I have made up my document, with spiffy Konica Minolta logo and tagline, called it USER’S MANUAL UPDATE and will report back on April 2nd.
Tee hee hee.
Did the same type of thing, but I don’t think it was for April Fool’s Day.
We had a boss no one liked. At one point, he had gone to the doctor for a checkup and it was found that he had polyps.
Like clockwork, everyday, he would go into the bathroom to read a magazine, so we boobytrapped the toilet with ketchup packets that were folded over with a small hole on the bottom which pointed down into the bowl, one on each side of the rim with the seat placed carefully over them. Any weight on the seat and ketchup would squirt into the bowl.
On the day in question, he went in to the bathroom for the regular amount of time and came out, totally white, telling his secretary that he was headed for the ER of the local hospital.
Apparently, they scoped him out and found nothing.
There was no way any of us were going to admit knowing the situation, let alone helping set it up or being in on it, but it was kind of funny after the fact.
Thank you for sharing your judgemental opinion. Don’t remember asking for it, but then again maybe you were just in a generous mood today.
For your information, I did actually do this in real life to a good friend of mine who reads voraciously and always has a big, fat novel with him. I wrote the message in pencil so it was easily erased, so there was no harm to the book. And I carefully contrived the message so that it was just accurate enough to look plausible at first, but a couple of minutes later he realised I had just made something up that didn’t actually spoil the story at all. Outcome? He enjoyed the joke, found it funny, liked it, said nice things about it to our mutual friends on Facebook. In other words, it was a bit of harmless fun and we both had a laugh over it, you know, like good friends do.
Lots of great ideas in this thread.
I used to work as a consultant for a firm that also did taxes, and since April 1 hits right during “busy season” there was a lot of steam blown off. One of my favorites was when someone covered everything in a partner’s office with tin foil. Everything. The chair, the desk surface, each pen was individually wrapped, it was awesome!
I wanted to get a bunch of shoes and pants from goodwill along with some scrap lumber and make little stands that looked like feet and legs only about a foot high.
Then get to work early and put them in all the stalls in the bathroom, close the stall doors and put a piece of masking tape on the inside to keep the door shut.
See how long it takes for somebody to figure out why all the stalls have been occupied all morning.
I do this one a little different. I hide TWO pieces of chicken or fish. One is very easy to find the other is tapped to the bottom of the desk. When they find the first one they think they are safe and the smell will go away.
Now THAT is just funny stuff.
I once bought this fake arm from an auto appliance store. It was made to hang out of your trunk so it looked like there was a body in it.
We had a lot of fun with that around the office that summer - putting it in people’s chairs and the like.
But the 2 funniest times were:
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My little sister hadn’t seen it yet. I had it hanging out of the trunk of my car, parked in our driveway. Someone drove by and saw it - thought it was real and then realized it was fake. He came up to the house, my little sister answered (she was like 15 at the time) and he started ripping her a new one, saying it wasn’t funny. I was in the shower at first, and then was wrapped in a towel, so I couldn’t really come rescue her. She of course had no idea what he was talking about so she just stood staring at him. He finally ran out of steam and stomped off - and she came upstairs with the strangest look on her face. When I showed her what he was yelling about - she started hitting me with bed pillows and cussing me out until we both fell into fits of hysterical laughter. Good times.
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While in college, we had the sweetest roommate who never questioned anything. While she was out to lunch with her boyfriend, we rigged her bed up with my fake arm (wearing my class ring) and a stuffed dog (with shaggy ears not disimilar to my hair color) and made it look like I was sleeping in her bed.
We left a note on our dorm door saying that I was sick and please not to turn on the lights - so she spent the next couple of hours tip-toeing around the room, quietly studying in the hall, and trying to figure out where she was going to sleep that night since I was in her bed. She finally figured it out about 5 minutes before we returned to the room, her face all red.
Thus started progressively funnier practical jokes amongst us.
Ooo, I like these!
April Fools tradition for me, I usually write my blog posts in another language, always one with a non-Latin alphabet (last year I think it was Korean).
Plan to continue this year (and do the same with my FB status post, I’m thinking “Esperanto Pig-Latin” currently.)
Have lots of ideas though! Since our office will be closing soon, it’s my last chance to go out with a bang! mwahahaha!
Dude, that’s just messed up.
Better yet, just put about six of 'em in one stall You’ll need a sign, “Managers meeting in progress”
If I were to do this, I’d add a bit to it. Like:
"If you encounter problems with the voice interface, contact the trained operator on this floor:
____________________ Extension _____"
Then write in your name and extension.
That way you get to say “April Fools!” - and recommend that the person you just pranked suggest the new ‘feature’ to others on the floor.
Even simpler is just to reverse the left and right mouse buttons. Good times, good times.
There’s always the good ol’ methylene blue in someone’s coffee/beer whatever.
Funny, I was just thinking about that from my college days. Any other colors than blue with the same effect?
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Filled my coworker’s coffee cup with glass marbles, put a piece of cardboard on the top, turned it upside down on his desk and removed the cardboard. Our work space had raised hard floor tiles. Imagine the sound.
Got him a week later by zip-tying the handle of the same coffee cup to the hand set of his desk phone and calling his phone right as he was walking to his desk.
We had a security camera in the hallway outside of our work space that allowed us to view the people who pushed the buzzer to be let in. I super glued a quarter to the tiled floor within view of the camera. Almost everyone who saw the quarter would try to pry it up, only to stop when they heard all the laughter through the door.
Post this in the stalls at work.
Oslo, methylene makes your pee and poop blue!
I love telling this story;
Here’s what I did for my dad’s wedding. Traditionally someone has to prank the groom’s car, right?. At the time, my dad had just bought a brand new Grand Am GT with all the fixings. He called it his Crisis Car. Well, he knew that me and my brothers are all inveterate pranksters, and would be up to something, and we were on lockdown. All of our bags were searched. Any time we went to the store he inspected the contents. I wouldn’t be surprised if he looked in the car later to see if we’d hidden mischeif in there.
While everything was being set up the day of the wedding, we walked down to the hobby store to buy what we needed. Now all we needed was access into the car, as it was locked and rightfully so. My brother, the sly devil, had left something in the car and asked my dad for the keys to retrieve it. He gave us That Look, and said “I will be watching you”. Thankfully he meant that metaphorically.
My brother ran out of the building, and caught up with us. Our work was about to begin. We each took one bag of foil confetti we’d bought at the hobby store, and slit the top of the bag, just a little. Carefully, oh so carefully we poured the glittering metal into all six AC vents, making sure not to spill. Oh, spilling could leave evidence, which would alert the victim, and the prank would be ruined.
Once we emptied the bags, we searched for evidence of our crime, and vacated the car. We’d had to work quickly, lest he suspected something was amiss. Just before leaving I sat in the driver’s seat and adjusted all the vents to face the driver, then cranked the AC all the way to max. This was to ensure it happened right away, rather than later whilst driving on the highway. That would be bad.
We got through the wedding without incident, and he got a ride in a limo to the reception then back home, so he went back the next day to go get the car alone; his love, his passion, his fault he didn’t check the car later
He approaches with suspicion. He looked at the tailpipe to see if a whistler had been installed. He looked under the hood to see if fish or other meat additives had been left on the engine. He looked under the car for cans tied underneath. He opened the windows and looked under the seats. Under the front passenger seat he found a single piece of red foil confetti. It was nothing! Satisfied that the car had been unmolested, he gets in and starts the car.
When he showed up at the house, he was more glittery than a Twilight/stripper cosplay convention. He was coated in it. He was a veritable pointillism of sparkly confetti. My sides hurt so much from laughing I could barely breathe. All of ours did. When I went to look in the car, it looked like a confetti grenade had gone off. No surface was spared. Well, there was one spot; there was a Dad-shaped outline on the driver’s seat that wasn’t as coated, but it was there. He thought he was clever, checking the car before leaving! He’d even seen the vents all pointed at him, and noticed the AC, but didn’t realize the truth until it was too late.
He had that car 8 years. To the day he sold it every so often a lone strand of confetti would fly out of a vent. I’m sure if it’s driving it still is to this day.