Statues. We once dressed up a statue of Caesar Augustus as our president. We had a cardboard cutout of the prez’s face and a replica his signature bowtie. We put a pair of devil red bikini underwear with black crosses on them onto the statue’s crotch.
We also dress up the giant statue of ______ (insert roman name) and his horse as Santa Claus every year before winter break.
This also happened at the University of Iowa the year Berke Breathed left Iowa City for the Left Coast.
The day before he left he published a cartoon in the editorial section of the townie paper with Opus and Binkley sitting on the fountain in the downtown pedestrian mall. They were talking about how much they’d miss Iowa City. Binkley finished up by saying “Yeah, but the water tastes like Spic-n-Span”.
Sure enough, next day someone dumped a whole box of it in the ped mall fountain. Sudsorama!
If you grab something important (like a pledge book) and immerse it in kool-aid. Set it to freeze in your fridge. When they become frantic looking for it. leave it in an obvious place. They have to wait for it to melt, while everyone laughs. it only leaves a nice pink/blue hue to the paper anyway.
Another one is grabbing something important like a pledge book or planner or project. Enclose in zip lock bag. Throw ito center of fountain (at UCF there is a rather large one in the center of campus). When they become frantic, leave anonymous note to victim. Works best with bubbles.
I have a friend who attended Pembroke State in North Carolina. The Campus Cops were notorious for sleeping in their cars. So one night, he crept up to the cop car… took the blue light off the top of the car, set it on the hood, took a PHOTO of it (where you could clearly see the cop’s face), and then had the school paper publish it.
Here’s a nice big list of MIT pranks. Very nice.