This smacks a tad too soundly of meta-prank. If not, the nature of the internet is the straightman. The fact that your web prank is prepared and launched priva

This smacks a tad too soundly of meta-prank. If not, the nature of the internet is the straightman. The fact that your web prank is prepared and launched privately means that your prank, if crafted well, will fool people -- and often they won't speak up so much about it, but might ask people if they saw it. You don't see this happening so much because there's so much slapstick bullshit that it's no fun at all. It just means you have a whole day of groan-style attempts at comedy. I don't want a day of having to figure out how to get around everyone's new prank frontpage. I totally don't mind something that actually fools me. Hell, I'll take it if it fools more than 35% of the people that see it.