WINNER - Most Profilic: Donna D'Amico, Hilton Head Island

The old standby while I was in the workplace was leaving all the executives urgent phone messages from people like Mr. Lyons, Mr. Gerry Raff, Mr. Tiger, Ms. Sally Mander, etc. and leaving the phone number for the National Zoo!

Having a blow-up doll (dressed in business attire) at a colleague’s desk and telling them they’ve been replaced.

Every April Fools, I hide my husband’s car so he thinks it was stolen. (He says this is getting really old.)

Oldies but goodies: Vaseline or plastic wrap on the toilet seats.

Years ago when visiting Hilton Head Island and having a fun night out with our family and friends, I took advantage of my deep-sleeping brother-in-law. (He was a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals at the time.) I painted his fingernails hot pink and was in hysterics in the middle of the night when I heard him cursing and trying to wash it off. The next morning I apologized for not having fingernail polish remover and told him I guess he needed to go buy some!

One April Fools joke gone badly happened while we lived in Maryland. We lived in a neighborhood that was an old polo estate with stables on the premises for homeowner’s to board their horses. I thought it would be funny to tell my neighbor I saw her horse roaming around my backyard and she better come by and get him. I hung up giggling waiting by my window for her to come by. After an hour or so I decided to get on with my day and get in the shower. My husband interrupted me and told me to hurry and come to the door for there was an emergency. I dressed and ran to find the stable manager standing with his hands on his hips and not looking amused. He was very late for a horse show and was not happy. He asked where I last saw my friend’s horse and I could only sheepishly say, “April Fools?”

I told my best friend in Washington, D.C., that I was going to be a contestant on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and she had to meet me in New York City. I was never on the show, but we had a great time in New York!

She got me back the next year when I received a baby shower invitation, yes, on April 1 and I took it hook, line and sinker. She’s a high-power executive that’s never been married and I’ve known her since kindergarten. I was stunned she was having a baby, and I was just finding out about it! She didn’t answer her phone and I started calling everyone. She was a step ahead of me and had everyone in on the joke, her office, family, friend’s etc. She got me good.

Favorite College Pranks:

• Stuff a dorm room full with shredded paper. (Time consuming but worth it)

• My now husband and friends put a 500-pound boulder in the middle of my dorm room. They got it in on a few skateboards and I never could get it out so it sort of became a coffee table/foot stool.

• Bubbles in the campus fountain.

• Let a greased pig loose in the media center.