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The one I remember at our house... I woke up to a full drum set, set up in our basement. Bill had the drums from high school but they was used as end tables and coffee tables when I met him. He decided one March 31st to set it up for our young sons to "practice" on. So when I woke up April Fools day, he had sent them all three down to "play for Mom, to wake her up"!
What's the best "Fools joke" some one has played on you or you played on them?
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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A few years back my mom bought a beautiful new bed spread comforter set and it was a very rich cream color. I had some decals that i put on her bedspread not even hours after she put it on the bed. The decals were black and looked like ink splotches. I went into her room, threw some water on my eyes and acted as though I was very upset. I told her my pen exploded on her comforter. She was hot, and still wanted to crack me one when she found out it was a joke.
Good stuff!!
-------------------- Theresa N. Hoying Visual Concepts 130 South Lester Avenue Sidney, Ohio 45365 937.492.2110 Posts: 176 | From: Sidney, Ohio | Registered: Feb 2007
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I once poured dry cat food into bowls and told the kids it was a new brand of cereal. Of course I stopped them before they poured the milk! Love....Jill
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One year we were having a REAL squirrel problem. They had gotten under the board and batten and had a trail that came through the walls to the kitchen. Then as we would eat breakfast you could hear them having theirs, yep, our electrical system. My husband Clare would just start to fume every morning. You could see the red crawl up from his chin to the top of his head til you thought it would explode. After about a week of trying to trap them (and they weren't biting) he brought out his gun. And shot one. And it fell out of the tree. And the squirrels disappeared.
A few nights later Doug Koch and a few others came over. As Doug was leaving he looks down and sees this frozen squirrel on the ground. I was standing at the door saying goodbye and got a little giggle. And its March 31st. So he picks it up and puts it back up in the tree. Next morning comes and Clare's sitting at the table, sipping his coffee, nursing his hangover, and he looks out and curses "AAAAHHHHHH GET MY GUN THE D%$#@$ things are BACK!!!" So I watch as he gets his gun, aims,and fires. And the squirrel doesn't move. Boom! He hits it again. Still it doesn't move. Now he's perplexed, in his thick head sort of way. So he shoots a third time. This time the thing literally somersaults, frozen stiff, to the ground. And lands tail first in the snowbank and sticks straight up! As its falling, and before it hits the snow Clare says "D^%$^ that Koch! I'm going to get him next year."
And so the next year we get a key to Doug's place, which is about 35 minutes from here, from his sister. And when Doug got home all his furniture from the Bedroom was in his Livingroom. And all the furniture from the Living room was in the bedroom. And just as an added bonus- all his shoelaces were tied in knots. And his doors were locked again. And so it was a mystery, well, until Clare couldn't help but say "Told ya."
-------------------- Deri Russell Wildwood Signs Hanover, Ontario
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THAT was SOOOO funny! The Story was great and then the Clip from Ricky!! I'm laughing so hard I'm crying!!
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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One year we got a couple of my buddies up at college pretty good. The one guy was a huge X-Files fan and had an autographed Gillian Anderson poster in his room. We "borrowed" it, bought the same poster at the student center forged the signature and tore it to shreads then taped it back together with clear tape and put it back on the wall. He was pretty ticked until we showed him that his poster remained unharmed. That same year we "borrowed" another buddy's colection of death metal and replaced it with Savage Garden and Backstreet Boys. That one was actually pretty funny because he had a bad day and just wanted to listen to some screaming agony and stuff when he got home but instead got Chicka Cherry Cola.
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3 years ago, called up my shop neighbour at home at 7AM, with my best Punjabi accent. Abdul from American Express tried to give her wee dog a credit card. She argued with me for a couple of minutes, before figuring it out. The next year - same neighbour.I had a key for her office, so I put my locks on her door, along with a note from a bankruptcy trustee in the Bahamas - forged letterhead & all. Donna & I hid around the corner & watched the whole thing unfold with a mirror. Damn, that was entertaining. Their head office moved to Kingston that fall, but we're still friends. Last April Fools, she was working a trade show in Toronto & wen't out to her car to get more brochures, & her remote wouldn't work. Immediately she threw her hands up & looked around the lot for me, assuming I'd changed the locks on her car. She was just a little too far away. I was 180 miles away but got credited with that one anyway, thanks to a bit of paranoia. TR
-------------------- Rodger MacMunn T.R. MacMunn & Sons C.P.207, Sharbot Lake, ON 613-279-1230 trmac@frontenac.net Posts: 475 | From: Sharbot Lake, Ontario | Registered: Nov 2003
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Growing up one of our neighbors always would pull practical jokes on my brother and I. Fast forward to now I was in the sign biz.
Well my neighbor seemed to be having a tough time painting his house. His house was half done and he kept procrastinating on finishing it. Sooooo......
One April fools I stapled a 4x8 coro sign to the side of his house. It sported the official Benjamin Moore logo and in bold letters it said TEST HOUSE, DO NOT PAINT. In smaller letters it said " SINCE YOUR UP HERE, GRAB A BRUSH AND SOME PAINT AND FINISH THE JOB ......APRIL FOOLS!"
I did that right after he went to work. and he lived on a busy road. I stapled it to the second story so he had to get his ladder out to get it down. Did I mention he was afraid of heights?
Funny how fast the house got painted after that
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-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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While in the Navy, our barracks pulled this off together.
Everyone crumbled up their newpapers and we filled the room, wall to wall, floor to ceiling with paper balls of the top Petty Officer of the barrack while he was on leave.
Only took 2 days to fill, but took about a week for him to get it all cleaned out!
Another prank, that I am still doing to one guy is putting him on all the junk mail list I can find! I actually have printed his address on cards and just tape them to the applications for what ever! Once on a list, they sell to others, who sell to others, who............!
-------------------- Steve Carter {:{) a Touch of Glass 254 Lexington Mill Rd. Magnolia, DE, 19962 PH: 302-335-3170 Posts: 181 | From: Magnolia, De, USA - Center of the Universe | Registered: Jan 1999
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i had some tyvek cards printed once that said "if you are in the mood for sex smile. it not just tear this card up. you should have seen people trying to tear them then smiling when they wuoldn't tear
-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Racers are always pulling things on other racers. One we used before was at a motel. We got into one guys room and took the microphone piece out of the phone handset. During the night, we tied a rope to the doorknob and then to the post out front that holds up the upstairs walkway. He tried to open the door the next day but it was tied shut. Then when he tried to call the front desk for help, they couldn't hear him with the microphone piece out of the phone.
-------------------- Dana Blair Blair Signs Wooster, OH www.blairsigns.com
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Take a screen snapshot of a coworkers desktop then open it in Photoshop and rotate the image 180 degrees and save it as a jpeg. Now use that image as their new desktop pattern and move the "real" icons into a discrete location where they're still there, but not obvious.
Wait until the coworker gets back from lunch and watch them peer at their computer with a puzzled look on their face.
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