I read that as "puked", so I'm a little relieved for you.

I haven't punked or been punked, but it's only 3.30.

Man, that's awesome. The best ones are often the ones that border on emotional cruelty.

No one has gotten me in person, but I've been working from home today. The only gotcha there is that the foundation guys we hired to level our floor had to bail on us at lunch because of an "emergency" at another site. It doesn't appear to be a joke.

mathowie's color prank today is the only online one that got me. Pure brilliance, not the usual "haw haw Google's making toasters now" snorefest or the endless parade of rickrolls.

Oh wait, I remembered a good one! Not today, but many years ago.

I was in a photography class and using a very large paper cutter. Right on cue, my professor said "Careful now." I smiled sweetly and slammed the arm down. Then I clutched my hand to my chest and started yelling.

His face drained of all its color and he began repeating at a fever pitch: "Go to the nurse's office go to the nurse's office go to the nurse's office NOW!"

I smiled and wiggled all my fingers at him and said "April Fool!" and he continued to repeat "get to the nurse's office you have to go to the nurse's office" a few more times.

Then he got mad. The look on his face made me glad I hadn't used fake blood like I'd originally planned.

I'm fooling you all by not fooling you.

Or am I?? Mwa-ha-ha-ha!!!!

I bring donuts into the office every once in a while, and I always order 18, no jelly, no creme. The last couple of times, my cow-orkers complained that I never bring in filled donuts, to which I responded, "Whenever I bring them, no one eats 'em." "No, no!" they replied, "We love those! Everybody loves Boston Cremes!"

So fine. Today I brought 18 donuts: 15 regular, 2 cremes, and 1 jelly. And I stuffed one of the cremes with 2 tablespoons of cayenne.

And, of course, everyone's gone home, and the only things left in the box are crumbs, half the jelly, and the (untouched) Boston Cayenne. Fuckers.

Awww, Eamon, what a bummer! You're a genius.

I April Fooled myself. I went to a favorite "Name Brands For Less" place, hunting for a pair of shoes. I'd seen them before, this certain pair, didn't buy them, then looked them up on the Internet and found out that they retail for $100.00! Well, that was months ago, they've haunted me ever since, and I didn't think I'd find them again. But I did! In my size! For SEVEN DOLLARS!!!! Got them home, and discovered....they're two different shoes. Sure, wearing them and looking down they're exactly the same. Same clog style, with a wedge heel. But upon looking at the bottoms - different bases. I am so mad at myself! Back they go.

I had a colleague in graduate school who managed to punk me (and countless others) more than once in my grad career. He even managed using variations on the same trick, and we fell for it more than once:

He would come up with some plausible item that a professor you worked for might want you to get for them from another office. For example: "Dr. F left a book for you to review on her way out to Arizona. It's in the department office." You'd go to that office, and the secretary (who was in on it) would say, "Actually, no, I don't have it. Could she have left it in your mailbox?" Check the mailbox -- not there, but the secretary in that office would say, "I think she might have left it with the statistical assistant." And so on, till you would visit every conceivable place it could have been left, ending with your own office carrel. Where Chris, the joker would be sitting with a grin on his face.

I got a visit from the April Fools Fairy this morning - this was in a box on my doorstep when I left to go to work. A friend of mine has claimed responsibility - it made my day.
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A friend of mine got punked hard today. Her sister (who has a history of big-time April Fool's pranks) emailed the whole family to say that she'd been offered a job in Shanghai. This was plausible, because the company she works for is actually expanding their operations into China. Since the sister is apparently plenty challenged by living on her own in the States, the family was seriously concerned about what kind of disasters she might get herself into if she were to live halfway around the world, in a country where she didn't know the language. After much crying and worrying and hand-wringing, my friend finally remembered that it was April First. I'm not sure when the parents caught on.

Man, some of these pranks are fucked up, I gotta say. I always thought April Fools was about more innocent stuff, not like "Guess what? You're moms dead! haha"

"Your mom's dead." I messed that up.

"punked" means to be anally raped in prison.
"dude" means an unsophisticated city slicker.

Well my ex girlfriend told me this morning that she got engaged last night. I'm still waiting for her to call and say "April fools!" but the later it gets I'm beginning to realize thats not going to happen.