Tell us the BEST April Fool's joke you've ever played on anyone!
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GLOV,
Here's one that was pulled on me.
Back when Sidney Crosby was recovering from a concussion and there was concern about his return for the playoffs, I got an email from my son. He said Crosby was out for the season. His source was a good friend in law school with him. This friend was connected to a person high up in the Penguins administration. I knew the friend and I knew he had that friend with the Pens. So I bought it. And I posted it on this site.
A few days later and after being attacked on here, I posted a retraction and mea culpa.
I was not behind this one, circa 1990 or so. A DC colleague was.
I worked as a young lawyer at a large regional law firm which at the time derived way too much of its revenue from a single client - a large regional, publicly traded bank HQ'd in a certain Pa city. At the time, the firm had a primitive, microcomputer based email system through which you could literally send out emails under other people's names.
So, the DC colleague sent out an email to the entire firm, under the managing partner's name, advising that the large banking client had announced that morning that it was being acquired by a big new york bank. Well, in that certain Pa city, there were folks who were just about prepared to throw themselves out of tenth story windows.
But it got better. The relationship partner for the bank, a very old school fellow, called up the general counsel of the bank and asked, "why wasn't I in the loop?"
I worked as a young lawyer at a large regional law firm which at the time derived way too much of its revenue from a single client - a large regional, publicly traded bank HQ'd in a certain Pa city. At the time, the firm had a primitive, microcomputer based email system through which you could literally send out emails under other people's names.
So, the DC colleague sent out an email to the entire firm, under the managing partner's name, advising that the large banking client had announced that morning that it was being acquired by a big new york bank. Well, in that certain Pa city, there were folks who were just about prepared to throw themselves out of tenth story windows.
But it got better. The relationship partner for the bank, a very old school fellow, called up the general counsel of the bank and asked, "why wasn't I in the loop?"
Fun fact - when all that was going on, we were asked what could be said in light of hipaa. Somewhere deep in my files, i have a copy of Sid's CBA hipaa waiver.
Not pulled by me.....but the Sid Finch article on April 1, 1985 is just a classic April Fools Joke.....i believed the story, thought that it was overstated, but that generally believed the hype.
The yadsloof lirpa commitment gets me every time.....ok just kidding about that, surprised that I have not seen him commit yet this year.
The yadsloof lirpa commitment gets me every time.....ok just kidding about that, surprised that I have not seen him commit yet this year.
BTW, re: the guy who did the email prank above (about whom there were stories involving a hijacked train in college), a couple of years later he was at it again....
The previous winter, one of our colleagues was selected to be the head of a significant financial regulatory agency. He was a high flier, but frankly, not a very nice person, so there was something of a sigh of relief in some quarters when he left. In any event, when the guy took his new position, a lot of people in the industry thought he was a lightweight, and one law firm tried to pull what he perceived to be a fast one on him. So, he decided to show them that he was not a lightweight by issuing an asset freeze order on the law firm and its partners, for making deceptive statements to a federal agency. As you might imagine, this caused something of a stir, and people took him a little more seriously after that.
So, come the next April 1, our resident prankster reached out to our former partner/now bigshot agency head, and got him to "sign" a bogus asset freeze order for our firm and its partners, a copy of which was placed on each partner's desk for their arrival on the morning of 4/1. Most of the partners got that joke, but there was a not insubstantial number who thought the guy was just mean enough to do something like that to his former firm, and had to be walked back from the ledge a bit.
The previous winter, one of our colleagues was selected to be the head of a significant financial regulatory agency. He was a high flier, but frankly, not a very nice person, so there was something of a sigh of relief in some quarters when he left. In any event, when the guy took his new position, a lot of people in the industry thought he was a lightweight, and one law firm tried to pull what he perceived to be a fast one on him. So, he decided to show them that he was not a lightweight by issuing an asset freeze order on the law firm and its partners, for making deceptive statements to a federal agency. As you might imagine, this caused something of a stir, and people took him a little more seriously after that.
So, come the next April 1, our resident prankster reached out to our former partner/now bigshot agency head, and got him to "sign" a bogus asset freeze order for our firm and its partners, a copy of which was placed on each partner's desk for their arrival on the morning of 4/1. Most of the partners got that joke, but there was a not insubstantial number who thought the guy was just mean enough to do something like that to his former firm, and had to be walked back from the ledge a bit.
I was fooled by Sports Illustrated many years ago.
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The Greatest April Fools' Joke in Sports: The Saga of Sidd Finch
Perhaps the greatest April Fools' joke in sports history, George Plimpton's April 1, 1985, article in Sports Illustrated detailed the fascinating tale of an unknown Mets pitching prospect named Sidd Finch. Photographer Lane Stewart and the 'real' Sidd Finch, Joe Berton, reminisce about how the...
One year, my wife told me she was pregnant, at a time when another pregnancy was not what we needed. I was completely convinced until she let me in on the joke. Then, a few weeks later, I found out she really WAS pregnant. With my uncle's child.
I think that you buried the lede with this comment.......to gain interest I think that I would state that my wife got pregnant by my uncle....and oh yeah it was around April........ More info?? Background story??
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