I need a good wind-up for 1st April for work.Last year, they had just finished rebranding the uni and made a lot of enemies with their heavy-handedness. They prohibited anyone using the uni logo unless the 'branding style team' had ok'd the content (wtf do a bunch of design graduates know about magnetochemistr?) and forcing their ghastly logo on everything the uni owned.
I sent an email round the office, made out as being from an 'Avril P. Oisson' (Avril Poisson being the French April Fool) and changed the email settings so it looked like it was from the branding team, saying that all the people wearing last year's chemsoc shirts had to take them off or go home. Cue a few of the girls in the office threatening to work just in their bras. By lunchtime, it had been forwarded around the department.
One chap got it and wrote a really snotty letter to the head of Chemistry and a few more were going to complain to the Vice-Chancellor of the uni, who had instigated the whole change-over, but thankfully, it never got that far...
I'm just stuck on how to top it this year.
(I sent an email round the office, made out as being from an 'Avril P. Oisson' (Avril Poisson being the French April Fool) and changed the email settings so it looked like it was from the branding team, saying that all the people wearing last year's chemsoc shirts had to take them off or go home. Cue a few of the girls in the office threatening to work just in their bras. By lunchtime, it had been forwarded around the department.
One chap got it and wrote a really snotty letter to the head of Chemistry and a few more were going to complain to the Vice-Chancellor of the uni, who had instigated the whole change-over, but thankfully, it never got that far...
I'm just stuck on how to top it this year.
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Mon 21 Feb 2011, 7:02,
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Take a crack pipe to worksmoke meth at your desk
if anyone says anything, say APRIL FOOL
kick someones desk over and go home
(if anyone says anything, say APRIL FOOL
kick someones desk over and go home
gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social,
Mon 21 Feb 2011, 7:23,
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I'll take it as plan B Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Mon 21 Feb 2011, 8:20,
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The Non commercial radio station I have been associated with for lo so many yearshas done a different April First gag for the last 30 years - it does get difficult!
The best one I produced was Deja Vu - a 24 hour duplication of March 31st.
(The best one I produced was Deja Vu - a 24 hour duplication of March 31st.
tubaman,
Mon 21 Feb 2011, 9:09,
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