My fav was to use a small piece of plastic wrap in the shaker head. No one got hurt, and I probably contributed to slightly lower blood pressure.
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Well, I personally look forward to using these screencaps next time thereâs a thread about gun control, gaming or feminism which will inevitably draw out the craziesâŚ
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Oh come now! What could be more wonderful that this (even in all this pixelated glory)?
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Pranks are excellent. There are good ones and there are bad ones, but itâs not as if tricking someone isnât funny. If the prank is good and the âvictimâ has a sense of humour they too will find it funny because of the premise: a balanced person can see that the situation is funny, even if they are the subject at the time. As long as thereâs no actual damage or harm all thatâs being hurt is someoneâs ego and smashing egos is fun.
I also find Oliverâs opening example to be rather weak since a large number of his own showâs bits are based on deception that is then revealed. An example that comes to mind is on a show a couple weeks ago he was talking about a south american country. The infographic thingie showed one country on the map illuminated, and his like went something like âyou know so little about this country: thatâs not even it, this is!â Before illuminating a different country on the map. Being deceived is funny, especially when it shows up the incorrect assumptions we made in getting to being deceived.
Iâm sure Iâve told this story before, but once I left the office and one of my colleagueâs cars was parked in front of the building, handbag on the front seat, front passenger door ajar, and keys in the ignition. On my way out Iâd noticed the person whose car it was talking to someone in the office. I decided a lesson about care with personal possessions was in order so I quickly jumped in the car, moved it two spaces forward, then left it exactly as Iâd found: door ajar, keys in ignition. When the person finally left to office the look on her face was priceless - the panic and mystery of the situation had set in. When she saw my smiling face driving past she knew exactly what had happened and by the next day she found it quite amusing.
PS: I kinda feel like we need to make Oliver the April Fools surprise celebrity death.
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Confusion pranks are funny (covering everything in a cube in tin foil, giving gifts in fish bowls, being announced as a lost child on the intercom in a department store when you are an adult).
Have I ever had real friends�
All Iâve ever really done on april fools day is methodically go to every website to see if they did anything, or if the individuals I know on those sites did anything, and enjoying the surreality of whatever silly thing they did, since itâs pretty much always silly things like a webcomic changing the comic into something bizarre or two friends switching names and user icons or like that one time a website I was on turned everyoneâs icons into random strange youtube videos. I usually canât think of anything sufficiently funny or strange so I just sit around and laugh. If I did participate, thatâs what Iâd do - silly and confusing things that arenât hurtful because everyone involved can already see itâs not serious. So Iâll just go on as I was. I guess I can promise if someone is a jerk Iâll tell them they are, but I havenât come to that bridge yet.
The first year that all of the big webcomics (ok, many of them, I donât know about all) switched artists for April Foolâs was pretty awesome. I feel really old though, because I feel like that was at least 15 years ago.
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Thereâs a show called Prank it Forward that has this theme. I saw this video going around the interwebs not too long ago - thought it was a good one:
Amen. I basically disconnect from the Internet on April 1.
Wouldnât you have to disconnect from March 31 until the end of April 2?
Depends what timezone youâre in, I suppose.
Also, itâs really not that hard to avoid April Foolâs pranks as well.
How about this one?
Can totally get behind this sort of thing:
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Lotta killjoys in this thread.
I, personally, LOVE April Foolsâ Day. I see it as the spiritual counterpart of Halloween. On Halloween, we change ourselves for a day in the spirit of fun (I donât care how it started, itâs the spirit of fun now). On April Fools Day, we change the universe around us, present alternative realities, and just have fun exploring the bounds of possibility.
Sure, some people are going to be jerks and do it in a mean way. And not everybodyâs going to be funny. But thatâs no reason to abandon the joy of indulging in flights of the imagination.
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I like pranks where the target is laughing the hardest at the end, anything else just seems kind of mean.
ThinkGeek is the best example of this, I think.
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My impression is that itâwas really big in Britain, and that sort over the top absurdity was imported via the internetâŚ
Probably. You can rely on the intertron to drag everything down to the lowest common denominator.
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