April Fools
Posted by Trotsky
April Fools
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: March 26, 2013 09:18AM
This is carry-over from a work conversation. None of the dozen or so of us had ever actually *seen* a decent April Fool's prank. Heard legends, of course, but not been present.
Is April Fool's Day itself the only actual April Fool prank?
Is April Fool's Day itself the only actual April Fool prank?
Re: April Fools
Posted by: Kyle Rose (---.customer.alter.net)
Date: March 26, 2013 11:38AM
Trotsky
This is carry-over from a work conversation. None of the dozen or so of us had ever actually *seen* a decent April Fool's prank. Heard legends, of course, but not been present.
Is April Fool's Day itself the only actual April Fool prank?
I know AFD mostly as "stay off the internet day": it's generally full of predictable jokes and eye-rollingly dumb attempts at tricking people. I, too, have never seen a really good AFD prank.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: March 26, 2013 11:56AM
Kyle Rose
Trotsky
This is carry-over from a work conversation. None of the dozen or so of us had ever actually *seen* a decent April Fool's prank. Heard legends, of course, but not been present.
Is April Fool's Day itself the only actual April Fool prank?
I know AFD mostly as "stay off the internet day": it's generally full of predictable jokes and eye-rollingly dumb attempts at tricking people
Sturgeon's Law kicks in super hard on the internet.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/26/2013 11:56AM by Trotsky.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: nr53 (---.hsd1.ca.comcast.net)
Date: March 26, 2013 05:17PM
I had a friend convince people he was a new father, complete with baby pictures, facebook posts and some friend congratulating him to help spread the joke. He spread this over a few months but had the birth occur on the 1st so it still counts.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: March 27, 2013 10:39AM
Sidd Finch
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Re: April Fools
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: March 27, 2013 10:46AM
Pranks run via the media are another animal. They are too "professional." My question was whether anybody has actually personally participated in a good DIY prank.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: judy (---.hsd1.dc.comcast.net)
Date: March 27, 2013 06:21PM
I have a friend who is trying to plot out a prank for this year's April 1. Something along the lines of she's not at work that day because she's at an interview at another branch office/run off to join the circus/auditioning for a singing gig. We told her she shouldn't say she's interviewing and the singing gig is actually possible. I will report back if she actually does go through with it.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: judy (---.hsd1.dc.comcast.net)
Date: April 01, 2013 04:24PM
Nothing exciting from my friend. She called a meeting for her team on reorganization, showed up with bagels and left.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: RichH (---.northropgrumman.com)
Date: April 01, 2013 04:28PM
judy
Nothing exciting from my friend. She called a meeting for her team on reorganization, showed up with bagels and left.
NOT doing a prank is sort of a meta-prank in and of itself now.
At least that's what I'm telling every internet site.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: Beeeej (Moderator)
Date: April 01, 2013 05:24PM
I had a reasonbly decent one many years ago while still on campus, convincing a fair number of people of a pretty outlandish concert lineup for Springfest/Slope Day. I also hooked a bunch of Billy Joel fanatics on a listserv one year with a fake press release about adding Bruce Hornsby and someone else (can't remember who right now, maybe I'll try to find it later in my email archives) to the next Billy/Elton "Face to Face" tour.
My wife's right, though, it's become too much of a "get sympathy with a fake problem" day, and finding humor in other people's honest expressions of sympathy isn't very cool. So today my only "prank" on Facebook was to post a career change announcement that was obviously silly enough that people would know instantly it was a joke and hopefuly find humor in it. Those who felt the need to respond in the comments that it must be a joke were, I suppose, second-level jokes in themselves.
My wife's right, though, it's become too much of a "get sympathy with a fake problem" day, and finding humor in other people's honest expressions of sympathy isn't very cool. So today my only "prank" on Facebook was to post a career change announcement that was obviously silly enough that people would know instantly it was a joke and hopefuly find humor in it. Those who felt the need to respond in the comments that it must be a joke were, I suppose, second-level jokes in themselves.
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Re: April Fools
Posted by: Beeeej (Moderator)
Date: April 01, 2013 05:26PM
Oh - as far as meta-pranks, my favorite is that one of my closest friends got married to his fiancée by a Justice of the Peace on April 1 with no prior announcement of the plan. Today is their twentieth anniversary, and some of their friends still have trouble believing it actually happened, which is entertaining in itself. (I was one of only a few witnesses, so I know.)
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- Steve Worona
Re: April Fools
Posted by: KeithK (---.external.lmco.com)
Date: April 01, 2013 07:58PM
You mean I don't have a permanent place to crash in Vegas? Damn!Beeeej
My wife's right, though, it's become too much of a "get sympathy with a fake problem" day, and finding humor in other people's honest expressions of sympathy isn't very cool. So today my only "prank" on Facebook was to post a career change announcement that was obviously silly enough that people would know instantly it was a joke and hopefuly find humor in it. Those who felt the need to respond in the comments that it must be a joke were, I suppose, second-level jokes in themselves.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: April 04, 2013 08:30AM
Hosts for Gator Country FM 101.9 (the name suggests some endemic listener credulousness) reported that dihydrogen monoxide was coming out of taps in Florida. Officials talked about arresting the hosts for causing a public panic.
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Re: April Fools
Posted by: Jerseygirl (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: April 04, 2013 10:41PM
For an April Fool's Day prank at my last job I went in after everyone had gone home for the night on 3/31 and removed all of my personal effects, papers, etc. from my desk. I am not a neat person, so this was a noticeable difference from normal. Then I didn't come in until late the next morning. My then-bf, who worked in the same office, played along, drove in by himself, and said he hadn't seen me that morning. Since I was miserable there*, it was entirely plausible that I had quit.
*Those of you who follow me on Twitter may remember this as the place where I "fixed a tech problem" by turning on our CFO's computer.
*Those of you who follow me on Twitter may remember this as the place where I "fixed a tech problem" by turning on our CFO's computer.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: RatushnyFan (---.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net)
Date: April 06, 2013 01:09PM
Did people actually believe the Sidd Finch SI story? I remember reading it and thinking it was preposterous. Wasn't there a picture of him playing a french horn? Reference to pitching something like 150 mph.
Come on, folks.
Come on, folks.
Re: April Fools
Posted by: RatushnyFan (---.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net)
Date: April 06, 2013 01:11PM
P.S. A friend sent me a story about Cayuga lake being drained this year on April 1st. I am proud to say that I did not fall for it!
http://www.fingerlakes.com/news/3-finger-lakes-to-be-drained
http://www.fingerlakes.com/news/3-finger-lakes-to-be-drained
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