Engineering Practical Jokes
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Douglas.Stunkard
Remember the good old days of DOS, when you could open command.com with a ...
10 great April Fool's jokes for engineers
Brian Fuller
4/1/2011 5:01 AM EDT
Did you wake up struggling to come up with a clever joke to play on your engineering colleagues? Here is some inspiration:
- Klaxon horn contraption (author Bob Stevens won our inaugural Engineering Practical Jokes contest with this beauty)
- Hacking the white-noise generator
- Snap your fingers and, presto! Prank!
- A real smokin' scope
- Some things are timeliness: electricity, capacitors and the need to relieve ones self
- How to set the printer on fire
- The perils of the anti-glare screen
- Timing is everything--on April Fool's Day
- Rick Rolling
- The proper use of a photo flash
You'll find dozens of other great inspirations in the comments fields as well. And here's a complete list of the engineering practical jokes submissions.
Mischievous April Fool's Day to you! If you pull off some clever pranks today, please send us the details!
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Douglas.Stunkard
7/12/2011 1:34 PM EDT
Remember the good old days of DOS, when you could open command.com with a simple text editor and find the line with the dreaded "Abort, Retry, Fail" message.
Unwary users were so supprised to see "You're F!*%ed" or some such. And no ammount of rebooting would solve the problem.
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