many because the effect is best when most people are oblivious to the trick! Hiding a sticker with 'April Fool!' on it at the bottom or the back of each drawer and keeping a poker face will also help to keep suspicion away from you. Especially if you swap one of your own drawers!  GOOD ONE!  At leats that way I don't have to fuss with the contents  

-- Superglue a pen cap to the pen and ask people if they can get it off for you! nah, too easily figured out

-- When your computer friend has left their desk, make a screen capture (print screen) of the person's desktop (preferably with a program open). Go into Windows Paint program and paste. Save as a bmp. Load the picture as the person's background. Sit back and watch them double clicking and rebooting fruitlessly. (Note: you can also create a bmp of an entire black screen and do the same. The mouse moves, but there's nothing to click on if you hide the icons!) Already did this one  

-- One of the easiest (and arguably most effective) computer tricks to set up is this. It will only work if you are in an office where the computers are arranged so that one is opposite another on the same desk; i.e. if the computers weren't there, you'd be looking straight at the person opposite you. All you do is swap either the keyboards or monitors between two computers that are back-to-back - but you don't unplug them. So if you swap keyboards, the keyboard you have is now plugged into the computer on the other side of the desk, and vice versa. When the person opposite you types something, nothing comes up. Until you start typing...Office not set up for this

-- Changing the keyboard settings to use the 'Dvorak' layout is also a good prank. Most people don't know that the keyboard layouts can be switched at all, and the only keys that are common between the Dvorak and standard 'Qwerty' layout are 'a' and 'm', so people spend a lot of time typing gibberish and running virus-checks.Ooh, that's good! It'd take them forever to figure that one out  

-- If you can get the keys to the car, park it by a busy road with a prominent 'For Sale' sign in the window (front and rear). Then put a really low price on it and the number of the victim. They will get calls all day.Too nasty!  

Cheers !

Drawer swapping and keyboard settings...got 'em.  Thanks BB!  

[Detriot Velvet Smooth]

Attach a persons computer to the clapper

[Detriot Velvet Smooth]

Phone in a bomb threat

[purple_skwirrel]

Phone in a bomb threat

I'm the one who answers the phone, kinda hard to do this one     Good idea, though.  For an April Fool's joke  

[Detriot Velvet Smooth]

even easier EVERYONE STAY CALM THERES A REPORT OF....APRILL FOOLS PRANKS

[purple_skwirrel]

even easier EVERYONE STAY CALM THERES A REPORT OF....APRILL FOOLS PRANKS

ROFL!  Yes, I could PAGE that one!  LOL!

Was reading up on some pranks, here's a funny one:

http://www.zug.com/gab/index.cgi?func=view_thread&head=1&thread_id=29595

[purple_skwirrel]

Gonna do these three tomorrow:

Simply pop out the 'm' and 'n' key on someone's keyboard and reverse the two. Any flat tool will work. Just pry it with little pressure and they will easily come right off. Then just sit back and watch the confusion.

Use a 3M Post-it notes placed underneath someones's computer mouse - ensure that it covers the ball or the optical sensor on the bottom. When they go to use the mouse, it won't work! On the 3M Post-it simply write April Fool!

Put a fake mouse in the coffee can, or the brewing basket (filter) of your coffee maker.  (Using one of the cats' toys).

Wish me luck and that no one strangles me!  LOL!

Thanks everyone for your great ideas  

[bigbenjamin]

Launch out on a new voyage of discovery!

Sailin, sailin . .    Cheers!

[Saucy Bastard]

Tommorow I hope that this thread turns into a "Jokes I have played"

Last year I used silver duct tape to tape the handle on the sink sprayer. I pointed it so that anyone who turned the tap on would get sprayed. All day I waited ,my wife didn't use the sink. I forgot and went to wash a dish and ended up with a wet tummy and crotch.    

You may remember me describing a nasty chainsaw injury a while back. Well, one year later (7 years ago) it was April 1 and I was on the way to work with my brother in law (4X4 ing through the bush on the way to a slashing job) ,when a tube of fake blood rolled out from under the seat. My dad had found it at his place and given it to me a few months previous. Well ,we both realized that chainsaws and fake blood mix well   .
We met up with the crew on the power lines for our morning pow wow. After sharpening ,gas and oiling and a joint ,we got ready to set off in our own directions. I slipped the tube of blood into my glove ,nozel faceing out ,started my saw ,kicked the chain break on ,and pretended to trip and fall on my saw. I turned toward the first aid guy (same that patched me up and drove me to the hospital less than a year ago) and grimaced holding my hand up while pumping the fake blood tube    ,the effect was far better than I had anticipated. Poor guy! He was hateing me , even after I reminded him that it was April fools day.

[Ole Dirty]

Here's one...(Which is NARSTY...Worst than Nasty...NARSTY!!!) take sandwich wrap and put it over the bowl of your office toilet. Make sure the seal it tight, so it looks nice and transparent. When someones gotta "run"...NARSTY!!!
     While in college, my friends and I went into our computer lab, cranked Rasputin by Boney M (don't know why that song, but we were drunk from drinking at a BBQ earlier that day) and danced around like morons wearing wool socks and thermal underwear to get our feet, ass, and "good-bits" all sweaty and smelly. Then we went to the computer stations of two of our classmates who ratted out the instructor (our friend) for leaving town for a week with some girl, without telling the administrator. It left us extra time to finish up projects but they were pissed.
     Anyhoo, we went to their stations with a nice perspiration built up, and started sticking the computer mice down our pants to wipe off the sweat, and bare-assing their chairs and keyboards. The best was for some reason, one guy had a toy tank that he chewed on as a habit. I took that stuck it between well, a really "NARSTY" place to be stuck, and jogged around for about another 30mins...In my thermal underwear... After that we went back to work. The two rats showed up about 10 mins later to work on their project.....
     They figured out that something was up when we started to giggle like little school girls, after that guy started chewing on the gun of the toy tank again....But they couldn't figure out what. We told the instructor what we did...He just grinned and said "nasty...thanks guys!"Oh I was such a dirty bastard...

[JulianRocks]

Launch out on a new voyage of discovery!

Sailin, sailin . .    Cheers!

You wanna be careful with this prank Ben...... the guy that got pulled over for DUI might put it in his mouth! LOL  

[purple_skwirrel]

Tommorow I hope that this thread turns into a "Jokes I have played"

Consider it done  

[RumNCoke]

OFFICE PRANKS

-- When your computer friend has left their desk, make a screen capture (print screen) of the person's desktop (preferably with a program open). Go into Windows Paint program and paste. Save as a bmp. Load the picture as the person's background. Sit back and watch them double clicking and rebooting fruitlessly. (Note: you can also create a bmp of an entire black screen and do the same. The mouse moves, but there's nothing to click on if you hide the icons!)

I want to do this one but I don't think it'll work. No matter what image you make as your desktop background, the icons will still be visible. The background wont overlay the icons. Am I missing something? I'd appreciate any help before the end of the work day.

[purple_skwirrel]

OFFICE PRANKS

-- When your computer friend has left their desk, make a screen capture (print screen) of the person's desktop (preferably with a program open). Go into Windows Paint program and paste. Save as a bmp. Load the picture as the person's background. Sit back and watch them double clicking and rebooting fruitlessly. (Note: you can also create a bmp of an entire black screen and do the same. The mouse moves, but there's nothing to click on if you hide the icons!)

I want to do this one but I don't think it'll work. No matter what image you make as your desktop background, the icons will still be visible. The background wont overlay the icons. Am I missing something? I'd appreciate any help before the end of the work day.

I was thinking that as well.

I ended up forgetting the fake mouse at home (to put into the coffee basket) and got in to work well after almost everyone else, so I didn't have time to switch the "n" and "m" on some keyboards.

There were, however, a few latecomers and I got them with the post-it note under the mouse (on the trackball or over the light).  Got 3 guys with that one, it was funny.

One guy, "WTF's wrong with this mouse??"  Flips it over, sees the "April Fool" sticky, and laughs.

Second guy, "Oh this is just great, bad day enough already, now my mouse won't work..."  REBOOTS his computer, but has the same "problem".  Almost reboots again, but finally flips over his mouse, and groans, then laughs.

Thrid guy, got in really late, must have slept in.  I saw him moving and moving his mouse, round and round and round in circles.  Then, you know, a "pick up, drop, and try again"?  Even though it was an optical mouse, no ball - LOL!  Round and round again.  Then he clues in and stops...it's April Fools.  Slowly turns his mouse over, and smiles.



Another one of those "you had to be there's..."

[the beav]

Here's one...(Which is NARSTY...Worst than Nasty...NARSTY!!!) take sandwich wrap and put it over the bowl of your office toilet. Make sure the seal it tight, so it looks nice and transparent. When someones gotta "run"...NARSTY!!!
     While in college, my friends and I went into our computer lab, cranked Rasputin by Boney M (don't know why that song, but we were drunk from drinking at a BBQ earlier that day) and danced around like morons wearing wool socks and thermal underwear to get our feet, ass, and "good-bits" all sweaty and smelly. Then we went to the computer stations of two of our classmates who ratted out the instructor (our friend) for leaving town for a week with some girl, without telling the administrator. It left us extra time to finish up projects but they were pissed.
     Anyhoo, we went to their stations with a nice perspiration built up, and started sticking the computer mice down our pants to wipe off the sweat, and bare-assing their chairs and keyboards. The best was for some reason, one guy had a toy tank that he chewed on as a habit. I took that stuck it between well, a really "NARSTY" place to be stuck, and jogged around for about another 30mins...In my thermal underwear... After that we went back to work. The two rats showed up about 10 mins later to work on their project.....
     They figured out that something was up when we started to giggle like little school girls, after that guy started chewing on the gun of the toy tank again....But they couldn't figure out what. We told the instructor what we did...He just grinned and said "nasty...thanks guys!"Oh I was such a dirty bastard...

Narsty, hahaaaa..I'm gonna start sayin' that now.  That saran wrap gag is fuckin' narsty ...i've never had the heart to try it on anyone.  I'd do it at work but I don't even want to get near those toilets with my hands....and i wouldn't try it at home cuz I don't want piss all over the place......

That toy tank thing is hilarious......you sick bastard

[Jaloopa]

the mouse thing was a bust on my boss.  he moved his mouse once, turned it over, peeled off the paper, tossed it in the garbage and kept on going without batting an eye.  bummer.

[purple_skwirrel]

the mouse thing was a bust on my boss.  he moved his mouse once, turned it over, peeled off the paper, tossed it in the garbage and kept on going without batting an eye.  bummer.

Maybe he heard the sound that paper makes...or he was reading these and KNEW about it ahead of time...ah, heck, that was a bummer.

[RumNCoke]

I got two people today with the post-it-note-under-the-mouse prank. I got one of them to swear: "Oh, what the fuck is wrong with this!?"    

[purple_skwirrel]

I got two people today with the post-it-note-under-the-mouse prank. I got one of them to swear: "Oh, what the fuck is wrong with this!?"    

Eeee-heheheeeee!

Such a simple trick, and it CAN get such a funny reaction from some people  

[BoTTleKid]

I've never done this one, but I think it would be really funny to, in the night time, take buch of stuff like your computers, tvs, etc, and maybe some valuables, and hide them somewhere in your house. when your family wakes up, they would think they'd been robbed overnight. :-)

[purple_skwirrel]

I've never done this one, but I think it would be really funny to, in the night time, take buch of stuff like your computers, tvs, etc, and maybe some valuables, and hide them somewhere in your house. when your family wakes up, they would think they'd been robbed overnight. :-)

Oh, that is so EVIL!  I LOVE it!