April Fools Pranks for Dummies!

[Savage Wombat]

You know, unsweetened baker's chocolate looks exactly like regular sweet chocolate. If you get Hershey's, you even have a cute logo on the top of the bar. Break up into squares, wrap in aluminum foil, and distribute.

New heights of bitter, folks.

I pulled this way back in 8th grade, and I have it on good authority that someone else pulled it each year for at least the next three years.

 

[Pielorinho]

The all-time coolest prank I've ever heard of, alas, requires an incredible amount of preparation. Here's the recipe:

INGREDIENTS:
1000 toy balloons
one or more air canisters
liquid nitrogen
large styrofoam cooler
dorm room

INSTRUCTIONS:
Place the liquid nitrogen in the styrofoam cooler, and cover.
Inflate several toy balloons, tying each one off (of course).
Place toy balloons in the styrofoam cooler. As the air in each balloon is supercooled, the balloon will shrink down to a tiny fraction of its original size.
Repeat until all balloons are shrunken and in the cooler.
Place cooler in dorm room.
Remove lid and leave.
As the balloons return to normal temperature, they will regain their original size, spilling out of the cooler and filling the room near to bursting with balloons. Quite the bizarre surprise for the room's inhabitant!

Daniel

 

[Henry]

The balloon gimmick is priceless!

I also heard this morning of someone who replaced all the newspapers in a Newspaper Vending machine with copies of the April 1st edition of the local newspaper - of the previous year!

Though, this one is not looked upon with favor by the Local paper...

 

[Craer]

If the showerhead in your house can unscrew, place a few life-savers in between the cap and the showerhead. Sugar disolves and reforms on the shower-er, making them have to take another shower...

Oh yeah, superglue. Dear GOD, superglue is my personal pranking savior.

Mischief is my business,
Craer

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

Sure guys--get this page all filled with good suggestions AFTER April fools day...bastards...LOL

 

[Alyx]

*Filling a Sprite etc. bottle with salt water

How, how, how do you do it? I'm halfway around the world, taking a well-earned (IMHO) vacation on the beach (and running into the storm of the decade, but there's a story for another day) and you still manage to divulge my evil plans for april fools day domination?

Alright, so the old replace-the-sprite-bottle-with-an-old-one-full-of-salt-water-then-offer-a-toast-to-and-I-quote-"That bastion of the ages, the shining sea that shimmers outside that very door, for no tempest can shorn it of beauty, and the enternal charm resident therein". The kids got a kick out of it. Funny how a glass of sprite offered by beseeching child o' seven is impossible to resist. Some of the crowd caught on to the giggles, hence my outburts already penned above. A proper pontification is distracting even to those that are used to it (i.e. family).

Alright, so it was the oldest trick in the book. But hey, just goes to show that anything can and will work.