# April Fool's just around the corner. Let's talk pranks. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 26, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-just-around-the-corner-lets-talk-pranks/296374 "2005-03-26T17:58:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-just-around-the-corner-lets-talk-pranks/296374/21 "2005-03-27T22:58:32Z")
Originally posted by **bouv** : > [@](#): > > I removed someone’s door. Then drywalled over it, then painted the wall to match the rest of the wall, then even added a section of baseboard. I used to have it documented online, but not anymore. It was great. Had you not known there was a door there before, you wouldn’t have guessed there ever was. Hell, we even hung a picture on the space the door was at! **bouv,** that’s a great one. Did your friend go crazy? Which door was it? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-just-around-the-corner-lets-talk-pranks/296374/22 "2005-03-27T23:56:01Z")
Let’s face it: we all need a really nice gorilla suit to do this up brown. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-just-around-the-corner-lets-talk-pranks/296374/23 "2005-03-28T03:19:14Z")
> [@brianjedi](#): > > This is an idea some friends and I were thinking about trying when my ex-roommate and I weren’t getting along. > > I was going to gelatinize his toilet bowl. We never figured out if it would work or not, but it would be hilarious if it does. Anyone tried it? Somebody definitely needs to try this and report back ASAP. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-just-around-the-corner-lets-talk-pranks/296374/24 "2005-03-28T03:26:19Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I removed someone’s door. Then drywalled over it, then painted the wall to match the rest of the wall, then even added a section of baseboard. I used to have it documented online, but not anymore. I remember seeing that! What happened to the webpage? One cool non-April-fools prank I remember: There’s a friend of some friends I knew in high school named Scott. This prank took place last year, when he was a freshman in college. There were two girls (whose names I can’t remember) living in one of the dorm rooms, which was completely symmetrical, and set up with each person’s stuff on either side. So this guy Scott waits for both of them to be out of town for whatever reason, and while they’re gone, he switches everything in the room around and rearranges it to a mirror image of what it was. What really makes this prank stick out in my memory is that he filmed it. The first time I heard about this, it was when I was watching the video of one of the girls’ reactions. She’s got a bewildered look for a few hilarious seconds, then slowly she starts figuring out what happened. The other girl whose name I don’t remember comes in and they start trying to figure out who’s responsible for the prank. She finds the camera and then says “Whose is this!? Who did this? Is this so-and-so’s camera? Wait a minute, this is Scott’s camera!” Then she sort of laughs and picks up the camera and points it at her face and just says “F— you, Scott!” [sub]…Well, it was funny at the time, anyway…[/sub] This year, I’m going to get my roommates the same way my old roommates got me last year. I’ve got 3 roommates this year, and on each of their computers I’m going to set the wallpaper to a different disturbing yet hilarious image, with the words “APRIL FOOLS” spraypainted across the front. If you really want to know, the images are Tubgirl, goatse, and lemonparty (If you don’t know what I’m referring to, you probably don’t want to know.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-just-around-the-corner-lets-talk-pranks/296374.md?page=1)