Top 16 April Fool Pranks On Programmers
                                                         Author: Unknown
                                                Submitted by Unknown on 08-01-1998
                                                Genre: List, Rating: 1.93, Suitability: PG

                       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 10 List, then remove #8 and
                       re-insert it between #5 and #6.

                       5> Pretend to "discover" a Fox TV Web site with a now-out-of-date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."