Pranks

[harleybug88]

What's the funniest prank you have ever pulled off?

 

[captianoats]

I convinced SWMBO that my cars door handle could read my fingerprint and automatically unlock my door, yet I refused to program hers.

It worked for weeks.

 

[day_trippr]

I wired a squib under the system board of the first of its kind fault tolerant platform we had just gotten running in the lab - and just a few minutes before the VPs arrived to get their look-see.

Only the Chief Engineer could get away with what followed...

Cheers!

 

[JonM]

I've always wanted to try this. Apparently, it works best when you put several in a particular room/apartment, etc. so the patsy never knows how to pinpoint the noise.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/b278/

 

[FloppyKnockers]

For over three years I convinced the company I was "working" for to keep giving me money.

 

[Tinpanharry]

I paid a valet and waiter each $5 on top of their tip to go along with this old gag... After dinner, while starting to pull away from the restaurant, the waiter came out yelling "Stop Stop you didn't pay!" And I pulled away quickly from the restaurant. My wife and our guests looked at me like a crazy man until I circled back and got a high-five from the valet.

 

[harleybug88]

Back when I was a teenager, me, my two brothers and neighborhood friends used to camp-out in a big tent in our back yard.

One night, after it got very late. About 10 or 11 of waited by the side of the road for a car to come along. When we saw the headlights, we pretended to beat and kick my brother! ( he volunteered ) We all then scattered and he dropped to the ground! the car pulled over, a lady got out and screamed " OH MY GOD, HE'S DEAD!' My brother then got up and ran off.

We were all hiding when the cop came shining his spot-light.

 

[Homercidal]

I put salt in the sugar dish. Supposed to be for my sister to find, but my mom had breakfast first and ate salt on her wheaties...

It was a good prank and a very bad day.

Also I have tied some pull-apart firecrackers to kitchen cabinets for my wife to open. I learned that some of the funniest things you cannot laugh out loud at.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

I can't take credit for this one, but a few people my wife works were singing the praises of Yeti coolers one day, but mentioned how expensive they were. From there they managed to convince her that the Yeti Ice they sell (normal ice won't work with Yeti coolers after all) is insanely expensive too.

Gullibility must run in the family, as she pulled the same thing on her mom a few days ago and it worked then too.

 

[JonM]

I've heard about sending the new guy at work out for the board stretcher, the glass magnet, plain sauce for plain hamburgers, and the pizza dough patch repair kit.

 

[hunter_le five]

I've heard about sending the new guy at work out for the board stretcher, the glass magnet, plain sauce for plain hamburgers, and the pizza dough patch repair kit.

Used to manage the recreational facilities for a summer camp, including a couple swimming pools. I would send the new lifeguards to go get pool chemicals from the supply room:

"okay, we need a barrel of muriatic acid, a bucket of calcium hypochlorite, a sack of sodium carbonate... some hydrogen peroxide for the first aid kits...grab a PH test kit while you're in there.... oh yeah, almost forgot! We also need some dihydrogen monoxide. Don't come back without that one, the levels are really low."

They're usually too busy trying to remember the string of chemical names I just rattled off at them to realize what the last one was. Some were quicker than others to realize that they'd never find that one in the supply room, no matter how hard they looked.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Used to manage the recreational facilities for a summer camp, including a couple swimming pools. I would send the new lifeguards to go get pool chemicals from the supply room:

"okay, we need a barrel of muriatic acid, a bucket of calcium hypochlorite, a sack of sodium carbonate... some hydrogen peroxide for the first aid kits...grab a PH test kit while you're in there.... oh yeah, almost forgot! We also need some dihydrogen monoxide. Don't come back without that one, the levels are really low."

They're usually too busy trying to remember the string of chemical names I just rattled off at them to realize what the last one was. Some were quicker than others to realize that they'd never find that one in the supply room, no matter how hard they looked.

That one's a killer... dont breathe in a lungful or you are almost certainly a goner.

 

[motobrewer]

locked a coworker's stuff in the basement once. our team was moving to a different part of the building. he was on vaca during the move, so he texted someone, "have [moto] move my stuff!"

so I did. set up his whole office in a tool cage in the basement. it was pretty well done actually.

best part was the guy who had the key didn't come in until like 9:30 or so. He...missed his 8am meeting....

 

[DrunkleJon]

I put salt in the sugar dish. Supposed to be for my sister to find, but my mom had breakfast first and ate salt on her wheaties...

It was a good prank and a very bad day.

Also I have tied some pull-apart firecrackers to kitchen cabinets for my wife to open. I learned that some of the funniest things you cannot laugh out loud at.

Snap n Pops. The little things you throw on the ground to make a snap. I still ike to put them on top of doors or under the toilet seat. When placed on top of a door in the crack they stay on until either the door is opened and starts swinging closed again, or are pushed off when the door closes. Great for a scare, only works when its not carpeted by the door. As for the toilet seats, when you sit down... at least you are already on the toilet.

Yeah, I am a jerk.

 

[JINKS]

dihydrogen monoxide. .

Saw a news story on how a petition was circulating to ban the use of this chemical as it was building up to potentially dangerous levels in rivers and streams during rainstorms. People were lining up to ban it.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I like the old school ones. Wait for coworker or family member to leave their fountain drink unattended. Tie a knot in the bottom of the straw, and return to original position. Effective.

Sneak into a family member's room on thanksgiving and shortsheet the bed. Call the next day to gloat.

Pick a word frequently in your conversations, but not an article like "the". Often but not constant. If you work in retail, maybe the word is "SKU". If you live with lunatics, perhaps it is "Thorazine"... its up to you. When talking to the victim, quickly tilt your head down to your shoulder and back up each time they say the magic word. This will slowly enrage them over time.

For some reason silently handing my wife a bowl of the popcorn I left on the stove and burned to mini-briquets really annoyed her.

You'd be surprised how much play you can get at age 34 in the year 2014 with a simple joke-store whoopy cushion.

Finally, another prank that has a lot of lead up and a very subtle but satisfying finish is to choose a word you say everyday and mispronounce it subtly. Family Guy has "Cool Hu-whip" which is very good, but I like "appLAtizer". My father has yet to tell me 34 years in that he's been playing this prank on me, but I really cant wait for it to happen.

 

[JonM]

Saw a news story on how a petition was circulating to ban the use of this chemical as it was building up to potentially dangerous levels in rivers and streams during rainstorms. People were lining up to ban it.

It's used as an industrial coolant! It is found in biopsied cancerous tumors! Unprotected contact with its solid or gaseous form can cause tissue damage!

Someone actually went to the trouble of making an MSDS for it. Its specific gravity is listed as 1.000 and its solubility is 100%.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

For some reason I am not wise or smart enough to understand, dihydrogen oxide seems impossible to reproduce under laboratory conditions... seems a relatively easy formula...

 

[Airplanedoc]

I worked as a intern in a large industrial facility in the tool crib/parts department.

We loaned out a bunch of expensive tools to various contractors. One day a guy comes looking for a pipe stretcher. I first told him that he needed a signed note from his supervisor for me to check it out to him. I figured this would be the end of it. About a hour later, the guy comes back with a signed letter from the head guy on site for that company, So I walk him over to the tool crib, and quickly grab the sign out clipboard off the wall. I wander around with him for a minute and find a open space in the crib. I explain to him that this is where the pipe stretcher should be located, then flip thru the papers on the clip board and tell him as I point that some other company has it signed out. After 3 days of doing this to the guy, I finally tell him he should go find the Superintendent of the other company company and see when the pipe stretcher is going to be returned. Next thing I know I have 3 superintendents including mine standing at the window, wanting to know who was responsible for this. Since I was busted, I admitted it was me. the first superintendent wanted to shake my hand, cause he was sure he was getting me, when he sent back the note and there was no way I could weasel out of the situation, but I managed to for 3 days, then managed to get out of it entirely by sending the employee to another company.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I worked as a intern in a large industrial facility in the tool crib/parts department.

We loaned out a bunch of expensive tools to various contractors. One day a guy comes looking for a pipe stretcher. I first told him that he needed a signed note from his supervisor for me to check it out to him. I figured this would be the end of it. About a hour later, the guy comes back with a signed letter from the head guy on site for that company, So I walk him over to the tool crib, and quickly grab the sign out clipboard off the wall. I wander around with him for a minute and find a open space in the crib. I explain to him that this is where the pipe stretcher should be located, then flip thru the papers on the clip board and tell him as I point that some other company has it signed out. After 3 days of doing this to the guy, I finally tell him he should go find the Superintendent of the other company company and see when the pipe stretcher is going to be returned. Next thing I know I have 3 superintendents including mine standing at the window, wanting to know who was responsible for this. Since I was busted, I admitted it was me. the first superintendent wanted to shake my hand, cause he was sure he was getting me, when he sent back the note and there was no way I could weasel out of the situation, but I managed to for 3 days, then managed to get out of it entirely by sending the employee to another company.

You had me until the very end.

 

[Airplanedoc]

Once where I worked there was a employee who kept a vibrating dildo, that looks like a penis in his tool box. He would sneak up behind someone and goose them with it. It turned out that his supervisor was really jumpy, so they had jabbed him with it several times at our preshift coffee machine meeting with our boss. In my group of coworkers there was 1 woman. she had never seen Benny get goosed with the vibrator, because the guys feared they wold get busted for sexual harassment or something. She was getting ready to move on to another are, and mentioned to me that she really wanted to see Benny get goosed. I explained to her why she had never seen it happen, but I would talk to the the 2 guys. They said if they heard it directly from her that it wouldn't be a issue, they would try to get Benny before she left on Friday. A couple days later during our meeting I see one of the guys slip around behind Benny. Now about 8 of us are standing in a circle, I am directly across from Benny, Stephanie is next to me, and our boss is next to her. Next to benny who is 5'5" is Stephanie's replacement, Tony who is 6'5". I see Benny's full coffee and figure it is going to come my way, when benny takes off, so I discretely cap my bottle of orange juice, our boss meanwhile is covering his coffee with this hand.

They goose benny, he yelps, and jumps straight up and throws his full cup of coffee and hits Tony "the new guy who knows nothing about this" just below his chin and soaks into his white shirt. Tony is completely confused. Everybody is laughing, and I look over to see Stephanie's reaction, and she is missing, then I feel a arm wrap around the inside of my knee. Stephanie is laughing so hard she had to squat down to the floor and is about to fall over and is holding on to my leg to keep from falling over.

After the start of the shift, My boss suggested that I run home and take tony to see if I had a shirt he could borrow. Since he lived 60 miles away, he was going to be stuck in his white shirt with coffee all over the front of it on his first day on dayshift.

 

[masonsjax]

I always like messing with guys' cars at their wedding before they leave for the honeymoon. We use alligator clips to connect the brake light fuse to the horn so when they hit the brake pedal the horn blows. I pull the tube off the driver side windshield washer sprayer and run it through a grommet on the firewall so when they spray the windshield their foot gets squirted. Best one is removing the rear license plate and putting it on upsidedown. They usually don't notice but will most definitely get pulled over that night or the next day. Fun times!

 

[Airplanedoc]

Our factory office was being remodeled, so all the bosses were relocated to a double wide construction trailer near one of the loading docks. Quickly a group of pink flamingoes was erected outside near the steps. When the trash needed collected, a sign was put on the garbage bags in a stairwell "trailer trash". A buddy and I decided that we really needed to class the place up a bit, and we located a velvet Elvis in a gaudy faux brass frame, with a light over it. We had it shipped directly to the plant to eliminate the need to sneak it in. To be clear, we are talking about old, fat, jumpsuit Elvis" not young elvis. We took it out one evening and hung it on the wall between our bosses desks. It was super classy when they were interviewing candidates for positions with a fortune 50 company under the glowing light of the king in all his velvet glory. They were never able to figure out exactly who was responsible for it, but they didn't take it down until they moved out either.

 

[Airplanedoc]

Once a remote control fart machine was stashed near the door inside the women's restroom. It was quite entertaining to see the looks on peoples faces, and reactions as they walked by and heard vile sounds emanating from inside.

 

[JonM]

A friend of mine put a remote control fart machine in his GF's chair. In Starbucks.

 

[sfgoat]

I picked up a part time job at a local grocery store that opened up last year (in the weekend manager) and once every two weeks I pick a random kid to shake the salad dressings. They still haven't caught on that it's ridiculous and I just love watching the customers faces when they walk by one of these kids vigorously shaking a bottle of unopened salad dressing.

 

[Airplanedoc]

I've always wanted to try this. Apparently, it works best when you put several in a particular room/apartment, etc. so the patsy never knows how to pinpoint the noise.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/b278/

Those work pretty well. The cricket noise is the best for around the house. I started it in the bedroom once the day before I left for a business trip for a few days. When I came home I after it went off a few times, I announced that I had killed the little bastard.

 

[Airplanedoc]

During college most of my classmates really hated the department head. One of the guys in our class was a member of the S&M club on campus, which afforded him access to all kinds of perversion. He got a copy of some Morbidly Obese Women with ball gags magazine, and some panties the size of a tent, and brought it into class. One of the other guys was a night janitor in the building and got him into the directors office, where he left it open to the centerfold and placed some folders on top of it. The next day the professor teaching our class left and went to the office to make some copies, and came back laughing hysterically. Apparently while he was running a couple copies the secretary went into the directors office and ask him about something. He picked up the folders on the desk and was going thru them to get her the answer. She then saw the magazine/underwear and had a shocked/appalled look on her face when the director looked up from the folder, saw the secretary, then looked down at the desk to find the open centerfold and panties. He **** a brick, not knowing what to do threw her out of the office and closed the door. My professor asked what was going on and she explained what she had just seen on the Director's desk. Sometime later the director came out trying to cover the whole thing up. I'm not sure she ever looked at him the same way again.

 

[b-boy]

This one may take a while to explain:

Everyone has a friend in college who is the guy that gets picked on. We had that guy. His name was Aldo (God rest his soul). Aldo died at a very young age from brain cancer. He was a great guy, not too bright, and a pretty easy mark.

My favorite Aldo story involved a protest that Aldo was involved in at college.

I went to the University of Buffalo. They were planning to close down the student union. A bunch of wanna-be 'hippies' decided to do a sit-in until the administrator of the college changed his mind. Aldo was all in for this because he always saw himself as a hippie.

Aldo went to the sit-in. The police showed up and said anyone who doesn't leave will be arrested. He got up an left. We (his friends) took offense at that. In our eyes if you went to a sit-in, you needed to take the heat from the police. Getting up and leaving showed that you were just there to look cool. We decided to teach him a lesson.

My roomate was able to get his hands on some official UB letterhead. We wrote Aldo a fake letter from the University indicating that he's been identified as a trouble maker and that he was going to be expelled from UB unless he turned himself in to the police. The letter said he had to show up at a specific room/time to meet with school officials and discuss his expulsion, and possible arrest.

Aldo got the letter and freaked out. He showed it to us, and of course we played up the whole thing. We told him he was in a lot of trouble and needed to go to the meeting. We even had a fake phone number he could call to verify the information. A buddy of ours answered the phone and pretented to be a school administrator. We told him he needed to make himself presentable, and not look like a hippie when he went there. We said he'd have a better chance if he looked conservtive (These were the Reagan years). We got him to dress up in his blue suit, complete with a tie. He looked like a young republican when we got through with him.

We sent him off to the meeting. What he didn't know was that we sent him to the Gay Liberation Front meeting at UB. He walked into the meeting, and there was a lot of confusion from both sides as to what he was doing there. That was supposed to be the end of the joke.

Aldo figured out it was the wrong room, but he wasn't smart enough to realize we'd pranked him. He took the letter to his fellow protestors, who were mostly a bunch of burnouts, and showed it to them. They got all upset about the letter and started a mini revolt in the school courtyard. There were a few dozen people chanting 'Bull****, Bull****, Bull****' and waving the letter around.

Well, the cops showed up and were shown the letter. The cops disbursed everyone and gave the letter to UB. Since it was written on official letterhead, it was escalated all the way up the food chain to Albany, which is the main office for the SUNY school systems. About 1 day later we got a panicked call from our fake college administrator letting us know that the Chancelor of the SUNY system called him and was pretty pissed about the incident. We all got hauled in for a hearing at the school, and luckily were let off with a warning.

So we'd pranked Aldo, but his lack of intelligence actually came back to bite us in the ass.

It was still pretty funny though. Ah college - good times!

 

[hunter_le five]

My roomate was able to get his hands on some official UB letterhead.

We played a similar prank on our group's "Aldo" back in college.

We wrote up a fake letter on fake (but very convincing) school letterhead stating that "Aldo" had made some errors in the filing of his graduation application, and that because it was now past the deadline to file the necessary corrective forms, his graduation request was being summarily denied. He would have to return to school for another full semester of classes in the fall, at which point he could re-apply for graduation.

We gave this to him during finals week. He absolutely lost his $#!t for about 15 minutes before we fessed up.

 

[jmendez29]

I work out of an office shared by several people. We mess with each other constantly.

We've hidden one of the cordless phones inside one guys computer case. He could hear it ringing, and it was coming from near his computer, but he couldn't find it.

Ran an extension cord to the power cord of a computer monitor at an adjacent desk. Plug the extension cord into a power strip and leave it on the floor under the desk. Whenever the guy at the adjacent desk is working on the computer, the guy at the other desk can switch the monitor off with his foot on the power strip switch. This went on for DAYS.

Before we left for the day, we took a radio and turned it up full volume and hid it in the ceiling tiles. Whenever someone on the oncoming shift keyed up their radio in the office, there was a bunch of backfeed and nobody could figure out where it was coming from. At least for an hour or so.

And this one was incidental. Before leaving for the day, I hid a coworkers cell phone under his keyboard. I figured he would throw a fit, damn near disassemble his desk until he lifted up the keyboard and found his phone, then calm down and wonder how his phone ended up there. It worked out precisely to plan. Except the part about lifting up his keyboard. And calming down. Apparently he moved the keyboard around but the phone somehow stayed under it. He blamed the rest of his shift for messing with his phone and even blamed a couple of them directly for stealing it. And by the time I came back in 12 hours later, he had even called up his provider to cancel his phone plan and order a new one. When I showed him where it was, I could see a momentary flash of rage, then all out humiliation as he realized how inappropriately he had overreacted in the past 12 hours.

 

[Homercidal]

When I worked in a factory snatching up pop cans was pretty popular with some people. You can get 10 cents each in Michigan so a quick walk around the factory could get you a couple of dollars a day easy. One old guy had a habit of picking up your pop can and asking if you were finished with it. If you said no he'd take a drink and ask again...

An older lady would collect cans for money to spend on her grandkids. Her and the Old Man did not always get along, there being that little bit of competition between them.

One day the old guy got pissed at her for "stealing HIS cans" and superglued the combination lock on her locker.

ok, not a great prank, but a pretty good act of vengeance...

 

[monkeyman1000]

I have a couple
1) Convinced a new receptionist at a SNF I was working for to page Amanda Hugginkiss over the PA.
2) At another SNF I put a plastic turd near the toilet where we practice transfers with pts. The aide came in and saw it and pointed it out to everyone. I put on some gloves and grabbed some paper towels and went over and picked it up, making sure she could see me. As soon as I picked it up I bit it. You could hear her scream all the way out to the nursing station.
3) Placed a note on a nurse friend of mine's desk in a home health office run by a real uptight clinical manager. It read : IAM SOFA KING WE TADID. She went around reading it to everyone asking what it meant. Love her.
4) Syringes filled with water are great to shoot other guys in the crotch with at the hospital. Paging Mr Pee Pants. My buddy got me so I put KY Jelly on his phone receiver. Unfortunately the Pulmonary Doc used the phone first.
5) Remote control fart machine. Used that everywhere. Backfired when I taped it to the bottom of the desk in the meeting room where all the managers and dept heads meet for morning meeting. The new administrator (and complete paranoid nutcase I found out later) sat where I taped it. The tape gave way and it fell into her lap before I could use it. She thought it was a tape recorder and the meeting was being bugged by the competition.
6) Fake nail through the finger gag at a construction site, plus fake snakes and rats and roaches.
7) My favorite resident/pt of all times at a SNF where I worked had recently lost her leg and got a prosthetic one. She came to therapy and I worked with her for a bit. We loved playing a gag on the other pts. I would have her lie on a mat and announce that I was going to stretch out her hamstrings. I had a low rolling curtain on wheels that I would put in front of the mat. I then would take off her prosthesis and pretend that was the hammy I was stretching out. You could see her head on one end of the mat and me and the shoe of the prosthesis above the curtain. I would take the leg up to about 90 degrees and hold it then pretend I slipped and bring the foot down by her head. she played along and started yelling and moaning in agony. Scared the **** out of everyone. She also liked to play WC bowling. I'd set up a bunch of bolsters and push her chair towards them. She would wave her arms and good leg and try to knock down as many as she could. Loved me some Shirley!!!
There are more but those are my favorites.

 

[Monkey-BB]

I used to love filling up an empty vodka bottle full of water and pounding it first thing in the morning in front of somebody and pretending I didn't see them watching me just see the look on their face.
I sure got some priceless "looks"

 

[DrunkleJon]

May have mentioned this already in the Messing with SWMBO thread. If you havent read through it I highly reccomend it.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/messing-swmbo-356492/

Rubber rat or better yet snake, placed in the microwave. Most people that use the microwave are in a hurry/on autopilot anyway. When you open the door and see a coiled snake less than a foot away from your face is enough to startle the crap outta most anyone.

And we can't forget the age old rubber band around the kitchen sink sprayer gag. Whoever turns the water on gets sprayed.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

I tried the rubber band around the sink hose thing one year. I managed to forget about it and ended up spraying myself.
Twice.

 

[kev211]

I worked at a bicycle shop during college. We pulled all kinds of stupid pranks on each other, like putting sale tags on employee bikes that said "Piece of S**t bike", sale "insert cheap price here"" but the best prank we ever pulled IMO was on TJ.

Tj was a guy who loved mexican food (we're in San Diego, who doesnt ), but TJ's stomach didnt like mexican food as much. So one day when he was enduring a post mexican food lunch on the porcelain throne we decided to have some fun... We used baby powder to help seat tubes inside tires, so had plenty of it around the shop. At the bottom of the bathroom door there was about a 1/4 gap (this is also a single person/toilet bathroom, just to set the scene). So, we decide to take a healthy portion of baby powder and lay a line of it at the bottom of the door. We grabbed the air compressor hose, and let it rip. Ill put it this way... I have never heard so much gasping for air, coughing, and cussing all mixed in together in a 5 minute span. We were dying laughing. Totally worth having to mop the walls of the bathroom to clean the baby powder up :rockin:

 

[DrunkleJon]

Another one I mentioned in the messing with SWMBO thread but too good to not do. 'Borrow' their iphone and change the shortcuts (Apple-speak for autocorrect) and change autocorrect on words to change it to something different.

A couple weeks ago a friends phone was changed as followed.

"Lol" became "I fart bubbles!"
"Yes" became "no"
"No" became "yes"
etc..


Others that are fun to do for computer dorks like myself is to go on someones computer, take a screenshot of their desktop and set it as the desktop background. Then go into settings and hide the icons on the desktop.
Tape on the bottom of the mouse (works on both ball mice and optical)
Partially unplug the video cable from the back of the monitor, you get weird colored hues to the entire screen.
Most computers with a decent video card have shortcut keys that rotate the desktop. For example on many you can hit control-alt-arrow key to rotate the display so that direction is up.

 

[b-boy]

I used to work with an older programmer named Bill. He was in his 60s and a little behind the times technologically. We were all in our 30s at the time. We gave him a lot of 'old man' crap. He was a really cool guy. Kind of an ex-hippie.

One of the guys built a small program that could be inserted on his PC. The program played random audio clips at random times. We created a network share where we put the audio clips and a configuration file. This allowed us to essentially control the program remotely. We loaded the program on his PC. It loaded at startup.

We could enable it by changing parameters in the config file. We could turn it on or off, control which audio clips were played, and control when they were played. We had fart noises, movies lines, explosions, etc... We made sure the tech suport guys knew about the joke so they wouldn't ruin it, and so we wouldn't get in trouble.

The we turned it on and watched the fun.

For a few weeks he'd come into our work area complaining that his PC was 'posessed'. It was making random noises and talking to him. We told him it was probably a virus and said to call tech support. Since they were in on it, they played dumb and told him the PC was clean. He got completely obsessed with the fact that his PC was talking to him. He called tech support daily. You'd hear him telling everyone about it in the hallways, and talking on the phone about it. Everyone knew about it, so we all just went along with it.

We turned the program off for a few weeks and let everything settle down. He stopped complaining and things went back to normal.

After a month or so we fired it back up again. This time we added sound clips that included his name. We had the Billy Balough clip from Caddy Shack, where Ted Knight says 'Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy'. We also found some other random clips with his name in them.

The absolute best part of the joke was when Bill came walking into our cube area with a crazed look on his face. He looked at us and said slowly and deliberately "It's back - and now it knows my name!"

We all busted out laughing. He immediately figured out that we had something to do with it. He was pissed, but he was laughing about it within a few days.

 

[Airplanedoc]

lessons learned as a factory supervisor

1. Always wipe the phone off, before placing it to your ear. petroleum jelly, and grease aren't so bad, but Prussian blue has to wear off.
2. Always close your email program, before leaving the desk, coworkers send happy grams to your boss, telling what a great guy he is.
3. Always keep a lid on your coffee.
4. Always check you stool before you sit.
5. Never pickup anything that looks interesting or unique, its probably a capacitor.
6. Routinely wipe across your ass, to be sure you do not have a bunny tail hung on your belt.