Spec me an April Fools

Tefal said:
Most practical jokes are done on people you know.
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Indeed. Though there are those on here who disagree :)


What do you think of this practical joke?

work colleagues (say around 5) tie up a junior colleague with masking tape (ALL over! from head to toe) carry them to the main office and leave them on the office floor for about 20-30 staff to have a giggle.

Depends if you know them as friends/buddies etc or just know them as colleagues?


p.s. and before you ask no it wasnt me :D
 
Surfer said:
What do you think of this practical joke?

work colleagues (say around 5) tie up a junior colleague with masking tape (ALL over! from head to toe) carry them to the main office and leave them on the office floor for about 20-30 staff to have a giggle.
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No. That's just painful. All the other jokes I've read so far are fine though :)
 
yermum said:
The following year we got hold of that program that, when you stopped typing for a while, caused all the words to start falling to the bottom of the screen.
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"Drop." Cool proggie. My coworker and I were just talking about that the other day, reminiscing back to the "harmless virus" days. Another one was the proggie that intermittently inverted a pixel on your screen. Just, once in awhile, a random pixel would change colour. :)

If you have a squeamish female coworker with a pull-out keyboard drawer, plastic insects (especially cockroaches) are loads of fun.
 
back orifice was a good laugh a few years back - installed a load of program pranks on a mate's PC - small *.exe files renamed and hidden away in his windows folder - then stuck on back orifice - he'd get a bit miffed every time his DVD drive randomly ejected disks or the screen flipped upside down for no apparent reason.

Another one my mate did (a few years back) on a windows 98 machine - IIRC use DOS to create a folder on the desktop called (for example) "steves porn" with some random .jpg files but insert a DOS character not used in windows into the file names. IIRC Windows 98 then couldn't delete the folder or contents and they remain on the desktop.

fairly simple but amusing one - take a screen print of a desktop - set the screen print as background then remove a few of the desktop icons - confused user ends up clicking on the background thinking the icon is still there.

also the annoyatron device (google it as I'm not sure whether I can link to this or not?) is basically a small device that can be hidden say on someone's desk and emits a beep every 2-8 minutes at random. Very hard to locate and very annoying - would probably drive a co-worker mad all morning.
 
Ok, computer prank all the way this year....

I work in a "Command Center", kind of a centralised place for monitoring the world. We have 24x7 coverage. My coworker, who is typically with me on the day shift, is currently covering for one of the night guys who is on holiday.

I have plenty of time today to set up the 8 PCs that we sit at with a nice alarm clock at midnight. I'm thinking of disaster type alarms, like bells, "system failure" voices, and Star Trek-like "red alert" alarms.

Might be tricky getting all the clocks synced, but it could be well worth it. I need a webcam to record his reaction. :)
 
I would try the cling film thing, but my girlfriends mother is staying with us at the moment. Could be a little embarrassing.
 
I added a small program to the startup of my mates laptop which would eject the CD/DVD drive at each startup. I also added in a batch file etc that would ensure that it was always copied back into startup if he ever figured it out (using the autoexec).

Sadly he realised I had done it (his girlfriend grassed me up) and after 8 months of it I had to remove it, under duress.

Sometimes something small can be annoying, my girlfriend use to say that too.
 
Last year I was down in London for a mates house party. With me I took a roll of red and white barrier tape, and a laminated warning sign saying "health risk - severe athletes foot infection" to put up outside his house towards the end of the night.

Unfortunately I ended up getting far too drunk to do this, called my gf at 1am, wondered around the streets for a while without any shoes and had my hair put in a french plait.

PK!
 
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We like to get a long USB cable and run it from the back of a co-workers pc to another desk out of sight, plug in another USB mouse usually wirless so it can be hidden easier and then control the mouse on their screen.

the only thing is not giving yourself away laughing looking at the confusion on their face when they can't control the mouse pointer.
 
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