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April Fools Jokes!

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Tell us your amazing April Fools Jokes planned/executed for this amazing holiday :) Unfortunately I've been to busy to plan any, but still interested in what all you creative people have done!
Good Day!
-Connor
 
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Study for my Japanese Culture quiz.

Who am I fooling? I'm going to do like crap on that quiz.
 
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I had a friend from college sit completely still while I drew her for about 20mins... but I actually drew all the stuff behind her and left her out of the picture completely =P I kept complaining when she moved and stuff, it was great XD

She was pretty annoyed... but it made me laugh!
 
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I remember in school our teacher told us that she could leave us from the last lesson. We believed her. But when we took all our stuff to go home, she said "Happy Fool's day! Take your coats off and get ready for the last lesson!".. For us it was not good.. )))))))
 
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At 12:30 am I made my first prank. I sent an email to a friend with a link saying it was for a funny video site, but I actually linked it to meatspin.com. WARNING!!! DO NOT GO TO THE SITE IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO VIEW A DISGUSTING SEX ACT. But, if you want to prank someone with it, enjoy.

Yeah, it was a little immature, but it was unexpected and I think my record time for making a prank on April Fool's Day.
 
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I got a teacher this morning. I had some help from the IS department though for this one. They gave me an old Dell monitor, same make and model as the victims, that they weren't using any more and I pulled the cable apart and switched the wiring around on the vga cable and then swapped the monitor with the one at his desk. He may be teaching a computer class but that doesn't mean he knows anything about them:(. He rebooted windows three times before finally giving up. He called IS and they played right along. They finally swapped his monitor with a "new" one and problem solved.

I still think one of the most fun things to play with in class is an Annoy-A-Tron from Think Geek. A key stroker from there is good for a few laughs as well
 
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i as well as my fellow employes got an email from my boss complaining that we weren't in a meeting. Only 1 person fell for it
 
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if you want to have fun change the background on every windows computer to an image of the BSOD. it is usually good for a laugh as people try to figure it out
 
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I kinda wish Apple would get in on the April Fool's fun. Apple is so secretive and people are always so eager for some new fantastic device that they could pull off one heck of a hoax.
 
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I don't know if anyone has seen technologist's avatar and signature, but I'm hoping it's an april fools joke.
 

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So cool Tech switched to the MS side! About time!
 
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Is it sad that I could actually use one of these? (It'd be limited to Betamax to DVD, but I'd still use it.)

Betamax to HD-DVD Deck
 
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I didn't have any AMAZING jokes like I usually do. ;)

Although a teacher asked me if I like him, and i said yes, followed by a sincere "APRIL FOOLS!"
I really don't like him...at all. With good reason.

My sister did a REALLY GREAT prank on her boyfriend. It's borderline mean.
He's in the national guard for basic training, he left like 2 weeks ago. She was writing her a letter, and we were at the dollar store and we saw those little ribbon things with encouraging sayings on them, and we bought one and mailed it to him with the letter.

What did it say, you ask?

"FATHER TO BE!"

She wrote just kidding in the letter, but odds are he'll read the ribbon first.
:D

It was actually my idea.
 
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I didn't have any AMAZING jokes like I usually do. ;)

Although a teacher asked me if I like him, and i said yes, followed by a sincere "APRIL FOOLS!"
I really don't like him...at all. With good reason.

My sister did a REALLY GREAT prank on her boyfriend. It's borderline mean.
He's in the national guard for basic training, he left like 2 weeks ago. She was writing her a letter, and we were at the dollar store and we saw those little ribbon things with encouraging sayings on them, and we bought one and mailed it to him with the letter.

What did it say, you ask?

"FATHER TO BE!"

She wrote just kidding in the letter, but odds are he'll read the ribbon first.
:D

It was actually my idea.

My g/f and her best friend teamed up on me and did a similar thing.

I was less than pleased.
 
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My g/f and her best friend teamed up on me and did a similar thing.

I was less than pleased.

Ooo ooo ooo, may I know what they did, and what your reaction was? :D
 
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We tied about 300 extra long zip ties to the driveshaft of my friends brand new car. Literally a car he bought 2 days ago a 2008 Ford F150.

He came to me complaining about a really loud whine coming from his car and asked me to check it out. I said I couldn't figure it out after looking around for a few minutes, told him to take it back to the dealer and demand they fix it since its only two days old. We talked to the tech at the dealer before hand and sent him there. (we know the tech there) So my friend and I accompanied the victim to the dealership and laughed uncontrollably as the tech at the dealership brought out a trashbag full of zip ties.

The victim was not pleased.
 

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