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I'm not the world's greatest prankster, but I'm sure some of you out there are in the running. Care to share any of your highlght reels?
I have a few stories to get things rolling:
1.) Waaaay back in high school, I convinced a girl that boneless chickens were actually bred boneless, and that farmers had to spend most of their work day stuffing food down the birds' throats. I was pleasantly surprised to find out later that Gary Larsen used the same joke in one of his Far Side strips.
2.) During my tenure with a major bank several years ago, I convinced some of my workers that I was creating a charity to buy helmets for baby harp seals. I obtained a dozen or so pledges for donations, but fessed up to the joke rather than actually collecting any money.
1) My boss who is the manager of our IT Department got me good not long after I had start working for my current company.
I had developed an irrational fear that he would leave the company and since he was the one with with the greatest knowledge of the systems that run our company, that we would be up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
He and another co-worker the night before packed all his personal things in a box and left it sitting on his chair, next to his desk. When I came in the next morning and walked by his office, the first thing I saw was the box with all his stuff in it. When I started asking questions, my co-worker convinced me that our boss had called in and said that he'd got another job and quit right then with no notice.
I was freaked out all morning until my boss came in to work.
2) Also in high school I once convinced a girl in one of my classes that I'd had all my nerves removed after she tried to pinch my arm as hard as she could, and I just sat there like nothing happened. Had her thinking that I couldn't feel a thing.
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Last year on this very day the ESPN commentators Tony "GOD ON HIGH" Kornheiser and Mike "Still Cool even though he went to Northwestern" Wilbon did one on their "Pardon the Interruption" show that I thought was very good.
They opened the program with the latest news on Tiger Woods -- he was even more on the fronts of our minds then -- announcing that Tiger, in a gesture of how he's changing his life for the better, was removing the "Tiger" from his name and going back to his birth name, cuz, you know, tiger is a predator, etc., etc.
Kornheiser and Wilbon debated for a couple minutes on whether it was a good gesture or if it was meaningless crap. One played "good cop;" the other played "bad cop."
They took the debate pretty far, far enough, at least, for me to think it was legit (I was suspicious of what April Fool's joke they would do). And then, of course, they told their audience it was an April Fool's joke.
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My favorite of all time, though, is the story I posted yesterday on the other Thread.