Happy April FOol’s day all.
Nows the time to share how you were made a fool, or pranks you played on others.
I got nothin’…
A second grader got me with “Miss Cub! Miss Cub! There is a spider on the wall behind you!” I’m not particularly afraid of spiders, but I did turn and look. :smack:
In my defense, the little darling was very innocent and sincere looking, I swear.
I did what many Dopers here have suggested, and made Word’s autocorrect system replace “the” with “APRIL FOOL’S” on my Dad’s computer. However, my mother got there first. And tried typing. And was not happy.
There was nothing at all today. No pranking of any kind. I forgot all about it until last night and didn’t have time to prepare anything good.
I’m so disappointed. 
I wish I’d gotten nothing. Instead my coworkers left me a note staying the store manager wanted to see me. I went and asked him if he did. He said no. I said “Oh, april fools joke then,” shrugged, and went back to work.
As far as jokes go, that was about as bad as telling me that my shoe was untied. The lack of effort hurt. They didn’t even try to prank me. And after all of the effort I put in to being a smart ass every day.
My fiance told me he was fired! :eek:
And then he told me he wasn’t. Bastard.
I didn’t prank anyone, though.
I’ve never been much of a pranker, but I have been witness to several pranks. One of the greatest I’ve ever seen was one pulled by the senior class when I was a freshmen in high school. I was on the bus and we were just pulling into the front of the school when one kid shouts, “Holy shit!” I turn to look, and lo and behold, there is a monstrous pile of dung blocking the front entrance. I’m talking a pile at least five feet deep. Holy shit indeed. That was a LOT of poo. I think the biggest mystery apart from how the admins decided to punish the guys was where they got all that dung from. I never did find out.
After that, everyone else tried to come up with plans of what they were going to do for their senior prank. My favorite idea was to bring five cages and four chickens into the school. Grease the chickens and let them run wild. Not only would four greased chickens be impossible to catch, there would be one extra cage needed to be filled. Of course, there would only be four chickens, but you wouldn’t tell the teachers that. 
My older brother is entering pharmacy school in the fall. The supervisor (or something like that) of his program posted a message online for all the students, saying that they were instituting a strict dress code for students:
Apparently my brother’s girlfriend and her roommate fell for it at first.
As for me, I didn’t really do anything except send my little brother (today is his birthday, too) 2500 batguts in Kingdom of Loathing. Bonus!
Not mine, but a co-worker told me about switching all the male/female bathroom signs a day before the start of the high school year. The freshman not knowing any better paid attention. The older ones, by habit did not. Hilarity ensued 
Since my company is based near the Philadelphia/New Jersey border, I work with a fair amount of Philly Eagles fans. Since I’m a Giants fan, this leads to quite a bit of rivalry between us.
When the Eagles fans got to work this morning, there was a printout waiting for them of a “news story” from the Philadelphia Enquirer’s web page:
TOP EAGLE LEAVES NEST
McNabb "Retires On Top"
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb has stunned his team and the city by announcing his retirement from the NFL.
“It is with a heavy heart, but a clear conscience, that I announce my retirement from professional football. Playing in the Super Bowl was the pinnacle of my career, and I’d like to leave knowing my final game was the biggest game of my life”, McNabb said in a written statement released today.
McNabb’s agent, Bob J. Grabow, confirmed the statement in a meeting with the press today.
“Donovan feels that while he did not win the Super Bowl, he came close enough to the top that he feels justified in walking away. He chooses to leave this game with his body in shape and his legacy cemented. I certainly cannot fault him for that”, said Grabow.
Fans, however, are not so easily mollified.
“This is just terrible,” said Eagles season ticker holder Darrin Michaels of Cherry Hill, N.J. “We came so close last year, making it to the Super Bowl and everything. All the Eagles fans knew that this year we were going to take home the trophy. Now McNabb has gone and [messed] up our whole season”.
Many are equally unhappy with the reason McNabb has given. “How can he talk about ‘going out on top’, when they lost the Super Bowl? It would be one thing if they had won the game, but what kind of great memories does he expect to have knowing he lost his final game?”, Michaels asked.
Head Coach Andy Reid was unavailable for comment at press time, but one insider confirmed this development will force Eagles management to rethink their strategy in next month’s NFL draft.
“Oh, of course – we’re certainly going to have to be thinking ‘quarterback’ come draft day,” said Eagles assistant Wayne Myers.
A full press conference is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. tomorrow.
I worked at a newspaper for several years doing page layouts, so after photocopying the finished product, it looked indistinguishable from the real thing.
They knew something was up, but it was still good for a few minutes of panic on their part. 
We (meaning I, with the encouragement of a few coworkers) switched out the “M” and “N” keys on a colleagues keyboard. Oh so subtle.
By the end of the day, the bastard had the IT guys in there. They has seen it before, of course. They pretended to give him a new keyboard.
Last year, same guy - we shimmed up his desk on one side just enough so the drawers would keep creeping open on him. He still hasn’t figured that one out.
One I’ve posted before… Last April, a co-worker of mine took a picture an NCO in our shop had of his family and added people from it. It included a rather large baby, a black guy in one of those pillbox-ish hats, and a picture of the World’s Tallest Living Man from the Guinness Book. My kind of prank: surreal and no lasting damage.
By the way, those pictures are still in there.
A coworker pulled an awfully good prank today.
He’s in the IT department. We’ve lately moved offices, and there have been the usual complaints about people’s new offices being too hot or too cold. Today we all got an email announcing that IT and building maintenance had collaborated, and we could now adjust our office temperature through our web browser.
He had dummied up a web page with everyone’s office number in a pulldown window…the idea was you could just choose yours, then be taken to a popup window in which you could request a new temperature. Very plausible.
The real brilliance? The popup window was a web form in disguise, which means that everyone who submitted a temperature request was really filling out a web form that was delivered to him. So he has a list of people who fell for his prank. Including me…
This was pretty mild, but I do work with kids, and I wouldn’t want to scar the little darlings.
One of the boys I regularly teach needed a new box for his overflow of flash cards. So I gave him one … covered with the GIRLIEST stickers I could find. I stuck on butterflies. Rainbows. Puppies. Hearts. I spelled out the words “BARBIE” and “CARE BEARS.” It was lovely.
Not on April Fool’s day, but a few weeks ago I did the same thing with a colleague’s PC, but everytime he typed “the” it actually said “penis”.
I don’t even want to discuss today. My first name is April. :smack:
So I guess when it comes to today, you have issues, dear?
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I replaced the alert sound on my mother’s computer with a recording of her phone ringing. Every time she made a mistake, she’d answer the phone, but no one was ever there.
My thread on my favourite April Fools that sank like a uranium anchor.
There was a rumour at our university that one april fools, the engineers painted wheelchairs on every parking space on campus. No idea of its veracity.
This wasn’t a prank, but it turned out as funny as if it had been one. My husband drove to FL yesterday to see his dad and our daughter before he starts his new job next week. He was making good time, so he stopped in Jacksonville at the plant where he got his first engineering job - several of his old coworkers were still there. So they chatted, and among other things, he told them that he was going to be starting work at NASA.
After he left for Ocala, he got a call from one of the guys accusing him of fabricating the whole NASA thing as an April Fool gag. He’s convinced my husband is yanking his chain. Knowing the guy as I do, this whole thing cracks me up. It’s better than a real prank!
I got fooled by a Scottish site that I love dearly announcing that it was to close down. Now, given that the site does have financial issues, and of course, that subscription to the SDMB is also on my mind at present (not that they would know that), and that the blasted woman hadn’t changed the site’s clock so the message was posted with one hour of March still to go…well, yes, I fell for it, but so did msot people.
One or two members spotted the acrostic in the announcement, but the rest of us were very sad and there was a flurry of posts of the type you can imagine - “look, we will donate money”, or" couldn’t we subscribe?" - well, obviusly everyone here will know the sort of thing.
Bah! In my own defence, that site, and this one are absolutely my two favourites, so it was a bad shock :eek: !
(Foolishly, the merry prankster later posted a gleeful hahahah and a suggestion that as many as possible shoudl meet soon for drinks in Edinburgh - well, she had better bring bodyguards and food-tasters, that’s all that I can say. )
One result is that so as not to have to worry about it, I have quickly re-subscribed to SDMB, just so that I cannot possibly forget and miss the deadline, and bought a couple of books from the other site I mentioned, by way of support.