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dirtymike1

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Well now that I have a desk job, and an office full of bland grumpy people, it's hard to play pranks on people. But from days of yester-year, I've had a few good ones. Working as a mechanic for about 5 years I've worked with plenty of interesting people to say the least.

The best one by far that I've gotten away with was putting a few eggs inside of a paper towel dispenser (the roll style). It had a plactic tube that had caps on the ends, but went inside the actual roll itself. About 2 weeks later it was impossible to go near the damn thing, the whole time I'm laughing to myself.

So who's got some good ones. I posted in this area because I want the low-down, horrible jokes that you've played on people, and some ideas for ones to play in my office. :cross:
 
Depends on if the PC video card will support this but, ctrl+Alt+ (directional arrow) will flip the image on the screen.

It's funny to watch people freak out when they come back to their station and find the screen image flipped up-side down.
 
GilaMinumBeer said:
Depends on if the PC video card will support this but, ctrl+Alt+ (directional arrow) will flip the image on the screen.

It's funny to watch people freak out when they come back to their station and find the screen image flipped up-side down.
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Nope just tryed it on a few computers.... damn cheap ass setup....
 
You can do a print screen of their desktop and then set it as the desktop background. Then you have to remove their icons (put them in a folder or something, don't delete them) then when they try to click on the icons they cant because they are part of the background.
 
bought 500 green army men. put them all over someone's desk.

He responded with the classic 'fill the cube with balloons' gag.

I retaliated by putting one quart of rice from a Chinese restaurant outside his office door and 300 quart containers inside his office (the ones in his office were merely boxes-- no rice. but he was worried none the less)

His calm, measured response was to build a huge house over my cube using 2x4 and foam core and covering it with eater wrapping paper, peeps and a sign that said 'easter bunny lives here'. There were 600 plastic easter eggs inside.

I bought a lot of 20,000 (that's 20k) brown poker chips for $60. I am going to fill someone's cubicle overhead storage with them in such a way that they will spill out when they open it.

I have a 6 foot diameter weather balloon that I am going to put in someone's car and then have someone run in and say that they accidentally hit the car.

I bought an annoy-a-tron at ThinkGeek and we put it in a HR guy's office. He spent weeks trying to figure out what he was doing to cause the intermittent beeping.

I bought a recording device used to train parrots and put it in someone's car with a recurring message of 'you owe kornkob $20'
 
Ok for the 20,000 chips, heres how you do it.

The over head needs to have a shelf, of put one in at an angle. Take a pice of cardboard and tape is to the front of the over head, this will hold the chips in place while you stack them. Load the chips in there then shut the lid and remove card board. The door will hold the chips till some one opens the door, then... CRASH!!!

Learned this one at my friends house a few years ago, we took out all the plates and such from the middle and bottom selves, placed the middle section on an angle and loaded it with 2 dozen eggs. We were tring to get my friend but got his mom instead. Needless to say, she was NOT thrilled but did laugh about it later, after we cleaned up the mess.
 
Oh-- yeah-- the methodology isn't the issue-- it's picking a target, making sure he isn't working and then taking the time to come in. In fact the top of the cube storage here has a slot abotu 2 inches wide in teh top we cna use for feeding in the last of the chips and then sticking a yardstick in to pull them forward and leaning. We're going to put his keyboard and mouse in the overhead and lock it, leaving the key in the lock.
 
pop of a couple keys on a persons keyboard and swap them, like the E and R or the S and A and watch as they can't figure out why in the hell it keeps typing a R when they hit E!!! That is good for some fun.

I sent a buddy a link to tubgirl and was like "hey man, check this out" and form that day forth it was a major war. We eventually had to sign a truce some months later since we could no long click on each others links. you can google tubgirl if you don't know what it is, but I would avoid any links other than ones at wikipedia.

The same guy I sent tubgirl too gave me a fake winning lottery ticket worth 10,000.00!! that bastard. ;)
 
One of my personal favourites that just came to me one morning when trying to figure out M$ Outlook's message filters:

I noticed that it is possible to actually execute a program when a certain word is present in a mail....hmm...since I work as a programmer I put together a small app that, when executed turned up the volume to max and then played a .wav file of my liking. I installed it on a couple of my workmates computers when they where out for lunch and hooked it up to trigg on a fairly ordinary (but rare) word in Outlook. They got back and I sent one of them a mail... It took them ages to figure out what was going on. The .wav file? -a really loud female orgasm... :D

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We just had a great one. Plug a second USB mouse into the victims computer and run the wire into another cube. He won't know and both mouses work. Then you can constantly move the victims mouse around. We did it to a guy for 2+ months. By the end was banging his mouse on his desk, throwing it, constantly complaining about his bad mouse driver, and went and got 3 new mouses for his computer.

It was a classic - i recommend it. It works especially great when you work in excel, trying to type in excel with someone constant clicking a new cell is a PITA...
 
A former colleague (he was fired) put a tuna fish sandwich behind the bookcase in the office of my boss (Senior VP of the company).

It took him days to find the source of the smell. He was not happy.
 
The older phones we had were Avaya shiny black ones. A piece of electrical tape over the mouthpiece would keep most busy for a while. Pretty funny actually.

Or some clear tape over their ethernet (Internet) cable is also hard to spot.

One I've been dying to try is to take their keys and freeze them in a cup with ice. That way they have to thaw them out before they leave. :D
 
EdWort said:
A former colleague (he was fired) put a tuna fish sandwich behind the bookcase in the office of my boss (Senior VP of the company).

It took him days to find the source of the smell. He was not happy.
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I did something similar. During an afterwork we found a jar of live magots in the fridge that our (not so popular) VP had left behind when he went fishing over the weekend.

So...after a couple of beers we thought (OK, I thought...) "What the heck, let's free Willy!", so we (I) took the maggots, opened up the lid and carefully placed the jar to hatch on a radiator in our VP:s office.

Let's just say the overall consensus among the employees present when he entered his office a week later was that he was very much *not* into practical jokes involving his fish bate...

It's five years ago now, but we still laugh about it...

H
 
pcrawford said:
We just had a great one. Plug a second USB mouse into the victims computer and run the wire into another cube. He won't know and both mouses work. Then you can constantly move the victims mouse around. We did it to a guy for 2+ months. By the end was banging his mouse on his desk, throwing it, constantly complaining about his bad mouse driver, and went and got 3 new mouses for his computer.

It was a classic - i recommend it. It works especially great when you work in excel, trying to type in excel with someone constant clicking a new cell is a PITA...
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I JUST DID THIS!!!!! About 2 weeks ago I got the guy next to me with this prank. As he was typing up a proposal I went to minimize the window, but I accidentally closed it. He was not thrilled and I was prompyly moved out of that office. haha

Here's the best one that I think I've ever done. I was working in a car dealership and I had an on gonig battle with one of the parts counter guys. Well one day while he was gone at lunch I took a small zip tie and connected the handset and base of his phone. When he got back, I called his phone while watching through the window. He grabbed the phone and the base came up and clocked him right in the eye, it damned near knonked him out. That was the end of our fraud:cross:
 
orfy said:
Slight difference between a joke and sabotage.

One is funny one's not.
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You are correct, sir. I'm reminded of Mel Brooks explanation of the difference between tragedy and comedy:

"Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you fall down a manhole and die."
 
All right. How 'bout a "Possum Bomb"?

Some friends and I decided to take out some revenge one night on an ex who had recently scorned one of us (not me). We took a gallon plastic container, like what bulk mayo or ketchup comes in, then found a nice, fresh piece of roadkill. We (I) put the 'kill into the container, along with a package of yeast and some liquid (probaby beer. I don't recall specifically, for obvious reasons). We then lovingly placed it near his AC unit, making sure it would receive full sunlight in the lovely July weather.

I'm sure this crossed the line mentioned above, regarding joke vs. sabotage. But Hell hath no fury...
:D
 
reminds me of another joke: wrapping someone's house in 2500 feet of seran wrap.

and another: in a room with wood floors and a ceiling fan that they turn on when they get home put a stack of rice crispies on the blades. when the fan spins they start falling off and making a sound like mice or roaches scampering about. This works best if they have dogs to clean up the crispies. With the fan on low, this effect can go on for over a week.


The humor of a practical joke is usually relative. Some of the minor, subtle ones are pretty funny when practical jokes are new to the environment but in the midst of an ongoing series of jokes they fall flat.

The converse can also be true. A huge, elaborate in-depth joke as one of the first jokes played comes off as insulting or bullying.

One has to tread carefully and avoid anything that causes any damage or potential injury.



One day I want to work up a series of practical jokes that ends with me stealing their keys and moving their car so I can put a crushed car in their driveway instead.
 
Bedlam said:
I'm sure this crossed the line mentioned above, regarding joke vs. sabotage. But Hell hath no fury...
:D
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You did. It is no longer a practical joke when being done as vengeance for anything other than another practical joke. Especially if you never tell the victim you did it.
 
In one shop that I worked in, the day I left I went to the market before work and got a couple of fish heads. When I told the guy what I was gonig to do I got them for free. What I did was move a guys tool box out from the wall, and seran wrapped the fish to the back of the box. This goes along with the eggs in the paper towel dispenser. I got a phone call about a month later when the manager couldn't take the smell anymore and he begged me to tell him where it was coming from!

Another one from the same shop...wow that place was a blast to work at.... We had a ceil crain that ran all over the shop (it was a converted warehouse). Well we chained up a guy's tool box and hide it in the very far corner of the shop, behind the heater unit. It took him about an hour to finaly find it. Good times
 
This may be pushing it depending on your role in the company, but I've installed the Blue Screen of Death screensaver on a few co-workers machines. Pretty funny when they come back from a biology or lunch and all they see is the big BSOD! Check it out HERE
 
When I was living in another area. One of my friends and myself stretched ad charged a 2.5" hose line and charged it with 100psi. Then we called a noob to the company and when he opened the door we blasted him. needless to say if had a worse effect then previously thought. We knocked him back about 15ft and he slid on his elbows across the pavement.

One of the guys that I know filled my fireboots with water So my next call at 3am resulted in a big splash.

One of our guys, who had a history of dating all girls that used to be girls scouts, somehow ended up with 2 boxes worth of loose girlscout cookies in every pocket on his coat and pants, in boots, in gloves, in helmet...
 
Nothing beats sitting down to a guys PC and manipulating the Spell-Checking Auto-Correct on his Outlook.

Watch a guys reputation for spelling & grammar nose dive when his spell check auto-corrects:

you're and your to you
"Let me know when you going down there..."
"Please send me you report ASAP..."

"before" to "befour"

"inch" to "pinch"

"warehouse" to "whorehouse"

"below" to "bowel"

"estimate" to "asstimate"

You get the pornt...I mean point. :D
 
The best practical joke I have ever been involved with happened when I was a volunteer EMT in New Mexico. I was doing my supervised hours with a paramedic to upgrade my license to IV-tech. This paramedic I was working with got some novacaine jelly somehow. He took a syringe of this stuff and injected it into his partners toothpaste. So, first thing in the morning, after a brutal night of car wrecks and mayhem, we both sat at breakfast waiting for his partner, who by the way was very picky about his appearance and would constantly primp and preen, to get up and brush his teeth. Of course the alarms went off in the middle of his brushing and we had to run out to the rig for yet another car crash. It was spectacular to see this guy covered with toothpaste and drooling all over himself because his mouth and lips were numb from the novacaine!!
 
"Snap-Its under the toilet seat" is usually funnier (and less messy) than "Saran wrap over the bowl."

A piece of dry ice in the toilet is hilarious...until the frantic victim flushes the "steaming toilet."

Helping a friend turn off the hot water supply while his girlfriend is taking a shower will get you both in trouble when she slips and falls in her rush to escape the cold water.

A shot of Coca-cola and a shot of Jagermeister look very similar. That can be a useful piece of information to have.

I once mapped my college roommate's computer arrow keys to macros that either inserted text or sent a single word to the printer. He spent several days with an empty printer tray, trying to eliminate all of the instances of, "I am woman, hear me roar," from his homework.

Our local network has a "three strikes and you're (locked) out" policy when logging in with an incorrect password. It's fun to attempt three log-ons under boss's user name, failing to type a valid password, then watch his frustration when he gets back to the office and has to call the Network Help Desk for access to his account.

At work, if something goes missing, the logical place to find it is in the freezer, often in a plastic bag placed into a bowl or cup of water. I've found (or frozen) wallets, cell phones, car keys, hats, gym clothes, lunch, etc.

Shoe polish or grease on ear phones, headsets, etc never fails to get a laugh.

In college, our doors opened into the rooms (rather than out into the hallway). Tying together the doorknobs of adjacent or opposite occupied rooms made for an interesting day.
 
We used to have a blast at the convenience store where I worked. We'd fill the bathroom with empty milk crates (can't be too cruel), then make sure the boss' wife was kept filled up with Diet Coke and Coors Light. The old saran-wrap-on-the-toilet-seat joke was awesome. Simple things, like a smear of mayonaise on the back of someone's soda can.
 
We had a practical joke that got the cops involved.

A group of us were going back and forth on practical jokes until this one. My buddy comes to work and finds all of the cables have been cut off of his computer, I mean plugs still in and cable cut. There were big chunks of cable everywhere, the cables were cut at the keyboard, the mouse, power, networking etc etc. He saw and panicked and got our boss the VP. The VP calls the police to report the vandalization. My buddy was pretty bugged out. Well my other friend shows up an hour late and got there just after the cops.
After the cops come and say they arent going to finger print anything because it wont do any good. So I go and start to clean up the mess I lift the keyboard up and notice the coil was coiled up neatly underneath it. As I moved things around I found all of the original hardware intact but hidden. I walked out to go tell some one and saw my other friend who was in on the prctical jokes. I told him 'The Police are going to want to talk to you in Brent's office.' He took off and straightened it all out.
There was a zero tolerance policy on practical jokes after that.
 
At college we did the tried and true "soup shower" trick. The suite was a six person suite in three bedrooms. We had two full baths and a common living room. The one guy we didn't like (ROTC over-privileged jerk) was the target. We removed the shower head in the bath he used and placed a bullion cube in the pipe, then replaced the head. The other two who used that shower just used the other one. He was enough of a slob, that he didn't really notice. We repeated this several times over the week. I must say that his normal football player musk improved to the flavor of a sweaty steak:ban:But eventually he realized that the rusty looking water that came out when he first turned on the shower wasn't normal and had maintenance come and check it out.... Needless to say, he moved to a different room later that day. Guess that doesn't really count as a practical joke, but with an appropriate target it could;)
 
Yuri_Rage said:
In college, our doors opened into the rooms (rather than out into the hallway). Tying together the doorknobs of adjacent or opposite occupied rooms made for an interesting day.
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Yeah ours did too, however we were not quite so nice. We would always wait around for a week and try to find the one person that was your stereotypical nerd or jock. Once we did find this person we would take the 55 gallon trash can from the end of the hall and fill it up with water. We would than take said trash can and lean it up against the door and then knock. We would usually do the knocking at 2 or 3 in the morning to get the desired effect. Well I am sure that you can figure out what happened.

Now you may be wondering how we got away with this? Well our janitor drank a lot, even on the job. He was a cool guy. We would always give him fair warning when we were about to do it. Fair warning, a bottle of nice scotch, and $100.
 
Yuri_Rage said:
A shot of Coca-cola and a shot of Jagermeister look very similar. That can be a useful piece of information to have.
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A shot of Worcestershire sauce and Jagermeister look the exact same. Watching someones face after they do a Jagerbomb with Red Bull and Worcestershire is priceless. I can say from experience it's very salty.
 
We used to take the ketchup packs that you get with fast food and fold them in half, and bite a small hole in the middle of the bend. Then we would place them under the pads on the toilet seats. When the mark sits on the toilet, they either get ketchup squirted all over their bottom or, when they inspect their "baby", there is a lot of red stuff in the bowl with it. Either way, it's pretty funny.
 
There used to be a thing called 'The Anarchist's Cookbook' that had all kinds of evil stuff in it. I used to see it all over the early file sharing apps like Hotline.
 
Not actually a joke, but somewhat amusing.

The scene: A local dump near a thread dying plant.

Starring a bulldozer and thousands of reject spools of thread.

Add a dozen high schoolers and toss spools about, covering the bulldozer with thread: thickly.

Enter equally thick bozer operator, who thinks he can just break the thread by driving off ...

WRONG!
 
AFAJ Brew Guy said:
Yeah ours did too, however we were not quite so nice. We would always wait around for a week and try to find the one person that was your stereotypical nerd or jock. Once we did find this person we would take the 55 gallon trash can from the end of the hall and fill it up with water. We would than take said trash can and lean it up against the door and then knock. We would usually do the knocking at 2 or 3 in the morning to get the desired effect. Well I am sure that you can figure out what happened.QUOTE]

Done that many times.

For hockey tournaments we would set the alarm clocks for like 3:45am in someone elses room. It was always funny to hear someones alarm going off at that hour.

We would also wait till a guy was just about done with a shower then take a bucket of ice water and throw it over the curtain on him.

Put my best friends sandals in the oven one time. Luckily his mom checked the oven before preheating.

You could tape the sink hose handle down so when the sink is turned on it sprays at the person.

Heres a good one if you dont mind fire and your in college. Take a can of hairspray and a lighter, when the roommate is in their room (if your in a suite) light the lighter near the floor and the bottom of the door. Then spray the hairspray. This big f-ing ball of fire should flame up on the other side.

We had a coach who loved his Harley Fat Boy, had it all chromed out and jet black paint. One night at a team dinner we took all of the TP from the place, wrapped his bike so you couldnt see anything but white and then rolled the last of the TP in to his feet. What makes it better is we called the guy Shrek, he is gigantic. He was not happy.
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I drive a flatbed truck for a lumber company. What we do with a newbie is like after two weeks on the job we take all of his straps and tie down one unit of lumber really tight. I had it happen to me and I had to cut the staps off with a knife. We used to deliver lumber early in the morning and some of the guys would go out and scare the crap out of you while you were making you delivery.
 
I worked in an oil change shop when I was a teen. My favorite trick for newbies was to put my hand in the fan of a running car. Sounds dangerous, but if you put your hand in the backside of a fan, the flat part of the blade is all that hits you, so it hurts a little, but it won't cut you. Of course I'd grab my hand start screaming like someone just murdered my mom. Quite effective if the newbie is standing right there!
 

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