# Tell me about your gag novelty experiences e.g. exploding golfball **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 2, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-gag-novelty-experiences-e-g-exploding-golfball/329110 "2005-11-02T17:29:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bzwilak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@bzwilak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bzwilak)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-gag-novelty-experiences-e-g-exploding-golfball/329110/1 "2005-11-02T17:29:47Z")
Anyone here ever used the exploding golfball gag, on a buddy? I don’t play golf, but if I did, and someone pulled that gag on me, I know I’d be LMAO. also: How about exploding cigars? Tell me about **any kind** of your gag novelty experiences. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-gag-novelty-experiences-e-g-exploding-golfball/329110/2 "2005-11-02T18:55:48Z")
Many years ago, I found a whole sack of itty bitty wood slivers. Years after that I found oput they were for making exploding cigs and seegars… I was really on a lot of lists for several years after that. Hummmmmmmmm I think I still have one or two slivers left someplace… ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-gag-novelty-experiences-e-g-exploding-golfball/329110/3 "2005-11-02T20:46:18Z")
These are safe gags. Put pinholes in a cigarette, they suck half air through the holes. You’d better be sure it’s not their last one or do it to more than one. Do the cut a banana into pieces while it’s in the peel trick. They peel it and the top half falls off. A jpeg image of their computer screen in a maximized window. They click on the image for a while and nothing responds. I’ll defer telling anymore computer ones least the company geek gets pissed at you. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-gag-novelty-experiences-e-g-exploding-golfball/329110/4 "2005-11-03T00:00:49Z")
> [@Harmonious Discord](#): > > These are safe gags. > > Put pinholes in a cigarette, they suck half air through the holes. You’d better be sure it’s not their last one or do it to more than one. > > Do the cut a banana into pieces while it’s in the peel trick. They peel it and the top half falls off. > > A jpeg image of their computer screen in a maximized window. They click on the image for a while and nothing responds. I’ll defer telling anymore computer ones least the company geek gets pissed at you. That would definitely work on me. I can’t remember how many times I’ve taken a screenshot of something and promptly forgotten that I was looking at a screenshot and try to click on something - or worse, try to figure out how it’s been 12:03 for the last 10 minutes… ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-gag-novelty-experiences-e-g-exploding-golfball/329110/5 "2005-11-03T02:33:05Z")
Use a pin to poke a hole in a soda can about an inch below the top just under the pull tab. Folks think they have a hole in their lip. I have hung phony “push” signs on doors that had to be pulled open. Just today I called a friend and told him I would return his call but I lost his phone number. He was almost through the whole number before he realized the joke. I replaced a Butterfinger bar with a piece of plastic in the wrapper then epoxied the wrapper into the drop chute of a candy machine. A co-worker offered to sell his Lexus for much less than it was worth. Of course he didn’t know who put the flyers up either.