April Fools!
mcmel
306 Posts
April 1st is coming and I ALWAYS try to think of some good pranks on that day. This time I'm planning ahead and asking for help from each of you so I'm prepared! x:D
I've listed some below that I've pulled off myself OR that I've been the victim of . . . they're pretty basic. Any other ideas?
1. Put a rubber band around the "squirtie" thing (as HRQ said in another post) on the kitchen sink and when somebody turns on the water, poof, right in the face.
2. One time my daugthers came into my bedroom at about 6 a.m. and said, Mom, the dog pooped on the floor. Then they left my room and closed the door behind them. When I grabbed for the door, the doorknob was all lubed up with hand lotion. Darn kids.
3. Last year when I got out of the shower and went to my closet for clothes, my daugthers had taped my closet doors shut from the inside. (They had crawled out of the closet on dad's side).
I'm a few pranks behind and need some ideas!
Any suggestions . . . ?
I've listed some below that I've pulled off myself OR that I've been the victim of . . . they're pretty basic. Any other ideas?
1. Put a rubber band around the "squirtie" thing (as HRQ said in another post) on the kitchen sink and when somebody turns on the water, poof, right in the face.
2. One time my daugthers came into my bedroom at about 6 a.m. and said, Mom, the dog pooped on the floor. Then they left my room and closed the door behind them. When I grabbed for the door, the doorknob was all lubed up with hand lotion. Darn kids.
3. Last year when I got out of the shower and went to my closet for clothes, my daugthers had taped my closet doors shut from the inside. (They had crawled out of the closet on dad's side).
I'm a few pranks behind and need some ideas!
Any suggestions . . . ?
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Look up the number for CBS studios in New York City. Then get the telephone number for the producers of 60 Minutes. With me so far?
Grab a telephone message slip and write it out to your boss: "Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes, phone xxx-xxxx called to talk to you. Urgent." Place the message face down on his chair.
Then sit back and watch the fun. x;-)
One girl was a total kleptomaniac - friends would literally find their clothes at her house when they had NEVER let her borrow them. Cds and tapes would disappear out of people's cars, all kinds of things like that. So, for April Fool's a bunch of us went to Taco Bell in the middle of the night and bought a ton of chillitos (do they even still have those? they are like a chilli with refried beans in a flour tortilla). We each took two, opened up the tortilla part so it was flat, and smeared the contents onto her car. All over her car - windows, door handles, everywhere. It was a site.
I just remembered another one, but this one I saw on America's Funniest Home Videos -
A family had rat in the house that they couldn't seem to get rid of (no it wasn't a pet). It hung out in the basement, so the wife wouldn't go down there. The husband took a plastic rat, cut it in half, and glued it to one of his little kid's pacifiers (on the handle end, not the nipple end). He then took the kid into the basement with him to pretend to try and "find the rat". I think the kid was like 18 months old. When the wife finally ventured into the basement (wanting to get the kid out of there), the husband gave the kid the pacifier and she promptly stuck it in her mouth so it appeared that the rat's rear end was hanging out of her mouth. =P~ The wife screamed bloody murder. It was great.
Here's how to get back at your kids: When you look at them, don't look them in the eye as you normally would. Look at a spot about 2" off either side of their face. It'll drive them nuts.
In addition to the goodies, we had a conference room upstairs that many of the vendor rep's used for their regional meetings. On April Fool's day, the Taco Bell rep's were meeting and the GM and I hatched a prank. We printed out a fake AP news wire report - looked very real and the GM took it into the meeting & gave it to the team leader with the instruction that the VP of Taco Bell Sales demanded that the team leader read this wire report out loud to everyone and start making plans. (The GM played the part really well, he was slightly panicked and his eye's looked worried.) The wire report read something to the effect of, "It is will great pleasure that McDonald's Corporation announces it's purchase of the Taco Bell franchises. Unable to reach officials at Taco Bell for confirmation, the Taco Bell dog was quoted as saying, "Yo quiero McDonalds." The GM and I were listening outside the door & we heard gasps from some & others saying no way and then we heard everyone getting on their phones. The conversations were pretty priceless. We couldn't stop laughing & the gig was up in about 10 minutes. No one was mad & they all vowed revenge the following year.
Don't be too hard on folks on April Fool's. This is my birthday and I have had some doozies in my life time.
The day I was born, my parents had someone staying with my older brother and sister when they left and went to hospital. My grandparents came over (or called, I forgot) and they told them that Mother was in the hospital giving birth to me... they wouldn't believe her and finally had to have them call the hospital to confirm it. They thought it was an April Fool's prank. I have gotten everything from a box of gravel to a live frog (that jumped out when opened) for gifts. It is a great time to have a birthday!!
E Wart
I'll skip the chilito idea, vandalism is a little too extreme for me, BUT there were SOME ideas in this post that got me thinking! I'll let you all know how it goes!
HELP!
I did lube up (hand lotion) the door knobs on my daughters bedroom doors. That was a fine "good morning". x:D
The janitor got me today. A few weeks ago there was a post about dancing with the janitor. I told our janitor about it. He comes in around lunch time and today was dressed in a French Maids outfit. He came into my office and my assistant was prepared with the camera and got 2 good pictures. Very scary.
I already convinced one guy that he must have sat in something, and he was feeling his butt for the next hour.
Right now, one of the office guys is moving the supervisor's car across the street and putting a for sale sign on it. She's not going to be too happy. I'm not involved, I'm sitting at my desk. Back me up.
With gullible people like that walking around here today I thought, "Boy, if I just had a pack of Oreo cookies and a tube of white toothpaste."
As some of you probably know, next year's superbowl is to be held in nearby Jacksonville.(first time) There has been a lot of discussion as to whether we can swing it. .not enough rooms so they are bringing in cruise ships etc.. .yesterday one of the local radio stations annouced that NFL reps. had come and made the ruling. . Jax couldn't handle it and they were moving it to NY. Went on for 3 hours. Story got all the way to NY and people were calling from everywhere. "I just rented a place in Jax, now what do I do etc." The Superbowl host committee was NOT amused, but I thought it was pretty clever.
Maybe the joke was on me all along, though, because I spent the day paranoid, second-guessing everything and nothing happened. :-?