That's not funny...
This isn't something I did, but something that was done to me.

Back around '99 I was involved with a group of people, some friends, some strangers, in running a Live Action Roleplaying game at a convention. Yep, label me Mr Geeky. I played a doctor in a frontier western town, the frontier of the known galaxy that is. Think of it as a bit like Firefly, some years before the actual show aired.

The game went on, all was good, nothing weird happened there.

Some weeks later I had the chance to go the USA for business. One of my friends from the game and I were having an email back and forth about various things, and I mentioned the trip. He asked why I was going, and apparently I failed to respond in a timely enough fashion to his question.

His response to this was to email everyone who had been involved in the game (15 or more people, many of them people I barely knew) with a message saying

`Remember Tomble, the guy who played the doctor in our game? Unforunately he's been diagnosed with renal cancer and is off to the U.S. for treatment next week. Drop him a line to let him know you're thinking of him'.

So, I got a few messages, and a message from my `friend' saying `Enjoy the prank? heh heh'.

The worst message I got was from a girl at the game who said `I was diagnosed with MS last year, so I know you must be feeling pretty down. Let me know if you want to chat'.

I emailed her back and let her know that it had been a `prank', and she was a bit stunned. Emailed back and forth a bit more, and we've been together for 8 years now.

A few years later I was reintroduced to someone from the game and they furrowed their brow and asked `didn't you have chemotherapy or something shortly after that?'.

I pranked him back a bit later with a `fake format' program that loaded at startup on his PC, which had never been backed up and contained everything he had written for the previous few years. He nearly had a stroke right there as he clicked `cancel' and it started thrashing the hard drive and displaying a progress bar.

Apologies for penis. I mean length.
(Tomble Underground, overground, Tombling free., Fri 14 Dec 2007, 0:35, 1 reply)

Hmm
Real twattish prank from your "friend", nice to hear how it worked out in your favour with the girl and such though.
(Gammon Rod A not-so-distant relative of the Crimson Helm, Tue 18 Dec 2007, 0:15, closed)