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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:01 PM
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I did it. I put office supplies in the fridge at work.
Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 06:05 PM by arbusto_baboso
Remember my post a few weeks ago about wanting to do something random at work to make people say "WTF?"

One of the suggestions was putting office supplies in the fridge.

So, last week I put paper clips and rubber "fingertips" in the freezer of the break-room fridge, and an empty file folder and tape dispenser in the bottom on a shelf.

It was actually discussed (in grave tones, so I hear) at a supervisor's meeting. Okay, I know I work in local government in Claifornia, and everyone is stressed, but does NO ONE have a sense of humor? JEEEEEEEEEEEZUS.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:02 PM
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1. Next on the agenda - the dildo.
BONUS - the refrigeration will help keep the batteries fresh!

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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:03 PM
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2. I was thinking that my old bowling ball needed a home. And to be frozen.
He likes it that way.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:05 PM
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4. LOL! Just make sure it doesn't have initials engraved on it!
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:12 PM
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8. Oops. Flaw to the plan.
DAMN!
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 08:44 AM
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15. I came up with the perfect item: A GARDEN GNOME!
Get one with big rosy cheeks!
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 09:00 AM
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18. What about one of those little boys peeing?
Perfect for the break room.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 09:06 AM
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19. LOL! Even better!
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 09:41 AM
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22. I think I like it!
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 09:54 AM
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24. My work here is done.
If and if, do keep us posted on the results. Pictures would be nice.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 09:30 AM
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21. Husband suggested that the dildo be wrapped in lunch meat. n/t
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 10:26 AM
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25. Uh, EEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!
:spray:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 10:33 AM
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26. If that's your reaction, imagine what management's will be.
:evilgrin:
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 10:44 AM
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27. You ALMOST have me convinced....
What kind of dildo do you suggest? For that matter, what kind of lunch meat?
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 10:49 AM
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28. Standard anti-aircraft shell shaped and baloney (I'm a traditionalist) n/t
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 11:02 AM
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29. I'll have to see if my wife has any she's ready to discard.
And I'm not talking about lunch meat. :evilgrin:
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 11:42 AM
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31. All right! Have fun storming the castle. n/t
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tainted_chimp Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 04:18 AM
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32. Favorite post ever!
:toast:

Sick and fabulous!
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siligut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:04 PM
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3. You are a loose cannon my friend!
Better watch it!
:rofl:
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:07 PM
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5. Hell, apparently they're afraid of loose pop-guns here.
I knew my managers were humor-impaired but this is ridiculous!
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Mr. Ected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:08 PM
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6. Next, a bowl of fresh fruit on the commode in the washroom
And the suits will connipt.

Is connipt a word?

If not, I'm gruntled.

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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-11-09 06:11 PM
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7. Actually a coworker of mine made a "cat's cradle" with....
rubber bands and the paper towel holder in the unisex restroom already.

So, I may have to settle for putting a potted plant on top of the fax machine.

Stay gruntled my friend, stay gruntled.
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 12:14 AM
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9. Mal Sharpe, Man on the Street in San Francisco
Edited on Fri Jun-12-09 12:19 AM by marzipanni
I think you'll like his stuff, if you aren't already familiar with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFHxn_9aVq8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0ZzWlwmtyY&feature=related

About thirty years ago I was on a streetcar on Market Street In S.F. and we went by a person in a gorilla suit playing a trumpet. I L'dOL and looked around to see if ayone else noticed it and thought it was amusing, but they all looked pretty expressionless.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 12:33 AM
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10. Well that's okay except
Sacramento will be taking half those office supplies. :shrug:
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 01:22 AM
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11. Replace all your boss's furnature with super sized furnature so that he thinks hes shrinking.
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 08:11 AM
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12. I have to admit I find that pretty amuzing
and I am tempted to try something similar:evilgrin:
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 08:28 AM
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13. God, your supervisors must not have real responsibilities.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 09:42 AM
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23. I DO wonder sometimes.....
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Dogtown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 08:44 AM
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14. mosaic push-pin mural on the cube-screens
caused a minor sensation in one gov't office i frequented.

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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 08:47 AM
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16. I took a fake wad of gum on a field trip to DC I was chaperoning for my daughter...
The VERY FIRST thing the bus driver did, before
we even left the school, was to give us a 5 minute
lecture on the evils of chewing gum. He said something
along the lines that anyone caught chewing gum will
be taken behind the bus and shot.

I clutched my plastic gum wad in an ecstasy of
anticipation.

My moment came in Alexandria, the bus driver
left the bus before we did, and I stuck the
tape-backed plastic blob right to the top
of his dashboard.

We all took off for lunch, our choice, and
were to gather at a central meeting point.
By the time my daughter and I reached the
meeting point it was pouring rain, and everyone
had gathered under the shelter of several trees
at the edge of the square.

They were all whispering and shaking their
heads in a disgusted manner. It seems that
someone, SOMEONE had had the NERVE to stick
a wad of gum to the top of one of the driver's
dashboards, and he was REFUSING to come and
pick us up. He wanted to CHANGE buses!

All of the other bus drivers pulled up and
picked up their passengers, then FINALLY,
about 15 minutes later, our bus pulled around
the corner.

The driver opened the door and sat back in
his seat, eyeballing everyone who filed past
him coldly and assessingly. One passenger
asked him why he had left the gum wad on
the dash. He stated that he wanted the person
who put it there it LOOK at it and feel shame.

I had been regretting my practical joke from the
moment I'd heard the buzz at the pick-up spot,
now I was feeling a little queasy. I stepped
into the bus, looked at the gum wad, shook my head
disgust, said "THAT'S where I left it!" and pretended
to pop it into my mouth.

He jumped up to confront me and I showed him it
was plastic (I had to click it against the railing
and show him the tape on the back...) He laughed
pretty hard and then told me I had to sit in the
front where he could keep an eye one me.

He kept the gum wad!

He called me "Bubblegum" for the rest of the tour.

Later in the trip, at the Jefferson Monument,
he helped me get the girls in the back of the
bus with the "plastic roach" trick.....

Good times, good times....
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 08:57 AM
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17. Office Space and News Radio are treasure chests of cool
ideas for messing with management minds{sic}.

War story alert: Once had this miserable ate up squadron commander. She'd pull Saturday morning barracks inspections and play basic training crap with us. So ... one sergeant put a wad of peanut butter on the inside of a toilet bowl right above the water line. We're at attention; she's prowling around the barracks. We hear this scream from the latrine. A couple of sergeants wander down there. Commander Asshole is standing at the toilet, shaking and pointing at the crapper. "What is that??!!" Sergeant reaches in, flicks a bit of butter onto finger, licks it and said, "Not sure, ma'am, but I think it's shit." Asshole gags and departs ... last inspection we had during her tenure.
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backtoblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 09:11 AM
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20. As if the vaseline on the bathroom mirror wasn't enough!!!!
You are bad, bad~!!! I think I love ya!!! :rofl:
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Sigh Sister Donating Member (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-12-09 11:18 AM
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30. My husband does stuff like this all the time at work
He has mini-squirt guns and one of those toy machine guns that shoots darts with suction cups on the end. When things are stressful, he starts his antics to lighten the mood a little. He's pissed a few people off, like the guy who had the misfortune of opening his desk drawer and having a frog jump out, but overall they think he's a riot.
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