practical jokes you've played

[shortyj 0]

I GOT A CHUCKLE AT SOME OF THE THINGS YOU GUYS GOT SUSPENDED FOR NOW I WANT TO KNOW WHAT JOKES U PLAYED SOME PROBABLY GO HAND IN HAND
I PUT SYRUP ON THE GIRLS TOLIET SEATS.

Playtime is essential.

[BillyVance 35]

I once put a thumb tack on a hated teacher's seat. He sat on it... No one ever confessed to it and he never found out who did it.

Nobody ever liked the SOB anyway and he didn't come back the next school year.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[2fat2fly 0]

Not from school but I noticed that if I woke my wife up in the middle of the night, she always got up to go to the bathroom so one night I put that big bubble wrap under the rug in front of the toilet and then bounced around in bed until she woke. She got up, stumbled in to the bathroom, stepped on the rug and it sounded like a gun fight.
I still think it's funny, she still doesn't

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[normiss 891]

glued EVERYTHING to the bitch english teacher's desk...and removed ALL but one leaf from her favorite plant.

assited in "parking" a VW bug against the flag pole.

turned same car sideways in parking spot numerous times.

in the Navy - this one d00d used to safety pin his room key to his towel when he went to the showers...somehow that towel was always hanging from a tree about a half block outside the front door to the barracks when he got out of the shower...weird..he always got his key and towel back...and a nice little dash to boot!

[BillyVance 35]

I think most of us older ones have heard about MIT and their famous pranks.

A few of the all-time best pranks there:

A group of friends took a VW bug apart while the owner was out at class, carried the parts up to the owner's dorm room, reassembled the car in there (after clearing the furniture out of course). Then as soon as they saw the owner walking back to the dorm, turned on the engine and everything else that can be turned on - headlights, wipers, radio, etc) and shut the door to hide in the next room and wait... The look on the owner's face was priceless. The school ended up knocking out the wall and carrying the car out with a crane!

Somehow, a campus safety patrol car ended up on top of the dome of one building there. Don't know much about that one.

The other one I heard about was taking all the furnishings out of a professor's office and setting it up exactly as it was... on the middle of a frozen pond on campus.


I think these pranks got a mention in Life magazine some time ago.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Lindercles 0]

Speaking of practical jokes....welcome back Billy.

[BillyVance 35]

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Speaking of practical jokes....welcome back Billy.

Yeah, I played a pretty bad one that precipitated a month-long suspension from here...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[unformed 0]

picked up my friends miata (it took six or eight of us) and put it on top of a porch ....


told my friends i was in jail in costa rica, spent all my money bribing guards to let me escape, and was trying to sneak over the border so i could get back home...

an ex offered to send me money...

This ad space for sale.

[okalb 104]

One of my favorite little pranks it to take a snapshot of a user's desktop. Set the picture as their wallpaper and then delete everything off of their desktop. It always gives me a few minutes of pleasure.

Time flies like an arrow....fruit flies like a banana

[unformed 0]

a friend of mine just moved to madrid and sent us his address so we can send him anthrax laced envelopes...

so i plan on sending him a massive bag of baking powder in an mostly plain brown bag.

This ad space for sale.

[Bolas 5]

We had this incredibly clueless substitute teacher we used to get in high school.

One day she was supposed to play a movie so our class clown (not me) unplugged the VCR from the TV when she wasn't looking.

Watching her struggle and try things including tapping it, smacking it, turning it off and on had us all rolling on the floors.

She got angry, turned around and yelled at us, "Who broke this thing?"

I got up slowly, grabbed a lab stand that was about twice the size of the VCR, and said, "Ma'am I'm sorry. I took this out of the VCR."

She yelled at me, "You put it back in this instant or I'm sending you to the principal!!!"

I start walking up to the front and the whole class is just laughing their asses off. The more we laugh, the madder she gets. I thought about trying to explain how it was physically impossible to fit this in but she was way too stupid and angry to listen.

I walk up to the VCR and position my body between it and her and pretend to insert the stand. At the same time I replug the cables and slide the stand to someone in the first row when she isn't looking.

I tell her to try the TV and when it works she forgives me.

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

[tmaricle55 0]

Working in IT we have fun at the expense of HR peeps..

I replaced a HR reps. desk top one day and though I could have some serious fun.

Clipped off the cord on the mouse and told her it was now wireless...

Had a software program that I could hack into anyone else computer on the network so I changed the colors on her screen and flipped the screen.

Had a full day of fun off of that little project!

Muff Brother # 3883, SCR # 14796 ICD # 1 - Pres.
Yeah, I noticed and I think it's funny!

[StreetScooby 5]

Many years ago I was working in a small software shop that used IBM Series 1 (programming in EDL, in case anyone is familiar with that). I hated my boss, and he hated me. If you knew how to track down physical addresses in memory, you could mess with people's sessions, e.g., disconnect their terminal from the O/S data (...the O/S wasn't protected by user id schemes). So, I did this. Unfortunately, we had just hired a new guy who was sitting next to me, and the boss was letting him use his ID. The new guy lost a lot of work because he wasn't saving

We are all engines of karma

[DougH 270]

At the navy base I worked at some one had installed a pad lock on their own personal bathroom stall. So I brough a habanero in from my garden and whipped the juice from it all over the combo part of the lock.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[Johnsisland 0]

Imagine a universal remote programmed to the most obnoxious professor’s VCR.

Now imagine the look on his face as the tape starts rewinding for a few seconds, stopping, starting, etc..

It really would have been a good joke if a satellite dish had been hooked up, the receiver hidden, cable stapled to the base board, etc.. Hmmm, guess all you would have had to do was make a copy of the videotape the prof was going to play, insert some interesting scenes in the tape, and switch tape. That would have been fun.

Arch? I can arch just fine with my back to the ground.

[normiss 891]

invert it too once in awhile Oren...pretty damn funny stuff...

[jumper03 0]

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I think most of us older ones have heard about MIT and their famous pranks.

A few of the all-time best pranks there:

those are called Hacks!
there are a million of them....


Best one I ever pulled was the phenyl blue into a batch of brownies. It is an acid indicator - will turn an acid blue. Well, if you eat it, and pee it out - your urine is an acid - you stand there looking at blue urine....

there were many screams that day in the bathroom...

Scars remind us that the past is real

[warpedskydiver 0]

people used to do that to the puch bowl at frat parties, the pansy ass frat boys would wind up going to the emergency room when they saw blue piss coming out.

Serves them right for making shitty drinks.

[Dumpster 0]

In the Air Force - Took the little musical electronic thingy out of a Christmas card and taped it up under the top drawer of our NCOIC's desk- ( I was assistant NCOIC at the time-) and rigged it so it would start playing as soon as he opened his drawer. Took him five minutes to find it and shut it off, in front of a room full of personnel. I was presumed guilty right away, (was out of the section that morning) and got alot of congrats for one of the best pranks in the squadron in a long time, being very funny and very harmless.

Easy Does It

[Bolas 5]

I had an absolutely useless IT Director when I used to work for the state. He was my bosses boss. We got new computers in and since he never used his, I was going to set his up last. He complains to my boss that he hasn't gotten his PC and he wants it ASAP.

I know damn well he won't use it so when I set it up I make sure not a single program works. Not even solitaire.

We never got a service call from him.
One other quick one. We had this absolute bitch of an HR person that when she hear her new PC was in absolutely hounded us. Our standard policy was to handle problems before installations. The same useless IT Director once again said ASAP.

I couldn't do the same as she actually used her PC. So I set it up and rather than put it back in the box like we normally did I went running into her office with the empty box all closed up on top of my head and shouting. "Your PC is here!" Of course it didn't clear the doorway and went crashing to the floor.

I had to tell her pretty quickly it was just an empty box, but I did get to to see that look of horror on her face.

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

[turtlespeed 226]

Once, I hired an AN-2.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[Sockpuppet 0]

We tied a mate to a chair and placed him on a runway when were were at a airbase awaiting a transit flight while I was in the army.


We lef thim joking that the flights had ended for the night....

Walked off just as we are 200m away we hear a C-130 coming in on final.

Come to think of it that wasnt funny it was just downright fcking mean.

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Two of the three voices in my head agree with you. It might actually be unanimous but voice three only speaks Welsh.

[turtlespeed 226]

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We tied a mate to a chair and placed him on a runway when were were at a airbase awaiting a transit flight while I was in the army.


We lef thim joking that the flights had ended for the night....

Walked off just as we are 200m away we hear a C-130 coming in on final.

Come to think of it that wasnt funny it was just downright fcking mean.

Naw - That was funny!!

Good show mate!

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[Zing 2]

Thus one got played on me.
While managing the Ghoulidge dropzone, I had a 1961 Plymouth Fury that had been a state highway patrol vehicle ... huge V-8 with two four-barrel carbs, headers and dual exhausts, and a certified speedometer that clocked to 135 mph. The car had no brakes and the suspension was pretty well gone, but it would really fly, and it made many a high-speed, needle buried, pass down the runway ... at night ... with the lights out.
There were four other magically electrified people with me as we returned from a late night beer run to town one New Year's Eve. I took the shortcut through the fence and someone called for a runway excursion as we were crossing runway 23.
From a dead start at the end of the runway, I punched it, and we were well past 100 mph at 1500 feet of a 5500-foot runway. The needle on the speedometer was still pegged when we passed the 1000 feet left markers. Fire and sparks poured out the back as the engine-braking kicked in ... then, for just a fraction of a second, I thought I saw the silhouette of a person or two ... but then we went bumping off the end of the runway into the desert and the outside world disappeared in a cloud of dust and exhaust smoke. Fortunately, there was about 1200 feet of flat desert over-run out there with no obstacles. Once I was slow enough, we did a couple of donuts and, as the dust cleared, ended up facing back toward the runway and away we went, back down the runway in the opposite direction.
We were going about 60-70 when we hit the edge of the runway asphalt and the car bottomed out with an impressive spray of sparks and pieces of muffler ... but once again, I thought I might have seen someone standing on the runway. Roared off into the night, made it back to the Wreck Hall, partied for a while and crashed for the night.
The next morning, I stumbled into the hangar about 7 am and a jumper down from Alaska who came every winter walked up to me with a serious look on his face.
'Was that you roaring down the runway last night, Zing?" says John. And, of course, I admitted that it was and that we were going real fast when we left the runway.
"I know," says John, " A dozen of us were out there laying in a circle staring at the moon and you went right through the middle of us."
I suddenly recalled those people I thought I saw and those bumps as we went off the runway, and I must have turned pale as a ghost.
John really had me going until he started laughing when I asked him how many people I hit.
Turns out, a bunch of shroomers had gone out there to stare at the moon and were laying in a circle with their heads together when they heard the engine of the car coming. At first, they thought it was an airplane and that it would take off and fly over them.
Somebody figured it out and they all scattered in plenty of time, but I always kept the lights on for future runway excursions. Good one, John.

Zing Lurks

[lawrocket 3]

We had a high school teacher who was mostly deaf. I say mostly because he could make stuff out with his left ear somewhat, but would also liipread to fill in the blanks. So me and this kid named Lee would mess with him every now and then. He'd raise his hand and silently mumble some words while I was answering the question from another part of the room in an audible fashion. Of course, Mr. Gruendyke was confused so he'd ask Lee to say it again. I think he just didn't make sense of the roars of laughter coming from the class.

I've also been know to pull the "impossible sit-up" on people, but not in a long time. I think I've grown past the juvenile level of pranking to a more sophisticated level of irritation/cruelty. I mean, so many times I think to myself, "There's gotta be a joke there." And I'm so polite and mild mannered, nobody ever really suspects me...

My wife is hotter than your wife.