So what pranks have you inflicted on your colleagues today?
April what? Never heard of it.
I'm doing a presentation at college today all about April Fools day... with some brief history of its origin and some examples of famous pranks. Should go down quite well if I can hold my nerve.
As usual I've left it too late to set up any decent pranks, but I had one played on me this morning with my Mum and sister waking me up screaming and shouting at each other at the tops of their voices.... oh wait.. hang on... they do that every morning, don't they...
People here aren't much interested in this event, so we'll just let it pass like a normal day.
I wonder when CJ will start his annual prank-topic.
He's probably too busy in work to start one.
And with this thread here, why would he bother.
Google appear to already be on April 2nd: http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html
Quote from: SSH on Tue 01/04/2008 11:03:05
Google appear to already be on April 2nd: http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html
Q: Why is this section titled "frequently asked questions", when the product is barely released?
A: We used gDayâ,,¢ to work out the questions that people would ask.
Priceless :)
Oh my God, this is amazing.
A piece of toast appears on an image of the lord Jesus Christ.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/bloghoax/jesustoast.jpg)
Perhaps CJ's April Fool's joke is to not play an April Fool's joke...
Heres a good one :D
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
Hehehe...
April Foos
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wenn/20080401/ten-radio-station-apologies-over-foo-fig-c60bd6d.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wenn/20080401/ten-radio-station-apologies-over-foo-fig-c60bd6d.html)
Biggest Prank EVER:...
I'd rather tell you when i have footage about it.
Pictures or it didn't happen.
Taking them...but it's gonna be bigger in a while so i;d rather have a full footage of it.
Quote from: Akatosh on Tue 01/04/2008 16:24:20
Pictures or it didn't happen.
Here's a good video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
The BBC's website has a flying penguins documentary on it, it didn't catch me out though, honest ::)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/)
You mean those aren't real?
I was caught out by the penguins one too. There was an article in the Daily Telegraph about the documentary, very convincing. The clip itself is great. I'd never have thought they'd have played along! GRRR! :D
Quote from: FSi on Tue 01/04/2008 16:29:09
Here's a good video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
I did suspect what that was, but clicked on it anyway to see if I was right... so I still failed.
Quote from: Stupot on Tue 01/04/2008 17:19:33
Quote from: FSi on Tue 01/04/2008 16:29:09
Here's a good video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
I did suspect what that was, but clicked on it anyway to see if I was right... so I still failed.
I'm afraid to look now. I hate those pop-up-and-scare-the-shit-out-of-you things...
Quote from: Emerald on Tue 01/04/2008 17:23:27
Quote from: Stupot on Tue 01/04/2008 17:19:33
Quote from: FSi on Tue 01/04/2008 16:29:09
Here's a good video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
I did suspect what that was, but clicked on it anyway to see if I was right... so I still failed.
I'm afraid to look now. I hate those pop-up-and-scare-the-shit-out-of-you things...
I guueess we booth know what's been going on .. :=
I'm pretty sure you both missed it...
Spoiler
Rickroll'd
I like that song! ;D
Any who, this is the fascinating video, and very informative, and I swear on my mothers future grave, it isn't a rickroll.
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI&feature=related
Quote from: lo_res_man on Wed 02/04/2008 00:29:13
...I swear on my mothers future grave, it isn't a rickroll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI&feature=related
Hmmm... :-\ I'm not going to fall for it... your mum will be cremated.
No I swear, it ain't a rickroll!
Every year I get my friend Tony .... and every year the dumb son-of-a-bitch falls for it! I've been burning him every year for over a decade, you'd think by now he'd clue in but no, he doesn't.
This year was my best yet.
We used to know this guy a few years ago named Dave Raymond. So I signed up for a fake hotmail account under his name. Then last night I sent Tony a txt message telling him that Dave had sent me an email asking for his (Tony's) email address. Tony called me and said it was cool that I gave Dave his email. Next I went and sent Tony an email from "Dave";
QuoteHey man, long time no talk! I emailed Matt asking him about this too, but I haven't heard back from him. Didn't I hear that Jeremy Page had moved to Florida a few years ago? I haven't talked to him since Matt's wedding but I think I remember him saying something about having moved to Florida right?
See here's the thing; I have this young woman that works here. She used to live in Ft. Lauderdale and she moved out here for the job. She's not hot or anything, but she's into some freaky stuff and she was telling me about some of it the other day and linked me to this website she was a member of when she was in Florida. So I was checking it out with her and she pointed out this profile:
www.furry-love.com/featured/march2008 (http://65.175.75.135/featured/march2008/)
Dude ... tell me that isn't him and if so what the hell? I always thought he was a little ...... weird maybe, but good lord that's just insane! Seems too much coincidence if it's not him (talks about moving from Michigan and his initials are JP)
Do you still talk to him? Did you know about this? I didn't mean to be a gossip guy or anything but I just had to know.
Let me know man and I hope you're doing good. I heard you're getting married? That's great and congratulations!
Dave
note: before reading further make sure you've clicked the link above (in the quote)So Tony calls me today and I proceeded to have the single most hilarious phone conversation I've ever had.
"uhhh dude? ... do you have a second?" says Tony.
"Sure, what's up?" I replied.
"So I know what Dave wanted my email for ... and it kind of has something to do with you."
"What do you mean?"
He then reads through the email, but cleverly skips over the link part ... then he says, "does that sound familiar?"
"No... not reallly" I said ... but I stumbled and stammered a bit (making it sound like I was hiding something)
I could tell he was hesitating, and I was struggling so hard not to break out laughing that my head was starting to hurt.
He then says, "but here's the thing ... she showed him a website and he linked me to it ... are you into some freaky shit down there?"
So I nervously giggled and said, "ummm ... what website?" (my head was about to explode from holding it in)
He says, "JP Penguin? There's a picture of you in a penguin suit ... what's going on here?"
"Oh man ... no that's not me, I'm not sure what you're talking about."
He replies, "JP Penguin ... that's clearly you in the pictures, same initials, same age and birthday, moved from Michigan ... dude? That's you ... talk about all-time closeted secrets how did I not know about this??"
I played defeated, "oh man ... did you click that link at the bottom?" (all nervous in my tone)
He says "No ... I wasn't sure I should I was scared to"
"Just click it man ... what does it matter now ... you know."
So he clicks it. A moment of silence follows.
"Ass" click.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PRICELESS. I'm still crackin' up and it was over 6 hours ago.
Happy April Fools! LOL, it's like some kind of grand occasion. Good job its still only light hearted practical jokes! There were some awesome pranks out there, I can't believe so many of them made it into mainstream media, here in the UK :O It's pretty cool, I don't remember there being so many hoaxes last year, if any in mainstream media. It was also a good laugh at AGS! It seems a lot of people were fooled by CJ and a lot of people not, it was good to see people play along and me only have to delete 4278 giveaway posts :P Sounds like everyone had a laugh out of something yestertoday though which is good! Good to hear Darth Mandarb took it one step further and nearly pooped himself over a prank :o The Google day ahead thingie was good but the Virgil one, lol. That google guy cannot keep a secret in his expression at ALL :P LAAAME! Anyway. I completely forgot it was April 1st so a lot of stuff caught me out. Hope everyone else had a bit of memory loss fun too. Heres to next years!
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JP Penguin! Hahaha! ;D ;D That links nicely to Chippy from the great upcoming game The Shiver (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=34142.0)! It's awesome when pranks succeed, kudos for not bursting out laughing!!
That... is pretty darn awesome, Darth. ;D
I wouldn't be surprised if he never talks to you again though! Over a decade of pranks? XD
Microsoft had some interesting products to offer for this spring. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/promotions/2008/spring/default.htm (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/promotions/2008/spring/default.htm)
I got rick rolled by YouTube yesterday. That was funny lol.
Nothing really exciting. :(
Also, I thought this site was gone for good. I had adventuregamestudio.co.uk set as my homepage, but it just says "I AM LOVE PIE" now.