April Fools Day

ScummyMan

Its the big day tomorrow,(:pac:)anyone remember any great childhood pranks? Or ideas now you wished you thought of? Speak up, I need a laugh!

Saila

loadza laughs in here

UglyBolloxFace

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Its the big day tomorrow,(:pac:)anyone remember any great childhood pranks? Or ideas now you wished you thought of? Speak up, I need a laugh!

*Looks at OP's username* Yes, yes, you do indeed need a laugh.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Was in London, some time in the 90s when April Fools Day fell on a Saturday, and one of regional radio station for there weekday DJ to come on and broadcast as if it was Friday March 31st. People all over the place (most of whom had gotten ****faced the night before) called into to complain about getting to the tube/train stations and wondering where the **** everyone was and why the trains were coming at weird times. One guy phoned in saying he'd just had an argmument with his kids because he tried to get them up for school.

hondasam

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Its the big day tomorrow,(:pac:)anyone remember any great childhood pranks? Or ideas now you wished you thought of? Speak up, I need a laugh!

6th of April should be a good laugh :pac:

ScummyMan

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

*Looks at OP's username* Yes, yes, you do indeed need a laugh.

Ill give you that one, i was asking for that :pac:

Buceph

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Ill give you that one, i was asking for that :pac:

If you're asking for it, why are you giving it back to him?

KeithM89_old

Last year my Dad put a load of glitter into the shampoo. I didnt realise til late afternoon. Bastard :mad:

admiralofthefleet

i wonder will everyone be made a mad on here again

Kimono-Girl

lol bring on tomorrow i have a few planned already can't disclose them now though!

Saila

one year I got my dads beer out of the fridge..brought it to a paintshop, put it on one of those vibrating mixers for an hour, came home and put it back in the fridge

waited for him to look for it on 1st April and said "April foo" I only got that far as the house blew up then and beer came out of the chimney...
then a cop stopped his car a few blocks away and proceded to the scene on foot, it was a great laugh

WoollyRedHat

The BBC got people good one year, as they showcased the remarkable new practice of spaghetti growing on trees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ

orourkeda

Bollocks to April Fools Day

ScummyMan

orourkeda wrote: »

Bollocks to April Fools Day

April Fools Day is divided into people who fool and people who are fooled. You sir, are the latter

double GG

Your shoelace is open.

CrazyRabbit

In primary school (aged about 10), I convinced several classmates that April 1st was a public holiday and that the schools would be closed (the next day).

They were not happy the next morning...

ShamoBuc

I have a test with 20 questions done out with a heading - Read ALL the questions before you start - for my fifth class. The last question, number 20 is - say fool 3 times and then todays date straight away ( to yourself). I wonder how many will just start the test!!

Trooperboyo

Probably not the funniest prank. But I had a house mate before who was late for everything. If he said he'd be there at 5, he'll turn up at 7. If he had to be in at college at 9 he'd get their at 10. So the night before April fools we changed the time on his phone so that it was an hour earlier just before he went to bed.

That was the first time he ever made it on time in his college life!

For Forks Sake

double GG wrote: »

Your shoelace is open.

On closer inspection, these are loafers

Guill

My plan for tomorrow; Set the clocks forward 35 mins and leave for work before GF gets up.

dilallio

Tell your friends / classmates / colleagues to try this ...


We've all heard of the things our minds can do with placebos etc. but this is probably the easiest test and it comes down to taste..
What you do is tilt your head back slightly, put your tongue out and pretend to a shake a salt shaker into your mouth..
If ya do this for a few seconds, you can actually get a salty taste in the back of your throat.

Let me know if it works

TheBunk1

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

April Fools Day is divided into people who fool and people who are fooled. You sir, are the latter

I'd bet you couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.

Blarney92

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055870438

DublinWriter

The origin of April Fools day stems from the change from the Pagan to the Christian calendar.

So, Christianity defined thusly as...
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Hmmm, so who do you think are the real April Fools here?

Screaminmidget

Is this a joke?

EverEvolving

One year I rang my boyfriends mate and pretended to be from his work. I told him that we needed to meet with him immediately regarding sensitive images that had been found upon a search of his internet history.

He had that day and the following day off so I arranged a meeting for the following day and sounded really grave and serious on the call. Had him going for a good while but gave in and told him eventually!

I love April fools day!

Brenno

As kids, my dad never failed to torture us on April Fools Day - One April 1st, I got my revenge:

Earlier that year, he had genuinely sent in an application form to be on the irish version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.... So, early that morning, I asked the receptionist at my work to phone him up pretending to be an RTE researcher for the show to tell him he had been selected as a contestant for the very first show to be televised that week with Gay Byrne! She put him on speakerphone throughout my open office as he screamed the place down with excitement, he finally thanks her and hangs up... Five mins later, the receptionist anounces my father is on line 2 for me so i put him back on the office speaker as he almost weeps with joy while asking me what suit should he wear, would his yellow tie be too shiney for the cameras etc (to be honest i dont remember much else because the whole office was in histerics!) - Anyway, i had let my mam in on the secret - but about 5 hours later, she phones me asking me to tell him the truth because by then, he had cancelled all his work appointments for the week, booked his workmates to be his phone-a-friends and had gone to the library to study irish history!! I wouldn't, and left him going overnight but mam called me again the next morning begging me to tell him because he had dug out our old Simon-Says toy and was practicing Fasted-Finger-First!!!
He was devastated when i told him the truth!

SparKing

April Fools Day got started a bit earlier than usual this year.
from todays Galway Advertiser:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

EverEvolving wrote: »

One year I rang my boyfriends mate and pretended to be from his work. I told him that we needed to meet with him immediately regarding sensitive images that had been found upon a search of his internet history.

He had that day and the following day off so I arranged a meeting for the following day and sounded really grave and serious on the call. Had him going for a good while but gave in and told him eventually!

I love April fools day!

And on, April 2nd, his hard drive was strangely and coincidently wiped by a strange virus...?

Jumpy

SparKing wrote: »

April Fools Day got started a bit earlier than usual this year.
from todays Galway Advertiser:

That took me far too long. When the penny dropped though, it dropped loudly.

tan11ie

Going back a few years i told my mother in law about this wonderful new face cream i bought and how great it was. She was completly taken in by my rave review that she eagerly applied lots before she went to bed.

little did she know it was fake tan that developed over four hours
She woke up April fooled with a nice brown stripey face :eek::D

Panthro

When I was a kid, I ran into older sisters room, woke her up saying "wake up, wake up! the priest is after ringing the house looking for you!"
I then told her to get up as hes on the phone waiting to talk to her (house phones back in the day)
"I think he wants ya to serve today's mass!" I say with a smile.
"WHAT?!" says she.
"Yeah, hurry on, hes on the phone waiting to talk to you!"
As she picks up the receiver (of the phone) her eyes roll to the ceiling as she says "Hello Father.."
I point and laugh and shout "April fool's!":pac:

Twas quite the victory for the 10 year old.
Oh how she walloped me...

number10a

My mother gave my grandmother the number of the mental hospital in Cork and told her that Mr Looney rang looking for her and she was to call him back. :pac:

glengirlie

I have an exam tomorrow:p I hope they are not fooling me, because I feel like I have spent a year studying for it and given up my life:( Other than that, April Fools is not going to be a fun day for me this year:o Holding out hope for 2012:D

Jumpy

Im sure Annie Lyons at Dublin Zoo will be getting a few calls tomorrow.

Mr.Crinklewood

dilallio wrote: »

Tell your friends / classmates / colleagues to try this ...


We've all heard of the things our minds can do with placebos etc. but this is probably the easiest test and it comes down to taste..
What you do is tilt your head back slightly, put your tongue out and pretend to a shake a salt shaker into your mouth..
If ya do this for a few seconds, you can actually get a salty taste in the back of your throat.

Let me know if it works

Last time I gave a colleague a salty taste in their mouth, I got sacked.

thomond2006

Love April 1st, nothing like making someone look like an eejit!

So anyone know good pranks I can try?

Fluorescence

Don't post on Boards for a day. People will think you died.

ScummyMan

Jumpy wrote: »

Im sure Annie Lyons at Dublin Zoo will be getting a few calls tomorrow.

Took me a moment to get that! :pac:

Ev84

Easily one of my favourates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsE4qEfEfO4

Keith186

Jumpy wrote: »

Im sure Annie Lyons at Dublin Zoo will be getting a few calls tomorrow.

Mr. G. Raffe too, got my bro with that one after he sent out lots of CVs!

UglyBolloxFace

KeithM89 wrote: »

Last year my Dad put a load of glitter into the shampoo. I didnt realise til late afternoon. Bastard :mad:

It's stories like this that make me wish my father was still alive.


Oh wait...too morbid for AH?

KeithM89_old

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

It's stories like this that make me wish my father was still alive.

Dont worry - i got him back this year.

He wont ba pranking me anyyyymore...

Muahahahahahahahaa.........

Raze_them_all

Google already got a boardsie with it's free broadband offer

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Originally Posted by UglyBolloxFace
It's stories like this that make me wish my father was still alive.

KeithM89 wrote: »

Dont worry - i got him back this year.

So... UglyBolloxFace's Dad is a zombie...?

UglyBolloxFace

ShamoBuc wrote: »

I have a test with 20 questions done out with a heading - Read ALL the questions before you start - for my fifth class. The last question, number 20 is - say fool 3 times and then todays date straight away ( to yourself). I wonder how many will just start the test!!

Okay...I saw this post and I noticed the amount of thanks it received. And then I read it....but, for the life of me, I cannot get what the feck is going on. Maybe it's the alcohol, maybe it's the tiredness, but what the feck is going on with that post?

zuroph

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Okay...I saw this post and I noticed the amount of thanks it received. And then I read it....but, for the life of me, I cannot get what the feck is going on. Maybe it's the alcohol, maybe it's the tiredness, but what the feck is going on with that post?

people dont follow the instruction at top to READ ALL QUESTIONS FIRST, and tear into answering... only to get to final question.. and realise they've wasted their time...

UglyBolloxFace

zuroph wrote: »

people dont follow the instruction at top to READ ALL QUESTIONS FIRST, and tear into answering... only to get to final question.. and realise they've wasted their time...

....that's fúcking stupid!

UglyBolloxFace

KeithM89 wrote: »

Dont worry - i got him back this year.

He wont ba pranking me anyyyymore...

Muahahahahahahahaa.........

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

So... UglyBolloxFace's Dad is a zombie...?

Sigh.

johnny_ultimate

There's a good one at the moment for everyone with gmail accounts

Agricola

I remember one April 1st, my mother asked me to get her the lotto numbers on Aertel as she always did. I had sneakily seen her lotto slip before hand and basically just gave her a piece of paper with 6 numbers on it which were an exact match. The roaring and shouting that came from the kitchen that night was immense. Oh how she laughed when I explained it was a prank.......and then she cried......for days.

I realize now as an adult, it was a hurtful prank.