April Fool's Day

[lupestripe]

I must admit that I have never really seen the point with April Fool's Day but in its spirit:

1) What pranks have you played on people today?
2) What pranks have you done in the past?
3) What would be your ultimate April Fool's prank?

Comments

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

1) None.
2) None.
3) Nothing.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Fair does - same as me really.

[darkentiger.livejournal.com]

well I can do whatever I want, cause it my Birthday, and everyone doesn't seem to believe me

[dark-raven-wolf.livejournal.com]

well happy birthday... is an exploding cake ok?

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

With icing made out of Semtex lols.

[actively-lazy.livejournal.com]

Its my dad's birthday too :3

[dark-raven-wolf.livejournal.com]

ok then 2 exploding cakes..... just take the girl out of your dad's one first

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Two exploding cakes? Now that is just being greedy. And girl?!

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Hope he had a good day :D

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday hun, hope you had a great day :)

[rma-reborn.livejournal.com]

None, none and pretending to resign as Prime Minister to draw out the backstabbers in my own party >D

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Did he do that? Would have been great if he had done but sadly, he was doing his world statesman schtick.

[tungro.livejournal.com]

I changed the group policy at work so that for WinXP machines, the desktop on the "Press CTRL+ALT+DEL" screen had the company logo at the top, and at the bottom it said "A Microsoft subsidiary" XD

Plus for those that weren't using XP, there is a setting that allows you to specify a box popping up just before people type their usernames and passwords, where you'd traditionally put something like "By attempting to log on, you accept the terms of service" blah blah blah. I changed that to also say "By using this, you agree that you are an employee of {companyname}, a Microsoft Subsidiary". Unfortunately, people didn't even read it, just pressed OK and logged on...

And finally, I sent an email to our data specialist with 7MB worth of CSV files that contained "contacts to be imported into the system". Made it look like it was a forwarded email from the person that has been supplying a lot of data recently. Upon opening said files, they all say "What is today's date"?

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Sounds like you had great fun. Sometimes a good prank is excellent - it can bond people too - glad to hear you have an office that allows you to have a laugh too :)

[tryst-fel-cath.livejournal.com]

1) None
2) Many, including modifying someone's kitchen toaster so that it toasted rude words onto the bread.
3) Anything that makes the mark question their sanity.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I like that - I may have to steal that. Did it take you long to do? And where did you do it? Hope it was somewhere like a Catholic school or something :)

[tryst-fel-cath.livejournal.com]

University halls... It required some preparation to cut the offending words out of sheet metal which was then soldered to the wire basket inside the toaster.

Only do this if you are proficient at dismembering electrical appliances as it code be dangerous otherwise.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

That's some dedication - I admire you lols. Hope it went down well.

Don't know too much about toasters so may have to give that one a miss. Still, I have 364 days to learn about them I guess...

[tryst-fel-cath.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm aware, the kitchen toaster on floor 2 of Wandle still burns "cunt" into sliced bread.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I hope the cleaners have a penchant for toast sometime - promises to cause quite a ruckus :)

[dark-raven-wolf.livejournal.com]

*sigh*.. been working to hard.. haven't had time to do anything (it's 7pm so no nothing)

it's a pitty have so much fun on april first pulling tri.....

WAIT.. never mind... I pull tricks even when it's not april ^_^

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Lols - like Valentine's Day - who needs a day when you can just do it all year round :)

[metamorphosys.livejournal.com]

I played no pranks but some were played on me, most of which were obvious. I have not done any real pranks so I have no real answer to your third question. How was it for you? Take care.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It wasn't great for me because I think some people played pranks that went too far. Instead of being funny, they resorted to pulling the emotions and making people worry about things when they didn't have to.

What pranks were played on you hun?

[actively-lazy.livejournal.com]

Well i txt'd Wolfie and Vrek, conning them into thinking that any Maestro transactions that had gone through in the last two weeks had been duplicated.

Wolfie fell for it so far, but Vrek fell for it hook line and sinker :D

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Lols - sounds like quite a good prank if both Wolfie and Vrek fell for it :)

[crosseyeddragon.livejournal.com]

Nothing this year.

But I am having a beer tonight to celebrate Anne Mccaffrey's Birthday.

(She's my favorite fantasty author - Dragons of Pern and all that) ^..^

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Was it a good beer? Must admit I have never head of Anne McCaffrey - perhaps you should have a pint of Caffrey's to celebrate :)