I must admit, April Fool's Day is a blend of sweet aspiration and sad disappointment for me most years. I always look forward to being gotten in a really clever and creative way, and most of the time I settle for being sprayed by the rubber banded hand-hose-thing on the kitchen sink. :P
The aspiration element is my attempting to come up with a prank which will be hilarious and entertaining for everyone involved, heightened by the fact that it's April 1, and their chagrin at not having realized. I managed to pull this off once.
At the time I was character staff on Project Infinity MUX (it is teh awesome). The game's director (raiu) played some dragon fella on another game named (if I recall correctly) BlueStreak. So I popped over to said game (MMX, I believe) and clip/pasted all of BlueStreak's stats into a Project Infinity character application. I filled in the blanks with badly-spelled, badly-written drivel, search/replaced the name 'BlueStreak' with 'Dragonicus' (leaving a couple of telltale BlueStreaks in for added sloppiness), slapped a phony applicant name on it, and sent it off from a fake address. The reaction was instantaneous and hilarious. People were stunned, amused, and righteously indignant. The blatancy of this plagiarism was incredible. People started calling other staffers on the phone to get them online to see it. Ultimately, the administrators ended up exchanging several very polite emails with my nom de plume, and getting caps-locked vitriol (MY FAHTER SI A SYSAMDIN AND HELL GIEV ME A VIRAS 2 CRAHS UR SITE!!11!!11) in return. When the plagiarized director himself finally began to respond in a 'Now see here, young man...' tone, I revealed the charade and everyone had a hearty laugh. That's the kind of joke I like. Nobody hurt, nobody humiliated, just ridiculous circumstances in which people should have paid more attention to the significance of the date. :)
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Date: 2004-06-05 10:19 pm (UTC)The aspiration element is my attempting to come up with a prank which will be hilarious and entertaining for everyone involved, heightened by the fact that it's April 1, and their chagrin at not having realized. I managed to pull this off once.
At the time I was character staff on Project Infinity MUX (it is teh awesome). The game's director (
The reaction was instantaneous and hilarious. People were stunned, amused, and righteously indignant. The blatancy of this plagiarism was incredible. People started calling other staffers on the phone to get them online to see it.
Ultimately, the administrators ended up exchanging several very polite emails with my nom de plume, and getting caps-locked vitriol (MY FAHTER SI A SYSAMDIN AND HELL GIEV ME A VIRAS 2 CRAHS UR SITE!!11!!11) in return. When the plagiarized director himself finally began to respond in a 'Now see here, young man...' tone, I revealed the charade and everyone had a hearty laugh.
That's the kind of joke I like. Nobody hurt, nobody humiliated, just ridiculous circumstances in which people should have paid more attention to the significance of the date. :)