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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 08:32
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OK, as I post this on April 1st, I'm wondering, what is the cruelest, funniest or nastiest joke that you've pulled on anyone or someone has pulled on you.
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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 10:28
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we'll find out tommorrow when it is april 1st
hehee, i've got something planned for Alex before she goes to work (^_^) is already setup too ... i'm just glad she's pretty guillable.

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Well once I was living in a place you might call a squat. I had a bad case of crabs, and there was this nasty girl there who had been harassing my girlfriend, I must admit to plucking a few of the critters off and slipping them into her underpants drawer...

Oh yeah, back in school on a horseriding camp I did witness some guys place a sleeping year 7's fingers in warm water to produce the desired effect, so not to be outdone I managed to smear some horse crap into another's nostrils. When he woke up, he was the only one who could smell it...

And then, further back in grade 3 there was this teacher who used to harass me, real jock type and couldn't stand the fact I hated sports+i was the 'new kid'. Well he tormented me for about half a year before teaching us the subject "Phobias" and to demonstrate by example, he told us he sufferred from a phobia, arachnaphobia to be exact.

I spent the next two weeks filling a coffee jar with all kinds of spider (we have a few cool ones in australia) and when the jar was pretty much full and the spiders were all seething and eating eachother, I took it to school and at recess emptied the jar into his jacket pockets, chalk box, and desk drawers.

Well we came back to class and I was terrified, wishing I could take them all back, but too late, there were some on the blackboard and on his desk, and the guy fainted. I think that's the best revenge I ever had on anyone.

I should add that none of these events happened on April 1

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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 17:26
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The year 7 stuff is just nasty, but the teacher deserved it.
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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 17:27
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thank god i live a good 10k miles away from you!!

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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 17:29
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hehe, boys will be boys...

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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 17:30
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lol ... then i'm glad i surround myself with girls

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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 17:31 Edited at: 1st Apr 2003 17:36
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Me too

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Oh yeah, kids, danmatsuma does not in anyway advocate, condone or advise revenge, revenge is bad m'kay?

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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 21:44
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"I had a bad case of crabs"

EEEEEEEEEWwwwwwwwwwwwwww Too much info

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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 22:13
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I'm not one for making jokes but I had a nasty one played on me when I was in junior school, not an original prank but nasty when it happens to you.

It was just before the summer break, at lunchtime and we were having salad. I was eating away until I noticed something moving on my plate, as I looked closer some of the other kids around the table started to laugh, then I saw a worm.

Oh sorry did I say a worm, I meant half a worm! Can you guess what happened to the other half (reaches for a bucket)

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Posted: 1st Apr 2003 23:18 Edited at: 1st Apr 2003 23:21
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I had just started work for a new company, during my probation period, when one of the saleman played a bit of a prank on one of the techies... Feeling that an offense against my creed had occured, I plotted my revenge.

I painstakingly recreated the logo of the distributor SDL (I think now bankrupt?) and wrote a letter, after studying output from our fax machine, I recreated the transmission text at the top of the letter, and after a quick lunchtime rummage through his contacts index box I signed the letter from his contact at SDL. To complete the effect I photocopied the letter through the fax machine so it was on the correct paper and ink colour as if faxed directly from them - and placed it upon his desk.

The letter was more or less along the lines.

Dear Mr Peter Hardy

I am writting to confirm delivery of your Marajawa bird which should arive in Southampton docks on the XX of whatever month and is subject to United Kingdom quaranteen laws, therefor ready for collection on [+6 months].

Please allow me to take this opportunity to remind you of your obligations as an owner of a Marajawa bird.

As you'll no doubt recall these birds are quite dangerous and should not be brought in to close contact with untrained persons. Handling of Marajawae is considered an offence without a license. The beak is capable of penetrating an unarmoured limb such as arms, legs or in serious cases, heads and the poisonous venom is capable of incapacitating an adult in seconds giving little chance to raise the alarm.

Of course owning a Marajawa bird does have it's rewards too, not only are they beautiful to look at but thier flight is both graceful and awe inspiring. However this does bring responsibilities too, as your male Marajawa will require a 10,000 hectar range and for obvious public safety reasons this area should be caged as required by law. The cage should be 100ft high at all points.

In closing I would like to thank you for your purchase and look forward to the day you take delivery.

etc....



Of course Peter - being the joker that he is - couldn't leave such a letter unreplied too and running the assumption this was some kind of strange marketting ploy he faxed his responce back to his unsuspecting accounts manager..

Dear Paul

I am currently smoking 1000 cigars a day in order to build my cage out of match sticks and have marked out an area in my flower box to put the cage in.

I look forward to getting my Marajawa and hope to speak to you soon

Regards

Peter


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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 00:03
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the worst april fools was by computer gaming monthly, their damn "dead or alive beach volleyball" topless mode cheat was a hoax. Boy did I get excited when I saw that...almost wanted to make me buy an xbox...

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 00:23 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2003 01:11
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Actually there is a naked Patch for DOA:BV downloadable from XBox Live - Tecmo are trying their best to quash it tho - there's an official warning on their site that any1 pedling such material shall be stomped upon most heavily

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 07:50
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K2: EEEEEEEEEWwwwwwwwwwwwwww Too much info

ASMPLOL

Plenty more where that came from!! Better not encourage...

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 08:20
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Quote: "Well once I was living in a place you might call a squat. I had a bad case of crabs, and there was this nasty girl there who had been harassing my girlfriend, I must admit to plucking a few of the critters off and slipping them into her underpants drawer..."


that's just sick^_^

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 08:40
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*snicker* x-d

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 09:45
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that is disturbing on so many levels dan

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Thank-you, I try

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 18:10 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2003 18:11
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We once did exactly the same thing as "The Office" did. Basically back in 1996 or 1997 we took a porno picture (a woman kneeling down after just finishing "serving" about 5 blokes...cough...) and replaced her head with his. In the picture that is, otherwise would be dazzag@hmp.co.uk Then we emailed pretty much everyone in the company apart from him, and put a printed version in his bag (hopefully for his mother to see - he lived at home - didn't work though). Everyone thought it was really funny (even directors) apart from him. He left the company a few months later, after succesfully sewing us for lots of money (although completely unrelated to this incident). Even the picture they describe on the show sounds exactly the same.

Tis spooky how my working life has mirrored "The Office" so much. Am sure someone who left our place wrote the stuff.

A similar one (although not April Fools) was from a bloke I knew at BTEC (like A-levels, one off Uni degree) who got kicked out at the end of the second year. So he snuck into the main computer room and overwrote all the boot disks (this was in 1989 or so) with a program that basically was a video captured scene from a porno flick. Same thing as above, but 2 guys. Next thing you know the new recruits (16 years old) turn up for their first year of BTEC computing. They all boot up at the same time... yep, wall to wall porno. Heh, may have only been 2 or 4 colour green or orange screens at some stupidly small resolution, but they got the idea. Heh....

Hmmm... seem to be all porn related. Well... the best one's always are...

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I got a really mean April Fool done on me.

I live in mixed halls and my room is pretty close to the shower so usually if I'm running late I just wrap a towel round me, jump in the shower and I can make it back to my room before anyone notices I'm just in a towel. But Paddy took my room key off my keyring the night before and I never noticed, then when I went for a shower next morning and I locked myself outta my room and had to spend over half and hour in the corridor in a really skimpy pink towel trying to wake one of my friends so they could go to reception and i could get back in my room. Finally grainne woke up and lent me a sweater and jeans, but it felt like so many people walked past me that morning!!!
I'm gonna kill paddy!

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2003 20:24
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Rose in just a towel eh? That will get Raven's attention

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I'm surprised they waited for April fools to try that one, Get yourself a dressing gown

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