Practical Jokes

[sailaway21]

What's the best one you've seen?

Back at the USMMA, in the 70's, the barracks had no air-conditioning and everybody had a window fan for those muggy Long Island summers. a shaving cream can top, full of talcum powder, tossed up against the outside of the screened window was sufficient to ensure that the napping occupant woke up to what looked alot like fresh snow fall. The stuff just coats absolutely everything and isn't real easy to clean up.

Another popular prank, at the above institution of "higher learning", was to Super Glue a buddies deodorant bottle to the glass medecine cabinet shelf. Think about how you grab for your deodorant in the morning, while half asleep, for the implications.

[camaraderie]

There were these French guys who stuck a hose through some Portugese guys porthole and turned it on. When he came back he had a swimming pool inside the boat and the French guys had left. What a laugh!! (G)

[Giulietta]

There's this guy named God, he played a nice trick to Americans...he allowed Cam to sail!!!

[sailortjk1]

My wife got me good last April fools day. She came up to me and as serious as she could be she said, "Honey, I'm Late."
My mind was racing all over the place in about 1.5 seconds. Remember, I'm 45 years old. I've had my fun of raising children and now I have two teenage daughters.
Than my wife says, "Do you know what day it is today? April Fools!"

[Cruisingdad]

Whew, Tjk, that is cold!!

[Cruisingdad]

One of my many practical jokes:

We work on a terminal server and you can go into the admin section and send instant messages that do not show where they come from. I went to my partners computer (who is 68 and completely computer illiterate) and told him in the pop-up:

You have just opened up Blaster Virus, your hard drive is being deleted in 10.

(send another messge)

...9...

(send another)

...8...

etc., until you get to zero then kick him off the server. He was so frantically trying to shut everything down and unplug, it was hillarious. At least is it was hillarious to me. He did not think it was funny... but never found out it was a joke. We are so plagued with vurus' he just figured it was another one!!

[labatt]

We host a website for a major state and the governor of that state. One of my guys held the primary sales and management relationship with the governor's office. We created a false website based on the actual state website, but covered with porn and profanity and then modified the guy's computer to point to the fake website when he tried to visit the real one. We then had someone from the governor's office call him to ask what the hell was going on! My sales guy was over 50 and not in the best of shape and I swear he almost had a heart attack when he went to visit the "site".

Another time I had one of our largest customers (let's call him Bob) call up another one of my sales guys to say he had been trying to reach me for days and I'm not returning his call. The attorney general's office is at his place right now seizing files to prosecute my company for fraud. The state police have been trying to find me but my house was cleaned out. Does he (my sales guy) have any idea where I am?

I was conferenced on the call but on mute so I could listen to the whole thing. My sales guy went insane and promised to "look into it ASAP". He then tried calling my cell phone 3 times and I didn't answer. I waited 10 minutes and sauntered into the office where he accosted me to find out what was going on. I couldn't keep a straight face for long! We turned it back around on "Bob" by having my sales guy call him back to tell him that he couldn't find me, but he called the attorney general's office up to get more details. They weren't sure what was going on so he gave them "Bob's" name and he should expect a call shortly. "Bob" freaked!

I love April Fools Day and playing jokes on my executives or other staff!!

[sailingdog]

My favorite April fools joke was totally unintentional.

A colleague was working on a server and was having lots of problems with it... and then all of a sudden, with no warning, it blue screens on him... He's panicking and trying to figure out what happened... well, about six months earlier, when I had built the box, I had installed the BSOD screensaver... and that was it kicking in... I realized it since I knew what the codes for the screen saver were... not quite the same as a legitmate BSOD... It was alot of fun... I said, "I can fix that." and then walked over and moved the mouse.

[poopdeckpappy]

Many years ago ( early 80's ) I was a superintendant on a large commerical center, the site was being handled by another contractor and their superintendant was a major practical joker and he had a thing for cherry bombs, booby traps & reptiles and of course I was at the receiving end. ( we had worked together on projects before )

It started by me opening my filing cabinet to find a dead rattle snake, in return I bought a bunch of Hustler magazine glued some pages together and put them in his trailer, this was funny as hell because he had to explain to his boss why these were in his trailer.

Then it went to cherry bombs, he would walk by and toss one in my trailer and blow holes in the floor, this I had to explain to my boss in a way that didn't get either one of us fired.

All the practical jokes started to come to an end when he tossed a string of fire crackers into my trailer while I was in it and I in return parked a bobcat blocking his exit of the porta potty for about 15 mins ( with the help of one of my subcontractors ), but here's the best part, this one he planed out a little to good, he went to the porta potty early in the morning and plugged the urinal with TP, knowing that wouldn't stop anybody from using it, so you get the idea of the theory behind that one, later he asked one of my subcontrators if he knew where I was and the sub ( who supplied the bobcat ) said I had just walked into the out house, he then proceeded to walk over to the out house, took a 2x4 , tee'd off and smacked the outside of the out house at the urinal and ran off, what he did know ( but my subcontractor did ) was that I was on the roof with my building inspector and it was actually his site inspector who had walked into the out house.

Neither one of us got in any trouble for that one,( because it couldn't be proved who did it ) and nobody said a word, but it was a tough time getting the site signed out..........LOL

[pirateofcapeann]

Talk about feeling like a fool(e)! My boss and I had been working all damn day on a machine that wouldn’t go! We had it torn apart and spread all over the shop floor. The big-wigs were breathing fire down our necks! Nothing. There we were scratching our heads when one of the operators came over and turned up the speed dial…