Foo - Best April Fool's Gag?

What's your best April Fool's Gags over the years?

Don't be shy...spit 'em out.

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My younger years April Fool's gags were pretty simple. Blowing egg out of shell and putting empty egg shells in chairs to make people sit on them and things like that.

My best one, though, was played on my mother back in the early 90s. Maybe 90 or 91. I was just a few years out of high school (about 20 or 21) and my mom was already bugging me about when I thought I'd settle down and get married. She was always nagging me about it...telling me she wanted grandkids. I didn't even have a freakin' girlfriend at the time.

Finally one day I thought of a gag that may stop her with that crap. I called her up on April 1 at work. I told her that Rachel and I were getting married. Rachel was a girl I was friends (and only friends) with in high school. We still got together for a drink or a movie now and then. I knew my mom didn't know her well enough that she just may fall for it.

I call her up...tell her to sit down. I tell her that Rachel and I were getting married. I made up a story about how I proposed. I really let it sink in...for like 10 minutes. Let her get to the point where she was making plans about things she might do for the wedding, etc.....

Once she was really into it..making plans and bought in HOOK, LINE AND SINKER, I yell APRIL FOOLS MOM!!!

I didn't have the guts to go home before she was in bed for almost a week. :o

Plastic wrap on the ****ter.

I dunno, maybe that's one of those "you had to be there" things. But then again, I've never really pulled off a great one. Last year I read about (http://www.ex-parrot.com/%7Epete/upside-down-ternet.html) (same technique, different article) one that I put into effect that was pretty good. About a week before April 1st I turned the encryption off on my wireless router in order to get a few leeches in the building stealing some internet access. Sure enough after a week I had a few people using my internet on a regular basis. Then on April 1st I forwarded all www requests through my router to my computer and using a squid proxy and a bit of perl passed back the request to the leech so that the web page they were looking at had all upside-down images. At the end of the day I made all requests forward to a page that just said "April Fools" and then I turned the encryption back on and closed out the IP tables again. Good fun. Geeky fun, but good fun.

I've sinced moved, maybe I should do it again this year...

I quit smoking April 1rst 2004. Which I found pretty witty.

I dunno, maybe that's one of those "you had to be there" things. But then again, I've never really pulled off a great one. Last year I read about (http://www.ex-parrot.com/%7Epete/upside-down-ternet.html) (same technique, different article) one that I put into effect that was pretty good. About a week before April 1st I turned the encryption off on my wireless router in order to get a few leeches in the building stealing some internet access. Sure enough after a week I had a few people using my internet on a regular basis. Then on April 1st I forwarded all www requests through my router to my computer and using a squid proxy and a bit of perl passed back the request to the leech so that the web page they were looking at had all upside-down images. At the end of the day I made all requests forward to a page that just said "April Fools" and then I turned the encryption back on and closed out the IP tables again. Good fun. Geeky fun, but good fun.

I've sinced moved, maybe I should do it again this year...
LOL....that's a good one. :D

Flour over the shower curtain and then run to the hot water heater to turn the hot water valve off.

When we decided to move to Costa Rica I announced it to my dear Mom by saying.

"Mom, we have to move to a Central American country..."

She gave me a hard look and said, "What have you done?"

I dunno, maybe that's one of those "you had to be there" things. But then again, I've never really pulled off a great one. Last year I read about (http://www.ex-parrot.com/%7Epete/upside-down-ternet.html) (same technique, different article) one that I put into effect that was pretty good. About a week before April 1st I turned the encryption off on my wireless router in order to get a few leeches in the building stealing some internet access. Sure enough after a week I had a few people using my internet on a regular basis. Then on April 1st I forwarded all www requests through my router to my computer and using a squid proxy and a bit of perl passed back the request to the leech so that the web page they were looking at had all upside-down images. At the end of the day I made all requests forward to a page that just said "April Fools" and then I turned the encryption back on and closed out the IP tables again. Good fun. Geeky fun, but good fun.

I've sinced moved, maybe I should do it again this year...

What is funny is that you can do that almost anywhere, as there are so many people who are either wannabe wardrivers, or who just want to leech wireless.

Block outgoing port 25 if you want to allow riffraff on your wireless. There are people in Austin who try to find open wireless connections just to run their spam programs, and the poor accountholder gets the bill.

What is funny is that you can do that almost anywhere, as there are so many people who are either wannabe wardrivers, or who just want to leech wireless.

Block outgoing port 25 if you want to allow riffraff on your wireless. There are people in Austin who try to find open wireless connections just to run their spam programs, and the poor accountholder gets the bill.

I keep 25 open when I run my home SMTP server, but lately I've had it closed because I've all but offloaded all my e-mail traffic to other servers. I just use IP Tables to keep it sane though.

Still, in my building I only got maybe 4 or 5 leeches. I didn't bother to check the logs to see if they actually got the images upside down, but I'm sure if confused a few people for a couple minutes.

This wasn't one I did but one that got me for a while. About 8 years ago when Bob Stoops was hired as OUs new football coach the team had pretty much sucked for a few years. He promised to really shake the program up. Somehow Stoops, a few of the radio stations, at least one TV station and the paper ran with a story that as part of the shake-up the university had decided to change from red & white to green & white. Artist renderings and everything. OK, maybe not the end of the world but for all the businesses and those of us who decorate our lives with red & white it was quite a shock. They actually kept the joke going strong for a couple of days before giving it up.

This year a coworker and I are making everyone think we're having a baby and are getting married. We're announcing it tomorrow (March 31) to get it going really good!

Once she was really into it..making plans and bought in HOOK, LINE AND SINKER, I yell APRIL FOOLS MOM!!!

I didn't have the guts to go home before she was in bed for almost a week. :o
:roflmao:

When we were children, my sisters would put enough sugar on their breakfast cereal to make me sick to look at it. So one April Fool's Day, I switched the sugar with salt. When they complained my parents told them to finish their cereal, they shouldn't have put that much of anything on their cereal. I still laugh thinking back at the looks on their faces.:roflmao:

My Mom kept animals in the house and was always cleaning up after the dog. So I purchased some fake dog poop and placed it on the living room carpet. She picked it up in a paper towel and threw it away without noticing it was fake. That was funnier than the gag.

BTW. April 1st is also my Mom's birthday.

Flour over the shower curtain and then run to the hot water heater to turn the hot water valve off.

in college, i put grape kool-aid powder in the shower head before my roommie took a shower.



as a mod on a bb, i randomly read thru pm's users had sent to each other. then, i posted exerpts of the pm's in my sig line.

If anyone remembers the ******.cx website, I made use of it once. If you don't know what I am talking about go read about it on Wikipedia, but be WARNED, clicking on any mirror links might cause you to become permanently sterile... anyhow.
I was doing some contract work for Compaq Computers down in their Kentucky office. I had become real good friends with one of the Unix techs there and we devised the perfect plan. All NT workstations (this was back before Windows 2000 and the like) had morning software pushes, meaning that every morning when the users turned on their computers, security updates and new software installs came down from a serving proxy and they had to wait. Using that p[roxy we could make any change we wanted to the computers. So the night before April first we set it to change every persons homepage to http://www.******.cx/. Oh the horror that ensued that morning. Over 40 workstations were affected, it was great. We caught up with the NT techs later in the day just to have a smoke and chat and all they could talk about was some new "virus" that was going around. I think one of them even got fired. I didn't care though, I was quite the prick back then.

In college, a local radio station put the word out that due to weather conditions, the space shuttle was going to be landing at a small airport just out of town. Thousands of people showed up to witness the landing, until the DJ let them all off the hook. One friend of mine (really, it WAS actually a friend of mine--honest!) fell for it and missed a midterm exam for it... Pretty funny stuff. ;)

I once took a recent press release from our CEO (this was in 2004 I think) and altered it to say our company had become an associate sponsor on Michael Waltrip's car (this was a week before the Texas Winston/Nextel Cup race), and that he and the entire DEI team would be coming to visit our facility (15 miles from TMS).

I sent it out to our entire facility, and it spread like wildfire.

I had to send out an e-mail shortly after saying it was a hoax.

A lot of race fans at my company were pretty pissed off.

Thinking back, I'm surprised I was not fired or reprimanded in some way.

See my ride thread........
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=283332

We're all Moderaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaators!

Wtf!

My favorite: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=24095 :)

Time to ban some suckers. Let's see....hmm....

We're all Moderaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaators!

My dream come true.

My favorite: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=24095 :)
That looked chaotic, confusing, and fun!:D

I awoke one morning with my body covered in duct-tape and flour poured all in my bed, right away I knew it was my dad.

I waited for him to go into the shower and have the radio on, when I knew he wouldnt hear me I snuck in and put some thumbtacks on the floor in front of the shower, then flushed the toilet.

I was grounded for quite a while, but it was worth it.

My personal best ever (so far):

I got my dad's AMEX card. On April 1 I made up an official-looking letter and used all the info I had to make it seem real.

I sent him a fax purporting to be AMEX telling him they were closing his account and wanted full payment immediately, and then threatening legal action. Worked out great because he'd spent thousands in the previous weeks for stuff relating to his business.

He was livid. If he was better organized it could have gone on longer, but after looking for a contact number for half an hour he finally checked the fax number and I was rumbled. Good thing he had a sense of humour.

I came out of the closet to my mother today. I'm expecting a call from dad any minute. :)

lol thats always a good one

appropriate time to bump.

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One of my better ones was calling up a friend of mine and saying, "you know how friends help friends move, but true friends help move bodies. Mind if I call on your true friend-hood today?"

I didn't knew the meaning of the word "gag" so I google it.... oh my, safe search is back on now.

The best April Fool's gag is living well.

A personal ad for a friend of mine....

SWM, slim, tan and fit, DD free, looking for couples who will dominate me.

Even I was amazed at the amount of calls he got. :eek:

What's your best April Fool's Gags over the years?

Don't be shy...spit 'em out.

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My younger years April Fool's gags were pretty simple. Blowing egg out of shell and putting empty egg shells in chairs to make people sit on them and things like that.

My best one, though, was played on my mother back in the early 90s. Maybe 90 or 91. I was just a few years out of high school (about 20 or 21) and my mom was already bugging me about when I thought I'd settle down and get married. She was always nagging me about it...telling me she wanted grandkids. I didn't even have a freakin' girlfriend at the time.

Finally one day I thought of a gag that may stop her with that crap. I called her up on April 1 at work. I told her that Rachel and I were getting married. Rachel was a girl I was friends (and only friends) with in high school. We still got together for a drink or a movie now and then. I knew my mom didn't know her well enough that she just may fall for it.

I call her up...tell her to sit down. I tell her that Rachel and I were getting married. I made up a story about how I proposed. I really let it sink in...for like 10 minutes. Let her get to the point where she was making plans about things she might do for the wedding, etc.....

Once she was really into it..making plans and bought in HOOK, LINE AND SINKER, I yell APRIL FOOLS MOM!!!

I didn't have the guts to go home before she was in bed for almost a week. :o
That is nine kinds of awesome. :lol:

That is nine kinds of awesome. :lol:

Thank you. <bows> :)

At my old employer, we moved around the keys on the purchasing guys keyboard. He had no ideas where keys were and had no memory - so he always hunted and pecked.
He called in the IT guys to complain that his computer was broken, they typed a bit and said it was fine. Then the looked at the keyboard and laughed. He was so PO'd he tried to get the ringleader fired if he ever found out who. The girl was so scared she went to the GM and admitted it - he laughed his rear off and told her he'd take care of the punk.

This one's not mine.

It happened in Kenya in the late 80's. There is a Kenyan newspaper "The Nation" that printed an article about the finding of the pink duiker in one of the national parks. A Duiker is a type of antelope, and a pink Duiker is actually believed to exist but has never been photographed. On April 1 they printed a news article that world famous Swedish photographer/Naturalist Loof Lirpa had found definitive proof of its existence, including photos. Politicians went on the news declaring what a huge windfall in Tourism this would be (and it would have had it been real). Apparently, very few of these people thought to read the photographers name backwards or took note of the date. A lot of very powerful people ended up with egg on their face. Truly classic.

:roflmao2::roflmao:

That sounds very familiar. I think I'd heard about that joke before.


This one's not mine.

It happened in Kenya in the late 80's. There is a Kenyan newspaper "The Nation" that printed an article about the finding of the pink duiker in one of the national parks. A Duiker is a type of antelope, and a pink Duiker is actually believed to exist but has never been photographed. On April 1 they printed a news article that world famous Swedish photographer/Naturalist Loof Lirpa had found definitive proof of its existence, including photos. Politicians went on the news declaring what a huge windfall in Tourism this would be (and it would have had it been real). Apparently, very few of these people thought to read the photographers name backwards or took note of the date. A lot of very powerful people ended up with egg on their face. Truly classic.