Ten April Fools' Gags for (weekend) Co-Workers

Although it might be thrilling to finally one-up the office jokester, pranks can also help beat workplace stress. More than half of workers reported working under stress in a CareerBuilder.com survey. Having fun with co-workers can provide stress relief, build rapport, make work more enjoyable and possibly improve productivity.

Even though this year’s April Fool’s Day is on a Sunday, a lot of people indeed work weekends, so this is dedicated to those who have to work weekends.

1. Coated someone's earpiece with red lipstick. Called and hung up several times to get the ear nice and red.

2. Put a "for sale" sign on your boss's car and include their office phone number and a really cheap price.

3. Get a hold of someone's cell phone and change the greeting banner to say "NO SERVICE". Many cell phones have greeting banners on them that you can personalize to say whatever you want them to and it stays on there when you're not using your phone. Also, when there is no service where you are, most cell phone companies have a banner that pops up on your screen saying "no service".

4. This will mostly only work with people with very little PC knowledge. Stick in a floppy in there floppy drive. They will be unable to boot up windows until the disk is out. This is fun to watch.

5. My absolutely most favorite prank I have saved for last. It is so simple to do and yields such nice results. Simply pop out the 'm' and 'n' key on someone's keyboard and reverse the two. Any flat tool will work. Just pry it with little pressure and they will easily come right off. Then just sit back and watch the confusion.

6. Tape magnets to the bottom of an empty coffee cup, and attach it to the top of your car. Laugh at all the people who frantically try to get your attention as you drive by.

7. Take about 20 (or more) paper or plastic cups, place them on the victim’s desk and fill them with water. Then take a stapler and staple them all together. You can also put the cups on the floor blocking their door, or just about anywhere.

8. Harmless computer pranks you can download - One such download is called Help Desk. Random pop up messages appear on the screen such as"An application error has occurred. This is probably because you have been f@cking around with your system again. Have you been f@cking around with your machine?"

9. Strange Reports The website allows you to create a web address that you send to your ‘victim’ that contains a fake news report about them.

10. Create a very professional-looking announcement in PowerPoint that reads
“This machine has been upgraded to allow voice commands. Simply insert money, and speak in a clear voice to have your favorite beverage dispensed.”
Attach it to the front of the coffee / soda machine and watch as people try to shout into the coin slot machine.

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Museum of Hoaxes

Reuters

As April Fools' Day looms, the curator of the Museum of Hoaxes has a word of caution for those who want to believe the unbelievable -- a good hoax is hard to find.

Alex Boese, the curator of the museum which exists online only at museumofhoaxes.com -- despite the lovely photographs of its nonexistent headquarters in San Diego -- has issued his annual list of 100 top hoaxes and cautioned, in the interest of truth, that none of the items have changed this year before April 1.

"There are no new entries this year, you have to be pretty good to get on it," said Boese, the author of three books on hoaxes including "Hippo Eats Dwarf, a Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S."

"A hoax has to be a rare combination that gets something ridiculous that people will believe," he added.

Take his Top 10 list: all are examples of faux news stories that people jumped to believe, headed by "The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest."

According to Boese, the BBC news show "Panorama" announced in 1957 that a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil caused Swiss farmers to enjoy a bumper spaghetti crop.

The show displayed footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees

The British, coming through World War II rationing and never known for their refined palate, called up wanting to know how to grow spaghetti trees.

Also on the worst hoaxes list was a 1962 report by the only television station in Sweden that viewers could convert to color TV by pulling a nylon stocking over their TV screen. Hundreds of thousands of people were taken in.

Then there was the case of Sidd Finch, the make-believe pitcher who wanted to play for the Mets, according to a famous April 1985 Sports Illustrated story by George Plimpton.

The magazine said Finch threw a baseball faster than anyone in the game and had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa."

was the April 1, 1996, hoax in which Taco Bell Corp. announced it had bought the Liberty Bell from the federal government and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell.

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Drivable Art

An art car is a vehicle that has its appearance modified as an act of artistic expression. Art car beginnings are usually older and or used vehicles where the car owner decides they want to alter the

car for their personal gratification. Some cars are not restricted to just altering the body but also what is under the hood…or as in this picture, altering what is inside the mouth of the shark.

Customizing cars has turned into a major commercial industry. Car chassis today have caught up with the imagination of car and fantasy enthusiasts. Old cars that have been saved, and well maintained or restored, become "Classic" or "Vintage" cars. Others are simply cars too ugly to be anything else but an art car, turning something fugly into something beautiful.

Cars offer a huge surface for poster-like images, child like delights, drivable fantasies and yesterday revivals. Cars, trucks and RVs have become oversize moving billboards for visual artist and automobile mechanics / artists.

Serious collectors, visual artist and automobile mechanics spend thousands of dollars in restoring and decorating the cars. Often you will find that owners have painstakingly gone over every component, inside and out, are polished to perfection.

One of the costly details is painting and customizing vinyl overlays that are applied much as a decal. Designing overlays is a huge business as well that employs top graphic artists and new designs are constantly in demand.

The passion to redesign a car is made up entirely of the imagination, skills and resources of the car owner. Almost no material is too taboo or unusable for decorating art cars. The only limits that exist are the artist’s imagination.

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How to Survive an Encounter with Crocodile or Alligator

For whatever reason I seem to always have strange summer wildlife encounters. Considering that I will be going to Florida this summer I thought the wikiHow article would be a useful tidbit of knowledge. How to Survive an Encounter with Crocodile or Alligator

If anyone can dispute this, definitely let me know. I almost expect a picture of me standing in front of a Florida sign that says Beware of Alligators as an alligator is walking up behind me.

Stay away from infested waters. - It's especially important that you avoid entering the water at dusk or at night, when the animals are harder to see and when they most actively hunt.

Sounds pretty sensible… The guide says that I should ask local residents about the presence of crocodiles or alligators in lakes and rivers… Well there goes that midnight swim in the swamps.

Be aware of your surroundings. If you're going to be in or around water in an area where crocodilians roam, it's imperative to remain vigilant at all times.

I guess that means I need to wear my glasses and if I am not wearing my glasses I should not approach small but lengthy hairless creatures. Check!

Stay at least 15 feet away from alligators or crocodiles.

Ahhhh come on! It’s Florida, I just gottta get a picture of a Florida alligator or crocodile!

Avoid surprising the animals. - make noise by slapping the water with your oars when boating or blowing a whistle

Run away from the animal. Fortunately, crocodilians rely on the element of surprise to capture prey, so it's extremely unusual for one of these animals to pursue a person on land.

Ahhhh sorta like meat market creepy males… I run from them too.

The land speed record for a crocodilian is about 10 miles per hour (about 17 kilometers per hour) and these animals quickly grow tired when running on land, which means that as long as you can see it coming, any teen or adult in decent shape can easily outrun one of these animals.

…. Mace: Check!

Fight back if you're attacked. Crocodilians frequently deliver a single, quick defensive bite and then immediately let go. If this occurs, just try to get away from the animal as quickly as possible.

In predatory attacks, however, as well as in some defensive attacks, the animal doesn't let go and will often try to drag a person into the water or underwater.

Crocodilians can stay underwater for much longer than humans can, so the only hope of survival if you're attacked in this manner is to fight back and get away. Simply struggling and trying to pull free is usually futile and may induce the animal to go into an underwater death roll, during which an arm or leg stuck in the crocodile's mouth will likely be ripped off. A purposeful, deliberate attack on the animal is therefore a better option.

Go for the eyes. A Florida teenager recently escaped an alligator that had dragged him into the water by jamming his thumb into the alligator's eye.

Go for the nostrils or ears. While not as sensitive as the eyes, the nostrils and ears can be effectively attacked. A hard blow or a cut to either of these areas may cause the animal to release you. Many people have been saved from a crocodile's or alligator's jaws when other people have hit the animal's snout with a pole or club.

Well… Maybe I don’t need that alligator / crocodile picture. I’m sure the tourist attractions have cardboard cutouts.

Go for the palatal valve. If your arm or leg is stuck in a crocodile's mouth, you may be able to pry this valve down (flap of tissue behind the tongue). Water will then flow into the crocodile's throat, and animal will most likely let you go. Hard strikes to this valve may also cause the animals to release you.

Ummm right

Get medical attention promptly. A crocodilian's mouth harbors a tremendous amount of bacteria, and infection is almost guaranteed if a bite is not treated promptly.

Yea… cardboard cutout of an alligator or crocodile is going to work just fine.

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Monster Toad From Darwin

A huge cane toad the size of a small dog has been captured in the Australian tropical city of Darwin, startling environmentalists who are fighting to stop the poisonous amphibians spread across the country.

"We've never seen a cane toad this big," said Paul Cowdy from FrogWatch

The cane toad, regarded as a major pest in Australia, was one of 39 caught by a group from FrogWatch near Lee Point in Darwin. It measures 8 inches in length and weighs 1.8 pounds which is twice the normal weight.

Cane toads are one of Australia's worst environmental mistakes. The spread of the toads, whose skin is poisonous, has led to dramatic declines in populations of native snakes, goanna lizards and quolls, which are cat-sized marsupials.

Cane toads were introduced from Hawaii in 1935 in a failed bid to control native cane beetles. There are now more than 200 million


"We capture them, put them in plastic bags, freeze them and turn them into liquid fertilizer," Cowdy said of the cane toads. Being a reptile lover I practicly yelped outload when I found out about that last tidpit...

Gotta have a sense of humor to avoid going crazy
Frogs` Legs With Mushrooms & Green Peppers

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 pound frogs' legs
• 1/2 pound mushrooms, washed, quartered
• 3 green peppers, seeded, cut in pieces
• 4 tablespoons butter
• flour
• seasonings to taste

Directions:

Dredge frogs' legs with flour. Put frogs' legs and other ingredients in a sauce pan. Cover. Let cook slowly for about 18 minutes. Then serve.

This recipe for Frogs` Legs With Mushrooms & Green Peppers serves: 4

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Holy Water

Everyone has made dumb mistakes with their car. I’ve backed up too quickly and than hitting the wall behind me and many people simply do not paying attention bumping the car in front of them. However, there will always be the car accidents that you can not help but laugh at (after you know no one is hurt). On my way to pick up a second car pool friend my passenger and I witnessed one of those moments.

Last night as a friend and I had almost reached our friend’s home we drove towards something surreal in front of a very large and beautiful church. Because it was so dark, we couldn’t tell what it was. A car had hit a fire hydrant in front of the church which erupted like Old Faithful producing a nighttime rainbow of lights dancing in a 50-foot+ fire hydrant geyser.
Approximately 400- thousand gallons of water rushed out of the hydrant and into the night sky. The crash made geyser was as tall as the church itself and the abandoned car sat empty and saturated as thousands of gallons of water poured onto the streets, temporarily flooding part of the area. As my friend and I looked on in bewildered amusements we both could imagine how horrified each of us would have felt if we had been the driver. The driver left the scene of the accident and personally, I couldn’t blame the person. I would have either ran away in embarrassment or crouched as low as possible in my car hoping to avoid the laughter of dozens of street witnessing laughing as my friend and I did.

“No no; don’t rescue me just yet… I’ll just stay here until you turn off the water and maybe even until the wee hours of the morning to escape anyone seeing my face. “
No one was hurt in the incident which in our minds made it completely OK to produced dozens of jokes from our small little group.

The fact that s/he hit a hydrant in front of a church just mad it funnier because can you imagine if you did die, had to face your maker and admit how you died? I imagine God laughing while saying “you did what?!” {laughter}
Other bits of humor included (until the hydrant was turned off)

* Mass baptisms
* Immediately selling religious statues in front of the miracle geyser
* Grabbing empty water bottles planned for recycling, filling them up with the holly water of the water hydrant geyser and selling them at $5 a bottle
* Declarations of seeing religious deities in the water

While car accidents are in general not funny, living in a large metropolitan city such as Los Angeles you constantly see drivers do incredibly thoughtless driving acts. Such as the women I watched put on mascara while driving in a 20 mph traffic commute. Thoughtless acts such as this supplies a mix of embarrassment and humor to dumb mistakes that cause very visual consequences.