Share your stories here. Did you prank or get pranked? Witness a good fooling in the media?
Huffington has a good roundup of Internet pranks here (HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost).
As usual my favorites are the ThinkGeek products, but Google Map’s Quest Mode is a lot of fun too!
The City of Philadelphia pulled a prank. Yes, that black dude really is our mayor.
Moved from the forum formerly known as Cafe Society to the forum formerly known as MPSIMS.
Randall Munroe is the EPIC PRANK MASTER. (Link is to reddit, you’ll see why when you read it.)
As mentioned in a pit thread, we’re celebrating our 19th anniversary today. No fooling.
Ahh I forgot about the annual xkcd prank. Very genius.
I went to the page before I clicked on your link. That is pretty amazing. The comic mentions NJ, where I just happen to be.
And I got a comic about… that reddit post.
I did my annual distribution of rubber dog poop around the house late last night after everyone went to be. This year, however, my dog seemingly understood and helped me out by leaving actual dog poop in one of the bedrooms before we got up this morning.
Best prank in merrie olde Englande.
Today was boring as far as pranks go; the only one I have seen is the corn theme here (when I first saw that, I thought “WTF” for a minute before realizing that it was *that *day).
You know how they say that New Year’s Eve is the night for amateurs to get drunk?
Well, April 1st is amateur day for pranksters. Have fun, you guys.
Tell us of your off holiday pranks this year.
[QUOTE=Georg Takei on Facebook]
Friends, I’m thrilled to share this news with you today. As announced at Emerald City Comicon, where I’m appearing this weekend, Paramount Pictures has green-lit a new Star Trek Movie entitled “Excelsior” in which I will play the captain. This announcement is part of Paramount Studio’s 100th-year anniversary campaign. The studio has acknowledged the fan enthusiasm for this concept ever since I appeared in command of the vessel in “The Undiscovered Country.” J.J. Abrams will direct, with Robert Orci again writing the screenplay.
My co-star in Allegiance, Paulo Montalban, has been cast opposite me to play the mercurial “Agha,” the grandson of Khan (played by Ricardo Montalban in the Second Star Trek Movie). Also featured are Gilbert Gottfried (playing a wily Ferengi First Officer) and Lisa Lampanelli (as a Bajoran security officer).
More to come on this breaking story soon. Thanks again for the years of support, and I’ll see you on the Bridge of “Excelsior.”
[/QUOTE]
I had a great time yesterday. Pulled an imperial shit ton of pranks and firmly cemented my reputation as the office jester/dickhead. A brief rundown of my exploits:
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[li]Switched the mice in 2 of my colleagues PC’s so they were controlling eachother’s screens. Was funny at first, but then became faintly disconcerting as five minutes became ten, and then fifteen, and they still hadn’t figured it out. [/li][li]Swiped everything off my friend’s desk (keyboard, mouse, monitor, pens/pencils, teabags, stapler, everything), photocopied the lot and stuck the photocopies where the original things used to be, hiding all the hardware in his desk.[/li][li]Jumped onto my bosses PC and used the autocorrect function to replace every instance of the words ‘and’, ‘if’, ‘the’, ‘or’ and ‘but’ with the word ‘EINZGRUPPENFUHRER ZOMBIES IST ANKLAGEN VON DER DUNKLEN SEITE DES MONDES!!’ (Leader, zombies are attacking from the dark side of the moon). This, however, was merely camouflage for the real prank, changing about a dozen common ‘mn’ words so the letters were reversed. As far as I know, he still hasn’t figured that one out.[/li][li]Turned up early and put a ‘Please Use other door’ sign on both entrances to the office.[/li][/ul]
I got pranked plenty as well (it’s very much ‘that kind’ of office). My job involves a lot of visiting ifferent departments, and Every time I got up, some bastard kept removing all but one of my staples. Also, someone taped a squeaky dog toy behind one of my desk drawers.
I fucking love April Fools 
The SO went for a medical examination. (She was sick Thursday night, and we had to go to the ER Friday.) She called and said, ‘Doctor says I’m really sick and I have to be admitted to the hospital.’
:eek: :eek: :eek:
WHAT???
‘April Fools!’
‘But that was yesterday!’
‘I couldn’t think of anything yesterday.’
:smack:
My son (with his wife’s approval and knowledge) posted on Facebook that they were expecting Baby#2 in November and were very happy. My daughter saw it before I did and immediately called him, and then he did the April Fool’s! thing…she was not happy with him. She called to warn me, and they both posted that it was a joke…though some people still kept posting their congratulations. So, April 2, my son calls and says, “Remember that joke I pulled yesterday? Well, turns out it’s not a joke after all…”. His wife had been feeling ill that day, checked the dates and pee’d on a stick…and it was positive! So my third grandchild (their second baby) will arrive in December or January. Be very, very careful what pranks you pull! (BTW, Baby #1 turns seven months old next week.)