Ever pull a great practical joke?

[Oeditpus Rex]

Inspired by the "Cheers" episode with the joke-off between Cheers and Olde Towne Tavern.

Take your best shots. :evilgrin:

[lakemonster11]

1. My mom's really good at practical jokes.

Once she and my dad (University of Tennessee fans) secretly changed the bulbs of some neighbors' (fans of that year's rival team) Christmas lights so that the lines of lights on the garage (up the middle and across the top) were all orange. It took them days to realize that they had a big orange "T" on their house.

[ET Awful]

2. We once filled a co-workers office with balloons . . . not helium balloons

just air filled balloons . . . the whole office. When she opened the door, it was a balloon avalanche.

I wish I still had the pictures. Especially the ones of her crawling over her desk through the balloon pile trying to get to the phone that was ringing :P

[JVS]

3. I put radishes under the cheese of cold pizza once

[AllegroRondo]

4. When I was in the Army.....

Our commander went on leave for two weeks. Before he left, he said "When I come back, I want my office freshly painted."

So we painted it pink.

[Patiod]

9. Oh, that is GREAT!!!!

Just what he gets for not being more specific!

[LynzM]

24. Bwahahahaha

:rofl: That's great!

[WeRQ4U]

5. I once filled a dorm room toilet with pistachio pudding.

I used whatever water was already in the toilet, and poured in packet after packet of green pudding mix. It made a toilet full of pudding. I left a spoon in there too.

It didn't set up completely because it wasn't in the fridge or anything, but it did the job.

We did the same to there sink.
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Also, when my roomate was out on a date, I moved his entire bedroom out onto the grass in front of our house. I set it up exactly how it was in his room. I even ran extension cords to plug in his alarm clock and lamp.

[dolo amber]

6. We did that with Jell-O

:D

We also used to paper people's doors...wait until they go to bed, then use tons of newspaper or whatever to completely cover the door jamb. Once we did it to this super teeny girl, and in the morning all we could hear were what sounded like mice and her tiny fists trying to punch her way through. (We quickly released her, and she thought it was hilarious. ;))

[WeRQ4U]

11. Reminds me of another one we used to pull every winter.

In January or February, when it's REALLY cold in ND, we soak a couple newspapers in a bucket of water for a minute and then take them out and sort of "wallpaper" someone's windshield with them. If you get a couple layers of paper on the windshield, it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to scrape them off. You have to wait until it thaws or figure out a way to thaw them out yourself. LOL, I love that one.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. When I was teaching high school

the sex ed teacher made the kids care for a raw egg as though it were a baby for two weeks.

I eggnapped this one kid's egg and then put ransom notes in his locker every day. Things like "this is not a yolk", pictures of a broken egg on the sidewalk with threats to his egg.

The entire school was in an frenzy trying to find out who took the egg. I finally fessed up a week into the eggnapping. It was great.

[Dinger]

8. Oh Yea, Fake Lottery Tickets In Birthday Cards

Milltion dollar winner!

[Patiod]

10. Switched a bonsai for a full-sized tree

a guy on the dorm floor with my friend was obsessed with his "little tree" (not really bonsai, just miniature). They found a matching specimen about 5' high, and switched them over a weekend when he was away.

My friend Gina awoke one night to find herself tied to her bed while her next-door-dorm-neighbor and our friend Dixon toilet-papered the room. Dixon then used their phone to dial Germany. When Gina asked him what he had said when they answered, he replied "May I sharpen my pencil, please?" "Why did you say that?" "Because it's the only thing I remember how to say in German!"

Also, a bunch of my friends stole every stitch of another friend's clothes. Poor Dell had NOTHING - no socks, no undies, nothing. He accused us, he accused everyone but our one straight-arrow engineer girlfriend, who of course had everything. About a week later, when he entered the dining hall, a whole table of girls stood up and cheered, wearing his clothes. He pretended to be a good sport about it, but he was torn between being really mad and loving the attention

[XNASA]

12. Once, while waiting for some friends from work to arrive at a bar......

A lovely woman came and sat down next to me. So we started chatting. She said she was waiting for a friend. After a while, my friends from work arrived and spied me at the bar with this nice lady, but didn't alert me to their arrival....I guess they thought I was too busy, or something.

I went to use the Men's Room and saw my work friends sitting in the corner and told them I didn't see them come in. They all gave me the third degree about the woman at the bar, knowing that I'm married, etc.

So I had a couple of drinks with my friends and got up to leave when I noticed that the woman at the bar was still sitting there alone. She followed me out and caught up with me just to say goodbye and to express her disappointment at her friends not showing up. We both got in our cars and drove off. That was the last I saw of her.

The next day, which was actually Thanksgiving Day, I had Mrs. XNASA call one of the workmates who was giving me a hard time the night before to ask them if they knew where I was and explain that I never came home the night before and that the turkey was in oven and the kids were asking where Daddy was, etc?

A half hour later I called the same person to ask if they would 'cover' for me and lie and say that I had spent the night at their place. They were pleading with me saying..."Oh, I can't do that. Your wife already called her looking for you. I told her I didn't know what happened to you. You must be in so much trouble."

I let them stew for another hour and called to tell them that I put my wife up to calling them and the next time they gave me the 3rd degree they should think twice.

Ah. That was funny.

[Roon]

13. I had a pratical joke backfire on me, big time

I had this rubber snake that I got from petsmart, it looks real as hell. I rigged a picnic cooler with some fishing line attached to the snake and the snake's head would come up as you opened the lid.Yeah, it scared the hell out of a lot of people and it was funny as hell. My Grandfather pulled the prank on a very old woman and the snake reduced her to hysterics. My Grandfather had to apologize over and over again. It was terrible. I told my Grandpa, you have to be careful who you do this on!! Needless to say, the snake is banned from future family functions. I still have the gag set up, but I haven't pulled it on anyone in awhile. Perhaps next party,just no old ladies.

[RevCheesehead]

14. In college, my organ professor drove a VW Rabbit...

so on April Fool's day, we decorated it - as a rabbit. Giant ears, whiskers, and a fluffy bunny tail. He loved it. :)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

15. Definitely.

I once jacked up my buddy's car and put a cinder block under it so his rear wheels were lifted ever so slightly off the ground. Later, when he got in his car, he found that though it started and everything seemed fine, he couldn't actually go anywhere. So he calls a tow truck, and when they come, they find the block.... :evilgrin:

[PeterSullivan2006]

16. Hmmm

It involved those postcards you sometimes see at the supermarket, where you send it in for info on bed-wetting programs or vacation condos in Florida.

That's all I'm going to say about it, even though any applicable statute of limitations has long since run it's course!

[ironflange]

17. We were expecting our daughter, 15 yrs ago

We were going out for the evening, and my mom was coming over to baby-sit our son. I wrote down several really obsolete girls' names on an index card, like Gertrude, Gladys, Hilda, Mabel, Agatha, that sort of thing. I circled three of them in red, drew arrows pointing to Gladys, then stuck the card in the baby name book and left it where Mom would find it. When the baby arrived, a couple of months later, I phoned her and told her we were calling her Madeline. Long pause, then she said "I thought you were going to name her Gladys!" She had spent the whole time trying to accept that name.

[lakemonster11]

25. That's something else my mom did.

She got tired of people asking what they were going to name me, so she started telling them that they were calling me "Una Wisteria." Not the worst name in the world, but definitely weird.

I did a similar thing in high school. I got tired of people asking where I was going to college, so I started saying that I was going to the Maharishi School of Management where I was going to major in Sustainable Agriculture and Transcendental Meditation.

[anarch]

18. .

Zack Ricky: Well, let's bring out our next Prankster - Larry Hobson!

{ cue fun-whistle siren sound effect }

{ Larry enters set }

Larry Hobson: Thanks, Zack! I'm a huge fan! I'm such a huge fan! Huge!

Zack Ricky: Thank you, Larry. You know, I'm gonna come right out and say it: you're a lot older than most of our Pranksters.

Larry Hobson: Well.. I like to think all Pranksters are young at heart.

Zack Ricky: All right! Sounds good! Now, tell us about your target!

{ cue bow-and-arrow sound effect }

Larry Hobson: This guy.. I'll tell ya.. he was a Stiffy Stifferson like you wouldn't believe, his name is Phil.. and he always takes my parking space at work.

Zack Ricky: {speaking to the camera } I'm getting the feeling you probably shouldn't have done that, Phil!

Larry Hobson: { trying to stifle his laughter } I think.. he probably.. agrees with you, now! { laughs }

{cue foghorn sound effect }

Zack Ricky: Well, let's not waste any time! Prankster Hidden Camera, go!

{ dissolve to video of employee prking lot, as Larry enters frame by Phil's car, smiles at the hidden camera, then hides behind Phil's car }

Larry Hobson V/O: Okay! This.. is from.. last Friday. I sneaked down early, and hid behind Phil's car.

Zack Ricky V/O: Looks like you'd better brace yourself, Phil!

{ on video, Phil enters frame, grinning smugly as he fishes his keys from his pocket and opens the driver's-side door }

Larry Hobson V/O: Look.. how proud he looks with his parking spot!

Zack Ricky V/O: { anticipating a great prank } I can't wait for him to get it!

{ on video, Larry jumps out from behind Phil's car, and proceeds to smash Phil's backside with a rusty tire iron, until Phil's lifeless body slumps onto the pavement; still clutching the tire iron with his right hand, Larry jumps in front of the hidden camera and displays a victory thumbs-up with his left hand, as the "Prank!" logo graphic covers the screen }

{ dissolve back to "Pranksters" studio }

Larry Hobson: { laughing uproariously }

Zack Ricky: { stunned by the freakish turn of events } Wha-wha-what happened?

Larry Hobson: I jumped out and pranked him! To death with a tire iron!

{ cue buggy horn sound effect }

[Patiod]

22. /Walken

definitely a classic

[GOPisEvil]

19. I convinced a Luddite boss of mine that our new copier was voice-activated

My old office was right next to the copier. One day a new one arrived, and it was quite fancy-schmancy. My boss asked for my help with it. I told him it was voice-activated. Just put your original in the feeder, then tell the machine how many you want, collated, two-sided, etc. But, you have to speak clearly and loudly. He got through about two iterations of telling the machine what he wanted before I couldn't take any more and started :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

20. I got a good one in last year

Here's my victim's thread about it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4461245&mesg_id=4461245

It's pretty evil, if I do say so myself. :evilgrin:

[Patiod]

21. One more:

A friend made the mistake of putting her contacts in right after applying false nails for a black-tie formal. Our friend Tom was nice enough to take her to Will's Eye Hospital, and spend the entire evening with her. She ended up with redness and bandages, but her sight was okay (that super-glue is terrible around the eyes!)

They went to check out of their hotel and (we all stayed at the same hotel), and as they were checking out, a huge convention of elderly Masons & their wives arrived and clustered around the front desk.

After she had checked out, she turned to Tom and said in a REALLY loud voice "If you EVER even THINK of hitting me again, I'm taking the children and going to my mother's!!!", and she flounced off, leaving him standing there, still needing to hang around to check out.

Mean (esp after he was at the hospital all night with her), but funny.

[LynzM]

23. We disappeared someone's room...

Drywalled over his door while he was gone, complete with flooring strip, electrical outlet, and poster. Priceless to see the 2 seconds as he walked by his room and then realized he'd walked by and turned around :rofl:

[AngryAmish]

26. The atomic sit-up

Never did it but it always makes me laugh.

[AllegroRondo]

27. Is that anything like the atomic wedgie?

[MrScorpio]

28. I once got a guy to call up all of his ex-girlfriends

I did this out of revenge.

I made him think that one of them wanted to get back with him. But he didn't know which one.

Needless to say, it wasn't pretty. And to this day, he doesn't know that I did it.


Never Fuck With A Scorpio

[Bzzzz]

29. My best friend and I...

have a male co-worker that we love pranking while he's on vacation. Here are just a few of our pranks: covering his entire car in post-it notes; reynolds wrapped his entire office(everything, walls and all) did the same with newspaper. Saran wrapped his car and filled the inside with balloons--he had to take a knife to cut the saran wrap off to get in; filled his drawers and files with confetti from hole punches; put vaseline on his phone earpiece; took the keys on his phone, keyboard, calculator and typewriter and moved them around; placed a for sale sign on his car and had people call him inquiring about buying it; took his car keys and moved his car while he was on break, when he left for lunch he came back thinking it had been stolen...and he actually looks forward to our next antic!!

[MiwSher]

30. I come from a long line of practical jokers.

But I think my shining moment came one Xmas when my whole family was together, first time in years. My sister and sister-in-law were up late talking about the practical jokes we've played when I got inspired. After all, I'm the youngest of five kids and I learned from all of them. :D I suggested putting my late grandfather's false teeth in my brother-in-law's coffee. Note: We did clean the teeth first!!

My b-i-l's reaction was so great that everyone wound up getting teeth in their coffee! LOL!!

MiwSher