Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

[Sock Puppet]

Well let him out!!!

I was just recently reminiscing about prank phone calls of my youth. Of course, there were rules. You don't call the same number more than once, and you never make the calls after hours.

Did you do prank calls as a kid?

Caller ID makes it all impossible these days. The minute you place the call, they know who you are...you're not as anonymous as you think. ;)

[Katina]

1. Is your refrigerator running?

Better go catch it....

:D

who didn't prank call.

[Sock Puppet]

2. We had a man in town named Michael Jackson.

I know my friends and I called him....I imagine we weren't the only ones. Poor guy.

[AlCzervik]

3. my favorite-- "Hi is Joe there?" "No wrong number" "Ok sorry"

call again "Hi is Joe there?" "No there is no Joe here" "Ok sorry" call again "Hi is joe there" now usually they would be a little pissed off by now "No! I told you have the wrong number!!" "Ok i'm really sorry" last call "Hi this is Joe, do i have messages?"

[Left Is Write]

4. To the bowling alley: Do you have 10-pound balls?

You do? How do you walk?!

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Oh, you're bad!

:D

[Left Is Write]

8. And it's so gooood to be baaaad.

:D

[Sock Puppet]

15. Yep - did that too.

:rofl:

love that one!

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Hell, these days you're likely to go to jail over it.

Some cops don't see the difference between pranks, harassment, and threats.

[terrya]

9. As well they should.

Phone harrassment and threats are no laughing matter. And they should be treated seriously.

[fudge stripe cookays]

25. Did you know...

there are actually services where you can look up cell phone numbers online now?

Isn't technology amazing?

[terrya]

29. That's excellent!

Thank God for technology! That sort of thing can come in handy....

[fudge stripe cookays]

20. Well it IS a federal crime.

Telephone intimidation. Did you know that?

[Magrittes Pipe]

22. It's only a federal crime if it's a phone call from another state:

47 USC § 223(a)(1)(C)

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode47/usc_sec_4...

TITLE 47 > CHAPTER 5 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part I > § 223

§ 223. Obscene or harassing telephone calls in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communications

(a) Prohibited acts generally
Whoever—
(1) in interstate or foreign communications—
(C) makes a telephone call or utilizes a telecommunications device, whether or not conversation or communication ensues, without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person at the called number or who receives the communications;

(snip)

shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

[Sock Puppet]

23. Um yeah.

I'm talking about decades ago, and within town. :scared:

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. Well isn't THAT convenient!

Just in case I ever need it or anything.

[trof]

7. We used to call a local 'madam'.

Just to hear her cuss us out.
She could turn the air blue.
;-)

[Throwing Stones]

10. We turned a Cheech & Chong skit into a prank call once

"Hey man, it's Dave, I got the stuff"

After fucking with a few people's heads, one guy played along and wanted to set up a time to meet. Could have been a cop for all our stupid asses knew, but that was the end of that game, and I think prank calling in general.

[Strawman]

11. That joke was in one of my favorite "young adult" books: The Pigman

[Sock Puppet]

14. I loved that book!

Paul Zindel!

[EstimatedProphet]

12. We had a local clothing store in town called Woody's

One night we gave the store employees hell, imitating Woody Woodpecker.

It was funny then. It's not any more.

[fudge stripe cookays]

13. Indeed it's not.

Especially at 1 in the morning.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. It was great fun when I was about 12 years old....

But I outgrew making prank calls years and years ago. As should be.

[bikebloke]

17. Picking a Nixon out of the phone book

When someone answered, start ranting about what a horrible president they were.

The dumb stuff we did.

[swag]

18. When I was 10, my friend Mike and I used to call the toll-free

Mutual of Omaha number and ask, "Is that monkey really Marlon's son?"

[NaturalHigh]

19. I actually got someone to fall for that one once.

The very same night, at a different store, the clerk told me, "yes, but he has holes in the can so he can breathe." Wise ass!

[Orrex]

21. If your Prince Albert is in your can, it's not a Prince Albert

I once saw a Prince Albert administered to a fellow named Noah at a sort of far-out Halloween party. Half an hour later he walked past me while I was chatting with someone else.

"Did it stop bleeding yet, Noah?" asked my friend.

"Yeah," said Noah. "Just now."

:wtf: If my finger bleeds for more than a minute I start to get a little anxious. If I were bleeding from my newly-stapled member for half an hour, I think I'd pick up the phone.

[eyesroll]

26. Heh...my sister, when she was 10 or so, tried to take down the Home Shopping Network.

(One of the channels, anyway.)

This was before call centers in India -- I think, at the time, operators really were standing by in a single place, possibly in the studio building.

She discovered that she could use the conference feature on our two phone lines (before 3-way calling was available on a single line) to get two HSN operators to talk to each other.

She also discovered she could pretend to be an operator herself, and she could get a few friends to also call and conference call two operators while pretending to be a third...she had HSN convinced it was having technical difficulties. She decided she was done once they announced said difficulties on the air.

:D

[Sock Puppet]

27. OMG!!

:rofl:

Your sister sounds fantastic!

[riverdale]

28. WTF is Prince Albert

[bleedingheart]

30. tobacco

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[asthmaticeog]

31. This post took WAY too long to show up.

We must be a buncha old farts on this thread... :D

[Orrex]

32. It's at least two very different things...

[asthmaticeog]

33. Photos, please?

I'm confused. :evilgrin:

[scarlet_owl]

34. When I worked at the meat department of a local grocery store,

somebody called one day and asked, "Do you have chicken legs?". When I answered yes, they said "Do you have trouble walking?" and then hung up.

[BrotherBuzz]

40. I received a prank chicken joke call and actually enjoyed it

2am, the phone rings and I answered, half asleep, to hear a kid asking me if my chickens were on his front porch. I said, "What?". He repeated the question, "Are your chickens on my front porch?" I told him I don't have any chickens. He responded, "Good, because I don't have a front porch".

I was finally awake, started laughing, then proceeded to throw chicken jokes back at him.

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To prove to the possum it could actually be done!

Q: How come chickens don't wear underwear?
A: Because their pecker is on their face.

Q: Why did the chicken cross halfway across the road?
A: To lay it on the line.

Poor kid hung up



"Well I couldn't help it, I was dreaming I was awake. And then I woke up and found myself asleep." -Stan Laurel

[MGKrebs]

35. "Is Joe Wall there?"

"No."
"Are there any Walls there?"
"No."
"Well you better get out before the roof falls in!"

[MGKrebs]

36. I also remember using 800 numbers to call

and make reservations at Sheratons all over the world. Before you had to use a credit card to confirm I guess.

[volstork]

37. We would order 10 pizzas

to the house of a teacher we hated-- of course, never realizing that the poor guy who ran the pizza joint was the one who was REALLY getting screwed.

[MnFats]

38. there was a guy named -- no kidding -- James Bond in my hometown.

his life must have been a living hell.
"we need double-oh-seven right now!"

"Where the hell is James Bond! Goldfinger is attacking"

"Can I borrow the astin-martin (or whatever it was")

invariably the calls would meet with a barrage of obscenities...


also, was a skanky pool hall in town. the bartender was always drunk so he fell for this:

"could you see if my friend Mike is there? Mike Hunt?"

and he would make a quick trip around the tables calling for Mike Hunt.

the guys playing pool knew what was going on and fell on the floor laughing..

[Release The Hounds]

39. Your dog is in our garden...

"We don't have a dog."

"We don't have a garden."