Best April Fools jokes?

[Wonk]

What are the best ones you've ever done / fallen for?

I got my brother a number of years back with Saran Wrap stretched tightly (smooth, no wrinkles) across the toilet bowl in his apartment (I had a spare key and he's a sound sleeper), adding a whole new level of meaning to the expression 'pissed off' :evilgrin:

[RobertSeattle]

1. Mine was an old Base Ball Sprinh Training one on ABC News year ago

They had this story on a new pitching phenom who could pitch 120 mph. They show a backstop with these huges dents in it, various other things alluding to the pitching speed. I completly fell for it until they announce mentioned April 1st.

[rocktivity]

2. My friend's doctor told her to expect her baby in mid- to late April

He was born April 1--That will always be my favorite April Fool's joke!

:headbang:
rocknation

[NightTrain]

3. In 1995, I pulled an April Fool's joke on my radio audience.

I was hosting a 1960s-era soul music show on a college station. The week of April Fool's Day, I went on-mike at the start of my show and announced that I would no longer be playing vintage soul rhythms. I claimed a church group had complained to station management that my music was too sexually charged, and had threatened to make trouble for us if I didn't "change my tune."

"So," I sighed into the microphone, "I now have to play music that won't offend these church groups. Here's Pat Boone."

I started the turntable, which pumped out my old 45 of "April Love." Then, about 10 seconds into the song, I turned the mike back on and shouted, "April Fool!" At which point I went into James Brown's "Mother Popcorn."

And yes, I did get phone calls from mortified listeners who had thought I was serious! :evilgrin:

[Az]

4. It seems you can reprogram HP printer displays over the net

I am a sys admin. A few years ago I found out how to reprogram the displays on HP printers over an intranet. Normally they simply display Ready or a message that it is printing. They also display error messages in case something goes wrong. I quickly set about reprogramming the displays on our offices printers.

The first message I sent out on all the printers was "Warning: Coolant leak". This caused a couple of the secretaries to ask me what was going on. I played it down and said I would look into it.

The next message was "Danger: Radiation leak". This one got quite a bit of attention. No one would go near the printers.

I eventually ended the joke by setting them to "Got Milk?"

[Ohio Dem]

5. Another toilet gag:

Empty and dry the bowl. Affix a laminated $20-bill to the side/bottom of the bowl. Refill. Add blue dye that stains, not the cleaning stuff.

Watch everybody at your party or whatever walk around with one hand in their pocket.

[Catshrink]

6. eBay last year...

reversed their heading..... pretty jarring.

Not the best I've ever seen, but very funny!

[Catshrink]

7. My sister got our high school spanish teacher....

She said:

Sister: Gee, Mrs. Livingston, you sure look nice today. Did you get your hair done? Is that a new dress?

Mrs. Livingston: Why thank you, Dianna. That is so sweet of you.

Sister: April Fools!

damn she's good!

[Rick Myers]

8. A friend once sent out 100 invites to a birthday party

for the Dem Party Chairman. Certain bar, certain time. But he never told the party chair... About 60 people showed up, some with GIFTS!!!

It's also MY birthday!!! Talk about a bad joke.

[rustydog]

9. Our hospital has an employee "smoking lounge"

A shack really, in the receiving dock area.
We call it the Butt Hutt.

On April fools day 5 years back, My partner and I set up a fake CCTV camera in the Butt Hutt.

It had a video cable going through the wall into another room and the camera was plugged into the wall socket in the butt hutt. Employees were pissed! they thought the Administration was spying on those who take excessive smoke-breaks.

They'd flip the bird at the camera upon entering the hut. They would turn off the lights then unplug the camera. someone even taped paper over the lens.

I calmly told people in the hut that the camera recorded whatever occured last before power went out or just before the lens was taped over, so someone could be in trouble if they were seen on camera just before the screen went blank.

After two days, we took the camera down and put a big APRIL FOOL sign on the wall where the camera used to be.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

10. My brother played one on me...

He convinced me that my mom and dad were selling me to the circus and put my luggage under my bed where a crazed clown was waiting to kill me if i dared to get it. I started kick my dad until my brother said April Fool's. :(

[jmowreader]

11. One that wasn't

I used to be a sysop on a liquid-cooled mainframe. The computer was in the building, the water pump next to the building, the heat exchanger about 20 feet away.

On April 1 one year, the motor on the water pump went out. When that happens, you shut the computer down, call Electronic Maintenance Division and wait for them to bring a spare water pump out. It took about twenty minutes to get the computer back up, so we really didn't lose anything.

But put yourself in my users' shoes:

User: "Why's the computer down?"
Sysop: "The water pump burned out."

[TOhioLiberal]

12. The best April Fools joke ever played...

Was in 2000 or 2001. A local 'radio personality' announced in late Feb or early March that his morning show (very popular) was going to subscription format. Laid the BS on thick during March, giving 'subscriptions' as prizes. On March 31st he treated his audience to a sample of what the show would be like. Basically with the 'free' version, you could hear everything but him; all the commercials, his sidekicks, the callers,(but not his responses). His loyal listeners called bitching up a storm.

The morning of the 1st, When the subscription radio was supposed to start he came on and started the new format, about an hour into the show he spoke up (remember with the 'free' format, you couldn't hear him) and said 'April Fools'

The ultimate payoff for him--the local paper's media reporter picked up on it (the subscription 'plan') and published it in his column in the paper. On the 1st the column was 'lovingly' read by the morning show host...it was classic!