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Weekend Assignment #53: Your Best Prank
Ha! Look, it's me, making a prank phone call to my wife at work! The amusement is short-lived, however, when she says "Of course I don't have Prince Albert in a can, you idiot. I work at an insurance company." Well, that's a good point, I guess. So maybe this wasn't a brilliant prank. But it does lead into this week's Weekend Assignment:
Weekend Assignment #53: Recount a tale of a particularly successful April Fool's prank you perpetrated, had perpetrated on you, or witnessed personally. As a matter of humor, it's best if the pranks are not merely cruel (i.e., if it ends with someone in tears or in the hospital, that's probably stretching the limits of the phrase "successful April Fool's prank"), but aside from that, bring 'em on.
Extra Credit: Prank someone famous. Tell us how.
My best April Fool's prank ever was actually a counter-prank on someone who was trying to prank me. Several years ago, when I was still working full time at AOL, my friend Judy was up for a job that had opened up in the group I was working with at the company. Well, on April Fool's Day she called me up and said "I hate to say this, but I've gotten a counter-offer from Microsoft, and I'm going to take that job instead." And I said something along the lines of gee, that's too bad for us, but congratulations to you, and then we chatted for a few more minutes and then we hung up. About a half hour later she called up and said "Ha! I pulled a fast one on you! April Fools!" Turned out that she didn't actually have a job offer, she was just funning with me.
To which I said. "Geez, Judy, I really wish you would have told me that earlier. You see, I've already told my boss that you took a different job, so we've already started the paperwork to give the job here to someone else."
To which Judy gasped and, this being April Fool's day, called me a liar. To which I said, most earnestly, that I wished I were lying, but in fact I was not. To back up my claim, I had my boss come over to talke to Judy on the phone and to confirm that, in fact, the job had been offered to someone else. And of course she believed my boss, because everyone knows bosses always tell the truth.
By this time Judy is in a really big panic, and I'm doing my best to assure her that I'm going to go right down to the Human Resources department as soon as I was done talking to her, but that she shouldn't hope for too much, and I was really sorry, and maybe there was another position open, just a lower pay and with some filing work, and, oh yeah, April Fools.
You would not believe the sort of profanity that came out her mouth after that. Honestly, now. I was horrified, shocked and appalled. It was beautiful. If there's anything more satisfying than taking someone's prank and turning it on them, I don't know what it is. I don't want to know what it is.
Extra Credit: I'd prank the President. Whoopie Cushion in the podium during the State of the Union. What can I say? I have low tastes. This prank isn't George Bush specific, incidentally. It would work with any president. Heck, it would have been perfect for Clinton. He was a podium pounder.
You're up! Write up the best April Fools pranks in your experience in your AOL Journal or other blog, and then come back here and leave a link. I'm hoping to see some good ones: I need some ideas for this year.
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My husband plays softball on Wednesday and Friday. So last Friday April 1st I called his best friend and told him my husband had broken his leg playing softball. I went on to describe how he was slidding in to 3rd and must have twisted wrong because he was in the ER getting ready to have surgery. His friend was so upset . Because my van had recently broke down and I had no way of getting to the hospital. He had had a few drinks and couldn't come and get me. Plus we live about 30 miles from him. He told me to call him and give him updates every couple hrs. I hung up and waited a few minutes then had my husband call him from the same phone i used and tell him "APRIL FOOLS". It was so funny,however he is still mad at me.
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when my husband and i were still newly weds he pulled a great prank on a co-worker. we were both working midnight shift at plastics factory at the time. one night when work was slow he went outside and used the giant rolls of clear plastic shrink wrap that is used to wrap large stacks of boxes for shipping and wrapped it around his buddies car like ten times. it took him almost an hour to do it. when his buddy came out at 8 a.m. to go home from the night shift he was so pissed. he had to use a razor knife to cut through the many layers of plastic wrap covering his car. everybody from night shift came out and saw him and we all stood around laughing.that was the funniest prank i have ever seen anyone do to someone else.
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My wife works customer service for a paper in las vegas NV. I called up one day and got an agent and began my complain about the delivery. I said"every time I get my paper, the letters are all jumbled and messed up because when the paper is thrown from the automobile, it hits the ground so hard that all the storys and addsare mixxed together and unreadable. the service agent quickly apoligized and advised me that this dosent happen very often. She then advised me that see would deliver another paper with in two hours and will note not to throw it so hard at the driveway
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HERES ONE THAT WORKS EVERY TIME.....WRITE DOWN THE WINNING LOTTERY NUMBERS DRAWN ON SATURDAY NIGHT,THEN FIRST THING ON SUNDAY MORNING GO OUT FOR THE PAPER,BUY THE PAPER AND A LOTTERY TICKET WITH THIS WEEKS WINNING NUMBERS ON A TICKET FOR NEXT WEEK. BRING THE PAPER HOME,THROW THE LOTTERY TICKET NEXT TO IT AND WAIT FOR THE SCREAMING TO START....NO ONE EVER CHECKS THE DATE TO DISCOVER ITS NEXT WEEKS TICKET,EVERYONE THINKS THERE A MILLIONARE....WORKS EVERYTIME ON A DIFFERENT PERSON
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