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AMCrenshaw

04-01-2010, 12:56 PM

Mine gode frende Gowere didst engage an cartier for to delivere to mine frende Geoffre Chaucer ane hoggeshed of newe brown ale at his owne coste--and then didst invite all that did lye nearbye to partake of seyde ale alle the nicht longe.

þat was a merrig nicht.

shiiiiiiit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeobbfy79M)

Medievalist

04-01-2010, 01:02 PM

shiiiiiiit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKeobbfy79M)

Y cann not welle rede þise newfangled Englisshe. Bot welle Y knowe:

That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?
For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste,
No wonder is a lewed man to ruste;
And shame it is, if a prest take keep,
A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep.

AMCrenshaw

04-01-2010, 01:05 PM

"as I lay in my bed slepe full unmete..."

AMCrenshaw

04-01-2010, 01:09 PM

So, thought I'd start a short lived thread.

What is the best April Fools' Prank you've ever witness, participated in, or heard about?

Let the insanity begin.

Mel...

Call someone from an untraceable number, knowing they can't answer. Leave a message. Say your name is "Ms/Mr/Mrs whatever Lions" from some company the mark would trust to call if a bill was over-due or an account in default. Give them a number to the local zoo and make sure they ask for you personally.

"Uh yes, can I be transferred to Mr Lions in accounting?"

"Sir, I think you've been April Fooled"

dgiharris

04-01-2010, 01:18 PM

The Director of my first laboratory was extremely gullible.

We told him that a Dr. Pepper needed to discuss an urgent scientific matter with him regarding the research that our lab did.

We gave him the number to Coca Cola HQ

We were dying in the hallway laughing while he was yelling into the phone that he needed to speak with Dr. Pepper immediately.

That guy was a lot of fun.

Mel...

Medievalist

04-01-2010, 01:27 PM

It strikeþ me to mine herte roote, to remembereth me how þat we didst use to calleth upon our gode neighbores and hence asketh:

Hast þou Prince Albert inne a canne?

The ladye wouldst seye yeah, verily þat þey did.

And we wouldst jape and clamour and seye then, why pray let him oute.

Also, mine leve frende Gowere didst welle love to callen an seyed "Ladige, yst þine refrigeratour runninnge?

Sche wouldst seye as howe it was running welle and gode.

And Gowere wouldst seye, well than þou hadst bet go and catche yt nowe!

Gode times, gode times.

aruna

04-01-2010, 01:44 PM

My best friend and I called up a funeral parlour and ordered a coffin. My friend liked the unterdateker's son, one Derek Fung.

D.C. McLaughlin

04-01-2010, 02:27 PM

Ibelong

04-01-2010, 02:46 PM

So, thought I'd start a short lived thread.

What is the best April Fools' Prank you've ever witness, participated in, or heard about?

Let the insanity begin.

Mel...

We used to have a radio station called 99X (starring Jimmy, Barnes, Leslie) was extremely well liked and well known for their inventive April fools pranks.
About 10 years ago they played their best prank yet.
Starting in Feb they began dropping hints of a "new" amusement park that would be constructed near downtown Atlanta. By March, more details were released, that this amazing new park, would be underground.
As time went on, they talked about the location, the construction, the amount of money. At the end of March they did a "tour" of the "underground" park along with interviews with the owners and construction company responsible for making it real. In the back ground there were the sounds of rides running, echoes of voices that would happen in a deep hole, and of course the noises of construction.
The park opened on April 1st. Needless to say, hundreds, if not thousands, of people showed up to the empty field to search for the entrance.

IdiotsRUs

04-01-2010, 05:40 PM

My hubby used to have a boss called Dave. Dave was not a nice boss.

On April 1st they 'adjusted' his PC so that every time he switched it on, Hal said 'I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that' and then switched itself off. Dave, being an IT boss and you know, supposed to know about PCs, was too embarrassed to say that he couldn't change it back for half the day...

Maryn

04-01-2010, 05:41 PM

Ibelong, I've read about that one before. You've got to love it.

Maryn, laughing

icerose

04-01-2010, 05:43 PM

Best one I ever participated in was in 7th grade. While our teacher was out of the classroom we emptied her desk, hid all her stuff and filled her desk with rocks.

She came in found her desk full of rocks and stomped off to find the principle. While she was gone, we all left and hid. They were freaking out, called the police. While they're frantically searching the grounds we came back in, took out all the rocks, put her stuff back in. As the police are coming to witness the fact that the students are missing and that her desk has been vandalized (she was the only one who had looked at this point) we all ran back to our seats, cracked open our books and pretended like we'd been reading all along.

The police officer shook his head, looked at the calendar and thought she had been pranking him. Gave her a big lecture about how the police were not there for pranking. Wouldn't listen to anything she had to say in protest.

Haha, she hated us forever for that one.

Best prank played on me, was probably the first April Fools I witnessed here on this board. There was a sockpuppet 14 year old poster writing in l33t and text saying she wanted to write and publish in text speech. Her writing was eye gougingly bad but I couldn't understand why all the regulars were treating her horribly. I tried my best to play nice and I was out and out fooled. Didn't even realize it was April Fools until several people contacted me telling me it really was a joke.

DeleyanLee

04-01-2010, 06:10 PM

In Detroit, Dick Purtain was (might still be, I don't know) a radio DJ renown for his practical jokes, particularly on April Fool's.

Back in the late 70's or early 80's (during the first gas crunch), Purtain was contacted by a couple of guys who wanted his help on a prank on their buddy who'd just bought a new VW and bragged about its great gas mileage.

Every time the mark parked the car, one of his buddies would fill up the tank and disappear so it looked like the mark was running forever on the same tank of gas.

So Purtain calls the mark, saying that he's from R&D at Volkswagen and explains that he got a prototype car and VW wants it back. The mark, of course, doesn't want to give up this wonderful car that doesn't actually use any gas and they get into it a bit before Purtain lets it slip that he's been conned.

Practical joke, laugh laugh, hang up.

Fifteen-twenty minutes later, someone calls Purtain and says they are from Volkswagen and--how did he know about their prototype car?

HistorySleuth

04-01-2010, 06:14 PM

Mel,

What's the best April Fool's Day prank? THIS WEBSITE! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY POSTS????? I took a deep breath and hit send last night for you guys to shred my query. Now I don't know what title to look for it under! Don't do this to me guys! I've barely got my first suit of really low grade leather armor! Its still got holes in it!

D.C.

I AGREE, THE AW FORUM BOARDS! Threw me for like 5 minutes. I thought someone hacked it all, and I can't find a damn thing! Too funny! :roll: Well, actually it was hacked, but I meant by someone not AW-ish.
(The subtitles of the threads help somewhat.)

In my life: My brother and his friends, when in high school, rode out to the burbs after dark and found all the pink flamingos they could carry, brought them back, and stuck them all in my girl friends front lawn---about 20!

DeleyanLee

04-01-2010, 06:14 PM

In 1954, my mother and several of her friends decided to prank the principal of their high school. Several of the guys in her group were very mechanically inclined so...

...they disassembled the principal's car (he only lived a block away, IIRC) and reassembled it on the roof of the high school.

No one could figure out how it was done or who had done it. The principal had to hire a crane to lift the car down.

That was one of MANY April's Fools pranks she and her friends played. (To the point that if anything happened in 3 counties, they called my grandmother first and asked where my mother had been the previous night).

Cathy C

04-01-2010, 06:34 PM

When I was 17, I started my first job, at a government facility that tested railroad components. As such, I was surrounded by burly railroad workers who LOVED teasing me by moving my desk around, or messing with my chair.

But then I got them back... :D

On April 1st, I arrived hours before anyone else and went to every office in the building. Back then, we had old, black government issue phones that were tied to a switchboard. I carefully dipped the mouthpiece of each and every phone (excepting my own, of course) in a black inkpad. Then I left and came BACK in with everyone else. At first, nobody noticed because everyone had their own office. But soon the swearing started. Lots of lovely round circles and black lips that day, while I rolled.

They took it pretty well, considering.

Did I mention it was permanent ink? Heh... :evil I got to laugh for a whole week until it wore off.

aruna

04-01-2010, 07:22 PM

dgiharris

04-01-2010, 10:47 PM

One of the funniest pranks I pulled was with my brother and his new girlfriend who had never met me.

He and a few of his friends were eating in a Chilis or Applebeas when I came in with a couple of my friends.

I then yell, "What the f*ck are you doin here. Didn't I tell you the next time I saw you I'd kill you."

He yells back, "F*ck you you little bitch."

I pull out a switch blade, one of my friends has a length of chain. And we start walking towards my brother.

My brother stands up, and breaks his beer bottle on the table then says, "Come on you little bitch, come get some"

His friends likewise grab knives from their table and jump out of the chairs.

We head towards each other in a ghetto version of a Braveheart battle and right before we clash we hug.

His girlfriend along with several patrons almost had a heartattack.

It was hilarious.

Mel...

Alpha Echo

04-01-2010, 10:54 PM

Best prank played on me, was probably the first April Fools I witnessed here on this board. There was a sockpuppet 14 year old poster writing in l33t and text saying she wanted to write and publish in text speech. Her writing was eye gougingly bad but I couldn't understand why all the regulars were treating her horribly. I tried my best to play nice and I was out and out fooled. Didn't even realize it was April Fools until several people contacted me telling me it really was a joke.

I remember that one! Fooled me too!

Don Allen

04-01-2010, 11:00 PM

Dateline, Chicago 1979: I was young, and pretty much a punk, nothing new there. BUT,,,
I moved into a shitty apartment with my girlfriend and we got to know the guy upstairs who was a devote "American Nazi" followed Frank Collins, the leader and all, I think he was a Captain in the Party or something...Anyway, On April 1st 1979 I banged on his door and told him two black guys were stealing his car. The Pandemonium was fucking priceless.... He threatened to kick my ass for several weeks after that, but it was so worth watching him run down the stairs in his underwear with a baseball bat screaming every racial epitaph you could think of, we didn't speak much after that....
prick couldn't take a joke...

backslashbaby

04-01-2010, 11:18 PM

Waaaay back in early High School, my cute little passive aggressive boyfriend embarrased me to no end by telling my old crush that I had had a crush on him. I was mortified. That happened to be March 30.

So, to regain some face and distribute a fair punishment, I conspired with said Old Crush to pretend that we were insanely into each other on April 1.

Oh, he played it up, too.

I actually had to grovel to the bf about the meanness of that one, but it remains priceless in my mind :D :D

DeleyanLee

04-01-2010, 11:26 PM

Another classic from my mother:

Her and her friends were driving around the evening of March 31st when they heard a weird "squish". They stopped, went back and discovered that they'd somehow managed to run over 3/4 of the length of a rather large snake (unidentifiable after the accident).

At the time, they all had the same English teacher (different periods) that they all hated. They called her "Mrs. Hitler", IIRC.

The majority of the gang had "Mrs. Hitler" after lunch. The classroom door was always locked, but that was no problem 'cause one of the gang was the son of the Principal of the high school, who had copied all of the keys to all the class rooms. So during lunch, they opened the door, pulled out her chair and coiled the snake corpse on her chair and then pushed it back under her desk. They exited, locked the door and finished their lunches to return, as per normal, for class.

And, "Mrs. Hitler" didn't bother to look at her chair before she sat down.

Mom said she was in a classroom almost at the end of the hall and heard the resulting scream.

Again, no one had a clue who had done what or how--but it's a legend to this day in that small town.

dgiharris

04-01-2010, 11:59 PM

..."American Nazi" followed Frank Collins, the leader and all, I think he was a Captain in the Party or something...Anyway, On April 1st 1979 I banged on his door and told him two black guys were stealing his car. The Pandemonium was fucking priceless.... He threatened to kick my ass for several weeks after that, but it was so worth watching him run down the stairs in his underwear with a baseball bat screaming every racial epitaph you could think of, we didn't speak much after that....
prick couldn't take a joke...

A nazi without a sense of humor.

Who would have thunk it?

Mel...

SirOtter

04-02-2010, 12:18 AM

Ten or twelve years ago, I worked in a building undergoing extensive rewiring. I told one of my co-workers she needed to unplug anything electrical in her office - coffee pot, lights, clock, computer, etc. - because a lot of dirt had gotten into the wiring during the upgrade and they needed to send a surge through to clean all the wires out. Anything left plugged in would be fried. She not only unplugged her entire office, she got three other people to do so as well.