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Before I start explaining, go here for some background information.

As I had some days off work, I could spend some time on how to perform a nice April Fools prank.
I developed a few ideas (actually, I will use one of them next year

).

However, this year it should be something you could do with the features of our new forum software. There's one feature that came in handy: you can execute certain program segments on a trigger word stored in the message body. I added 2 (two) code lines that, if triggered, exchange the trigger word with the username of the currently logged on user. I did a few tests and it worked perfectly.

Now, as it would seem that I was addressing a specific user directly (the one who is actually reading the text), I needed something to deliver this prank. Starting with the "Insult Generator" I posted years ago and some additional googling, I found a genereric complaint generator, a perfect paylopad.

The complaint generator finally constructed a nice completely senseless complaint with a male bogus name. I copied and pasted the complaint into a text editor, replaced the bogus name with the trigger word ({vbusername}) and posted a new thread with the trigger word in the title. The deed was done.

Well, the feedback was mixed. Some people were upset, some were amused and some were simply puzzled like

is going on here.
Anyway, {bbusername} - you got served.
Happy April Fools Day!

Now, as we got that resolved, here's some real news that might interest you:
(1) Nasa finally found water on Mars!
(2) Google expanding and expanding ...

01 Apr 2005, 17:46	#47
R. You dig. Join Date: 02.04.2002 Location: On the fothermucker Posts: 7,179	Time for coming out of the closet ... Before I start explaining, go here for some background information. As I had some days off work, I could spend some time on how to perform a nice April Fools prank. I developed a few ideas (actually, I will use one of them next year ). However, this year it should be something you could do with the features of our new forum software. There's one feature that came in handy: you can execute certain program segments on a trigger word stored in the message body. I added 2 (two) code lines that, if triggered, exchange the trigger word with the username of the currently logged on user. I did a few tests and it worked perfectly. Now, as it would seem that I was addressing a specific user directly (the one who is actually reading the text), I needed something to deliver this prank. Starting with the "Insult Generator" I posted years ago and some additional googling, I found a genereric complaint generator, a perfect paylopad. The complaint generator finally constructed a nice completely senseless complaint with a male bogus name. I copied and pasted the complaint into a text editor, replaced the bogus name with the trigger word ({vbusername}) and posted a new thread with the trigger word in the title. The deed was done. Well, the feedback was mixed. Some people were upset, some were amused and some were simply puzzled like is going on here. Anyway, {bbusername} - you got served. Happy April Fools Day! Now, as we got that resolved, here's some real news that might interest you: (1) Nasa finally found water on Mars! (2) Google expanding and expanding ...