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bob eck
bob eck Member Posts: 930
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what was the best April fools prank pulled on you or one you pulled?

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  • Paul Rohrs_14
    Paul Rohrs_14 Member Posts: 80
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    Mark Eatherton

    A few years back Mark Eatherton had a Thread going about small suitcase sized nuclear power plants for heating that had me going for a while.

    Took me a while before the inevitable "Doh!" moment and realization set in that I had been "had".

    So ashamed now....

    In the words of that famous theologian-  Larry the Cable Guy, "I don't care who you are, that's funny".

    Paul
  • bob eck
    bob eck Member Posts: 930
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    end of the week ?

    That must have been a good one.
  • Mark Eatherton
    Mark Eatherton Member Posts: 5,853
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    the BEST one goes to Dave Yates...

    Many years ago, we turned this place upside down, and turned it into a scorched air site. If memory serves me correctly, Mr H didn't think it was too funny, but I and numerous others were in tears over a cat named Tickles that was stuck in a duct somewhere in someone's heating system.



    Those were the days... Seems like a hundred years ago :-)



    Happy April Fools Day 2011



    ME
    It's not so much a case of "You got what you paid for", as it is a matter of "You DIDN'T get what you DIDN'T pay for, and you're NOT going to get what you thought you were in the way of comfort". Borrowed from Heatboy.
  • Brad White
    Brad White Member Posts: 2,398
    edited April 2011
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    Tonight

    my lovely step-daughters (both collectively until one confesses), put white toothpaste on the white toilet seat.



    My darling bride found that out first hand and oddly, was amused.

    This after she checked for Saran Wrap and was feeling safe.



    I did discover an elastic band around the hand sprayer on the kitchen sink. It had not occurred to the girls that a beige rubber band shows up on a black handle. I did not tell them that, but did put a black o-ring on it instead and did tell The Lovely Susan not to use the kitchen sink for the rest of the evening.



    I had better remove that before the morning though, in case I forget!
    "If you do not know the answer, say, "I do not know the answer", and you will be correct!"



    -Ernie White, my Dad
  • jp_2
    jp_2 Member Posts: 1,935
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    why not?

    nuclear powered pace makers were once common.  in perspective, a suitcase would be huge!
  • Jean-David Beyer
    Jean-David Beyer Member Posts: 2,666
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    nuclear powered pace makers

    Those always scared me. Are they still being used?



    It seems to me everyone with one of those should have a tatoo warning the mortician, so the pacemaker could be removed prior to cremation. But what if the person died in a country that could not read the tatoo because not in their language? Glad i do not need a pacemaker.



    One of the first ones was made by Wilson Greatbatch in the lab of a company I once worked for. It as about 1" x 1.5" x 1.5" and would be worn outside the body. I believe the electrodes went inside, but I am not sure of that. That would have been between 1960 and 1965, I imagine. I do not think that one was used on a real patient. It was battery powered.



    http://www.ohio.edu/russprize/greatbatch.html
  • Dave Yates (GrandPAH)
    Dave Yates (GrandPAH) Member Posts: 281
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    Dang near

    split my sides laughing, But that AF joke almost got me banned for life from here! Wish I'd saved those all-too-funny posts.



    The iWorx geothermal revival job (7-stages of heat & 6-cooling) we're doing in western PA has a real live "Tickles the Cat" living in the huge cavernous basement. Ours was the first sighting in two years. They put out food & clean the box, but never see Tickles. The wife has a medical business & this cat was run over by a car. Her patients left the waiting room to attend to Tickles & Doc took it to a vet. No one expected it to live. Once home, it went straight to the basement to hide & has only been seen a few times since.



    I asked about the cat because we were using the walk-out cellar doors. The owners were stunned we'd seen Tickles! "Haven't seen her for two years. We weren't sure she was still alive."



    Could be she's living in the hydro-air ducts?
  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 16,835
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    That was the best one ever

    and I was honored to be a part of it. Maybe I'll name my next cat Tickles?



    ;)



    "Airhead"
    All Steamed Up, Inc.
    Towson, MD, USA
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