Pranks for April Fool's Day 2004? 169
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."
Let slashdot take care of it for you (Score:5, Funny)
Because the evil bit is funny. Dammit.
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You must be new here;
But I consequently get the most work done on April 1 as I do any other day of the year.
#6 above (Score:2)
part of that whole 'reality' is a 'projection' of the common conciousness belief system.
truth is stranger than fiction...
Re:Let slashdot take care of it for you (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:Let slashdot take care of it for you (Score:2)
Peanuts. (Score:5, Funny)
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 [slashdot.org] that their blogs' CSS doesn't render right in Safari and watch the precious panic.
What's a GMTB? (Re:Peanuts.) (Score:2, Informative)
My joke? (Score:5, Funny)
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
Change google (Score:5, Funny)
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Best, idea, ever.
We [keyschool.org] use Google as our home page exclusivly for student accounts. I'll be firing up my group policy editor Wednesday night. Now I just have to decide between Elmur Fudd [google.com], Bork bork bork [google.com], or Pig latin [google.com]!
Re:Change google (Score:2)
There's no approved Unicode encoding for Feanorian runes.
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windows prank (Score:5, Funny)
slashdot.org 207.46.245.222
(nslookup the IP to get the joke...)
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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 !
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Re:windows prank (Score:2, Informative)
Slightly OT, but you can also just enter the IP on google. Yay for google.
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Boss makes you work on microsoft office? (Score:5, Funny)
Tools > AutoCorrect
Replace commonly used words with whatever you wish. Sit back and enjoy..
Pay a prank, get wrote up (Score:2)
Then it's back to business, paperwork for you to sign is the first to-do item.
Re:Pay a prank, get wrote up (Score:3, Insightful)
>well and who won't.
Even better, pick on a whiny loser and make sure it can't get traced back to you.
Having fun with SSH / AppleScript (Score:3, Interesting)
Find out how to do this on trusty old macosxhints.com [macosxhints.com]!
One of the best I saw. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Office Vending Machines (Score:5, Funny)
I'll probably stick a few empty beer cans in there this year.
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Though besides that what other things would be fun to put in there. I'm thinking things which would be fun just for the people who see it. Perhaps put a Kinderegg toy in there, or one M&M. Or why not put a sandwich in there, or a miniture liquor bottle?
Bloody brilliant idea though!
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How about condoms, panties, or even a blow up doll? If you can change the price tags, maybe break out the crayolas and offer a Linux license for $699.
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You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! (Score:5, Funny)
Post a large message on the whiteboard/bulletin board: "Accelerated Personnel Replacement Instruction Lessons -- Followed-by Occupational Outsourcing Layoffs"
Re:You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din! (Score:2, Informative)
Last year. (Score:2)
We have a surveilance system for the telephone links going abroad from Norway, with
some nice graphs showing the reacability of phone calls to foreign countries.
So on some of the high priority routes we manipulated the statistics
so they all showed 0% reacability.
Caused quite some panic
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Re:Last year. (Score:2)
routing the call to a country..
e.g. only 1 in 10 calls make it through, the
reacability of the country is rather poor.
Dvorak layout (Score:3, Funny)
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Because he changed the keymap on his computer, not someone else's, asshole.
The Karma. The Karma. The Karma's on fire. I don't need no water let the /. Karma burn.
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Nuke the mice! (Score:2)
Here's hoping the PM doesn't have a heart attack (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm hoping we'll have a good laugh AND teach management how much they need us at the same time...
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I can tell you this much: if my team did this to me, and then even HINTED at how "valuable" they were, they'd be fired on the spot, project status be damned.
Actually, I wouldn't have to fire them - I'd just accept their resignations. Remember, once you "resign", you can't just take it back - it is in the employer's hands to decide.
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And then the project dies a brilliant, flaming death, and you get canned as well... smart move!
Re:Here's hoping the PM doesn't have a heart attac (Score:2)
can i have their e-mail addresses? i'm just curious what it's like to work for an arrogant douchebag.
Re:Here's hoping the PM doesn't have a heart attac (Score:3, Funny)
Forget the actual quitting, just show up like you've already interviewed and deny everything.
Re:Here's hoping the PM doesn't have a heart attac (Score:2)
I can't see all of you jobless on April 2 and wondering what happened.
"whaaa haaaappened?"
-a mighty wind.
Prank software (Score:2, Informative)
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My work released their April Fool products early (Score:3, Funny)
Another classic... (Score:3, Funny)
The other prank idea involves Christopher Walken and a crowbar, but it's kind of hard to play that one off so everybody can have a good laugh.
Re:Another classic... (Score:2)
Re:Another classic... (Score:2)
FauxDOS (Score:2, Funny)
#include "stdio.h"
void main()
{
while(1)
{
char p[256];
printf("C:\\>");
fflush(stdout);
gets(p);
if(p[0])
printf("Bad command or file name\n\n");
}
}
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Dvorak is soooo.... (Score:4, Funny)
Try the french layout.
1 - Most of the keys match... I said most. Exceptions: QA , WZ, and you have to press shift to type the numbers...
2 - Symbols? Forget about it...
Re:Dvorak is soooo.... (Score:2)
For a Windows shop:
Make sure to turn off the "enable indicator on toolbar".
Add Gaelic as the keyboard language, so you have two input locales.
Set "Switch between input locales" to whichever is more common for the user. Unfortunately, you can only choose between left alt+shift or ctrl+shift.
Unfortunately, it may take a while before the user hits the magic
Coin-Op Showers (Score:3, Funny)
Sometimes the oldies are still the best (Score:5, Informative)
nasty (Score:2)
Content-mangling proxy (Score:2)
Nighttime [mailto] ax's, dig dis: "April de Fust will soon be upon us an' I'm lookin' fo' some subtle pranks t' play a'ound da damn office. What it is, Mama! Dere's de usual takin' some damn screenshot an' settin' as background, placin' some damn piece uh tape across de mouse ball (use opaque tape fo' optical mice), settin' de keyboa'd layout t' Dvo'ak, swappin' de 'M' an' 'N' keys etc. Word! De office empties quite quickly
you want subtle? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:you want subtle? (Score:2)
remove the cubicle doors (Score:5, Funny)
HP Printer (Score:5, Funny)
compile it, write a little script to run it on the entire network and laugh.
-Insert Coin
-I hate my job
-Do not call the admin
-You suck
-slashdot.org
-Out of water
-replace CEO
Re:HP Printer (Score:2)
- add a watermark
- make pages print 60% grey instead of black
- rotate each page by 5 degrees
Sometimes these settings will be overwritten by a document, so for best results you need admin access to the queue and ensure the codes are prepended to each print job.
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#MASS Printer confusion
# This will change all the HP printer displays for a given IP range
# By MrGrey - script written by MrGrey, Utility code aquired from @stake
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "MrGrey's Mass printer confusion"
echo " Allows you to cha
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A classic reborn (Score:3, Funny)
the Prank Institute (Score:3, Informative)
Desk tricks (Score:3, Funny)
I placed a large thumbtack on the underside of a desk drawer and ran segments of fishing line from the tack, out the back of the desk, to various objects on the desk -- phone, stapler, calendar, etc.
I left a note on his chair that said, "Check out the printouts I made from www.whitehouse.com. They are in your filing drawer."
My office was across the hall and I waited for him to arrive. Listening near the door, I heard him say, "Cool!" and then came the crashes and the obscenities.
Of course I was nice enough to actually put some porn in the filing drawer.
Autorebooter (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Laptops (Score:3, Interesting)
Segway (Score:2, Funny)
hmm... plan 9 live cds (Score:2)
Fun for Windows machines... (Score:2, Funny)
To do this, in Windows 95/98, edit the SYSTEM.INI file and change the line SHELL= from EXPLORER.EXE to WINVER.EXE. When their computer starts, they see a pleasant message displaying the version of Windows running with an OK button. Clicking OK shuts down the PC. Repeat as necessary. :)
This also works in 2000/XP, but requires a registry hack and doesn't have the added benefit of shutting down the PC after OK is pressed. However, the user is left with a screen w
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VNC anyone? (Score:3, Funny)
bootable linux CD's (Score:3, Funny)
of course if you've got plush linux penguins and Oreilly books all over your cubicle, they'll know who did it.
Re:grow up (Score:2, Insightful)
P.S. *thpppppft!*
Re:grow up (Score:5, Insightful)
And I *hate* the way some people take it to extremes, say, for example a news site posting random garbage all day.
Far better to pull one prank really well, than 100 really badly.
Re:grow up (Score:3, Insightful)
No shit. It's also a lot more effective when it comes from someone you don't expect it from. Everyone knows that Slashdot will be loaded with fake stories on Thursday, so the prank loses its impact.
Now, something like the "Taco Liberty Bell" prank is the way it should be done... it comes out of left field, and it's just believable enough that you get all pissed off about it before realizi
Re:grow up (Score:2)
*ba ba dum*
In all honesty, I agree with you. I have some friends in my dorm who are planning to engage in a friendly prank war tomorrow and we've layed out specific guidelines to make sure no one DOES just go off and do something stupid, something dangerous, or something that will get someone hurt.
A well thought-out prank is absolutely priceless. For example, I think the one someone posted elsewhere on this Ask Slashdot - about posting fake notices that th
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Re:And dont forget (Score:3, Funny)
This works especially well for people who are very fast touch-typists who don't read what they are typing as they go. Or for
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