Okay, it’s one of the oldest staples of cartoon comedy – a prankster secretly mixes in laxatives into their target’s food (brownies for the office, or “chocolate” for a pesky fed), then gets to chortle in delight as the victim’s bowels suddenly need to tend to business for the next eight hours or so.
On the other hand, while browsing through the drugstore the other day, I noticed that all the oral laxatives were of the “gentle overnight” variety – that is, it takes 24-72 hours before the effects kick in. The only laxatives that work immediately (15 minutes to an hour) were those that had to be inserted rectally. While that might make for a novel prank, I don’t think it’s easy for a prankster to shove a laxative up someone’s porthole without their knowledge.
So, is the whole “let’s make the entire office go potty simultaneously” thing just a big myth? Or are there genuine industrial-strength oral laxatives out there for pranksters to buy?
I believe part of these kinds of pranks usually involves administering a very large amount of these laxatives (much more than the recommended dose). I imagine this may cause a quicker-acting and longer-lasting effect than stated on the packet.
Laxatives made with magnesium sulfate (epsom salts), magnesium citrate and their ilk can produce quite spectacular results. The eater of a magnesium doped brownie would notice a salty taste.
Well, UL’s never die. However, the old active ingredient used to work much faster than the new “gentle, all natural”. (Phenolthaline [sp?]) An overdose of that could be bad. And, in a few, rare cases- fatal.
They used to put phenolphthalein (the one DrDeth was talking about) in Chocolate Ex-Lax, which looked and tasted like chocolate and was guaranteed to work in eight hours or less. Apparently, you could incorporate the stuff into cake frostings and such, causing severe diarrhea for the victims, but I never tried. Phenolphthalein was removed from laxatives a few years ago for safety reasons.
It might also be worth noting that people who are buying laxatives are having trouble moving their bowels. If you are regular, thinks might move along more quickly.
an exroomie and I doped up a half gallon of chocolate milk with exlax because another exroomie was stealing our food. We simpy bought it, drank about 2 good cups of it, blended a box of the old style exlax with seriously hot water and mixed it into the chocolate milk. Every now and then we would dump a tiny amount into a glass and run water into it like we had jsut had a glass and put the glass into the sink to soak for washing up with the dinner dishes.
Stupid fool kept complaining he had the stomach flu but kept drinking it. We gave up after 2 weeks and a gallon and an half of doped up milk. Though he did lose about 20 lbs and make weight for wrestling :rolleyes: We took to shopping for our food on a daily basis, and locked the condiments in the bedroom.
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phenolphthalein as in base indicator? :: You’ll never guess who’s a chemistry major, and has access to bottles of this. Don’t piss me off at DopeFests.
And this thread has had some of the funniest words strung together ever.
“unleash a horde of Mr. Peepers from the gopher hole " made me laugh a lot. So did " I don’t think it’s easy for a prankster to shove a laxative up someone’s porthole without their knowledge.” Understatement is hilarious here.
The French judges give this a 9.5/10, because suppositories were mentioned.
There used to be a laxative gum called Feen-A-Mint. Looked and tasted just like Chiclets. And yes, it was used for a few pranks that I know about. Worked pretty quickly, too.
Some laxatives are referred to as stimulants because they are stimulating the bowel to work as opposed to some laxatives which are really stool softeners. They’re not stimulants in the sense of ritalin or caffeine.
Ex-lax has senna in it now as its active ingredient.
Prima - counting the days until her kid has his Malone pull through - flora
: You’ll never guess who’s a chemistry major, and has access to bottles of this. Don’t piss me off at DopeFests. 
