In honor of April Fool's Day, someone asked on another board for people to confess to their pranks. I was thinking, you all are pretty smart, and at least a little diabolical. I'll bet you've got some great pranks up your sleeves. Here's one that almost makes me wet my pants whenever I think about it.

Back in the day, before I became a SAHM (in February), I was a chemical engineer. Our environmental guy was preparing for an audit for our (new) site, so everything was basically from scratch. The engineers had given him a list of chemicals in our area, but he sent out an email to double-check that we hadn't forgotten anything. I replied that (oops) I forgot that I had dihydrogen monoxide in my area, and it can be pretty dangerous stuff. If you breathe too much of it, you will die. It was everywhere in the plant. It's rampant in our drinking water, but the government will do nothing about it. It's also present in high quantities in seafood and in produce. Read more about it here: http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp Meanwhile, the other engineers realized that they, too, had dihydrogen monoxide in their areas. The environmental guy came to my cube in a huff, worried about this stuff, and we didn't even have an MSDS onsite. He was quite upset.

And if you followed the link, or know what dihydrogen monoxide is, you get the joke. I really almost wet my pants every time I tell the story. What about the rest of you? Got any good practical jokes?

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We had someone in our lab do the DHMO joke too. The funniest part about it was that the woman he was playing it on didn't get it but was pretending she knew what he was talking about and how dangerous it was and all. The rest of us all knew pretty quickly what was going on and played along, so I guess she felt like this was something she should know about and was embarrassed to say she didn't know. I don't know that anyone ever told her either... ahhh, those wacky scientist jokes...

Oh, and I do the MSDS for our lab, and we do actually have one for water. We have to have one for EVERYthing.

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That is very funny!

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Asexuality: It's not just for amoebas anymore

"As long as two people love each other I don't think God cares whether they both have a hoo hoo or a haa haa" Marge Simpson

i work at a hotel so mine are more office humor

~changed the GM/staff PC mouse from left/right to right/left btns.
~put a sign on the copier sayin it is voice operated now.

i did something else but i forget (i didn't work this yr so i did it LY)

that was it silly but fun~

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jacqueline~

My Aunt got my Uncle good. He went to get online and he had a pop up window that said the internet is down today. He could not figure it out, so he ran around the asking them why was it down. They all screamed April Fool's.

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Those are great! I once took a screen shot of my dad's desktop, made it the wallpaper, then deleted his icons. So it looked like the icons were there, but they were just pictures, not links. He was beside himself. What a genius I was when I fixed his computer. I don't think I ever told him the truth.

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