Your favotire April Fool's pranks.

[Fijiman]

So it's April first and that means it's April Fool's day. I'm sure most of us have pulled/been the victim of/witnessed at least one April Fool's joke/prank, so I want to hear about your favorite joke/prank that you've pulled/fallen victim to/seen.

Mine would be a prank I pulled back when I was in 11th grade. I was in History class and one of the guys who sat next to me was kind of the class clown. The teacher was letting us work on our notebooks or something to that effect and I was helping the guy next to me out with a few things. However, I just so happened to have a small rubber snake with me, so when he stepped out of the room for a minute I snuck it into his notebook and waited. A bit before the end of class when he was putting his notebook away I asked him if he still had a paper of mine I'd let him look at even though I knew he didn't. When he opened his note book and saw the snake he freaked out and got the whole class laughing at him. Even he admitted that I got him really good.

 

[Zontar]

May seem mundane, but each year in my province we take pieces of paper shaped like fish and stick them onto people's backs. They are the "poisson d'avril" (literally April Fish). It's a time honored tradition that everyone seems to take part of.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

It's not a thing in Argentina - in fact, is it a thing outside North America? I wanna know - so I've never pulled a prank on this particular day.

 

[Jamieson 90]

May seem mundane, but each year in my province we take pieces of paper shaped like fish and stick them onto people's backs. They are the "poisson d'avril" (literally April Fish). It's a time honored tradition that everyone seems to take part of.

You don't happen to be French do you? Only I've heard that's a French tradition and wasn't sure whether it was true.

 

[Zontar]

May seem mundane, but each year in my province we take pieces of paper shaped like fish and stick them onto people's backs. They are the "poisson d'avril" (literally April Fish). It's a time honored tradition that everyone seems to take part of.

You don't happen to be French do you? Only I've heard that's a French tradition and wasn't sure whether it was true.

I'm actually Anglophone, but I am fluent in French and am from Quebec born and raised. I'm not sure if it's a French tradition, but if it is then it's one we share with them over here.

 

[Stu35]

It's not so much of a prank as a false news story, but this made me chuckle this morning:

Scotland to switch to driving to the right [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/01/scotland-driving-on-right-independence-road-scheme]

To be honest, I'm just loving how utterly fucking foolish so many on the internet are - My facebook feed this morning has been quite interesting, lots of people posting april fools stories, even more people believing those stories and having quite severe reactions to them.

It's not a thing in Argentina - in fact, is it a thing outside North America? I wanna know - so I've never pulled a prank on this particular day.

It's a British thing as well, so presumably it'll also be something in Australia, Canada, New Zealand... etc.

 

[Thaluikhain]

People are claiming (and some are believing) that a planetary alignment will turn gravity off for 5 minutes on April 4th.

 

[Aerosteam]

Google Maps did something really cool a couple of years ago, they turned the entire world map into a Dragon Quest overworld.

 

[Evil Smurf]

This one my internet provider did this year, you can click the image for more info
http://www.iinet.net.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/PetFi-copy.jpg

It's hilarious.

 

[fenrizz]

It's not a thing in Argentina - in fact, is it a thing outside North America? I wanna know - so I've never pulled a prank on this particular day.

It's a British thing as well, so presumably it'll also be something in Australia, Canada, New Zealand... etc.

It's also a thing in Norway.

OT:
Don't really have a favorite, but my kids think it's hilarious to try and fool me and their mother.
I play along most of the time.

 

[iseko]

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I wonder how many people will fall for that one

OT: it is a thing here. This morning I was waiting for my bus and instead of the sign "600 ringbus Leuven" which is the bus that drives in circles around the city it had this sign: "600 atlantische oceaan", meaning atlantic ocean for those who were not catching on.

I chuckled

 

[Trippy Turtle]

This was the worst day to be a day off for me. Not a single prank.

Otherwise google normally pulls good ones. Im kinda desensitized to the regular people april fools now though.

 

[Vausch]

Unscrew shower head.

Place kool-aid underneath the face of it.

Wait for someone to shower that morning.

Laugh when they come out purple.

 

[Lieju]

April fools is kinda a thing in Finland, but it's more about telling lies than pulling pranks.
I'm not a fan, because it feels too often like an excuse to be mean. (And let's face it, most people are not comedians.)

It is fun seeing funny articles written in newspapers, and it's great is webcomics artists and the like take the time to make a silly 'what if' comic for April Fools.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

My favourite was the BBC's fake report on the Italian Spaghetti Harvest.


I wasn't alive to see it first time around, before anyone asks.

 

[Roxor]

I hate April Fools' day (two days, more like it, given time-zone effects). You can't trust anything anyone says.

Wake me when the 3rd of April comes.

 

[OneCatch]

The Metro this morning was pretty good - an article on 'selfies'.
It claimed that the UK Government was considering bringing in a ban on excessive selfies. You'd be allowed to post 10 a month to social media, anything over that would incur an automatic £25 fine.
With the govt's 'think of the children' mentality and attitude to emerging media and technology in general, it was almost believable.

 

[Vegosiux]

The Metro this morning was pretty good - an article on 'selfies'.
It claimed that the UK Government was considering bringing in a ban on excessive selfies. You'd be allowed to post 10 a month to social media, anything over that would incur an automatic £25 fine.
With the govt's 'think of the children' mentality and attitude to emerging media and technology in general, it was almost believable.

I'd actually support such legislation >.> Because I'm a cynical bitter misanthrope.

April fools is kinda a thing in Finland, but it's more about telling lies than pulling pranks.

Same here.

I'm not a fan, because it feels too often like an excuse to be mean. (And let's face it, most people are not comedians.)

Same here. It's rather aggravating.