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Let the planning of April fools pranks begin.

I like pranks. It’s kind of a hobby. Yeah I’d say I played a bunch through out the years. Like the time I sent a friend a subpoena from the RIAA. That prank never gets old. However I wouldn’t recommend it as it can make people a bit upset. 

Then there was the soy sauce in the diet coke bottle. May I just say I wish I hadn’t of deleted that video (or did I?). Straight to YouTube <-[Not a link to the video] and a million hits later. Of course my conscious got the best of me on that one. Never posted it.

My prank I did last April was the ever popular vbscript that makes the user think he has a virus and reboots the crap out of the pc.  When you send that out over the corporate network and the WAN team freaks out it becomes more of an issue then. Of course I still to this day have no Idea who would do that. ::snicker::

If you haven’t seen the screensaver of the blue screen of death then be careful of your nearest geek with network privileges.

I must say it can be a little dangerous being my friend come April 1st time. If you are you should just call in sick or turn off your pc and related servers.

Speaking of server pranks don’t do a INIT 0 command on a enterprise Unix Server in the middle of the day especially when the server is off site like in another state. Like I said I do not know who would do that… Certainly not me. ::snicker:: ::shrug::

This post I should probably not let go public but what the crap maybe it will give your prank friend something to chew on.

Try this little cheesy vbscript to make your windows OS(XP-Windows7):

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The MikeDopp original Script:

or call it the template

Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak msg

The JoeLevi script:

Dim msg, sapi
msg="All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be  like they are Come on baby,  Don't fear the Reaper Baby take my hand,  Don't fear the Reaper We'll be able to fly,  Don't fear the Reaper Baby I'm your man,  Valentine is done Here but now they're gone Romeo and Juliet Are together in eternity,  Romeo and Juliet 40,000 men and women everyday,  Like Romeo and Juliet 40,000 men and women everyday,  Redefine happiness Another 40,000 coming everyday, We can be like they are Come on baby,  Don't fear the Reaper Baby take my hand,  Don't fear the Reaper We'll be able to fly,  Don't fear the Reaper Baby I'm your man,  Love of two is one Here but now they're gone Came the last night of sadness And it was clear we couldn't go on The door was open and the wind appeared The candles blew and then disappeared The curtains flew then he appeared Saying don't be afraid Come on baby,  And we had no fear And we ran to him,  Then we started to fly We looked backward and said goodbye We had become like they are We had taken his hand We had become like they are Come on baby, don't fear the reaper"
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.

Speak msg

Save as tts.vbs and run of course for a test then, using Windows Task Scheduler setup this script to start on startup or every minute until the poor sap(prankee) gets sick of it.

Of course there are a ton of great things you can do to prank co-workers and friends and this is a just a sample of things that I know have been done. ::snicker::

Have fun make sure you leave me a comment on how well this worked for you!

-Mike