My April Fools masterpiece

[Az]

Used to be the Sys Admin for a small engineering company. Did you know you can reprogram HP Laser Printer Displays over the net? I did. So over the day I began sending new messages to the friendly little display of all the printers.

Normally the display reads "Ready". But if there are problems it displays an error message. So the first message I created was "Coolant Low".

After a while a few of the Secretaries began coming to me with the error message. I scratched my head and took a look at the problem. Not much I could do. Never saw that error before. Etc.

Next I sent the message "Reactor Exposed". People started getting nervous. I even started wondering what was going on. But the printers still seemed to work so ..... :evilgrin:

The next message was "Danger: Radiation Leak". This brought production in the office to a standstill. No one would go near the printers.

The joke was finally revealed when I changed the message to "Got Milk?" Needless to say much vengence was sworn that day. :rofl:


So what were your ultimate April Fools pranks.

[LynzM]

1. LMAO

That is great! I don't have any great April Fool's pranks, though we did disappear our RA's room once with some drywall and white paint :)

[trotsky]

2. LMFAO

I knew about that trick, but I never thought to pull a prank like that! The extent of my meddling was to make the main printer say "FREE BEER" one day.

[radwriter0555]

3. Well DONE! That is one of the best office April Fool's jokes ever

done!

CONGRATULATIONS!

[ET Awful]

4. Well, back in the days when I worked the helpdesk at a large company

just me and one other person on the nightshift. We had a bit of friendly rivalry going with the (much larger) day crew.

So, on the evening of March 31, when the company was dead quiet, we went through 3 floors of the building and put a small piece of scotch tape over the ball on each and every mouse in the place :).

[Floogeldy]

5. Ha ha ha!

B-)