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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 03:52 PM
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What Was The Best April Fools Joke You Have Ever Done?
:woohoo::shrug: :hi:
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cherish44 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 03:54 PM
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1. Called home during college and told mom I was pregnant
My dad was listening on the other phone and threw it across the room. "APRIL FOOLS!" He got a laugh out of it
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 03:57 PM
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2. I have done a few
I had this one co-worker call back a 'client' name was Yuri Nates, she called a urologists office and asked for Yuri Nates........:rofl: :rofl:

one of my co-workers was walking down the PDX airport concourse and i had her paged on the white courtesy telephone, along with Dick Kosinya....so on the loudspeaker the lady paged
Sheila D.... Dick Kosinya...line one white courtesy telephone......everyone in the concourse
fell on the floor laughing so hard, she was so embarrassed...:woohoo: :rofl:

a long time ago , i would always play april fools joke on my mom
they were flying to reno one time, and i called , and said i was 'mr johnson' with united airlines and their flight was cancelled, she got really pissed and upset, and i was laughing
so hard on the phone!!
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 04:03 PM
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3. Was working at a police station and me and several of the officers...
decided to play a trick on one of the sergeants. We assmbled a small mason jar, a bit of curdled milk and a raw chicken leg. We sealed up the milk and chicken in the jar and hid it in his office where he couldn't find it.

In a few days (we hid the jar about a week before April 1st), the decomposition gases pushed the lid off the jar.

But we punked oursleves; not only did the seegreant's office smell like it was filled with corpses, the whole station did!
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lilyreally Donating Member (67 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 04:15 PM
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4. My husband and I already each had teen-age kids
when we first got married. On our first April Fools day together, we took them out for ice cream, then told them that we had a surprise...they were going to have a baby sister or brother (not true).

The expressions on their faces....a mixture of EEEUWW to horror to pity to amusement to embarrassment to an attempt to look happy for us...................Priceless.

:)
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 04:51 PM
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5. Told my wife I'd been written up for sexual harrassment
I said it was innocent enough. The poor flight attendant had been talking about problems she was having at home, and I just put my arm around her shoulder and gave her butt a reassuring little squeeze....I really didn't understand what the big deal was, but I was sure it wouldn't amount to anything.

I must have been convincing. She looked at me and said, "I don't think you have any idea how much trouble you're in!"

Had her going for a while!
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 04:56 PM
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6. Okay, normally I don't think "jokes" about harassment are funny, but...that one kinda was.
Especially your wife's response.
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:12 PM
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10. I agree that harrassment is nothing to joke about
But this was just a private April Fool's thing. The alleged "harrassment" never occurred, nor did the supposed flight attendant I described even exist. I was surprised I was able to make it believable enough for her to buy it!
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:05 PM
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7. Are you the Governor of Caleefoonia?
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:12 PM
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11. The Gropenator?
:rofl:
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:10 PM
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8. I called into work, and a supervisor in cahoots with me was in on the joke. I said,
Edited on Wed Apr-01-09 05:11 PM by Lil Missy
my babysitter was sick, so I'd be bringing my toddler to work with me, but I'd be a few minutes late. My manager was the nervous as a cat type, and was just beside himself when she told him. (As we knew he'd be.)

When I got to work, I called the supervisor who was in on the joke from downstairs. She said he had been pacing (he always did that when nervous, he was about to stroke out, and he'd already been to the department manager to complain.)

I proceeded upstairs, walked straight to his desk, and said "April Fools, Leo". He turned about a hundred shades of scarlet.

:rofl: :rofl:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:12 PM
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9. Last year, a bunch of moms and I went up to the high school
and moved all of the kids cars to the far lot.

And, then we watched them come out of the building. It was truly hilarious. I'm doing it next year to BoyM.

:thumbsup:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:26 PM
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18. you are just the queen of wise-acres, Midlo!


:rofl:


I can't imagine my mom ever having done anything like that...
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:29 PM
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20. Oh, I'm deadly. Just ask my kids.
THose poor, poor children.

Today BoyM and I played 'You shut up, no you shut up' for about 20 minutes on the way home from driver's ed. :rofl:
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 06:13 PM
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26. You are truly evil.
:-)
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:14 PM
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12. Heard a good one today from my granddaughter.
Another little girl in her class faked a broken arm. Her sister had kept her cast from a broken arm last year and the little girl put it on, glued the sawed parts together and went into school saying she'd broken her arm. The teachers & students fell for it hook, line, and sinker. My granddaughter said they all went out of their way to help her carry things and do things before she sprung it on them that it was one big April fool's joke.

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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:16 PM
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13. That's a good one, but didn't the cast stink?
When BabyM's and BoyM's came off and mine for that matter many moons ago, they absolutely reeked.
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:19 PM
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14. I don't know. Maybe it aired out if they kept it for a year?
I can't imagine keeping one. When she first told me about it, I thought the girl actually made a cast out of plaster but she insisted it was the girl's sister's cast.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:27 PM
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19. This is probably TMI
but my son's cast was absolutely furry when it finally came off. :rofl:

He's a hairy one, that kid.
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:58 PM
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23. Oh gosh that's funny.
:rofl: You could have started a new product, cast pets.

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:20 PM
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15. Dropped pianos on a few thousand nuns in Canada in once.
Of course, I couldn't really say "April Fools!" to them afterward, so they lost out on the joke, but I found it fucking hilarious.

But, man, did I ever pay in fines.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:23 PM
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16. ... suddenly I want to move to Canada...
:evilgrin:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:29 PM
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21. Jackass. Ruining pianos like that. Should have used coffins from Costco.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 08:59 PM
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28. They're nuns - they deserve at least a piano.
Edited on Wed Apr-01-09 09:00 PM by Rabrrrrrr
Show some respect, you low class buffoon.

Coffins are for things like stevedores, architects, and marimba players.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:24 PM
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17. My friend at work GOT ME this morning...
She was in charge of setting up the
golf teams for tomorrow's company
outing.

I don't golf AT ALL. Not a STROKE,
and, honestly, don't want to go.

I was sitting in the computer area
with a co-worker when she came by
and announced that she had the
"foursomes" laid out.

I asked her who I was going to
be "golfing" with and she pointed
at my co-worker and said "Him, and
Zach and Kevin".

"Zach" and "Kevin" are our area
manager and regional VP respectively,
and are avid golfers.

I gaped at her and then realized....

April Fools!!!!
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:37 PM
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(cough)
Election season, 2004. I was a mod then, too.

It was a simpler time.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 06:05 PM
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25. .
:patriot:
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 05:37 PM
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22. I almost sent a full-bird colonel on a snipe hunt
This one we didn't actually do on April 1, so it's not quite an April Fool's joke, but it was the same kind of a trick so I'll mention it.

Field Station Berlin's facility is on top of the Teufelsberg, the second-highest mountain in the territory of the former East Germany. The Teufelsberg is in the middle of the Grünewald, one of Germany's biggest urban forests, and the Grünewald is infested with these massive European wild boar. You can't hunt them and they have no natural predators, so they get to be about the size of a black bear. They're also born pissed-off and get worse as they go along.

Our Morse code section (America's largest group of fully-functioning alcoholics) decided it would be funny if we put up signs around the field station inviting people to go on a grünie-pig roundup, where we would go out in the Grünewald, herd these vicious beasts onto cattle trucks, then truck them to Bavaria for overwintering. For some reason that escapes me, I thought this was a good idea at the time, so I whipped up a whole shitload of signs advertising the "6th Annual Grünie-Pig Roundup." We posted them all over the Field Station.

Next thing you know, half the field station wanted to go. I was giving a briefing one morning about a week before the purported date of this event and the colonel, who hadn't been in Berlin a year yet, said she was looking forward to going on the grünie pig roundup, it was going to be so much fun. The rest of the people in the briefing room just burst out laughing. "What's so funny?" I held my arm straight out at the shoulder and said, "a grünie pig stands this high at the shoulders. You don't want to do this, but you can't anyway because we made it up."

The next morning, "Grünie Pig Roundup Cancelled By Order of the Grünewald Förstmeister" signs went up all over the field station. People thought we were kidding about the cancellation.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 06:00 PM
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24. Convinced all of DU that "Parche" was really a sock puppet for Rush Limbaugh.
APRIL FOOL!!!! :P
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-01-09 06:28 PM
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27. One a radio station did many years ago, announced the World Series would be moved to Alaska.
OMG, Omaha was hysterical. And people from many cities around the country called in.

Another year, they played "Don't Worry, Be Happy" about a hundred times in a row. People got pretty pissed!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-02-09 04:29 PM
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29. I missed the opportunity for a GREAT joke yesterday
My mom was expecting her bonus to come in the mail.

She said when the check came I should open it, look at the total, and send her an email with the amount.

It wound up being 5K, and sadly I sent her an email with the real total.

I should have said 2K, and listened for the sound of her screaming all the way from across town. :D
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-02-09 05:08 PM
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30. By not making one.
People that expect it too much, freak out at every turn.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-02-09 05:09 PM
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31. Shitting in a priest's face.
That was hilarious.
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