Best (or worst) April Fool's jokes?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In my case for a few years when we were teens I would prop a tall cup of water over my sister’s bathroom door-and each year she would forget what happened the previous year and fall for it, again.

I got an Eviltron to use against my nephew (my above sister’s son) when he was a teen c. 10 years ago. It would randomly emit weird sounds or people whispering ominous things at random intervals. Apparently about drove him over the bend. Sis then said it got so bad that they had to pay for him to visit a shrink. Which was their revenge on me.

What’s your best, or worst prank, on either the giving or receiving end?

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Mom loved April Fools Day, she planned her pranks with love.

She once blew up so many balloons she got dizzy and walked into a door and gave herself a fat lip. The balloons were to fill my sisters car. She would cover the toilet seats with foil or toilet paper, she would put cardboard in our samwiches and would put balloons or cotton balls in the cabinets poised to fall out on us when we opened them.

Dad was in construction and always carried a lunch that Mom packed for him. One year she put a can of dog food and a can opener in his lunch box for him to find in front of the his crew. Dad played it up and complained that she hadn’t put a spoon in his lunch box, then went off to look in his truck because he knew she had put his real lunch there. One of the site secretaries didn’t understand about Mom and April Fool’s, so got in her car and drove into town to buy Dad a proper lunch. Dad ate two lunches that day and never got another can of dog food because Mom felt so bad for the secretary.

The best year was the one time she forgot to prank one of my sisters. Sister said that after hearing about everything she had done to every one else and just KNOWING that Mom had hit her too, she jumped every time she opened a drawer or cabinet and spent the night searching for something hidden to find in the morning.

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I forgot about the shaving cream toilet seat gag on my roommate-he was NOT amused. Another is to put clear wrap below the seat, making sure no reflecting creases give away the game.

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Mom would have LOVED clear wrap had it been available back then. She would have taped it to doorsills to get us while we were trying to get to the bathroom and then covered the toilets with it as well. Mom planned AFD months in advance, we always knew we were in trouble when we heard her cackling with joy back in February.

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I manage a website for a hobby club. Every April 1st the link to the Our Club home page is redirected to the website of another same name club somewhere (such as a resort in the South Pacific, a men’s club in Scotland, etc.). Always gets a panicked email or two from members who have forgotten the date and want to know if we have been hacked.

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I used to leave workmates a paper phone message with the return phone number of Sexaholics Anonymous (a recorded greeting).

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My very bestest prank wasn’t even for April Fool’s. But oh, itshould hzve been enshrined in the Prankster Hall of Fame.

@Beckdawrek, our beloved member of the Straight Dope, has battled some bad-bad-bad health scares. Her doctors decided that her only remaining kidney was causing more problems than doing her good. The kidney had to be physically evicted.

Beck’s family, understandably, was distraught.

Beck wasn’t in a fun-loving mood either.

Then I told her my evil idea. We cussed and discussed it to get all the details squared away.

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After she came home to recuperate, a big family gathering was held.

As the festivities were winding down, Beck brought her prank display out of hiding.

The little kids were horified, creeped out, and wonderfully entertained.

The grown-ups were horrified, and then pissed off by the joke in monumental poor taste.

All-in-all, a verysuccessful prank!

You see, I told Beck to have a talk with a friendly butcher, to help her acquire a veal kidney. She was then to place the kidney in a ñquart-sized canning jar, and fill the jar with either store bought Everclear, or to check out any near by moonshiner for a jug of White Lightning.

I wish I could have been there!

~VOW

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Back in the day when people actually made phone calls & your area code reflected where you lived, not just where you lived when you got your first phone there was the Reject Line. I don’t know who paid for it or how many there were (I knew of three cities that had them).
If you met someone in a club or wherever & they wanted your ‘digits’ but you weren’t that in to them you’d give them ‘your’ number. They’d call ‘you’ the next day & get a recorded message, “Hello, you have reached the Reject Line, the person who gave you this number doesn’t want to talk to you…”

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I saw this one yesterday, novel, harmless, fun & funny.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1btd14i/my_best_april_fools_put_this_in_the_office/

Edit: it’s a handsoap pump labeled Ketchup.

My best April Fools. Put this in the office bathroom. There was ketchup inside.

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Back in the DOS days I wrote a simple program that translated your keyboard input to gibberish and put it on the receptionist’s PC. She was not amused.

Shortly after my wife and I were married, I had one of the ladies in accounting call my wife at work and say they were from the IRS and she was being audited. My wife was not amused.