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What Dirty Tricks Did You Use for April Fool's?
zxnos asks: "What evil, underhanded, dirty mean trick did you pull on April Fool's Day? Since I arrive in the office first, I wrote a little routine to go off when my coworkers tried to open the application that we all work in. It said: "Sorry, you arrived late for work today. The application you have requested is unavailable." The only response was 'OK' and would then close the application. What did you do?"
Spammed Slashdot with so many fake stories (and dupes of them!) that nobody could tell if there was any "suff that matters" for the day!
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Through some devious tricks (compare user's ip-address against a range of ip's where a friend of mine usually comes online from), i had a fake newsarticle show up on a popular Counter-Strike website.
;)
:P
While the article was vague on details, it essentially said that my friend was going to be replaced (he's the manager of one of the top-teams, sadly).
Of course, I topped it off with a small picture saying he was owned thoroughly
Apparently, he had his phone up, ready to call the people mentioned in the article before he saw my picture...
"I really hate you right now. I've never had such a shock. I don't wanna talk. *click*"
That's how a phone-conversation went five minutes later
Tiny little pieces of tape on the bottom of optical mice. Clear tape futzes them up, solid tape renders them useless.
Most of the Dells in our school computer lab have Intel Extreme Graphics chipsets, which support screen rotation. So, right before the school closed at 5:00 PM, I logged on to each one, rotated the screen 180 degrees, and logged off.
Plenty of people saw it and responded with varying degrees of humor, annoyance, and confusion. It got quite a notice before I had to turn them back right-side-up (many people can't log in with the screen upside down, and people needed to use them...)
But I love being at a school where the tech people don't mind these things as long as others can still use the computers.
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Around the office, we use instant messenger as our primary means of communcation. So, to subvert the system, we create a bunch of fake screen names, similar to those of we were pranking, changing O's (oh's) for 0's (zero's), 1's (one's) for l's (ell's), and such, and sending other people around the office messages like "Could you come see me?", swamping one person's office with uninvited visitors asking "what did you want?", killing two birds with one stone. Good stuff.
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I showed up for work. On time. Showered & shaved.
It THOROUGHLY confused people. They are still talking about it.
Of course theres always the oldest trick in the book, set a screen dump as someones desktop and delete their icons and put the start bar on auto hide. This won't fool anyone with half a brain but it is funny the amount of confusion it can cause on someone whos not so computer literate.
I once changed the mouse pointer to a realistic image of a fly.
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
A co-worker wrote an email to another co-worker of our department (on a business trip in China at that time) that his desk at our office is being cleaned out.
my roommate took a nap at about 11am, so i turned all of the clocks (including his phone) forward 4 hours. he woke up about 1 (and had a test at 2), but was freaking out because it showed 5. he was thinking about excuses he could tell his prof and then how he might have to explain to his parents that he'd have to drop the class. i eventually couldn't stop laughing and told him. he was probably about beat the shit out of me :)
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...last winter when it was icy here, we drove up Interstate 84 to Multnomah Falls, where there is a giant empty parking lot at night on the freeway median. One of the people we brought with us was a drunk, sleeping roommate. We put said drunk roommate in the driver's seat, buckled him him in and took the keys out. We got the truck spinning pretty quick and two of us jumped back in and started screaming. Drunk roommate wakes up and thinks he was driving drunk and fell asleep driving on an icy road right up to the moment the steering locks up from being turned off. Truck spun about 5 times total before coming to a stop without hitting anything. My arm had a big bruise on it from being hit about 20 times by drunk roommate in return for pranking him so bad...
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