What do you like about April Fools Day?

I've never been one for 'pranks' but my favourite used to be on a website called ThinkGeek.com - every year they'd have products that were almostreal, and in fact, after a few years they started to make some of them a reality.

What do you like or hate about April Fools Day? Perhaps you're more of a pranker and practical joker than a fake product creator?

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robogary over 5 years ago +6

Happy Birthday to my sister, an April 1 birthday.
Jan Cumps over 5 years ago +6

Aside of the pranking: Every year: it's the birthday of my son. This year: my project at work got the green light and goes live that day.
Jan Cumps over 5 years ago in reply to cstanton +6

cstanton wrote: I can certainly appreciate that a lot of the pranks are in poor taste, and some are certainly not so much pranks as being cruel. I don't favour those at all. It may be cultural, but April…

the-dubster over 5 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

We used to send newbies for the classics, fallopian tubing, metric adjustable spanner, left-handed screwdriver, a bubble for a spirit level, sky-hook and the best one for stores was the 'long weight' - you can figure that one out.

Guys were also sent for their ID photograph (ID 10 T) wearing full Respirator/NBC suit - required for when you were on exercise in a pretend nuclear/chemical war environment - usually taken holding a card with the ID designator on - ID10T.

We also sent a guy halfway around base with a bag of 'contaminated air' removed from an aircraft component - he was geared up in a leather apron, elbow length gauntlets, full face shield and white disposable overalls. That took a fair number of phone calls to set up.

Ah the days . . .
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fmilburn over 5 years ago in reply to the-dubster

The self driving bicycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZPNwZex9s
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kmikemoo over 5 years ago in reply to fmilburn

fmilburn Awesome link! So glad that Google Netherlands has such a phenomenal sense of humor. Great stuff!
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Gough Lui over 5 years ago

I definitely loved Tektronix's AGO3000 Oscilloscope ...
http://info.tek.com/rs/tektronix/images/AGO3000_Gravity-Compensated-Oscilloscope_DataSheet.pdf

- Gough
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kmikemoo over 5 years ago in reply to Gough Lui

Gough Lui I couldn't get the spec sheet but Googled some video on the subject and now I'm well informed.
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Gough Lui over 5 years ago in reply to kmikemoo

We all don't need gravity screwing up our measurements, right? I guess the fun is always in the innovative humourous takes on some things - in this case, "features" and "specifications".

- Gough
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the-dubster over 5 years ago in reply to fmilburn

Brilliant, I love the levels of auto balance it has, Boston Dynamics need to get in touch!
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