[1989] in Humor
HUMOR: April Fools for Programmers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Wed Apr 2 00:33:26 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 00:29:57 EST
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:41:06 EST
Sender: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 21:53:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Just A Slinkie <slinkie@cyberspace.org>
Happy April Fool's Day Everyone!
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The Top 16 April Fool's Day Pranks to Pull on Programmers
16) Using their e-mail address, post a request for penpals to the
alt.prison.bodypiercing newsgroup.
15) Three words: electric mouse buzzer.
14) Assign them to the new "Heaven's Gate" project.
13) "Look, Bill Gates!! Ha! Made ya look!"
12) Put them in the same room with a member of the opposite sex.
11) "Have you got Prince Albert in a LAN?"
10) Tell them that "everyone knows Star Trek transporter technology is
bogus."
9) 10 GOTO 10
7) Swap their monitor for a large cardboard box with handpuppets. Watch
the fur fly!
6) Announce that annual raises will be based on a subjective test of one's
ability to "schmooze the way the butt-kissers in Marketing do."
8) Intercept their daily Top 5 List, then remove #8 and re-insert it
between #5 and #6.
5) Pretend to "discover" a Fox TV website with a now-out-of-date win a
weekend with Gillian Anderson of X-Files contest.
4) Every hour, on the hour, forward them a warning about the "Good Times"
virus.
3) Call her up and ask if her program is running, and when she says "yes,"
tell her "Well you better go catch it!"
2) Replace all the Jolt in the soda machine with Perrier and V8.
and the Number 1 April Fool's Day Prank to Pull on Programmers...
1) Special announcement: "Forget Java -- Starting immediately, all coding
will be done in COBOL."
