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I got an email this morning from my supervisor saying that she was resigning. Of course it was an April Fool's joke and I figured that out right away.
But this got me to thinking; how far is too far? What are you willing to prank someone on, and what is off limits?
And what's the best April Fool's prank you've ever seen?
Ugh, I think April Fool's is so annoying. I hope no one plays a trick on me today because I am in zero mood.
This wasn't an April Fool's prank, but when my sister and I were kids, we got these gigantic fake tattoos while on vacation with my grandparents. They were shockingly realistic and my g-pa convinced my mom they were real. She was steaming mad and crying and everything before we let her in on it.
I'm having my first dress fitting today... I'm hoping that the salespeople are not the jokester type.
Ha ha! Google's was a good one.
For me, taking it too far would be when someone gets hurt, emotionally or physically. Like those fake lottery tickets? I couldn't do that. To see the person get SO excited and then realize it's all fake? Not for me.
@ OttawaBride: haha it says "Topeka" instead of "google"
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html
@OttawaBride: If you go to Google, it's re-named Topeka. They put out a press release saying that Topeka, Kansas was changing it's name to Google. It was pretty funny.
The guy at subway told me he over charged me (it was $80 instead of $6) so i handed him my card to do a refund. he's like, oh, it was just a joke. You took it pretty well. I guess people get all fired up about stuff like that? i don't see the point, since it's a credit card and you can dispute any weird charges. Apparently people were hollering at him about it.
I'm all about the April Fool's jokes... but I do think that some people can take it too far. Some of my co-workers put our boss's stuff in jell-o this morning... Personally, I thought it was hilarious, but it was pain because everything was all sticky (although the pranksters did help wash everything off afterwards!!)
I mentioned this already on another thread, but my SO and I aren't engaged yet and we changed our FB status to "engaged"... Some people are on to us, but some of my friends are all OMG CONGRATS! I think it's harmless and it's been fun to get them going for a while just to tell them it's a joke.
The google thing was the best! They did it because the mayor of Topeka a little while ago really was campaigning to change the name of the city to Google temporarily to draw the company to set up jobs there. It was on the news when he was doing it. =) Very cute!
To the OP...I've never been in on big ones...I lead a lame existence!
When I was little I made cookies for my friends, but instead of putting in vanilla, I put in soy sauce and instead of using sugar, I used salt. It was hilarious at the time. My friends were pretty grossed out and most took it well, but one kind of hated my little 2nd grade guts for a while, but oh well. Now I'm really not into April Fool's jokes. I know that at this age I would not appreciate being pranked, unless it was a totally harmless in every way, silly, funny prank.
It doesn't work for me! It just sends me to google.ca and it's just normal. Weird...
So this is blessedly my last year in a dorm. There's a mega-douchebag downstairs who plays Guitar Hero at the highest volume possible at ANY hour of the day and REFUSES to turn it down if you ask, saying you're trying to sleep/do your homework/not hear that stupid Journey song at the highest volume for the thirty millionth time this year. He's also a huge misogynist and a general prick...this guy deserves any April Fools joke played on him possible. So at 5 AM today, FI and I went downstairs and tied his door to the window across the hall with florist's wire, so he couldn't open the door. We didn't know if he would break the window if he pulled hard enough, and frankly...and this is terrible...we didn't care too much because no one would find out it was us and the window would be replaced instantly because that's just how this school is. It would just make the douchebag really, really angry and the school would lose less than fifty dollars IF the unlikely happened that the window would be injured by his pulling. But really, florist's wire isn't that strong. Probably the wire snapped after he pulled hard enough, or maybe even someone snipped the wire before he woke up in the morning (we haven't gone down to investigate yet).
Maybe some people think that's going too far, but honestly I have been so sick of dealing with this jerk all year. He's just a generally terrible person (for many more reasons than just the huge Guitar Hero annoyances I've mentioned here).
@veganglam - It's not as bad as when my creepy roommate locked me in my room and set off the fire alarm as "joke". I didn't even know this guy. I seriously considered calling the cops.
Google's April Fools joke was awesome! I pranked my sister into believing I was pregnant....totally bought it & then got super excited about it...pretty ticked off at me when she figured out it was a joke! :/
@veganglam: That reminds me of another prank that people in my dorm pulled in college. They would fill up a huge garbage can (like the outdoor ones) with water and then prop it up against someone's door and knock on it. When they answered it, water EVERYWHERE.
Not really that funny because the recipients of this joke often had their electronics ruined by water.
@hotchildinthecity: wow, yeah that's a bit too far. Electronics are expensive and private property, a cheap window frame that, if on the long shot it was destroyed, would be replaced instantly by a school with a behemoth endowment is a little different. Honestly I think that should be the school's punishment for admitting the jerk, heh. Now I'm really curious about what happened...I want to go down and check.
The best was my parents decided it would be really fun to put a boat load of goldfish in the watercooler. They got an empty water bottle and filled it with gold fish and water sealed the top of it off then filled the reserve resevoir part of the cooler with fresh clean water so when any of us kids went to get a drink we looked at the bottle and there were a ton of gold fish swimming around . . . needless to say we had a ton of goldfish for a while and a few of our friends got some too! It was pretty funny.
I don't know. I have never had a prank done to me where it was too far, and I don't think I have done one either. But I did put a rubber band on our sprayer for the sink just like 5 mins ago. FI always washes his hands when he comes home from work, So I'm hoping to get him, haha. I know it's an old trick, but it's one of my favorites. =]
@veganglam: I've got to admit, that's a pretty good one!
@SoonToBeMrs.Kiss: I hadn't heard of that one! I should try it.
My mom says I went too far a couple of years ago. I still think it was funny. We were talking about my sister and the conversation went something like this:
Me: Have you talked to her lately?
Her: A few days ago. Why?
Me: Nothing. You'll have to talk to her.
Her: What is going on?
Me: Nothing.... What do you think?
She starts getting worried and finally, starts guessing. At one point she says something like:
Her: Is she pregnant?
Me: I didn't say that.
Her: OMG. I can't believe this. Who's the father?
(She had just broken up with a real loser).
Me: Who do you think?
Her: Is it [ex-boyfriend]?
Me: [something non-committal]
Her: She told me she wasn't sleeping with him.
Finally, I asked her what the date was. She was too worked up to get it. Finally, I let her in on the prank and she hung up on me. She and my step dad said that was cruel.
I didn't even say anything. I just asked questions and responded vaguely.
I won't do that again. I see why she's upset but I still get a little giggle thinking about it. We never told sis about it.
I got my friend a few mins ago....I told her her ex bf sent me an email "coming out" to me, she was freaking out in shock for a few seconds before I told her it was a joke.
I think pranks are fun, just as long as they don't last too long. Like with my friend, i told her april fools w/in seconds of her being shocked :)
@veganglam - why save all your pranks for April Fools? I'd be setting up boobytraps all the time for that loud boy.
I'm REALLY not one for pranks. I think they're silly and I'm almost never amused - unless stupid celebrities are the victims :). Someone pulled one on me once, and I was pretty much mad at them all day. Like seriously, I do.not.like.them. Luckily, my office doesn't really partake in any pranks, but if I worked in a place that was big on it, I'd probably plan a personal day for April 1 every year :)
My FI's sister called to tell us she wouldn't be able to make it to the wedding (in August). My FI called her on it right away...
My mom actually took one really too far this morning and I was actually quite appalled by her actions.
My sister has been through a lot with her little girl and the potential father of the baby. She made a horrid mistake and had a one night stand the night after calling off her engagement. So when she found out she was pregnant it was between her ex and her one night stand. After almost a year of hoping and praying it was the ex-FI's baby the test for him came back negative. Well today she received the results of the test from the one night stand and my mom (stepping way out of line by doing so) opened the results and called my sister and said that the results came back and her baby didnt belong to the one night stand either. My poor sister lost it and was explaining to my mother there was no way that was possible and was clearly very upset and my mom replied "There is a way bc its April Fool's Day"
I thought her actions where horrible and very distasteful, especially for a mother.
I agree. I called my mom and let her know how inappropriate she was and that she was way out of line. I actually felt bad for my sister. I have no idea what my mom was thinking!
@shannon, wow, that's really mean!
My sister sent me this article on a new pill that makes guys think they've had sex, which I thought was pretty awesome until I realized it was a joke!
http://www.momlogic.com/2010/04/new_pill_makes_men_think_they_had_sex.php
Wow...that's awful shannon! I think that one was a bit too far.
They did a funny one in my office today. They had a sign on the copier that said, "IT upgraded all of our copiers to the 4.1 HP technology. All you have to do is say "one copy" and it will make your copy for you!"
It was hilarious staning in there and listening to people say out loud, "ONE COPY!!!" LOL...i still laugh thinking about it!!!
@Anchors They actually changed their name to convince us to bring fiber to their community. :)
See: http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/ and http://thinkbigtopeka.com/
There are some other Google April Fools jokes out there. Android and Gmail users may have noticed them. :)
My mum did the WORST one ever when I was 5. She woke me up really early and said 'Darling, the house is on fire... we have to go right now and you have to leave your dolly behind'.
Um... not funny!!! I was scarred for life!
I tried to pull a prank on Joe today and he caught me before I even got him worried. I am a bad liar. I told him my laptop got stolen, but he didn't believe me. (Probably because I would have called him in tears if this actually happned)
The most outrageous prank I've been a part of was convincing my friend's boyfriend that she was preggo. He almost had a heart attack. They both are in college, so he was freaked. We had a pregnant friend take a pregnancy test right before girl A's boyfriend came home, then we ski-daddled and left the positive test on the kitchen counter with a note that said "call me".
Hil-a-rious.
This morning, collegehumor.com set up big banners around NYC that said "IN-N-OUT BURGER OPENING SUMMER 2010" complete with actors dressed up as employees handing out flyers for people to apply to work there. My friends at work were soooo pissed when it turned out to be a hoax!
(Personally... I was secretly relieved. In-n-Out in NYC = no more fitting into my wedding dress).
hah!
I have a friend (from the States) whose brother lives in Shanghai, doing freeland photography, and for the past month my friend has been corresponding with his brother using a fake email address and really bad English setting up a deal for his brother to do a 6 month time lapse photography project that involves carrying a baby to the top of a mountain and taking a picture of it at sunrise every morning. This morning was supposed to be the first meeting with said baby, but instead the brother found another American (who he'd never met) with a giant sign that said "April Fool's!"
ETA: One of the kids I tutor (in my spare time) pretended to sneeze on me today. She walked behind me and 'sneezed' and flicked a whole handful of water on the back of my neck. If she hadn't been giggling so much all day, I would've been pretty grossed out, but I figured it was fake as it happened, haha.
@2PeasinaPod, that was funny. I wish we had done something like that where I work... we're just the serious boring types.
ughhh! so FI just joined the army and has been in basic for a month now. phone calls are a luxury and dont happen very often. my grandmother called me early this after noon saying "where are you? FI just called here looking for you!" i was freaking out!! & then she goes "haha april fools!" not cool.
i officially hate april fools.
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