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Title: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: Hope 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?
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: Shaker 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?
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder 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).
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: floo 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.
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: Brownie on April 02, 2016, 08:24:24 PM: Well come on floo, tell!
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: L.A. 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?
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: L.A. 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. :)
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: L.A. 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.
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: jeremyp 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.
Title: Re: April Fool prank backfires!!
Post by: Leonard James 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? :)