Practical Joke Friday. Screwing with the heads of the gullible using e-mail and Photoshop (817 hits)
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Submitted by Dexter Brown (View user info) at 2008-04-11 17:19:13 EDT
This is one of the better practical jokes pulled off at our office. I started out with two similar messages typed up in Notepad. I took screenshots of the messages and cropped them in Photoshop, then uploaded the first image to a server. Finally, with a bit of HTML I added the image in an email and sent it to a friend in the office. When the email is opened it looks like an ordinary typed up e-mail message, but the message is actually a graphic sitting on our server.
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:17 AM
SUBJECT: It's time
So enough of the talk, when are we going out? Your ass is inviting and my pole is getting hungry. And I know we both can use an escape from women. So what do you say, tomorrow morning? I'll grease up the bed tonight. All I need is a yes.
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I wait for a reply. Ten minutes later:
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:24 AM
RE: It's time
Haha funny. Careful what you send because Craig may be logging e-mails.
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Now that I know he read the e-mail I upload the second image with the same file name. This will overwrite the old image. It now reads:
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Hey Jeff,
So enough of the talk, when are we getting out on the lake? The bass are biting and my pole is getting rusty. And I know we both can use an escape from the women. So what do you say, tomorrow morning? I'll hitch up the boat tonight. All I need is a yes.
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The trick to this gag is to change the message just enough so the person may question their sanity, thinking they read something that wasn't actually there. I reply back:
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:29 AM
RE: RE: It's time
Craig won't care, he'll probably want to join us!
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The beauty of this - when he goes back to the original e-mail or looks in the reply thread, the text will have changed automatically in all the messages:
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:45 AM
RE: RE: RE: It's time
LOL! Nice. You're either messing with me or I'm losing my mind.
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By this time, Jeff comes around to my desk where a couple IT guys are at my desk reading the thread and chuckling. Busted! We all start laughing.
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2008-04-14 08:51:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2008-04-12 03:24:43 CDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck.
You know you've been in IT to long when you get this joke and appreciate it.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-04-13 15:31:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
FISHING?
YOU SICK SON OF A BITCH.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2008-04-12 04:24:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck.
You know you've been in IT to long when you get this joke and appreciate it.
First thing I'm going to ask of my new wife is a labotomy... and some boobies.
Well... maybe the boobies first.
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2008-04-12 02:38:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I think you're catering to the wrong crowd, posting about this gag.
A few years ago, people would understand what you did. Now... well... no explanation necessary.
Submitted by loan_officer (user info) at 2008-04-12 02:25:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No Comment
Submitted by CharlieRoot (user info) at 2008-04-12 02:00:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
boooo
Submitted by jasumthin (user info) at 2008-04-12 01:12:54 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Registered_S_O (user info) at 2008-04-11 23:14:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I thoroughly did not enjoy this.
Submitted by Dexter-Brown (user info) at 2008-04-11 22:22:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Pretty gay was the whole point! Thanks for following along.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-04-11 20:54:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Too fucking confusing.
PS. And, pretty gay.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2008-04-11 17:48:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-04-11 17:36:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by SkullBiter (user info) at 2008-04-11 17:29:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-04-11 17:24:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
uh....
what?