April fool's jokes

[Ken Knighton]

Sooooooo.... did anyone get off any good April Fool's jokes this year? What did you do?

[Brad Caudill]

I put this in another post but this is what I did again. I did this last year and went ok.. just stunk the place up for a little bit.. So after this I am not pulling anymore for awhile if I get to keep my job..

I pulled a prank at work on Friday and well my co-workers did not take it to well and they are out to find out who did it and want him/her fired.. I am getting blamed (yeah I did it) but nobody saw me do it so I am hoping I don't get canned. I guess some people just can't take a stink bomb going off at work. I did it last year and nothing much was said. I guess I went too far and our group gets blamed for all the practical jokes so I took home all the evidence against me (another stink bomb, fart machine,etc). Nervous all weekend about this but I bend over backwards for that company so I hope if they blame me for it the will just slap me with a warning.:(

[VonnerNIX]

I'm sorry to hear that Brad. It always bothers me as well when people are tight and don't have a soft funny side. But sometimes there is nothing you can do about it. I hope all goes well for you.

[Brad Caudill]

Thanks.. me too.. Whatever happens happens but I know now people just can't take a joke.

A STINK BOMB!:laughing: I actually thought only high schoolers did that!

I just called the wife up while I was at an office complex and told her I broke my leg. Well of course she freaked and asked what hospital I was going to and I told her the hospital was April Fool. Boy was she xxxxxx. :laughing: So what does she do? Well she tells the kids (18 & 13) that dad broke his leg and was going to the hospital. They started to get ready to go and she said April Fools! So guess a good one is one that someone else uses huh?

[Zac_Cutt]

He He He...

I borrowed my brothers old cast and put it on my leg. I told my friends I when we had a getogeather that night that they could still come over but I can move off the couch. They sat there the whole night brinign me drinks when I asked and chips and stuff until finnaly I said "Oh god... I need to go to the bathroom" and I hoped right up off the couch and walked to it. Luckily the moment I got in I locked the door and waited for them to calm down until I came out. Needless to say, I almost needed the cast after last night :]:]:]

There was a pretty funny story of how I "actually" broke my leg... but I dont want to get into any details.

Zac

Edit: WHOA I just read your post Robin! Great minds think alike!

[jen grissett]

I got one over on hubby...

We have this odd light switch that turns off the power to the screen porch and back motion sensors and even the plugs on the porch...so he was replacing a light upstairs and had the power off in the breaker box....

so he went and flipped it all back on and went out the door(I clicked that switch off....lol)and there was no power to the porch....so here he runs back to the breaker...none are tripped or off...gets back and it's working....(lol...clicked it on)...then he starts back in from the barn....it's off again...runs and does the breakers again...none tripped...but the power is mysteriously back on...

we went through this for a good hour before I told him what I was doing....april fool!...it was funny....poor thing...he's so gulible...

[scorpion]

A couple of years ago a Dallas radio station had a bunch of listeners calling about these letters coming in from some agency threating fines if the christmas lights were not taken down. A couple of callers allready received their fines and were up in arms! The radio station started raising **** on behalf of all of the people getting fines. The radio station found the agency's web site, and found out that they had the legal right to saction fines! For a week nothing but calls on this over bearing gov agency. At the end of the week (April 1st) the radio station anounced the gag! The DJ's had a friend set up the web site. The DJ's could not do it because people would see the site owner and figure out the gag! OH MAN you should have heard all the anti gov people screaming foul on the airwaves until the prank was anounced!



I loved it! It was hilarious!

[lkcubsrule]

I live near Chicago, so there are lots of radio stations. Last year one said that John Kerry died and Osama Bin Laden was captured. This year, on March 31st said that he wasn't going to be working at the radio tomorrow so this was his April fool's joke that he explained to the listeners...

(In order to understand it...Carrie might know...you have to understand that there are serious road constructions going on on the Dan Ryan Expressway to Chicago...and they are going to shut down like 3 lanes each way. That is going to make ginormous traffic jams for tons of miles. There are also like a bunch more express ways...the Edens, the Skyway, the Tri-State, the Bishop-Ford, the Stevenson, the Eishenhouwer, the Kennedy...etc...)

he is the traffic dude...

this what he said,"I was going to say that not just the Dan Ryan is going to be backed up, but they are shutting down the following expressways...the Edens...the skyway...and he said all the expressways... adn then after all the people got through their spasm of tramua, he would say "April Fools" !

I thought that was kinda funny

Luke K.

[Carrie Sansing]

Luke, I hear you! We have two seasons in the Chicago area, winter and road construction! (I always wonder why they call it "construction" when what takes up most of the time is the destruction of existing roads that never seem to be fixed!)

Luke just one question. Which did the people cheer the loudest for, Kerry or Osama?:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

That my friend is a tough call.

[lkcubsrule]

I dont know...my older brother told me when he was on his way home from work on spring break last year.

Luke K.

[Brad Caudill]

Well if anyone wants an update.. I am still employed but get a unpaid vacation day this Thursday (suspension). I needed the day off anyways. :)

[VonnerNIX]

Well that's good to hear. Did you fess up, or did they come looking for you?

[jen grissett]

Glad you didn't get canned....they could have given you a friday...you could have had a long weekend...:laughing:

[Brad Caudill]

VonnerNIX wrote:
Well that's good to hear. Did you fess up, or did they come looking for you?I fessed up to it.. They had enough circumstantial evidence on me since I did it last year. The lady I talked to was trying not to laugh when we talked. It was funny to a lot of people but to a few it wasn't. Yeah I would have rather had a Friday off but I guess they felt like that would not be as much a punishment. All this right before my evaluation too.. whoops. :laughing:

[ErnieHorning]

Well you know someone has to do it. People just need to lighten up.



I still think it was funny when my lab partner in High School chemistry dumped a pint beaker of sulfur on the table and lit it.:devil: I remember the mushroom cloud hitting the ceiling and the lack of air, but it was still funny. It smelled up two whole floors and they had to send everybody home. You could still smell it a couple of days later.



You know, synchronized stink bombs would be kind of fun. I suppose they’d still know who did it though.:smile:

[Ken Knighton]

ErnieHorning wrote:
I still think it was funny when my lab partner in High School chemistry dumped a pint beaker of sulfur on the table and lit it.:devil: I remember the mushroom cloud hitting the ceiling and the lack of air, but it was still funny. It smelled up two whole floors and they had to send everybody home. You could still smell it a couple of days later.




I never did that but my high school chemistry teacher - Father something or other, did threaten to make me eat sodium one day for something he thought I did. Ironically I was innocent that time!!

[Dwight_Gleason]

I was going to go to the YMCA and work out on the treadmill wearing a helmet that dangles a twinkie in front of me just out of reach, but I had to work.

A couple years ago, I put an animated gif of my English Version Harry Potter books on my 'host' page. (I'm a host on the HarryPotter.com message boards.) The practical joke aspect was that it included book 5 over two months before it came out. The final frame of the animation was a letter from J.K. Rowling asking me to accept the advance copy of the book as thanks for my excellent workon the website.If you clicked on the gif it said "April Fools", but not many people did. I actually got mobbed at a grocery store about a week before, because I was carrying the 'advanced copy' of the book and some people saw it.

The year before that I replaced my 'host' page with a "Page Not Found/404" error, and posted a few messages under the name "FormerHostDarkSky". People were "mad but relieved" when everything was back the next day.