OK, so mine wasn't really a full fledged prank, but it was fun anyways.
My Mom has been on a vaction in Italy for the last few weeks, she returned home on Tuesday. My Dad left for a buisness trip for Europe on Monday, and my only other sibiling doesn't really live at home. So I was garunteed no one at home (which I live about 1200 miles from btw) on Monday night.
I called and with no explenation sung "Camp Grenada" into the answering machine.
All right, not that clever but I digress. Let's hear about some fun pranks you've puller, or want to pull.
Hobbes Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
I think it's best that I let others go first.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Well, there was this one time when I TP'd a guys house, only to find out he wasn't even there.
And then, there was this one time I wrote a letter professing my love for an unnamed married woman in Portland, that was so good, I had to delete it.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
She was unnamed in the letter, and the letter was a goodbye letter, which, if left up, people would have gotten that it wasn't real, but at the same time, people who did thing it was real would have felt manipulated. Or so my conscience tells me.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
Wuss. That was on par with David's conversion thread. And you're both chickens for not letting the joke last long enough.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Yeah, having a conscience is not good for pranks.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
I once traveled into shadow and killed a shadow version of myself. Then I planted the body to make it look like I'd been murdered.
No, wait, that wasn't me. That was a character in The Chronicles of Amber.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
Ack! I haven't gotten that far in Amber yet!
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Sorry. It never occured to me that someone might be reading the series currently. By the way, did you notice that I did not actually mention the name Bleys.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I've filled two offices entirely with balloons.
The first time, the victim (Sean), started popping balloons with a pushpin. Then his phone rang and he had to fight through all the balloons to get to it. Caller was his wife. He told her what had happened and she started laughing so hard she had to hang up. Once the balloons were all popped (and the stuff inside them, glitter everywhere, and Sean got hit in the forehead by a air propelled M&M), balloon bodies lay everywhere on the floor. A monk (Father Daniel) walked in and commented, "There's more latex in here than in a brothel."
Second time was at summer camp and we filled the director's office to the brim. She had me pop them for her, but sat in her office chair as I did so and cringed every single time I popped one. Then an office lady (Sharon) came running in, saying we're wasting them. So we shoved them into two large mail sacks the post office used to deliver the payloads of packages for campers. Told the postal worker that arrived (zooming down the dirt driveway with a packed station wagon, late) he'd misdelivered the bags and they belonged to the camp across the lake.
Postal worker looked at the bags, to his car, to the bags, to his car, sighed, and went to pick one up. Suspecting a heavy bag, he lifted it up fast and high. He started laughing and told us we had WAY too much free time. As if on cue, the FedEx dude zoomed up the drive and cruised into a parking spot. Postal worker looks over and says to him that "the bags need to go across the lake but he doesn't have room in his car, could he take them?" FedEx man says he will and goes to load them in his truck--and cracks up when he picks them up. However, he still loaded them up and drove off to finish his delivery route.
Half an hour later, the camp across the lake calls and says they're still laughing and will be getting even in the near future.
I've also saran wrapped a golf cart (I have photographic evidence).
Put kayaks up on roofs.
Set elaborate Homie attacks.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
You know, I heard Dobbie once pulled a really great prank and ruined an entire series of books for celia.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Bastard!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
You know, Dobbie, that actually really sucks (assuming that that really is the character that that happened with in the Amber books--it's been long enough since I've read them that I can't remember).
My wife once colored a rubber band black, and then used it to rubber band the handle on the (black)vegetable washer thingie on the kitchen sink into the open position. Next time her mother turned on the water, the thing sprayed her in the face. I've always thought that that one was pretty funny.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
How was I supposed to know that someone else here would start to read a thirty-year old book series at the same time as I was re-reading it? Besides it isn't that important to the series. I didn't even remember it from the first time I read it.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
I think he ment the second post. The first is unfortunate, but the second is just mean.
Next you'll be at WalMart setting all the alarm clocks.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Obviously the second post was facetious.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
Can you tell when I'm kidding, or do I need to start using j/k's?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Put your gun down Dobie, she's really going to do it!
Hobbes Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
It looks like I might have to.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
Start using j/k's I mean.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
That reminds me...if you have to have accomplices, get ones that aren't idiots. For example, if you have to take something from some victim's dorm room (let's say a couple of sticks for arguments sake), you may be stuck with the roomate as an accomplice. It should be noted that this person may not fall into the ideal catagory and you should assume this person is in fact an idiot. Otherwise, while he won't tell the owner of the sticks, he'll tell everyone else he runs into. So, even though you're above suspicion and manage to keep a strait face when said victim tells you his woes of lost stickyness, it still get's back to him eventually.
Good thing you burned all the evidence!
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
Ok, in the future it won't be an issue. Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Shortsheeting bed will NEVER go out of style. Especially when you shortsheet a drunk person's bed. Posted by peterh (Member # 5208) on :
Pennying a dorm room door is another old-time classic.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Knox gelatin in a toilet.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
I apologize if I spoiled the series for anyone, but sometimes I just can't help myself. For example, one time I pretended to apologize for spoiling a book series for someone and then, without warning, I let it slip that Rosebud was Citizen Kane's sled.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
I was just sitting down and watching Citizen Kane for the first time in my life!!
*shakes fist at dobbie*
[ April 24, 2004, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
I'm sorry. At least this wasn't as bad as the time I pretended to apologize for ruining Citizen Kane for someone and then "accidentally" let it slip that Bruce Willis's character turns out to be an alien in Unbreakable.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
You know, with 2 nine volt batteries, some duct tape, and a can of shaving cream, you can make a shaving cream bomb.
They are, however, INCREDIBLY dangerous, what with the actual shrapnel and whatnot.
Also, transmission fluid on the tailpipe makes an awful lot of smoke.
It's also funny to put crickets in someone's light sockets; that way they chirp 24/7.
EDIT: a funny, but gross one, I heard about. Apparently these two dorm rooms were having a kind've feud of some kind, and finally one of the guys from one room ran into the other room, peed wildly, and then fled. The peers know that the peed-ons would do anything to get back at them, probably pee-related, so they locked their door constantly. Then the peed-ons had the bright idea of urinating in a pizza pan, freezing it, and then sliding the pee-ice-cake underneath the door of the peers while they were asleep. It melted, and in the morning there was an enormous puddle of piss to greet them.
Boys will be boys.
Se if you can count the "p" word in the sentence.
[ April 24, 2004, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Book ]
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
Hee hee!
I can't think of any good pranks I've done. However, my older Lab plays pranks on my younger one.
She'll pretend that there is something outside, then the foolish younger dog runs outside through the dog door, barking like a nut, only to find that there is nothing out there. (Older dog likes to do this when there is food present--that way she gets rid of the competition for the leftovers.)
Another thing the older dog does is bark to "call" her younger sister. (I trained her to "call" the other dog when it is time for me to feed them.) The younger dog comes running, apparently thinking it must be time to eat. Then the older one jumps out from behind a bush, knocks her to the ground, and pounces on her.
[ April 25, 2004, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Yozhik ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Moved the ice tray out from under the automatic ice-cube maker while a friend was on a 3 week vacation. Entire freezer was full of ice when he got back.
There was a guy in my suite first year college. One of the gals we ate with from down the hall would always get a bowl of jello, and he would reach across the table, grab the jello, and shoot it down all at once. Happened for about a week, and finally they had red jello. She must have put half a bottle of tobasco sauce on it. When he dumped it in his mouth he made a horrible face, spit it back out into the bowl and drained his milk. She got her replacement jello, and when she wasn't looking I replaced the new jello with the old jello from his mouth (still had tobasco on it). She took one bite and made a face.
Unfortunately, I laughed one beat before everyone else and ended up wearing the jello. I definitely deserved that.
Dagonee
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
It's also funny to just leave a can of soda in someone's freezer when you're over at their house. That way it explodes later and makes a huge mess. It's even better if you don't even know them.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
My Dad just told me about this one at dinner tonight...
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
Of all the great MIT hacks, this one will always be my favorite. Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
I know of two good office pranks I pulled once. If you know somebody with a flip-phone, wait until they leave their phone unattended for a little bit. Get some scotch tape and tape around the flip only once as isconspicuously as you can. Then put it exactly where you found it. When they return, proceed to call them. They will imediately know who did it on the caller id, but hey it made my whole office that I used to work at laugh.
Another good one is similar, but far more hilarious. You get some duct tape, and then point the back of their chair toward the person's desk to ensure they will sit in their chair without looking at the back. You tape their cell phone to the back of the chair. You call when they get situated, and watch them spin looking extremely confused. Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
I'm in a sorority (no, really, it's not like you think...we, we, don't wear pink thongs! ), and we always have a fun time pulling a few pranks at the expense of the poor clueless boys in the frats. A member recently found out the door code to one; around 4 am a number of girls, myself included, sneaked in, dressed in comando-black, made our way up to the third floor, and procceded to spend half an hour stealing all the balls out of their ball pit (think McDonald's Play Pen, only dorm-room sized). We left nothing but one very large sign on their lawn: "Got Balls?"
Having them search out the garbage bags full of balls that were stashed around campus was an added bonus.
[ April 26, 2004, 01:06 AM: Message edited by: Jhai ]
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
<-- made a memo to everyone in the company telling to call a certain boy Małpek [monkey-boy] Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
In the dark of morning, not many people will notice that their car is sitting on four jack-stands, about an inch off the ground.
It also helps if you've snuck into their room and set their alarm clock two or three hours ahead.
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
quote: In the dark of morning, not many people will notice that their car is sitting on four jack-stands, about an inch off the ground.
Nobody touches my alarm clock. Ever. They suffer my wrath if they do. I work 5-1.
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