April Fools Day Pranks

wartknight

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Unplugged the wireless mouse from a coworker's computer.
Turned the clocks ahead an hour this morning and enjoyed watching my 7 year old sprinting around the house trying to get ready for school
 

VTXCyRyD

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Inter-office envelope, slice open the bottom with a knife, fill with dots from the hole puncher, place flat on co-workers desk.

Find co-workers unlocked computer, move the mouse off screen, print screen, place copy of picture as computer background, remove all desktop icons, hide task bar

Honestly, I think both of these came from Cyclonefanatic April fools past
 

cowgirl836

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this is a simple but good one I saw on Reddit that someone should use - do CTRL ALT down arrow to their computer.

Go ahead, everyone try this right now. You have to do CTRL ALT up arrow to reverse it.
 

ISpyCy

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I dressed up in Husker gear for a day to **** off both sides of my family. A mandatory delousing was administered upon removal of said Husker apparel.
 

cyhiphopp

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In elementary school I put some fake blood on my hand and pretended to have a bloody nose. Really ticked off the school nurse.
 

HandSanitizer

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Woke kids up today to a Snow day.
Told my wife I filed for divorce.
Got a dog bone out of the cabinet, let me my dog see it and put it back.

j/K.
These are things I wanted to do today, but didn't get to it...
 

NickTheGreat

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Woke kids up today to a Snow day.
Told my wife I filed for divorce.
Got a dog bone out of the cabinet, let me my dog see it and put it back.

j/K.
These are things I wanted to do today, but didn't get to it...

That dog bone thing is mean but I really laughed at it :biglaugh:
 

Tre4ISU

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We're going on 10 minutes of my co worker not knowing why her mouse won't work. Serves her right after I came back from vacation with 500 golf tees sitting on my desk on end.
 

SaraV

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A co-worker of my Cubs fan husband changed his desktop to a Cardinals graphic a couple of months ago. Went into work with him last night and helped to "decorate" her desk with a bunch of Cubs stuff.
 

CyOps

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Put a small piece of tape over phone mic. They will be yelling into the phone because the other person can't hear them.

I took tomorrow off to attend a funeral. Boss asked why I was taking off. I told him it was for a job interview.
 

BloodyBuddy

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this is a simple but good one I saw on Reddit that someone should use - do CTRL ALT down arrow to their computer.

Go ahead, everyone try this right now. You have to do CTRL ALT up arrow to reverse it.

Looks like you just pulled the prank on me. Couldn't figure out how to get my second monitor to turn back upright, had to google it. (You have to place the cursor in the screen)
 

VikesFan22

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My freshmen year I made one of my roommate's cursor move extremely slow and also inverted it. I never told him it was me. He thought his computer was dying.
 

Tailg8er

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We're going on 10 minutes of my co worker not knowing why her mouse won't work. Serves her right after I came back from vacation with 500 golf tees sitting on my desk on end.

Sounds like you got 500 free tees, what's so bad about that??
 

CyAg

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My 6th grade daughter had a passionate Hawkeye fan teacher (an excellent teacher I must add). Every year, in 5th, or 6th my daughters out did themselves to show their Cyclone spirit to said teachers (beyond this teacher).

Long story short, this same instructor (again excellent teacher-of course UNI Grad and Hawk-eye fan) proclaimed last year that he would be safe since it was over the weekend!

Never underestimate a good Clone (or a family member of mine!). He arrived on a Monday morning to over 300 ISU signs and related Clone items in his classroom.

He actually was impressed and re-posted the video today a year later on Facebook.

Long story short, my daughter talked another teacher into opening the school on a Sunday to make this happen.

So as one shot example look what this teacher had to walk into on Monday 4/1 a year ago:
gocyclones | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I am a proud dad and rest my case.
 
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HOTDON

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A coworker at my wife's office brought in chocolate chip cookies for everyone. The "cookies" were actually mashed potatoes and black beans. Pretty solid burn.
 

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