# Perhaps the greatest Prank War in the history of mankind **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480 "2009-04-17T23:06:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/1 "2009-04-17T23:06:16Z")
I had seen bits and pieces of the Prank War between Amir and Streeter of [collegehumor.com](http://collegehumor.com), but never watched the entire saga unfold serially until last night. So, I shall share this amazing tale of intrigue, backstabbing, conspiracy, doublecrossing and ruthless diabolical deviousness with the Dope. It all starts off innocently enough, with Streeter editing in some [sex sounds](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759697) into Amir’s favorite iTunes track. Amir has his revenge by setting up Streeter on a [fake date](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759727) with a non-existent hot fangirl. Streeter plays into Amir’s ego by faking a casting call and getting Amir to make a hilariously bad [audition tape](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759729) which he then plays for the whole office (and, of course, the world.) Amir comes back by convincing the audience [not to laugh](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759731) at Streeter’s open-mic night at the UCB. Continuing the theme, Streeter convinces Amir to fly with him to LA to [play a bit part](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1759206) on a sketch comedy show, wherein the stars relentlessly criticize Amir’s acting while praising Streeter. In possibly the greatest culmination of a prank war ever recorded on digital video, Amir pranks Streeter in front of a capacity crowd at Yankee Stadium by buying a [Jumbotron marriage proposal](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1774718) for Streeter’s girlfriend. That was almost two years ago, and many people assumed that this war had ended in a truce or several destroyed relationships. But the peace was not to last. Streeter gets his revenge once again in quite possibly the [most sublime prank](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1902812) I’ve ever seen, which I won’t even describe here except to say this: the turtle was in on it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/2 "2009-04-17T23:38:53Z")
Those last two are pure evil, especially the Yankee Stadium bit. Still, I have tears streaming down my face from laughter, because they all seem to take it in their good stride. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/3 "2009-04-17T23:50:12Z")
The marriage proposal one is at least an order of magnitude worse. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/4 "2009-04-18T00:02:03Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > The marriage proposal one is at least an order of magnitude worse. Yeah, holy crap on that one, seriously. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/5 "2009-04-18T00:07:33Z")
FWIW, I have it on good authority that the marriage proposal prank did not actually cause Streety Bird’s girlfriend to dump him. (They did break up later though.) ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/6 "2009-04-18T00:33:27Z")
The stunt was peurile and unfunny to boot. I laughed until tears came. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/7 "2009-04-18T06:04:02Z")
Cheeks, meet tears. Unbelievably funny. I wonder how Amir will respond… ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/8 "2009-04-18T06:17:01Z")
Oh god, I love how he knew the instant he saw Streeter. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/9 "2009-04-18T06:38:35Z")
That was pretty damn good (I just watched the last two), but WOW, I’d HATE to see the Yankee’s one happen to me, the Turtle one, I could deal with fine… But getting slapped like that and having that over my head… I might just fake it and fake propose on that spot -\_- ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/10 "2009-04-18T08:11:03Z")
The thing that’s really evil about the Yankee Stadium one… what if she says yes?! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/11 "2009-04-18T08:24:09Z")
> [@Windwalker](#): > > The thing that’s really evil about the Yankee Stadium one… what if she says yes?! She _did_ say yes. It was only after he said that he didn’t want to marry her that she slapped him. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/12 "2009-04-18T09:00:11Z")
The problem with the Yankee Stadium prank is that it “wounded” an innocent bystander\* (the girlfriend)–she wasn’t in on it and she ended up embarrassed/humiliated. The best pranks don’t splash ‘innocent victims’. So even though it was hysterical, it was sloppy and inelegant. I gotta give the Basketball the win by a long shot. \*She’s fair game if she participated in earlier pranks–but I didn’t see that she joined in or was part of the war. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/13 "2009-04-18T17:54:15Z")
You guys believe these are actually pranks? They all, especially the proposal one, seem obviously staged (on both sides) and poor acted. The girlfriend’s reaction makes it look like she was 100% in on it. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/14 "2009-04-18T19:51:48Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > You guys believe these are actually pranks? They all, especially the proposal one, seem obviously staged (on both sides) and poor acted. The girlfriend’s reaction makes it look like she was 100% in on it. That was my idea, too. I don’t think can I recall a woman ever slapping a guy in the face in real life. That’s purely movie stuff. Also, after the Yankee stadium thing, the basketball shot would obviously be a set up. Just about anyone can put anything on the Internet now and everyone just assumes that it’s real. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/15 "2009-04-18T19:56:43Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > That was my idea, too. I don’t think can I recall a woman ever slapping a guy in the face in real life. That’s purely movie stuff. Also, after the Yankee stadium thing, the basketball shot would obviously be a set up. A year and a half between pranks is a long time. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/16 "2009-04-18T21:20:26Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > That was my idea, too. I don’t think can I recall a woman ever slapping a guy in the face in real life. That’s purely movie stuff. Also, after the Yankee stadium thing, the basketball shot would obviously be a set up. > > Just about anyone can put anything on the Internet now and everyone just assumes that it’s real. I think you’re unduly skeptical. Everything in the clips was plausible, and certainly it was presented as being legitimate, and [collegehumor.com](http://collegehumor.com) is a pretty well known site, so this would be a fairly substantial fraud if it were fake. Anyway, that’s good enough for me. Maybe I’m naïve. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/17 "2009-04-18T22:02:57Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > That was my idea, too. I don’t think can I recall a woman ever slapping a guy in the face in real life. That’s purely movie stuff. Its not purely movie stuff. I’ve been slapped by one individual on more than one occasion. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/18 "2009-04-19T00:07:36Z")
I admit a part of me was a little skeptical at the part **guizot** described. (I HAVE seen men hit like that, among other ways, by a women), but it did seem like it _COULD_ have been planned out. I do beleive it’s genuin, but can’t be 100% sure. I question the validity of a lot of things though. > [@Fenris](#): > > The problem with the Yankee Stadium prank is that it “wounded” an innocent bystander\* (the girlfriend)–she wasn’t in on it and she ended up embarrassed/humiliated. The best pranks don’t splash ‘innocent victims’. I agree. That’s harsh, and not fair. He seemed really hurt by the last prank and getting choked up about it, but the young lady had nothing to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/19 "2009-04-19T23:47:17Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I admit a part of me was a little skeptical at the part **guizot** described. (I HAVE seen men hit like that, among other ways, by a women), Not saying it’s real but _I’ve_ been slapped that way by women before. And it wasn’t for saying “but I don’t want to \ marry you” when she thought she was being proposed to. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480/20 "2009-04-20T00:00:03Z")
If they were all fake they would fake way better pranks than making a guy sit in a bar for 45 minutes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perhaps-the-greatest-prank-war-in-the-history-of-mankind/493480.md?page=2)