April Fools tomorrow -- anyone have some good

[IcyPeas]

pranks for the office? not mean - though.


Anyone remember there used to be a link that would turn your computer screen upside down? Anyone have that anymore?

[spinbaby]

1. A good one from way back

We each went into our boss's office during the day and gave him a reason why we had to quit. One was pregnant, one was moving, one had a job offer, etc. By the time we got about three quarters of the way through the department, he caught on.

Ah, those were the days.

[nomorenomore08]

2. The best April Fools joke I ever witnessed was actually done by my fifth-grade teacher.

She gave us this whole long story about how, due to a family emergency or some such thing, she had to leave for the rest of the school year. There was going to be a replacement, who she assured us was "really cool," and we were going to have to abruptly get used to a new teacher.

Might seem like a slightly cruel thing to do to a bunch of little kids, but it was undeniably classic.

[arbusto_baboso]

3. A couple, fairly benign....

Anyone in your office have a pager? I mean an old fashioned pager. If so, get their pager number, and all day tomorrow, dial it up and leave all sorts of bizarre return numbers for them to call: local "time", a dead animal removal service, a local strip club, etc.

Another one, which would require some time and a victim's unlocked computer: go onto the mark's computer and go into "change settings". Change settings to "English" for time and date settings. This may take awhile for a payoff, but eventually the mark will start getting more and more frustrated when enetering dates like 07/04/08 and having them come out "April 7, 2008."

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. This one I performed about 16 years ago (EGAD!) was very complicated and backfired

I worked in a medical education office at a hospital. One of my duties was to make slides for residents for presentations. For an April Fool's prank I wrote up a bunch of fake slides to be created and gave them to the orthopaedic surgery coordinator, along with an ortho book from one of the surgeons, who was in on the joke. I told her the doctor needed the slides the next day. She frantically got started working on them while I laughed. She paged him out of surgery to inquire about them, and he had forgotten about the prank and told her he hadn't given her any slides. She was really pissed at me and threatened to go to the boss, but it all calmed down. At least I was amused, which after all, is always paramount!

[zanne]

5. I like the "stapler-in-the-Jello" prank from "The Office". nt

[IntravenousDemilo]

6. A friend of mine once found a screensaver that made it look like...

...the last screen that the "victim" had up was melting into a puddle, as if someone had left the cake out in the rain. Blind panic would often ensue until they touched their mouse or keyboard.

Another thing he used to do was come up behind a secretary who was typing out a long legal document (it was a law office) and say, "You spelled saxophone (or some other word you'd be unlikely to find in a document) wrong." So they'd look...

He didn't confine it to April Fool's Day, though. Every day was April Fool's Day with him. I miss him a lot.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

7. Here are some I saw on CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/03/31/fool.pranks.work/index.html

[Bake]

8. Go over to GD: P and post a "Hillary Drops Out" or "Obama Quits Race" thread.

Just a thought ... :-)

Bake

[TZ]

12. Or "Al Gore's running"

And post a jogging picture. PS-keep an eye on madinmaryland. I think he's plotting something....

[Bake]

14. I'd be disappointed if he WEREN'T plotting something!

:rofl:

Bake

[IcyPeas]

15. that'd get me in TROUBLE!!! :)

[Ava]

9. i glued my friend's mouse to their mousepad last year

he's a good sport so he laughed it off, especially after i supplied him with a new mouse. ;)

[SacredCow]

10. Probably not the best for an office....

But one of my favorites has always been to take some black electrical tape and tape the kitchen sink spray nozzle in the "on" position, then adjust it so that it sprays right to the front of the sink when the water is turned on (of course, if your spray nozzle is chrome or white, you may have to use something else to be truly stealth about it).

The funniest thing about this prank is that it has about a 50% chance of a double-success... Many people, after being sprayed, simply try turning it on again- assuming it was some kind of fluke...

[Lil Missy]

11. Put a blob of lotion on their phone handle, then call them.

You can also put the lotion on the ear receiver.

Another thing we used to do is turn someone's dictaphone on speaker and up full volume. Scares the crap outta them!

Or, adjust the height of their chair.

Put food coloring in their water bottle.

[Chan790]

13. Posting a Coffee of the Day Board...

reading "Sorry! Out of coffee." Kinda only works at Starbucks.

[Archae]

16. My best April Fool's joke...

I pulled on my next door neighbor.
She was already terrified, of what was going to happen.

But I "borrowed" a prank from the show MASH, and did absolutely nothing.

My neighbor was practically barricaded in her apartment, the few times I did speak to her she was so jumpy anytime I moved, she went into total defensive mode.

Next day, she bragged, "You didn't get me..."

I reminded her of that MASH episode, and said that was the prank.
My neighbor looked like she wanted to dig a hole into the ground and crawl in it. :rofl:

[flvegan]

17. If anyone is still using one of the old "trackball" mouse devices

you know, where the ball is on the bottom?

1. Unscrew the plastic ring that holds the ball in;

2. Take out the ball;

3. Fold decent sized piece of Scotchtape, put it in the mouse;

4. Attach mouseball to tape;

5. Reattach plastic ring that retains the mouseball.

I did that 4 years or so ago, and it took having one of the IT folks come to his desk and monkey with it for 20 minutes before figuring out why the mouse wasn't working. Classic.

[Ptah]

18. Announce a photo contest topic that is outrageous.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=280&topic_id=41659&mesg_id=41749