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Pranks for April Fool's Day 2004?

Posted by Cliff on from the hope-your-officemates-don't-read-slashdot dept.

Nighttime asks: "April the First will soon be upon us and I'm looking for some subtle pranks to play around the office. There's the usual taking a screenshot and setting as background, placing a piece of tape across the mouse ball (use opaque tape for optical mice), setting the keyboard layout to Dvorak, swapping the 'M' and 'N' keys etc. The office empties quite quickly at the end of the day which leaves plenty of time for preparation."

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  1. What's a GMTB? (Re:Peanuts.) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is a GMTB. Darl broke his link. Slash inserts spaces, so shorten your URL asswad.

  2. Re:windows prank by byolinux · · Score: 4, Informative

    Surely that would be 207.46.245.222 slashdot.org ?

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  3. Prank software by john_is_war · · Score: 2, Informative

    friend showed me a site with a large variety of these. Either way, my computer lab teacher's probably gonna be pissed at me. http://www.rjlsoftware.com

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    1. Re:Prank software by bhtooefr · · Score: 2, Informative

      BTW, both Norton AV Corporate and McAfee treat all of RJL's pranks as viruses (in a prank category), and some pranks that actually get classified as RAT trojans (well, they ARE remote access...)

  4. Sometimes the oldies are still the best by m0smithslash · · Score: 5, Informative

    From Top 100 April Fools pranks you may get some good ideas. For instance, #10 - Planetary Alignment Dcreases Gravity could well be worth recycling this year, due to the planet alignment of recent days. #15 might have possibilities for the more prurient among you.

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  5. Re:One of the best I saw. by larien · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check the display drivers if you're in a Compaq shop; ours have a little trick where Ctrl-Alt-Down Arrow inverts the display and Ctrl-Alt-Up Arrow reverts it to the right way round.

  6. the Prank Institute by k3pler · · Score: 3, Informative

    damn, I'm forced to pimp my own site now: http://prank.org you will listen due to my low uid :)

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  7. Re:HP Printer by mrgrey · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have a port to windows. You can find it in the downloads section at http://igogg.com/mrgrey

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  8. Re:windows prank by atrader42 · · Score: 2, Informative

    (nslookup the IP to get the joke...)

    Slightly OT, but you can also just enter the IP on google. Yay for google.

  9. Re:You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! by Murf_E · · Score: 2, Informative

    wrong indians

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  10. Re:Fun for Windows machines... by dave420 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Difficult to undo? Ctrl+shift+escape loads task manager, where you can run regedit, or even explorer (and resume normal windows activities, and ample opportunity to fix what's going on)...