Do you play tricks on April Fools Day?

[LauraCroft]

One theory says that it began in the 1500s when the Gregorian calendar took over from the Julian. Those who forgot the change and attempted to celebrate New Year's (previously celebrated on the 1st of April) on the wrong date were teased as "April fools."

Apparently there are a few rules: Pranking period ends at noon. It's bad luck to the perpetrator if any tricks are attempted after that time. Those who don't respond with good humor are said to attract bad luck. Fellas fooled by a pretty girl are said to be fated to end up married to her, or at least enjoy a healthy friendship with the lass.

Does anyone have any good examples to share?

Here's some from Australia, who would be dumb enough to fall for these?
In 2003 newspapers in that country touted a breakthrough advertised by car-maker Mini that promised an end to parking hassles with its "vertical parking locator" and flagged the development of vertical parking lots on the sides of buildings. Not to be outdone, another paper's Good Living supplement featured a review of Species restaurant, where diners could feast on culinary delights crafted from animals featured on the World Wildlife Fund's endangered list. The restaurant, owned by April Phewell, specialised in braised slices of hairy nosed wombat, yellow spotted tree frog kebabs and Sumatran Rhino steaks. Two of the major dailies carried an advertisement that claimed motorists would be able to avoid road tolls through use of new technology that would render their vehicles invisible.

[Blessed]

I cannot be bothered reading that, so my answer will correspond to the question of which is being asked in the thread title.
No, I do not play tricks on 'April Fools day' as I find it a lame thing to do.

[emad]

I'll do it occasionally - but i pull pranks all the time so april 1st doesn't make it a special day .

best one ever was when i was over at a friend's house. we logged onto his msn and I started talking to a person we knew from school - pretending I was my friend. Within 10 minutes, i convinced the dude I had hacked him and that he was next. He ended up shutting down his website (2 million hits/month) and rig for the rest of the day

[Purple Penguin]

I remember when I was in the fith grade my teacher (who happens to be my favorite teacher of all time) told the class he won the lottery and was going to quit teaching the next day. I remember almost crying, until he told us "April fools" then the whole class started laughing.

we were yung and gullable then.

[thetieger]

can you PLEASE remove that link it contains a trojan!!!

I almost banned someone on a diff forum for having that damn link! I Say we kill that site

[MatthewDotTK]

That was sooooooo lame. Good thing I have killad... mwahaha!

[gameplaya376]

first off all i dident know there was a stupid trojan attaced to that , but if tieger just said theres 1 wtf would you still click on it ? so dont call me a prick when ur the 1 that cant ****in read 9HOMOERSIMPSON9

[9HOMERSIMPSON9]

I clicked on it before he even replyed and spent the past few hours cleaning my computer.
Did you never click on the link yourself???
Sorry for calling you a prick, i did not know you didnt know
there was a virus in there.
But if you send that too people on april fools day, it must send them mad!!!