I sabotaged my friends' April Fools Joke
They (Sharon and James) invented a society called the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants (NSPCP) and stuck leaflets through all our friends doors asking for donations.

We (Me and Alex) invented a poor befuddled man called Jonathan Fanshawe-Crooke who had accidentally got hold of one of these flyers and wanted to join the society, as his wife had recently left him and all he had left were his spider plants.

A series of emails began flying back and forth, our friends playing along with poor Mr Fanshawe -Crooke's delusions of helping the plants that had kept him company all his life - even when he was a baby and his morphine-addled nurse left him alone in his crib for hours on end.

Then his friends got involved. One was a professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and knew that no such society as the NSPCP existed. He insisted that they apologise immediately, or he would inform the police.

They did eventually, crapping their pants the whole time.

Then we sent them an email from the "real" NSPCP (National Society for the Protection and Conservation of Porpoises, in case you were wondering...) asking them to remove any reference to their fraudulent society from the internet, as they were receiving complaints. We proceeded to convince them to join. Sent them t-shirts and everything.

They only caught on then, when they received two t-shirts saying "NSPCP - April Fools" in the post. Actually, they only got it when me and Alex fell off our chairs laughing.

It lasted 3 months. I blame them for my not doing any Psychology revision in the run up to my A-Levels. So I also accidentally sabotaged my own A-Levels.

Damn...
(crayongirl, Tue 10 May 2005, 0:52, Reply)