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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. Let slashdot take care of it for you by DeadSea · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdot will:
    1. Post stories in spanish, pig latin, and swedish chef.
    2. Customize the site for optimal viewing on 35 inch monitors.
    3. Start at least one running gag.
    4. Post about thirty fake stories.
    5. Post many of those stories multiple times.
    6. Post some of those same stories as real news later in the month.

    Because the evil bit is funny. Dammit.

    1. Re:Let slashdot take care of it for you by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot should definitely invest in a SCO Linux license this April 1st. Perhaps get OSDN to indemnify all the Linux users.

    2. Re:Let slashdot take care of it for you by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Interesting
      > 4. Post about thirty fake stories.

      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.

  2. Peanuts. by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 5, Funny
    This year, I am going to get one of those cans that says "peanuts" and has the coiled spring snakes inside, I'm going to go around offering it to people, and instead of a snake it's going to have real peanuts inside.

    The guys who always try and ruin things are going to look like asses. "HA HA! You won't fool ME! Hey, everyone! Look at Darl and his can of... oh. Peanuts."

    Plus I'll go around telling the GMTBers that their blogs' CSS doesn't render right in Safari and watch the precious panic.

  3. My joke? by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 5, Funny
    What's my April Fool's joke?

    I'll give you a hint: I've been setting you all up for it since March of last year!

    See you at Linux Refund Day.

    ~Darl

  4. Change google by PhuckH34D · · Score: 5, Funny
    If the people at your work have google as startup page, change it to http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/ Or another language found here ( Klingon is nice to)

    --
    You're old school? I beta tested the motherf***ing abacus!
  5. windows prank by lortho · · Score: 5, Funny

    Add the following line to the HOSTS file on the windows PC your favorite linux geek is forced to use at work:

    slashdot.org 207.46.245.222

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

    1. Re:windows prank by kayen_telva · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The ip goes first:

      207.46.245.222 slashdot.org

      I'd hate to see a lot of newbs try to use your example cut and paste and get no fun out of it !

  6. One of the best I saw. by bob_jordan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't suggest trying this unless you are very good with electronics.

    I shared an office with a guy who was heavily into electronics and used to fix TVs and monitors as a hobby. This was back in the time of Windows 3.1. He stayed back the night before April 1st and stripped a guys monitor down and rebuilt it so the picture was upside down. (please don't ask me how.) Then he installed some hack on the display driver so Windows also displayed upside down. Rebooted the machine and went home.

    The victim used to spend a lot of time telneted into a Unix box and ran his login session full screen. Since the monitor was inverted and windows was inverted, everything looked fine. He started his telnet session, hit alt-enter to make it full screen and since it was no longer using the display driver, the display was now upside down.

    Hmmm.

    He spent a while trying to figure out what had happened and someone dropped a hint that maybe the display driver had been tampered with. He tracked down a clean display driver and installed it.

    Ta-daaaa.

    Now everything was upside down.

    Bob.

  7. Office Vending Machines by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: 5, Funny
    If you've got one of those vending machines at the office which lets you put cash in to open a door and take the food from inside, don't forget that you can put food in as well.

    I'll probably stick a few empty beer cans in there this year.

  8. 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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