{"id":298,"date":"2008-07-18T20:19:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T01:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/the-ultimate-practical-joke-site\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T00:33:07","slug":"the-ultimate-practical-joke-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/the-ultimate-practical-joke-site\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Practical Joke Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s greatest practical joke site was created recently.  It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicecritic.com\">NiceCritic<\/a>, and I got victimized today at work.  When I sat down at my computers this morning, my inbox had this to say:<\/p>\n<ul>It seems like your thong is showing.  &#8211; an anonymous &#8220;nice critic&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Now I received the message at work, so it had to be from a coworker.  But seriously, there are very few practical jokers left at my work after years of attrition.  And when you receive your first &#8220;nice criticism&#8221; out of the blue, it&#8217;s a whole new experience in paranoia.  I was wracking my head ALL DAY LONG trying to figure out if someone saw me biking to work in my bike shorts and mistook them for a failed attempt at putting my (sexy) clothes on in the right order.<\/p>\n<p>Well, after getting crank-emailed on my college buddies&#8217; email chain (they are pros at this kind of thing &#8211; before I noticed, they had planned a full-blown reunion in my attic &#8211; people were buying airplane tickets thinking I was begging them to come see my &#8220;renovations&#8221; &#8211; but I digress&#8230;), I figured there&#8217;s no time like the present for a little revenge.  So &#8211; fair warning if you read this my pals &#8211; you&#8217;ve been nicecritic&#8217;ed today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hurry up and use the site, I&#8217;m sure it won&#8217;t be long before some disgruntled hacker <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ddos#Distributed_attack\">DDOS<\/a>&#8216;es the thing into oblivion because he was told his feet smell one. too. many. times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Wow, that was scary fun.  I might need therapy&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doug needs to stop patting people on the bottom<\/li>\n<li>As everyone knows, Mark&#8217;s pants are a bit too tight lately<\/li>\n<li>Ken needs a breath mint<\/li>\n<li>Erik has worn heels on his shoes<\/li>\n<li>Sounds like it&#8217;s time for Keith to visit the barber<\/li>\n<li>I hope Mike soon realizes that &#8220;yelling doesn&#8217;t help morale&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kevin needs to look people in the eye when he shakes hands<\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately, Paul doesn&#8217;t release his hug in a timely manner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s greatest practical joke site was created recently. It&#8217;s called NiceCritic, and I got victimized today at work. When I sat down at my computers this morning, my inbox had this to say: It seems like your thong is showing. &#8211; an anonymous &#8220;nice critic&#8221; Now I received the message at work, so it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/the-ultimate-practical-joke-site\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ultimate Practical Joke Site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-lol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-4O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2002\/lan-party-on-wayne\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":0},"title":"LAN party on, Garth!","author":"m","date":"June 13, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"The most fun was joining Chau's MUFF server and finding one of her fellow tribe members to triple-team. 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