# Estimated Time Until Our Asses Get Kicked Out

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 17, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831 "2011-06-17T14:04:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/61 "2011-06-20T20:07:57Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> I think you are seeing things in my statement which are not there.

Then I’m confused. Your OP asks about the consequences if you were to carry out a prank that you say you had no intention of actually pulling. Some people get miffed because they dont’t think it’s a funny thing to do. Slightly heated discusssion about the nature of humor and societal expectations of respect in the service industry ensues. Then you say:

> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Mild inconvenience or confusion - which is about the most you can do legally with a prank. I understand some people don’t think it’s funny to mess with people just doing their jobs, in any capacity. I obviously disagree. As long as it’s legal, doesn’t cause a panic, and doesn’t get the employee fired, of course.

The only things I see in that statement are that you believe that pranking, under the stipulations you give, is funny. I then opined that this attitude is fucked up, speculate that you may be defending a position that you did not originally intend to, and predict that this sort of behavior may result in being told not to return to a business.

What am I seeing in your statement that’s not there? Please understand that I’m not being sarcastic, I genuinely don’t understand what you think I’m reading into your statement.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/62 "2011-06-20T22:49:58Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Annoying, perhaps. Condescending? Hardly. A check for $5 is worth the same as a five dollar bill.

It is worth as much as a $5 bill, if it clears. But the only way to check if it is valid is take it to the bank and file it and see if it bounces. Involving fees. Not good.

And yes, it is a bit condescending. Instead of presenting the paper, ask “Do you take checks?” and see how well that goes over.

Think about this, would you appreciate your boss giving you a pile of personal checks made out to cash instead of direct deposit? Personal checks from a random person’s checking account rather from a company account. “Who is this _Mike Jones_?”

> [@](#):
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> This is, at best, a prank in the vein of Candid Camera - contravening normal expectations in a harmless way. Imagine instead of a strip joint that it was a bar, and we insisted on paying for each drink with individual checks. The bartender might be confused or annoyed, but disrespected? Please. :rolleyes:

Same deal, disrespected. “We don’t take checks.” It might have been funnier back when paper checks were more common, but between debit cards and electronic transfers, checks are falling out of favor in places they used to be welcomed. They are not going to be appreciated by someone who has no way of evaluating their legitimacy when the standard is cash money.

You know what would be just as funny? Handing out IOUs in preset denominations. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

> [@elbows](#):
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> If you’re that drawn to shock value only antics just pull your wang out randomly. All the shock value and attention you crave - with the advantage of actually being amusing to your audience. There will be laughter! And that’s what you want, right?

Depends on the stripper, some will pull it out for you. But not for a check.

> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Well, is there a rule that you _have_ to tip after a dance? If not, then you’re already ahead of the game by giving her something rather than nothing. Would we think it was all that obnoxious if he did it to a waiter?

The way it works here, you can sit at your table and watch for free. If you go up to the stage, you are offering to tip for special attention. The dancer will come over and start giving you a more personal interaction, and after 20 to 50 seconds or so, if you have not already thrown the cash at her, on the stage, or started dropping ones all over her (called a “money shower”), she will indicate time for a tip by offering a hip and pulling out her g-string a bit. Then you submit your bill to the offered spot. She may also ask your name or otherwise try to assess if she should find you after getting off stage to get lap/table dances.

If at said time you were to pull out a check instead of a bill, she would likely get a bit upset - “What’s this? I don’t take checks.” She might just move off and ignore you from then on, she might wave over a bouncer, she might start getting loud/vocal/violent - depending upon her temperment, the culture of the establishment, etc. If you don’t know her, though, (at least as a regular), she’s not going to look at it as cute - pre-printed personal checks.

Now if you have a regular stripper you have been seeing for some time, such that she knows your name and you’ve never stiffed her before, then she _might_ think/pretend it’s cute. But she’s very likely to refuse to accept it and prod you for cash.

> [@pakalolo](#):
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> I still maintain that this idea is in no way amusing, not funny in theory, not funny in execution. Extremely un-chill.

Humor is subjective.

> [@pakalolo](#):
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> The thing is…_it’s not funny_.
> 
> Dealing with checks is a pain in the ass.  
> Multiple checks, multiple pains in the ass…no “humor”, no “sustained joke”, no “escalating perplexity.” (seriously…“escalating perplexity”??)

It’s not supposed to be examined from the perspective of the person receiving the checks. It’s “hey look, I’m not using cash - I’m using personal checks. Ha ha! But they’re preprinted denominations, like cash! And they’re made out to cash, so they can be exchanged like cash!” It’s mildly amusing in a strange juxtaposition way, but only from the perspective of being odd, not from actually receiving said checks and having to deal with them.

> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> The “joke” is based on the idea of purposefully being annoying by making someone’s job harder simply for their own amusement. That kind if thing is rarely “hilarious” to anyone over the age of 15.

No, it’s not about being annoying or making the persons’ job/life more difficult. It’s simply about the juxtaposition of seeing checks in prefilled denominations. Escalating in value. The fact that it would actually be annoying and make the recipient’s job harder is why you shouldn’t execute it, because it wouldn’t actually be funny to them.

> [@pakalolo](#):
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> Are you expecting that the stripper would be the one who is first escalatingly perplexed, then doubled over with laughter and telling future patrons about the hilarious joke perpetrated on her while giving them a lap dance?

Sure. “Look at this clown who tried to give me checks. In increasing increments! Like we take checks.”

> [@](#):
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> Or is it the other bar patrons who will find the angry check receiving stripper so side-splittingly comical they cant wait to get home and post about the awesome check giving dude on their favorite message board?
> 
> Even better, do you see the whole bar wiping the tears from their eyes as they laugh uncontrollably at the absurdness of you giving a stripper a series of 1$ checks?

Well, I’d certainly be laughing and shaking my head. And feeling a bit sorry for the stripper having to put up with that kind of a jackass.

> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> Mild inconvenience or confusion - which is about the most you can do legally with a prank. I understand some people don’t think it’s funny to mess with people just doing their jobs, in any capacity. I obviously disagree. As long as it’s legal, doesn’t cause a panic, and doesn’t get the employee fired, of course.

Teasing someone you know is one thing, pulling a prank on a stranger is another. But then I don’t like the local radio show hosts that do a “birthday prank” deal. People submit ideas/requests about a friend who had some annoying situation, and they call the person and pretend to be involved in that situation and see how much they can ratchet up the annoyance to get that person angry on air. So they can reveal at the end the prank. That’s a great Happy Birthday message! :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/63 "2011-06-21T09:03:05Z")

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I don’t want to pile onto the OP, but I also have some difficulty in seeing what is the funny part. Is it paying by cheques (checks) or presigned or have I missed the lot?

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**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/64 "2011-06-21T12:49:05Z")

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> [@Cicero](#):
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> I don’t want to pile onto the OP, but I also have some difficulty in seeing what is the funny part. Is it paying by cheques (checks) or presigned or have I missed the lot?

I _think_ it’s supposed to be the stripper’s reaction to the checks, because fucking with people who are just trying to get through the workday the best they can is oh so hilarious. See the quote below.

> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> I understand some people don’t think it’s funny to mess with people just doing their jobs, in any capacity. I obviously disagree.

So you’ll think it’s a scream when the stripper shows up at your workplace the next day and turns off the grill while you’re trying to flip the burgers? I mean, it’s not harmful. Just confusing and annoying. No damage, no panic, no firing, so it’s all great, right?

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/65 "2011-06-21T13:28:30Z")

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> [@Furious\_Marmot](#):
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> The only things I see in that statement are that you believe that pranking, under the stipulations you give, is funny. I then opined that this attitude is fucked up, speculate that you may be defending a position that you did not originally intend to, and predict that this sort of behavior may result in being told not to return to a business.
> 
> What am I seeing in your statement that’s not there? Please understand that I’m not being sarcastic, I genuinely don’t understand what you think I’m reading into your statement.

I see your error, and it is the one I expected. You are misinterpreting “As long as it’s legal, doesn’t cause a panic, and doesn’t get the employee fired, of course.”

This means a prank is impermissible if it meets conditions A, B, or C. It does not mean that any prank that does NOT meet condition A, B, or C IS permissible. I simply am saying that those three conditions are instant vetos for a prank, not that they are an exhaustive list. Clearer?

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/66 "2011-06-21T13:32:54Z")

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> [@Irishman](#):
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> Teasing someone you know is one thing, pulling a prank on a stranger is another. But then I don’t like the local radio show hosts that do a “birthday prank” deal. People submit ideas/requests about a friend who had some annoying situation, and they call the person and pretend to be involved in that situation and see how much they can ratchet up the annoyance to get that person angry on air. So they can reveal at the end the prank. That’s a great Happy Birthday message! :rolleyes:

I think confusion is way funnier than anger, personally.

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/67 "2011-06-21T13:42:52Z")

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> [@CrazyCatLady](#):
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> So you’ll think it’s a scream when the stripper shows up at your workplace the next day and turns off the grill while you’re trying to flip the burgers? I mean, it’s not harmful. Just confusing and annoying. No damage, no panic, no firing, so it’s all great, right?

I’m a database analyst, but to fire a hypothetical back at you, if I were doing your job - which is veterinary in nature, correct? - and someone brought in their “very sick” cat, who turned out to be a stuffed and mounted animal, I’d laugh.

I get that some people don’t like practical jokes in any way, shape, form, or fashion. Some people do. I do. And you seem to have made the same error as the Furious Marmot - The damage/panic/firing statement does not imply its inversion.

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/68 "2011-06-21T14:49:22Z")

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Your practical joke essentially amounts to offering somebody fake money to do their job. I don’t get why that’s funny to do to anybody in any job, but when you do it to strippers it carries an extra level of mockery and degradation. I don’t get the joke. If it’s not on the strippers, who is it on?

I’ve never been to a strip joint, but I’m guessing if you waved a check at a dancer, she’d just ignore you and your prank would never go anywhere. If you kept it up with trying to wave one dollar checks at dancers, you’d probably get a word from a bouncer to knock it off.

Basically imagine trying to pull the same “prank” with Monopoly money. The reactions you’d get would be exactly the same. You wouldn’t be stuffing and garters or thongs while confused, compliant strippers ket taking them. You’d be ignored until you became annoying enough to get bounced.

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/69 "2011-06-21T14:56:29Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> I’m a database analyst, but to fire a hypothetical back at you, if I were doing your job - which is veterinary in nature, correct? - and someone brought in their “very sick” cat, who turned out to be a stuffed and mounted animal, I’d laugh.
> 
> I get that some people don’t like practical jokes in any way, shape, form, or fashion. Some people do. I do. And you seem to have made the same error as the Furious Marmot - The damage/panic/firing statement does not imply its inversion.

Now see, the stuffed cat joke I’d actually find pretty funny. But veterinarians aren’t historically known for already having a rough go of things.

I’m not sure where the line is drawn (for my own tastes), but I’d put strippers (and bartenders, fast food workers, waiters and the like) on the other side of it.

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/70 "2011-06-21T17:27:34Z")

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> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> Now see, the stuffed cat joke I’d actually find pretty funny. But veterinarians aren’t historically known for already having a rough go of things.
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> I’m not sure where the line is drawn (for my own tastes), but I’d put strippers (and bartenders, fast food workers, waiters and the like) on the other side of it.

So you only get angry on behalf of service-industry people who work in large part for gratuities? Why is that, do you think? Do you look down on them, and thus pity them, and single them out for some kind of paternalistic protective instinct?

One of my best friends in the world is doing part-time work in the fast food industry. I don’t look down on her for it, I treat her just like anybody else. And if I take a wild hair to go up to the counter where she works and start quietly singing the menu under my breath as I contemplate my order, then I’ll do that. It may waste a little time, but it’d be funny.

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**Author:** ![pakalolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@pakalolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pakalolo)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/71 "2011-06-21T18:30:25Z")

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> [@](#):
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> And if I take a wild hair to go up to the counter where she works and start quietly singing the menu under my breath as I contemplate my order, then I’ll do that. It may waste a little time, but it’d be funny.

No. Not funny.

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**Author:** ![Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Disgruntled\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disgruntled_Penguin)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/72 "2011-06-21T20:41:13Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> So you only get angry on behalf of service-industry people who work in large part for gratuities? Why is that, do you think? Do you look down on them, and thus pity them, and single them out for some kind of paternalistic protective instinct?

I have to agree with **Bob Ducca** sp while I can’t answer for him I’ll take a shot at this.

It has nothing to do with the person the prank is pulled on. What makes the cat thing funny is the outrageousness of the whole thing. It is strikingly out of the norm and the only confusion is the mental sanity of the cat bearer and how you approach them.

People trying to pay for things with checks in places where checks are not allowed? Not funny and depressingly normal. Over the years I’ve seen it countless times and it’s never funny. These people aren’t trying to be funny either. They want the item and are willing to argue about it. They are annoying.

Presenting to a stripper in a strip club doesn’t change the fact that it’s unfunny. Maybe if I looked down on them I might find it funny but since I don’t, no it’s not funny simply because the root of the prank isn’t funny or clever but simply annoying.

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**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/73 "2011-06-21T20:51:05Z")

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Another vote for douchey behavior and not the least bit funny.

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/74 "2011-06-21T21:21:27Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> So you only get angry on behalf of service-industry people who work in large part for gratuities? Why is that, do you think? Do you look down on them, and thus pity them, and single them out for some kind of paternalistic protective instinct?

I’ve worked enough shitty service-industry jobs to know how hard people in those jobs work just for little-pay, but also for very little respect - from both management and society at large. Working as a stripper is just about at the bottom of the respect ladder (just above prostitute, really), but that doesn’t make them any less deserving of MY respect, or YOUR respect.

When someone is already doing something that garners them such little respect, they don’t need people purposefully disrespecting them even more than they are already, making their jobs even harder than it already is, just for a laugh.

Part of being an adult non-asshole tenant of Earth is being able to show respect to those who don’t normally recieve it from the immature asshole members of the world. What’s so wrong with trying to be on the right side of that line? Is being respectful of others really that hard for you?

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**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/75 "2011-06-21T23:07:07Z")

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> [@CandidGamera](#):
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> I’m a database analyst, but to fire a hypothetical back at you, if I were doing your job - which is veterinary in nature, correct? - and someone brought in their “very sick” cat, who turned out to be a stuffed and mounted animal, I’d laugh.

My previous job was veterinary, yes. And no, having to either cut my lunch break short or call and piss off a bunch of other people to create an opening to see this very sick animal and having it turn out to be some lame-ass prank would _not_ be funny. In fact, if the prankster picked his day badly, I would be seriously tempted to bludgeon him to death with his fucking taxidermy. Actually, I bet that would engender a whole lot of highly amusing consternation and confusion. So maybe I would laugh, after all.

Other things that your veterinary staff will not be amused by:

-smoking up your pet and calling us to tell us about its reaction

-feeding someone’s 8-week puppy all the black cake icing it will eat because the dye will turn its poop weird colors

-calling us to ask what to do if your dog’s wooden leg falls off

-calling us to ask how to tell if the muskrat you’ve been fucking has AIDS

-yelling “Boo!” in the middle of a blood draw

Believe me, you are not the first one to come up with hi-larious pranks to play on the vet clinic staff.

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/76 "2011-06-22T01:08:11Z")

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> [@CrazyCatLady](#):
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> Believe me, you are not the first one to come up with hi-larious pranks to play on the vet clinic staff.

Never said I was! And just because you wouldn’t find it funny doesn’t mean another veterinary employee might not find it funny.

So I’m headed out of town for a few days and won’t be able to keep up with this thread, but I can go ahead and answer some posters in advance. Please select whichever response is most suitable for your post, as indicated :

“It’s not funny!” -\> Some people think it is, and there’s no accounting for taste.

“You shouldn’t prank people at work!” -\> That’s your opinion, and you’re entitled to it. So please, keep it.

“You’d get your ass thrown out!” - \> Yup, already figured into the OP. Please read.

“Only a horrible person would do such a thing!” - \> For a variety of reasons, I’m not planning to do it, so this is not really contributing anything of value to the thread.

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**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/77 "2011-06-22T01:23:57Z")

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> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#):
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> Depending on the club (which should always be a disclaimer in any strip club discussion), you might get assaulted by the girls (and not in a good way).
> 
> Once in my youth, I accumulated a bunch of $2 bills. It thought it would be a great idea to take them to a strip club and tip the dancers with them. What could go wrong? I’d be paying them double their normal tips. I thought that they’d love me and shower me with double the affection.
> 
> Let’s just say it was a real bad idea. I was basically attacked and had to have the bouncers protect me and push me out. They apparently thought that the bills were counterfeit. The bouncer’s exact quote after I explained myself: “Listen dipshit. These dumb bitches ain’t never seen no two dollar bill! Come back with singles.”

Do you visit Fark often?

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/78 "2011-06-22T02:18:45Z")

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Strippers are serious business, okay?

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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/79 "2011-06-22T02:23:05Z")

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Candid Gamera, I have I believe a pretty well balanced sense of humour and I needed this explained to me. it is not funny.

More importantly, the people it is being played on are unlikely to find it funny.

Anyway, you say you will be away so I won’t labour the point.

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**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/estimated-time-until-our-asses-get-kicked-out/585831/80 "2011-06-22T03:42:47Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> Sure, it’s funny. You’re just caught up analyzing it from the wrong perspective. \*\*The funny part isn’t, “Look at the stripper having to deal with all these checks!” \*\*The funny part is, “Look at the moron who thinks its okay to pass out checks in a strip club!”
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> Er, not that I’m trying to call the OP a moron, of course.

Well this is the part that occured to me - but I think the management kinda frowns on you “checking” the strippers.

Mind you, round here you can try paying with a cheque, but I think the results would be pretty much the same.

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