Ideas for April Fool's jokes
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Ideas for April Fool's jokes
I work on arvo/night shift and have a great opportunity to have fun with some April Fool's jokes set up on Thursday night for those that come in on Friday morning.
Here are some ideas me and my work mates have had so far:
#Detach the mouse and keyboard from everyone's computer
#Get everyone on my shift to leave a voice mail on our manager's phone saying that we will be sick and not coming in on Friday
#Change some letters around on the keyboards of people who can't touch type
#Swap all the lab coats around so the big peeps have the little peeps' and vice versa
#Smear my boss' office door knob with vaseline
Any more suggestions? I wanna make this a day to remember...
Here are some ideas me and my work mates have had so far:
#Detach the mouse and keyboard from everyone's computer
#Get everyone on my shift to leave a voice mail on our manager's phone saying that we will be sick and not coming in on Friday
#Change some letters around on the keyboards of people who can't touch type
#Swap all the lab coats around so the big peeps have the little peeps' and vice versa
#Smear my boss' office door knob with vaseline
Any more suggestions? I wanna make this a day to remember...
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if you're going geeky, try this for some inspiration. might have to update some of the late '80s/'90s references or find modern equivalents though.
otherwise, Disney has some all American suggestions.
hours of fun.
otherwise, Disney has some all American suggestions.
hours of fun.
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Subject: 17mm format to replace 16mm format
From: [email protected]
Date: 1997/04/01
Message-Id: <1997Apr1.084558.10330@ohstpy>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.production
I just heard that Kodak has invented a new 17mm film format to replace both
16mm and super 16mm. The new format does not use any sprocket holes since
sprocket holes tend to cause to much air pressure to build up inside a
camera. Kodak has invented a special epoxy which they will use (in the short
term) to fill in the sprocket holes on existing stock. Then that stock will
be placed in special ovens fitted with a stretching device that will convert
their 16mm film to 17mm film. All 16mm cameras will need to be junked as
a proper conversion to 17mm is not feasible, but a spokesman for Kodak said
that it will be worth it since the film will be much better in all respects.
The camera manufacturers (Aaton, Arri etc.) will be working together to make
just one model of 17mm camera for all uses. The 1997 model will be bright
green, weigh in at about 50 pounds and be available with a turret with two
primary lenses and one zoom lens permanantly attached. (The prime lenses
will be 5.5mm and 8mm and the zoom will go from 90mm to 120mm.) The name of this
new camera will be the "SLOOF LIRPA" and 1997 model will be on sale by Feb 29
of 1998 for only $66,666. That's all I've heard about the new film format
and camera. I'm sure someone out there has more information on the subect,
but he/she is likely much more mature or too busy to go typing up April Fools
stuff like this. I'm so very, very, very sorry. I don't know what came over
me.
From: [email protected]
Date: 1997/04/01
Message-Id: <1997Apr1.084558.10330@ohstpy>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies.production
I just heard that Kodak has invented a new 17mm film format to replace both
16mm and super 16mm. The new format does not use any sprocket holes since
sprocket holes tend to cause to much air pressure to build up inside a
camera. Kodak has invented a special epoxy which they will use (in the short
term) to fill in the sprocket holes on existing stock. Then that stock will
be placed in special ovens fitted with a stretching device that will convert
their 16mm film to 17mm film. All 16mm cameras will need to be junked as
a proper conversion to 17mm is not feasible, but a spokesman for Kodak said
that it will be worth it since the film will be much better in all respects.
The camera manufacturers (Aaton, Arri etc.) will be working together to make
just one model of 17mm camera for all uses. The 1997 model will be bright
green, weigh in at about 50 pounds and be available with a turret with two
primary lenses and one zoom lens permanantly attached. (The prime lenses
will be 5.5mm and 8mm and the zoom will go from 90mm to 120mm.) The name of this
new camera will be the "SLOOF LIRPA" and 1997 model will be on sale by Feb 29
of 1998 for only $66,666. That's all I've heard about the new film format
and camera. I'm sure someone out there has more information on the subect,
but he/she is likely much more mature or too busy to go typing up April Fools
stuff like this. I'm so very, very, very sorry. I don't know what came over
me.
When we all got in this morning there was no office chairs....
only an email from the 'Chair Burgler' saying that all the chairs have been taken for ransom....
We don't negotiate with terrorists!
So our crack team of investigators searched the venue.... and now I'm comfortably sitting on my arse again.
only an email from the 'Chair Burgler' saying that all the chairs have been taken for ransom....
We don't negotiate with terrorists!
So our crack team of investigators searched the venue.... and now I'm comfortably sitting on my arse again.
Who made you Judge Judy and Executioner?
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All things went well, mostly.
I took out all the keyboards and mice from the computers. People tried to move their mouse to exit the screen saver mode, but when this didn't work they thought the comp was off. So they hit the power button, thinking they were turning it on, when they were actually turning it off. A keyboard error message pops up on start up so they worked it out. Someone actually called IT asking them to fix the comp. Hehe...
Changing some of the keys on my supervisor's keyboard was great! We spelt out "APRILFOES" on the middle line of letters. He was pissed off for the whole day apparently.
The lab coat switcheroo only got the clueless peeps as they are labelled with our names.
I smeared two door knobs with vacuum grease, which is a thick vaseline-like substance, but it's more sticky than slippery. This didn't get the people intended (my boss and supervisor). When the security guard was doing his rounds he checked the two doors and got the stuff on him. He didn't know what it was or how to get it off and was quite alarmed as there was no-one there to help him. Apparently this guy complains about anything and everything anyway. I got a talking to about this later on by my supervisor.
To get me back, a story was made up that the security guard actually hurt his wrist and an OHS incident was raised. I was sceptical at first, but I was still shitting myself. A cheeky grin on my supervisor's face revealed the truth, "April Fools". They said they were gonna send an email around detailing the "incident" with the Plant Manager CCed. This was decided to be going too far.
I was also told by my boss that maybe I had too much time on my hands and not enough work if I was able to orchestrate all these pranks. Maybe...
I took out all the keyboards and mice from the computers. People tried to move their mouse to exit the screen saver mode, but when this didn't work they thought the comp was off. So they hit the power button, thinking they were turning it on, when they were actually turning it off. A keyboard error message pops up on start up so they worked it out. Someone actually called IT asking them to fix the comp. Hehe...
Changing some of the keys on my supervisor's keyboard was great! We spelt out "APRILFOES" on the middle line of letters. He was pissed off for the whole day apparently.
The lab coat switcheroo only got the clueless peeps as they are labelled with our names.
I smeared two door knobs with vacuum grease, which is a thick vaseline-like substance, but it's more sticky than slippery. This didn't get the people intended (my boss and supervisor). When the security guard was doing his rounds he checked the two doors and got the stuff on him. He didn't know what it was or how to get it off and was quite alarmed as there was no-one there to help him. Apparently this guy complains about anything and everything anyway. I got a talking to about this later on by my supervisor.
To get me back, a story was made up that the security guard actually hurt his wrist and an OHS incident was raised. I was sceptical at first, but I was still shitting myself. A cheeky grin on my supervisor's face revealed the truth, "April Fools". They said they were gonna send an email around detailing the "incident" with the Plant Manager CCed. This was decided to be going too far.
I was also told by my boss that maybe I had too much time on my hands and not enough work if I was able to orchestrate all these pranks. Maybe...
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I was compiling software all day, so I had a lot of free time.on tour wrote:system, you spend far too much in front of this screen. wonder what else you come up with....
obviously not the most productive use of it.
nice work JNS!
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“This is old news. I read about this announcement yesterday on Google.â€Stray wrote:Google Australia's April Fool's Joke
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Q: Why is this section titled "frequently asked questions", when the product is barely released?deviant wrote:“This is old news. I read about this announcement yesterday on Google.â€Stray wrote:Google Australia's April Fool's Joke
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A: We used gDayâ„¢ to work out the questions that people would ask.
lol
last year I told everyone I was going to give up playing breaks and simply play dnb because breaks was so small in Adelaide... had some people going for a while too.
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This morning I woke up my son... yelled at him to hurry up or he'll be late for school. Made him grab uniform and start getting changed before letting him know it was April fools.
It's school holidays.
I lolled all the way to work.
It's school holidays.
I lolled all the way to work.
Who made you Judge Judy and Executioner?
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ahaha!calstro wrote:This morning I woke up my son... yelled at him to hurry up or he'll be late for school. Made him grab uniform and start getting changed before letting him know it was April fools.
It's school holidays.
I lolled all the way to work.
im so going to do that to my kids when I have them
Gold!flippo wrote:ahaha!calstro wrote:This morning I woke up my son... yelled at him to hurry up or he'll be late for school. Made him grab uniform and start getting changed before letting him know it was April fools.
It's school holidays.
I lolled all the way to work.
im so going to do that to my kids when I have them
Copped that this morning. Swapped mice, seemed ok so I kept working...til my boss suffered the same fate. Luckily, the fucker who did it couldn't stop giggling so we figured it out real quick.elysium wrote:sticky tape over the light on infrared mouses -- takes people ages to figure out what is wrong
gotta have moxy to do proper april fools
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