April Fool Joke Ideas ?
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Great one for work is to get a screeny of somebodys desktop, then hide all their desktop icons and set the desk screenshot as their background. Make sure its somebody who is stupid with computers.
Or do what my friend did - ran into his parents bedroom yelling fire. He got the bollocking of life time.
Or do what my friend did - ran into his parents bedroom yelling fire. He got the bollocking of life time.
I'm stupid with computers too unfortunately, so how do you get a 'screeny'? We had a similar thread a while back. Weren`t we all going to ring Currys/Dixons/Comet and other spottyoik electrical retailers asking forthe price of a DVD rewinder?
as seen here www.gizmodo.com/archives/dvd-rewinder-016644.php
as seen here www.gizmodo.com/archives/dvd-rewinder-016644.php
BrianTheYank said:
Great one for work is to get a screeny of somebodys desktop, then hide all their desktop icons and set the desk screenshot as their background. Make sure its somebody who is stupid with computers.
Did that to a twit trainee at work, except stuck the screen dump back in upside down. When he came back from lunch and called us over saying "what do I do, it's all upside down?" I said "that happens now and then, no problem" and picked his monitor up and turned it upside down. He tried to work like that, failed of course, then called IT support and tried to explain the problem...
There are the usual ones which do the rounds, the first of which I must admit I got caught out by several years ago.
There was a not on my desk in the morning which read:
"Customer returned your call last night. Please call him back.
Mr C. Lyon, 01244 XXXXXX"
Phoned up. Voice at the other end said:
"Hello, Chester Zoo....?"
Me: "Can I speak to Mr C Lyon..... Oh
. forget it" 
Also works with Mr G Raffe.
The other one is best if you work in a large office with lots of identical telephones.
Move two phones next to each other, and then swap the receivers over. When someone sits at the desk, ring one of the phones.
They pick it up, it stops ringing. But they can't hear anything. Confuses them for a while.....
There was a not on my desk in the morning which read:
"Customer returned your call last night. Please call him back.
Mr C. Lyon, 01244 XXXXXX"
Phoned up. Voice at the other end said:
"Hello, Chester Zoo....?"
Me: "Can I speak to Mr C Lyon..... Oh
. forget it" Also works with Mr G Raffe.
The other one is best if you work in a large office with lots of identical telephones.
Move two phones next to each other, and then swap the receivers over. When someone sits at the desk, ring one of the phones.
They pick it up, it stops ringing. But they can't hear anything. Confuses them for a while.....
nel said:
Great one for work is to get a screeny of somebodys desktop, then hide all their desktop icons and set the desk screenshot as their background. Make sure its somebody who is stupid with computers.
Did that to a twit trainee at work, except stuck the screen dump back in upside down. When he came back from lunch and called us over saying "what do I do, it's all upside down?" I said "that happens now and then, no problem" and picked his monitor up and turned it upside down. He tried to work like that, failed of course, then called IT support and tried to explain the problem...
Did he actually turn the screen upside down?
BrianTheYank said:
BrianTheYank said:
Great one for work is to get a screeny of somebodys desktop, then hide all their desktop icons and set the desk screenshot as their background. Make sure its somebody who is stupid with computers.
Did that to a twit trainee at work, except stuck the screen dump back in upside down. When he came back from lunch and called us over saying "what do I do, it's all upside down?" I said "that happens now and then, no problem" and picked his monitor up and turned it upside down. He tried to work like that, failed of course, then called IT support and tried to explain the problem...
Did he actually turn the screen upside down?
Nah, Just the monitor.
BrianTheYank said:
Did that to a twit trainee at work, except stuck the screen dump back in upside down. When he came back from lunch and called us over saying "what do I do, it's all upside down?" I said "that happens now and then, no problem" and picked his monitor up and turned it upside down. He tried to work like that, failed of course, then called IT support and tried to explain the problem...
Did he actually turn the screen upside down?
No - I turned the monitor upside down for him to "help" him! Listening to him trying to explain to the gimboid at IT services that his monitor was upside down to get the display the right way up was nearly too much for me....
Alice Cupra said:
There are the usual ones which do the rounds, the first of which I must admit I got caught out by several years ago.
There was a not on my desk in the morning which read:
"Customer returned your call last night. Please call him back.
Mr C. Lyon, 01244 XXXXXX"
Phoned up. Voice at the other end said:
"Hello, Chester Zoo....?"
Me: "Can I speak to Mr C Lyon..... Oh
Also works with Mr G Raffe.
I have just googled up the phone numbers for a nearby zoo, I shall have some juvenile fun tomorrow!
Of course there is the old trick of cramming a raw potato into your mark's exhaust pipe - assuming a good exhaust system the car will wind over but not crank, after say 10 seconds of cranking the spud will be expelled with a loud pop.
You would want to use a little discretion on who you pull this on and where - the spud can be expelled with some force so don't do this on a car that his DTC type upturned exhaust tips..
You would want to use a little discretion on who you pull this on and where - the spud can be expelled with some force so don't do this on a car that his DTC type upturned exhaust tips..
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