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April Fool prank backfires!!
« on: April 01, 2016, 03:46:38 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35941806

Do you have stories - of pranks you've played that have backfired, or that have been played on you and backfired? 
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2016, 08:57:38 AM »
I have personal knowledge of a BRILLIANT one yesterday perpetrated by a Bishop! ;D As far as I know it hasn't backfired, but some were completely taken in by it.
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2016, 08:59:41 AM »
Quote from: Floo on April 02, 2016, 08:57:38 AM
I have personal knowledge of a BRILLIANT one yesterday perpetrated by a Bishop! ;D As far as I know it hasn't backfired, but some were completely taken in by it.
It wasn't the old "Christianity disbanded - they've found the body" one, was it?
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2016, 11:47:42 AM »
Quote from: Shaker on April 02, 2016, 08:59:41 AM
It wasn't the old "Christianity disbanded - they've found the body" one, was it?
That always upsets the Jesus Myth brigade.............(big smiley).
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2016, 11:48:36 AM »
Quote from: Shaker on April 02, 2016, 08:59:41 AM
It wasn't the old "Christianity disbanded - they've found the body" one, was it?

No.
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2016, 08:24:24 PM »
Well come on floo, tell!
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2016, 08:27:24 PM »
Was it last April 1st when someone thought it would be a good wheeze to nominate Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership?
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2016, 08:30:03 PM »
A good job someone did, we need people like him, old school socialists with principles.  You know where you are with Jeremy.
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2016, 08:31:10 PM »
Quote from: Brownie on April 02, 2016, 08:30:03 PM
A good job someone did, we need people like him, old school socialists with principles.  You know where you are with Jeremy.

Up shit creek without a paddle.  :)
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2016, 08:32:25 PM »
We've gone off the topic of April Fool pranks LA.  Naughty us.
Floo, do tell us about the Bishop please.
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2016, 08:58:42 PM »
Quote from: Brownie on April 02, 2016, 08:32:25 PM
We've gone off the topic of April Fool pranks LA.  Naughty us.
Floo, do tell us about the Bishop please.

There was a Bishop of Birmingham who did something memorable during a confirmation service as I recall , I forget the details.
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2016, 12:59:10 AM »
Quote from: Brownie on April 02, 2016, 08:30:03 PM
  You know where you are with Jeremy.
In Opposition.
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Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2016, 07:07:06 AM »
Quote from: L.A. on April 02, 2016, 08:58:42 PM
There was a Bishop of Birmingham who did something memorable during a confirmation service as I recall , I forget the details.

Are you sure it wasn't the Bishop of Buckingham?  :)
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