My April Fools Genius
 

Sorry.. I need to brag.

As most of you know, I'm the webmaster for mattsmodels.com and affiliated sites. I'd been planning my April Fools joke on my boss for months. There isn't much to it, but it hits on one of his weak points. Yesterday, the plan unfolded and it was a success!

Every page on mattsmodels.com has a reference to a single backend file that feeds it with frequently used variables and functions. So, in other words, the backend file is run every time someone looks at a page on the site. I set the backend file to detect Matt's IP address on April 1st and display this message instead of the intended page:

fuck you matt
im tired of being teh ass of all your jokes
u and ur web master can go to hell
happy fucking 500 models i deleted them all
rg

Basicly, he and I would be the only one to get this message and his subscribers would just view the page as normal. Surprisingly, it took until 2pm for him to stumble across it, but when he did, it was pure comedy. You should have heard the fear in his voice as he walked up the hall to my office. "Uhh.. Hal... there's something wrong with the site." "What?" I reply, feigning concern. I quickly bring up the site in a browser window as he stands over me, breathing deeply and loudly. I read the words that I had all ready memorized, capping it off with a, "Woah.. shit." Suddenly, I hear Matt's footsteps as he *runs* back down the hall to his own office.

I hear him talking on the phone with Tim, the guy who hosts our sites. He's frantic and confused. He knows about two of Tim's other customers who have been hacked into before, so this only raises his fears. He also remembers a year ago when some random guy from Turkey managed to steal his domain name. Man, I struck a nerve!

"April Fools," I instant message him.
"u ddid that?" he types quickly, shaken.
":D"
"u fucker" "Im gonna get u back"

I met him halfway in the hall, laughing my ass off. "You're fucking dead, now," he warns me, but I keep laughing. "You're not gonna expect it, but I'm gonna get you back."

Mission Accomplished.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!

My next target was his girlfriend, who is a model whose site I run as well. I did the same thing to her site, but her message was more... revealing. I posted her full real name, address and phone number, along with a really BAD picture of her, accompanied by a message that all of her stuff had been deleted.

When she came home from a photoshoot and saw it, she flipped out! She ran to Matt, frantic! He was in on it with me this time, though! He got on a fake phone call with Tim. "How long will it take to fix it?" ..... "TWO WEEKS?!?"

Oh my god, she went APESHIT!!!

I am now watching my back carefully because I fear massive retaliation!

Anyone else have stories of april fools genius?

Meanie. :p

:lmao:

I was gonna go for the hat trick and tell my parents that I was gay...

but the Laker game was on.

The worst one I've pulled off was back when email was new, and people where naive.

I discovered that you could, using a little knowhow, make an email that seemed to be from anyone.

I sent an email from john.arbuckle@yale.edu offering a friend a football scholarship.

It took him 3 hours to realize it was a april fools joke... (ended up calling his dad & everything)

(note the name, recognize it?)

God damn, it was funny, but also soooo evil.

Excellent Yakk! A Garfield reference too.

And because you were watching Basketball they would have known it was a joke?

Nice job. It's not at all funny take away a mans porn.

brilliant april fools prank!! I totally forgot to do anything :lol:

That's hilarious :lol: :thumbsup: I would have loved to see their reactions!

Unfortunately there was never a time yesterday in which all three of my roommates were around because I too was going to tell them that I was gay. :p

great moves, he shoots, he scores!

Halx, that roxxes.

All I came up with this year: one of our support techs has a gumball machine on his desk. I emptied it except for 3-4 gumballs, put a sheet of paper in the bottom of the bin, and then refilled it. He hasn't gotten to the "end" yet, and I expect he will Monday morning.

I didn't do anything this year, but I had several people at work VERY nervous all day. I played it up and by the end of the day, they were dying to know what i'd done to them. Was almost better than actualyl having done something.

Great one, Hal.

I did some thing mean, to my niece, I told her she had to wash her hands, so she turned on the sink to wash her hands(I put a rubber band on the sprayer)so when she turned it on she got wet and cryed lol I felt bad though.

To quote Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, Mr. Halx, "Excellent!" *as I drum my fingers together. Wow, that is an April Fool's joke that deserves to go into the hall of fame!

:( All I did was the old, "Your zipper's open", and the "You've got something stuck in your tooth" after a lecture. Ah well... I gotta think of some good ones for next year. He he.

HAHAHAHAHAH... kick ass, good job.

The only joke I played was on my friends roomate. This guy is not that smart when it comes to computers. So I just swapped moniter cables between the two computers that they have set up in the house. My friend knew what I had done. We waited until his roommate woke up and went to get on the computer. He turned one of them on and both moniters. then he noticed that the mouse for one was working on the other screen. He spent several minutes trying to figure it out. He thought that the computers were dying. He went even as far as to reset the computers several times to try to correct the problem. We finally told him about an hour later. It was a great laugh watching him try to figure it out.

LoL great Prank Halx, I would of died laughing seeing them panic.

Great!

Anytime you can make someone freak out, it is time well spent.

I did this to my boss's office. He is on vacation, so he has not yet seen it.