It’s funny when other people suffer. It’s a tragedy if I am annoyed in any way.
(for you humorless idiots, here’s a clue)
I don’t give a rat’s patoot if you spend your days giggling about the lint in your belly button. I was accused of not having a “sense of humor,” as if anyone who did not find this exquisite masterpiece of a joke amusing could not possibly find anything else funny either, which is not the case.
Melodrama involves exaggeration. A bit means a very small amount, so… Still you.
Nope. Not at all. You are being ridiculously over the top while trying to play as cool as a cucumber. I remain utterly unfooled. This prank has gotten to you on a very personal level for some reason and that’s something that you yourself should really reflect on.
I am not some buddy or fan of Idle Thoughts. You are just interpretting everything incorrectly.
What have I said that you consider “ridiculously over the top”?
I’ve said the so-called prank was unfunny, kind of mean, and a plea for attention. If that sounds extreme to you, how are you deaf and blind to your own hyperbolic accusations?
This prank has “gotten” to me on no level, sorry.
Post 166 was over the top mean spirited description of a “plea for attention”. Your oh so casual act is simply not fooling me. You keep going though.
Maybe you don’t know where the “top” is? I used the phrase “pathetic plea for attention,” which it was.
Don’t worry if you don’t understand this. You aren’t the audience that matters to me.
As is so often the case, Scott Adams (“Dilbert”) has it right.
Who is?
I have a lot of unpopular opinions, so it’s always refreshing and uplifting to read someone’s comment I agree with. These are messages to my people.
Well I fell for it, good and proper. I was so focused on silly headlines in online newspapers I didn’t even think I’d get pranked on here!
April 1st must throw up some interesting statistics for making jokes, it must be the worst day of the year to have a cardiac arrest.
Yeah I fell for it too, I was gotten good, as I’ve written earlier. I did not know of his Halloween prank either.
I think several are over-reacting, calling him assholish and cruel. Posting some (and not all) of the replies, they say was inappropriate. I somewhat agree, but only a little. IT did not include identying information with the replies. And he says he did not include the replies that were so sincere as to reach back to his PM and divulge sensitive or delicate information, and to these people he wrote back immediately to say sorry, it was a prank.
Have we seen any corroboration of that? If we do, that would (or may help to) substantiate IT’s claim.
Not to encourage IT to do other similar pranks, but yeah I think several have really over-reacted.
You and me both.
I wasn’t among the victims and don’t know how I would’ve responded. To be frank, I don’t find it that funny, and I’ve never been a huge fan of pranks in general. But to watch people here (figuratively) rending their garments while kneeling in a rainstorm with arms outstretched cursing the heavens, over a dumb joke… you can’t put a price on that. I guess even the mildest bit of teasing can send some folks into locker-room flashback territory.
I’m always the sucker. Never again will I believe anything anyone tells me. Ever.
This isn’t a bad thing. You have been saved from sending transfer fees to Princess Bamba in order to claim 30% of her $10,000,000 inheritance locked in a Security Box in Lagos. 
Funny thing is, I freaked out when you told me to shut up in a pit thread, and yet even I didn’t overreact to this.
When BigT tells you you are overreacting, you need to sit up and listen.
My response was:
in case anyone’s still trying to narrow down the list.
It didn’t affect me much, so I’m not upset. I can understand why some people would be mad though. And I got a PM, yay! I like getting PMs, any PMs, even mod notes sometimes. I just want someone to PM something, anything! Somebody PM me!
You’re always the sucker.
Now let’s watch his head explode, folks
Far be it for me to say anything here because when I say I will keep a secret I mean it even when the secret is no longer a secret and not even the truth.
Just because everybody else chooses to jump off the bridge doesn’t mean I have to join them
Once I was entrusted with a secret and it was a pretty big, serious secret, only to find out everybody knew it and, as usual, I was the last to know. However, when the secret came out I was blamed by the person who entrusted me for spilling it even though I was the one still keeping my mouth shut while everybody else was talking.
Go figure, right?
So anyway, I got spanked and my first thought was wow was I dumb but I also figured if that was the dumbest thing I did all today then I’m doing pretty damn good. Believe me, even though my hair has gotten darker with age. I am the epitome of dumb blonde.
Once I drove away from a gas stations wondering what the hell that clunking noise was. Yes, I drove off with the hose still in the gas tank, much to the annoyance of the gas station attendant and the amusement of my insurance agent. I mean really, she could have turned the phone away so I couldn’t hear the chuckles as she filled out the report.
So anyway, I don’t know what the uproar is all about.
It’s not like anybody got 419ed into giving away their life savings, or anybody got Racheled/Carmened/Bridgetted into giving up their credit card information, or Microsofted/Windowed/GeekSquaded into getting their computer hacked.
It was a prank. A fairly harmless mild prank as far as pranks go.
I could tell you about some pranks.
On a scale of 1 to 10 in which a 1 is ha ha you got me and a 10 is watch your back MFer because I’m gonna get your sorry ass this only rates a 1.
Hardly a blip on the radar of life.
Its just words on a board and truth be told, except in the cases of real life meetings, nobody knows who is at the other end of the keyboard. It’s some nameless, faceless entity.
Like I told my friend who liked to cyber-sex, you think you are talking to some 28 year old blonde hottie with 36Ds and long legs. For all you know it’s a bald headed old geezer with hair growing out of his nose and a pot belly barely covered by a stained wife beater.
I think he never looked at cyber sex the same way.
Not near as bad a reaction though when I told a friend as they were snorting some coke, y*ou know, that stuff was probably smuggled in in somebody’s belly and they had to take a bunch of ex-lax to shit it out. *
See, your life could be worse.
If getting pranked on a message board it the worst you have to complain about count your damn blessings and move on.
For real.