The Prank Thread

[MrFun]

What are good, basically harmless pranks that you can think of, to play out on others?

Do you have any good story of an actual prank you did that you would care to share?



Some pranks that come to my mind that I never actually have done yet:


put the sugar in the salt shaker and the salt in the container for the sugar

tape the handle of the sink sprayer so that the next person that turns the faucet on gets WET

put powdered kool-aid in the shower head for the next person

boil some eggs then put the hard-boiled eggs back into the container for the next person that tries to break them to fry the eggs only to find out they're hard boiled

[Boris Godunov]

Salt in the sugar container?? And vice-versa?! My gods, your friends must tremble in fear over what merry jest you'll pull off next. Till Eulenspiegel, move over!

[MrFun]

Well you post some more outlandish pranks then.

[Boris Godunov]

I once convinced an employee he was going to be fired, when in fact there was no intention of doing so. And they say HR people are humorless.

[Urban Ranger]

Put a bit of durian in somebody's room or car, preferably hidden from plain sight.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I once convinced an employee he was going to be fired, when in fact there was no intention of doing so. And they say HR people are humorless.

You sound like Catbert

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I once convinced an employee he was going to be fired, when in fact there was no intention of doing so. And they say HR people are humorless.

you're cruel

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I once convinced an employee he was going to be fired, when in fact there was no intention of doing so.

Was there violence afterwards?

[MrFun]

Boris probably hid in one of the cubicles and since all cubicles look alike, the other guy gave up on finding him.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Was there violence afterwards?

Of course not. Then I could have really fired him.

[:) Smiley]

Plastic wrap over toilet bowls, or if you've got the patience, clear jello.

[Agathon]

At the height of radical feminist agitation on campus, put an ad in the varsity paper for a Men's Assertiveness Network that will put those uppity *****es in their place. Add your friend's phone number as the contact.

Wait....



I did that. Best prank ever. People were still laughing about it six years later.

[JohnT]

Re: The Prank Thread

Originally posted by MrFun
What are good, basically harmless pranks that you can think of, to play out on others?

Do you have any good story of an actual prank you did that you would care to share?

Er, yes.

I think I got this out of some book. However, it was awesome enough for me to do it:

I was about 13, 14. I had a pretty deep voice and many people commented about how "old" I sounded. I called up this person on the phone, at random. Some old lady picks up.

"Hello?"
"Yes ma'am. This is John from ATT (or whatever the phone company was called pre-breakup), how are you doing?"
"Fine, thank you. How about yourself?"
"Great. Well, I have one problem. We have an error down at the switching station down the street from your house and we need you to not, I repeat NOT, answer your phone for the next half-hour."
"What? Why?"
"The nature of the problem, and the fix, puts our man at peril of electrocution if your phone makes a connection while he is working on the problem. He might even... and here I paused just a little bit... die."
"My goodness! Well, I certainly don't want to be the cause of that!"
chuckling "No, ma'am, you wouldn't. OK, here's what we're going to do to show you the line is safe and you can go back to using your phone - do you have a pen or a pencil?"
"Right here. Let me get a pad... Got it."
"We will call you four times. The first time, we will let the phone ring once, then hang up. The second time... you got this?"
"Yes, please continue..."
"The second time the phone will ring two times, the third time the phone will ring three times. OK?"
"Yes - the first time: one ring. The second time, two, and the third time, three rings."
"Very good! We will space the calls out at intervals of two minutes apiece, and you'll be able to set your watch by how timely we'll call back."
"Well, how long will it take and when will you start?"
"It'll take 1/2 hour at most. If it takes longer than an hour, we'll send a representative by and he'll configure your phones so that you can use them again without electrocuting our guy, but right now we are confident that it will be a quick fix. OK?"
"Ok, dear."
"Fine ma'am. I'll contact the technicians as soon as we get off the phone - and don't forget to not use it until you hear our signal!"
"Bye"
"Goodbye, and thank you for using ATT."

So I waited about 10, 15 minutes. Then I call her back, let the phone ring once, hung up. Two minutes passed, called her back, let the phone ring twice, hung up. Two minutes passed, called her back...

... and let the phone ring and ring and ring.

Succumbing to temptation and rationalization, this poor woman finally answers the phone, whereupon I scream


"YYYYYEEEEEEAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

and slammed the phone down.

My friend was laughing his ass off, and royally pissed. For that was the second half of the prank:

I used his phone.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Was there violence afterwards?

No, Boris decided to make up and eventually sold the guy a mattress.

[Pekka]

You should go and hit someone in the nose and when they ask you why did you do that or get all upset, say 'by gones!' and run away laughing the crazy man laugh.

Molest cars.

Umm.. change your name to someone famous, only so that people will say 'hey you must get this a lot'..

Kill someone and revive them back to life and say 'just kidding! have a nice day!' and run away...

I got tons man..