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ChuckThunder
03-29-2004, 08:13 PM
April Fools is coming, anyone have good stories or ideas to share?
Salty Dog
03-29-2004, 09:40 PM
i'm gonna glue somebody to something.
MVSpartan117
03-29-2004, 10:03 PM
i'm gonna glue somebody to something.
Sounds good
Sierra
03-29-2004, 10:04 PM
no good ideas yet. maybe i will pick some up from here
:D
Wilco
03-29-2004, 10:07 PM
Our highschool baseball team is going to duct tape our little 3 foot manager either to a pole or the side of the building, then say April fools and leave him there for a few hours.
flickme
03-29-2004, 10:08 PM
I got a classic. You sneak some laxitive into someones drink and take all the toilet paper out of all the bathrooms.
MVSpartan117
03-29-2004, 10:12 PM
Saran (sp?) wrap on the toilet seat
Saran (sp?) wrap on the toilet seat
lol i remember a few years ago i was watching this thing that showed funny home videos (it wasnt america's funniest videos) where this guy put saran wrap all over a doorway and then he called his roommate to the living room and the roommate ran into it. ROFL..
basket of soft kittens
03-29-2004, 10:19 PM
Saran (sp?) wrap on the toilet seat
tried it didnt work ..on girls anyway.
flickme
03-29-2004, 10:43 PM
One of my friends did it to his mom and he didnt come to school for 3 days.
Jack Mehoff
03-29-2004, 10:49 PM
I made a phone call (with fake accent) to my wife and said that her husband, SPC Jack Mehoff was KIA.
Salty Dog
03-29-2004, 10:52 PM
I made a phone call (with fake accent) to my wife and said that her husband, SPC Jack Mehoff was KIA. rofl that's freakin awful
UkrainianAmerican
03-29-2004, 10:53 PM
I made a phone call (with fake accent) to my wife and said that her husband, SPC Jack Mehoff was KIA.
OUCH!
:bash: dude thats not funy :slap:
Fintin
03-30-2004, 12:13 AM
save up a few days worth of urine then freeze it on a cookie sheet then slide the frozen sheet of piss under their door...works well in dorms
Jack Mehoff
03-30-2004, 12:20 AM
That means you'll have to put your own piss in your fridge. **** that!!
Kenshin
03-30-2004, 12:30 AM
Here's a Top 10 list of famous April Fools Day Hoaxes
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." Check out the actual broadcast archived on the BBC's website (You need the RealVideo player installed to see it, and it usually loads very slowly). -More-
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#2: Sidd Finch
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton. -More-
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#3: Instant Color TV
In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, all viewers could now quickly and easily convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen, and they would begin to see their favorite shows in color. Stensson then proceeded to demonstrate the process. Reportedly, hundreds of thousands of people, out of the population of seven million, were taken in. Actual color tv transmission only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.
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#4: The Taco Liberty Bell
In 1996 the Taco Bell Corporation announced that it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. Hundreds of outraged citizens called up the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the bell is housed to express their anger. Their nerves were only calmed when Taco Bell revealed that it was all a practical joke a few hours later. The best line inspired by the affair came when White House press secretary Mike McCurry was asked about the sale, and he responded that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold, though to a different corporation, and would now be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial. -More-
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#5: San Serriffe
In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement in honor of the tenth anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica. The Guardian's phones rang all day as readers sought more information about the idyllic holiday spot. Few noticed that everything about the island was named after printer's terminology. The success of this hoax is widely credited with launching the enthusiasm for April Foolery that then gripped the British tabloids in the following decades. -More-
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#6: Nixon for President
In 1992 National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program announced that Richard Nixon, in a surprise move, was running for President again. His new campaign slogan was, "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." Accompanying this announcement were audio clips of Nixon delivering his candidacy speech. Listeners responded viscerally to the announcement, flooding the show with calls expressing shock and outrage. Only during the second half of the show did the host John Hockenberry reveal that the announcement was a practical joke. Nixon's voice was impersonated by comedian Rich Little.
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#7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
The April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by a physicist named Mark Boslough.
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#8: The Left-Handed Whopper
In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."
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#9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
In its April 1995 issue Discover Magazine announced that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history. -More-
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#10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
In 1976 the British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth's own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.
Fintin
03-30-2004, 12:59 AM
you could put it in someone elses fridge....
ShotOver
03-30-2004, 01:07 AM
I'll be singing Happy Birthday to myself, i reckon. hahah, tis my 17th woot
Maverick77
03-30-2004, 05:22 PM
I made a phone call (with fake accent) to my wife and said that her husband, SPC Jack Mehoff was KIA.
Thats a good one when you are the one calling
what did she do?
Seoulstriker
03-30-2004, 05:31 PM
I made a phone call (with fake accent) to my wife and said that her husband, SPC Jack Mehoff was KIA.
Thats a good one when you are the one calling
what did she do?
i remember how this happened for real to someone else so that the husband could be sent home. :|
Exlax is the best method.
NcDeuce
03-30-2004, 07:18 PM
April Fools is coming, anyone have good stories or ideas to share?
I've been so busy...I forgot all about it.
Our highschool baseball team is going to duct tape our little 3 foot manager either to a pole or the side of the building, then say April fools and leave him there for a few hours.
Some of the other players crammed a middle school kid into a gym bag, brings back good memories.
The worst thing I saw was some of the other football players urinating in the younger classmen's mouthpieces. Poor guys...
Salty Dog
03-30-2004, 07:22 PM
April Fools is coming, anyone have good stories or ideas to share?
I've been so busy...I forgot all about it.
Our highschool baseball team is going to duct tape our little 3 foot manager either to a pole or the side of the building, then say April fools and leave him there for a few hours.
Some of the other players crammed a middle school kid into a gym bag, brings back good memories.
The worst thing I saw was some of the other football players urinating in the younger classmen's mouthpieces. Poor guys...
dear god
Maine Finn
03-30-2004, 07:50 PM
Here's one I heard happened at my high school a couple of years ago...
A couple of upperclassmen streaked through down the freshmen wing between classes and ran out the front doors to get to a truck that was the getaway vehicle. But one of the guys tripped whilst trying to jump into the truck's bed and fell onto the gravel-covered parking lot.
I overheard a teacher telling this story. It's something for you guys who like to show off your stuff.
Just watch out for gravel.
rofl
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