I want to hear some of the jokes/pranks (outside of the forums here) that you all committed in the spirit of April Fools days on your friends/family.
My best one this year:
I sent this to my best friend back in Michigan (USA),
http://69.41.172.83/news/michigan/story295522.html
WARNING: contains a naughty word!
I recreated the Detroit Free Press' website layout and made up a story about this guy we went to school with. He was this really quiet introverted guy (who you'd probably call a nerd) but he was our friend.
Anyway ... just read the story! And don't forget to check out the picture link at the bottom, it's the icing on the cake!
~ d
Hey, I just wanted to make a similar topic.
I wanted to ask, are there any funneh april fool's jokes on teh forum and out?
Yeh, i saw teh AGS homesite :))) but thats a DG regular, right?
I remember last year Igor made Ignac, There was Monkey Combat etc etc.
My mom is studiing to get her MBA and her big final is due in 4 weeks.
I'll move all her files to my "Unzipped AGS Games" folder.
She'll never look in there.
Sending a spyware program to my dad's computer at work would be funny. Hahaha. I laugh at the many computer-related pronks I'm going to pull.
Who did the homepage one?
Also, have you been to the scummber yet?
If not,
GO NOW (http://www.scummbar.com)
Today in my History Lecture we were learning about Hitler. My friends and I got together with the prof for a little bit of fun.
She was going on about how music was used as propaganda, with things like the Horst Wessel song, and she said she was going to play a sample of propaganda music for us.
Suddenly, blaring over the speakers was...
"Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We're marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Rhineland's a fine land once more!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Watch out, Europe
We're going on tour!"
Yay for the Producers!
And, of course, there was the moron in my building that considered it a funny April Fools joke to pull the fire alarm at four in the morning. Wanker.
i thought the Achtung Franz! (http://www.agagames.com/ghormak/franz) one was rather good
I asked my boss if I could have a reference, for a job interview next week. Somehow, she fell for it, and an hour later I was summoned to the Project Manager's office where he quizzed me about why I was wanting to leave. At this point I thought it best to say "April Fool", and later he revealed that had I not said that, he would have offered me a pay rise to stay.
D'oh.
Quote from: Pumaman on Thu 01/04/2004 20:37:15
and later he revealed that had I not said that, he would have offered me a pay rise to stay.
Well ... now you just have to ask for the pay raise. He obviously thinks your worth it.
Unless, of course, he was 'April Fooling' you about the raise?
Hehe yes, I have a strong suspicion that he was doing a reverse fool on me about the raise - therefore I'm not going to chase him up about it :)
So we have teh; ags homepage, ags shareware, m0ds FoY letter, scummbar EMI2, then teh Franz, By the sword cancelled :p
Do I need to post links?
I want April Fool Jokes played on people outside of the AGS community!
Not the ones played on people here. :)
~ d
I instantmessaged my dad and told him to turn on the news. That the whole war with Iraq was staged. He believed me.
I was at a lan party all night (Lan-Stock 2004! W00t!) and I woke everyone up in the middle of the night and told them there was an unban brawl outside and the cops were chasing down a bunch of people with guns. None of them knew it was the first they just decieded they didnt care anyway. :(
Heh, I am still a bit blown away and dizzy from what might be both the best and worst April Fools joke evar!!12! Ok I may be exagerrating:
There's this show on tv here where all sorts ofpranks are pulled and bloops/bloopers(?) are shown (I laughed my heart out at one of the pranks, but that's for later), and then they go into commercials. All of a sudden, an emergency newsflash, with a well known weather guy, saying there are bits of gold falling from the sky! The thing is, he said a meteorite had fallen here and dissolved in the atmosphere, but small golden pieces that may or may not be worth something were falling from the sky. Then he talked to a few people there who had pots and were collecting these bits.
And...I...can't....believe...I....fell....for....it...! I was very alert and aware of jokes today, but this just didn't occur to me. April fools is very often celebrated here, but I didn't expect this.
Funny thing, he said the last time this had happened was in the year 1404, a hint that didn't really help (1.4.04 :P).
This year Passover holidays already started so no school (:D), but last year me and two friends decided to make a joke about me moving to a different city (Tel-Aviv, quite far from us), and even let the teacher and my mom in on it for authenticity. We started before april 1st, and It took about 2 weeks for people to stop askingme if I was indeed *really* moving. :P
Lol, CJ! I guess you'll never know if your boss was serious :D
I went away the entire day so my corridor-mate had to clean the kitchen.
Technically, it could have been an April Fool's joke.
Today is April second...
APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!111
I believe this (http://www.2meta.com/april-fools/1994/Microsoft-buys-Vatican.html) was the most popular internet prank of 2004. It originated in 1994, and was so widely used that it became 'common knowledge'. So it wasn't touched again until know, and suddenly it's like the whole world falling for it again. 2 million copies of this email were forwarded in about 5 hours.... ( I think)
It's actually quite funny if you think about what it would be like if it were true...
If someone will host it, I have a 10 minute (2.3 mb) file of the prank calls I made to all of my parents to tell them I was changing my major from Electrical Engineering to "leisure management" and dropping all of those "hard science courses." My mom fell for a bunch of stuff, my stepmom and dad figured it out rather quickly.
My mom is also a little racist, so I was wondering what she would think if I had a girlfriend named Rayeesha. She ended up being kind of impressed that her dad was an investment banker. During all of this she was totally serious, I don't know what the hell she was thinking when she asked, "They have to be able to wake you up?"
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I got a job.
Where did you get a job at?
Working at the front desk.
Oh, well that's good.
Yeah it's really cool, you don't really even have to do anything at all, I get all of these early shifts from like 3 to 6 am and I can sleep through most of it without having to do anything.
They have to be able to wake you up?
Oh no, they don't find out about it or I'd get fired but it's nothing to worry about because it's 3 to 6 and they never walk by.
Hmm. What happened to the person that did it last?
Um.. they got fired.
Because they slept, or what?
Because they stole some money.
Ooh..
Oh I have a girlfriend.
Oh, you do?
Yeah.
What's her name?
Rayeesha.
Where is she from?
From um.. she's from Summit.
For real?
Yeah, she's really cute. She's majoring in psychology.
Huh.. What's her last name?
Quote from: Czar on Thu 01/04/2004 19:35:50
There was Monkey Combat etc etc.
I'm flattered that you remembered my joke. I didn't have any time to do any new one this year, but since it wasn't posted on the mojo boards this year, I posted it there this year, but no one believed me. I should have redone them with better graphics. ;D
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/mk2.jpg)
(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/mkback.jpg)
so that letter to mods is an april fool? Thank god. i nearly cried...
April 1st is over now here, but yesterday I did a whole lot of crazy things. I called up my friend early in the morning, and told him another one of my friends had died, and his service was in an hour, and we would be going there directly from college. The look on his face was priceless when he turned up in 10 minutes in incredibly neat and conservative clothes (a new for him). You might think it was slightly morbid, but the guy who was supposed to be dead came up with the idea. Aside from that, there were the usual sending angry cards to people and filling other peoples names in the "FROM:" box. Still have to see the results of that
That was the only one I pulled. Didn't get a chance to pull any pranks outside the PC. Maybe next year tho! I didn't really hear about any other April Fools jokes.
m0ds
This one was pretty cruel:
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Two-Headed Ogres Added as a Playable Race in World of Warcraft - 04/01/04
It's official: Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce that Two-headed Ogres are now a playable race in World of Warcraft, our upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Giving two separate players simultaneous control of a single body, this new race introduces a unique cooperative gaming experience never before attempted. See them for yourself in this exclusive preview, which includes the first available screenshots and an exciting first look at the innovative new game mechanics. Current beta testers should expect to see this new content added in the coming weeks.
By selecting the Two-headed Ogre race, you are selflessly choosing to share your existence in World of Warcraft with another player. That is, you are staking claim to one half of the Ogre whole. As a Two-headed Ogre, you will have control of one head and one arm at all times. Your other half will be controlled by a second player automatically and permanently paired with you upon character creation…
(from the www.worldofwarcraft.com website).
It sounded sooo cool - and turns out be a prank. :(
That website's gone to a lot of trouble to appear convincing. And it certainly does the trick. It's not the sort of site that I'd expect to pull an April Fool's, so normally I'd buy into it....
Radio 4 said the Archers was changing it's theme tune to a hip techno version (I'm so cool to know that)
And I also heard about a chicken-powered nuclear bomb from the cold war.
But ... apparently that one wasn't a joke:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465.stm)
Last night just before April Fools was over, me and my roomate called an old friend. A couple of weeks ago I was randomly googling the names of friends from high school, and I found this post (http://www.365gay.com/guestbook/treplies.asp?message=957) at a gay/lesbian forum. I was totally surprised because she'd never told us anything like this, but we were scared to confront her about it because we hadn't talked to her in a while and didn't want to embarass her.
So, on April Fools day I called her and found out she knew nothing about it, and it's just some strange coincedence that a girl with her exact name, age, and state posted that she was a lesbian on a gay forum. I recorded that conversation too, but it's not that funny.. I have 30 minutes of audio though so I think I'm going to edit it and have her admitting it so I can send it back to our old school and convince everyone that she is a lesbian using the website and edited phone convo as evidence.
Er, okay. It's not like another human has any right to keep her personal life private or anything, right?
Quote from: Trapezoid on Fri 02/04/2004 21:15:38
Er, okay. It's not like another human has any right to keep her personal life private or anything, right?
Dude, she's not really a lesbian. Coincedence.
I totally believe in letting people preserve their private life, if you don't believe me, just take this quiz (http://www.crushagent.com/love-test.php?testid=240117).
Ah. Well, I thought you implying that she was lying about the coincidence.
Still, the joke could turn a bit sour. Especially since April Fool's is over.
Cool quiz, by the way. :D
She'll think it's funny.. When I called her it still worked as an April fools joke, because I told her we sent the webpage to my roomate's mom (a teacher at our old school) and she "only told 14 or 15 people, and they respect you, so they wouldn't spread it around." In fact, my roomate mentioned it but said we hadn't talked to her about it so we didn't know. The joke would be more on the people at the school than her, because she'd just react by laughing at them for believing me (I'm notorious for making up flamboyant lies to my family and friends, except with my mom, who hasn't seemed to catch on).