Best April Fools Pranks: Ideas You Can Try

[jimmy p]

"I pity the fool" and all that jazz. Probably done every year but what the the best April Fools pranks you have done or have had done to you?

It may give some of us some ideas!

 

[Evo]

My ex-husband (we were married at the time) got up early and moved my new BMW down the street, ran into the bedroom, woke me up and announced that my car had been stolen.

It wasn't funny.

 

[Cyrus]

I think april fool's jokes are rather stupid.

 

[scott1]

I one time when I was playing on my PS2 my sisters came in and watch me I was very focused on the game and... let me just they decided to bring that nail stuff that girls put on toes on my room...It wasn't not funny

 

[jimmy p]

I think april fool's jokes are rather stupid.

Looks like someone has been the butt of a few too many methinks!

 

[Pengwuino]

oh my god april 1st is tomorrow... take cover!

 

[Mk]

I think April Fool's jokes are a bit childish.

In Australia and New Zealand if you play an April Fools day prank past noon on April 1st, shame on you, you're an idiot.

I find that mildly entertaining.

 

[Nothing000]

Guam is in the United states?

 

[arildno]

My ex-husband (we were married at the time) got up early and moved my new BMW down the street, ran into the bedroom, woke me up and announced that my car had been stolen.

It wasn't funny.

Typical behaviour of a slime mold, in my opinion.

 

[JamesU]

https://www.physicsforums.com/cnn/cnn.htm

 

[Physics is Phun]

LOL I love the ones they do in the newspapers
This year, our local one did an article on the newly discovered viking settlement in a nearby small town
My dad read through half of it before realizing it. When I looked at it, I had a feeling something was up so I skipped to the last paragraph where it revealed it's prankfullness.

 

[DeadWolfe]

Someone switched my coffee with decaf this morning...

 

[Moonbear]

Someone switched my coffee with decaf this morning...

That's no joking matter!

So, yes, as folks can see, the PF staff has a sense of humor too.

 

[mattmns]

http://www.google.com/romance/ :!)

 

[moose]

I think april fool's jokes are rather stupid.

I don't get it

 

[Physics is Phun]

http://www.google.com/romance/ :!)

User B: "I never thought
I’d be writing an online dating testimonial.
Until I met User A…”

 

[PerennialII]

https://www.physicsforums.com/cnn/cnn.htm

Talk about a cracker Best one this year!

 

[i_wish_i_was_smart]

i once called my father up while he was on his way to work, told him that the crane he spent a ****load of time fixing that he had finished just the day before, had broken down and the owner is pissed... so he turned around and was driving the other way for a good 20min when i called him back and told him april fools, good thing he was so far away from me, i might of been killed otherwise

 

[Moonbear]

i once called my father up while he was on his way to work, told him that the crane he spent a ****load of time fixing that he had finished just the day before, had broken down and the owner is pissed... so he turned around and was driving the other way for a good 20min when i called him back and told him april fools, good thing he was so far away from me, i might of been killed otherwise

This is where you have to learn the appropriate timing to ensure it stays funny and doesn't go too far. Letting him drive 20 min out of the way, and then have to drive 20 min back when he was on the way to work is a good way to just piss someone off. Something like that shouldn't go more than 2-5 min before you clue him in if he didn't figure out it was April Fools on his own.

It's no fun...today is Saturday, so I can't get anyone in the lab for April Fools. Besides, we have one person in the lab who has NO sense of humor, so as tempting as it would be for us to prank her, it would end up causing more trouble than fun in the end.

 

[moose]

It's no fun...today is Saturday, so I can't get anyone in the lab for April Fools. Besides, we have one person in the lab who has NO sense of humor, so as tempting as it would be for us to prank her, it would end up causing more trouble than fun in the end.

Go in there and spill some water onto her.

Can't you tell someone to go to the lab?

 

[Cyrus]

https://www.physicsforums.com/cnn/cnn.htm

How the hell did you put that on CNN or replicate CNN like that!?

 

[moose]

How the hell did you put that on CNN or replicate CNN like that!?

yomamma didn't do it

You can just view the page source and edit what you want and upload. ALong with saving all the images if you need to.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=116136

 

[Moonbear]

Go in there and spill some water onto her.

She'd probably shriek that she's allergic to water and sue me. It's best not to ask. We're all trying our best to help her find a position somewhere else so she's someone else's problem.

Can't you tell someone to go to the lab?

I'm going to meet up with some of them tonight...I'm not a very convincing liar, so not sure I can pull it off, but maybe I can try something like saying I was there all day with one of the other faculty who happened to come in today (to explain why I didn't call them into help), trying to clean up the mess from the freezer that broke down last night, and don't think we will be able to salvage many of the samples that thawed. We have a master's student who might be gullible enough to buy that (the post-doc would know that a few hours of thawing won't hurt those samples...we have to thaw them to use them)...and she has one project left to finish her degree, which depends on the samples currently in that freezer.

 

[theCandyman]

Greenpeace seems to have a odd April Fool's joke.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports

Look at the report on the leaked IAEA memo.

 

[scott1]

Weren't the WMD in Iraq an April fool's joke?

 

[quantumdude]

I think april fool's jokes are rather stupid.

I think that April fools are rather stupid.

 

[BobG]

If you're looking for ideas, I have one the entire town will get a kick out of. You'll have to hustle though.

You need one tonne of iron fillings and one tonne of sulphur. Add enough water to mix them into a paste, then bury the mixture in the middle of a park in mid-downtown. Geologists will immediately flock to your town, while town residents first salivate at the tourist opportunities offered by a downtown volcano, then panic when they find out how big volcanic mountains can become.

For the details, skip the useless nonsense about http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/VicN2/vicN2.html .

 

[daveb]

At a place I worrked, I placed several pairs of old shoes and pants I had bought at flea market (for just such purposes) into every stall of every men's bathroom in the configuration of the pants down around the shoes. If you bent over and looked under you could tell it was a just, but at a casual glance, the stalls looked occupied.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Today's Birthdays
Math Is Hard, Tsunami, zoobyshoe (51)

Okay, my Tsunami is now Tsu, but still, too funny!

 

[meteor]

There was that radio program (Sabanas con chinchetas) that i heard every night. A long program, running for about 6 hours, in which the presenter chose every night a particular theme of conversation ( football, love, jokes, whatever, with the exception of one day a week when the theme was free) and then people (mostly teenagers) called to talk about the subject (2 people at a time). The presenter held a party in a disco twice a month, and a lot of the listeners of the program came to the party to socialize. Then in one of the free subject programs, a lot of girls started to call saying that the presenter had abused of them during the parties, and that he was going to be dennounced. He denied all the accusations, but I was shocked as I regarded him as a good person. Then after 4 hours with 10 or so girls having accused him, he unveiled that all was a joke, and the girls had collaborated in the joke. Then he said that we were on 29 December, traditional day of jokes, fact that I had badly forgotten

 

[BobG]

Best April Fool's prank of all time was pulled off by The Guardian.

In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement in honor of the tenth anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that then gripped the British tabloids in the following decades.

I think the San Seriffe hoax was even better than the BBC's 1957 hoax, The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest.

 

[Danger]

Here's a good one for the gadget freaks... and Doc Toxyn.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/animated-tattoo.htm"

 

[Pengwuino]

Ah yes, april 1st, the day you don't believe a word you're told. Someone looks like they just got shot? lies, all lies.

 

[topsquark]

Ah yes, april 1st, the day you don't believe a word you're told. Someone looks like they just got shot? lies, all lies.

But if they tell you not to believe a word you are told, doesn't that mean you can't believe a word that they are telling you? In which case shouldn't you believe everything you are told? But then you have to believe them when they say not to believe... I'm so confused!

-Dan

 

[Pengwuino]

I'm telling myself not to believe anything! :P

 

[BobG]

Here's a good one for the gadget freaks... and Doc Toxyn.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/animated-tattoo.htm"

I love the related links at the end of the article: "How Back-Alley Surgery Works", "How Lawsuits Work".