UH-Simon

Anyone had any good April fools tricks played on them today?

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MrBen

Not on me... but this has got to be!

Gmail: Google's approach to email

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canuckster

Here at work, I managed to make prank calls to one coworker (at home waiting for the cable guy) and two other coworkers' husbands. All on speakerphone. It certainly is more fun when you have an audience.

Simon

I like the GMail one!

I missed it but apparently this morning the BBC had a report of flying penguins...

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MrBen

It's here... BBC NEWS | Magazine | 10 stories that could be April Fools... but aren't

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UH-Tony

How bout you Simon (UH-Simon)...any good April Fool's pranks?

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Alex.

This one looks good Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes

UH-Matt

Tony played the best April Fools today.

We had the privelege of a VAT inspection today, so had an inspector from HMCE onsite most of the day going through our accounts for the past 3 years. Everything was in order, but as soon as the said inspector had left, Tony setup a redirect so all connections from Simons PC to any of our systems (including forms and helpdesk) redirected to a page stating that "This site has been shut down pending investigations by HMCE" and a link to the HMCE website.

Needless to say simon now needs a week off work for the trauma.

Hilarious, but I guess you had to be there

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UH-Tony

Well in all honesty, I originally had the link pointing to HMCE but figured I should be kinder than that so replaced the URL with the URL of this forum thread (as I thought it funny since Simon started this thread anyways).

Then I posted my previous post so that Simon would realize instantly that I had set him up

ps. At least Matt and I found it hilarious...Simon...not so much (I'd never been called a tosser before today)

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percepts

Not an april fools trick but one about a tax inspector...

At the end of the financial year the Tax Office sent a tax inspector
to audit the books of a synagogue. While he was checking the books he turned to the Rabbi and said, "I noticed you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with all the candle drippings?" "Good question," noted the Rabbi. "We save them and send them back to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles." "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went in his obnoxious way: "What about all the bread-wafer purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?" "Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, realising that the auditor was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. "We collect them and send them back to the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free box of bread-wafers." "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all Rabbi. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is save the foreskins and send them to the tax office, and once a year they send us a complete prick."

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Vger

Agh - that would have been great, but you spoiled it with the "wafers". Since when do Rabbis celebrate Mass?

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percepts

It must have escaped you that it was the tax inspector who asked about them and the Rabbi just played along.

Many years ago I got a visit from the National Insurance people (I was behind with my book keeping). I got everything upto date before they arrived. The woman who turned up spent most of the day going through every receipt, invoice etc etc and finally annouced to me that I owed them £30. She then told me that if I had done it on time I might have saved that money. I told her that to do it on time I would have had to hire a book keeper which would have cost me a damn site more than the £30 I had to pay for her to come and do it for me. They never came to do an inspection again.

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