What's the Best Prank You Pulled?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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CreaseMunky,

I sent one of the alleged conspirators an e-mail telling him that the wedding prank has now been published for all the world to see and giving him the URL. (He’s not a doper. He should be, but he’s not.)

He read my post and reminded me that I’d left out a significant detail. Here’s his comment:

One of the groomsmen was assistant manager of the meat department in a grocery store. This was 15 years ago when Winn-Dixie still stamped their steaks with the USDA shield and “Prime” or “Choice” or some other descriptor. I’m told that the ink was derived from grape juice, and was reasonably indelible.

After the trauma of getting from New Orleans to Miami and making it through the ceremony, the groom finally had his first evening with his wife as a married couple. Unfortunately, when his loving partner slowly and tantalizingly removed his boxers, she discovered that his scrotum was dark purple and obviously diseased. (While he had obviously taken a turn or two in front of a urinal in the last 20 hours, he had not had cause to inspect his jewels…) It would not be an overstatement to say that the new bride was demotivated.
Thanks for the reminder, Captain
SouthernStyle

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Southern,

Oh, that’s just a little detail. Purple scrotum on the wedding nite. I’d have loved to see him try to explain that on top of everything else.

Next time I want to get somebody really good, I’m looking for you for suggestions. Everything I think of seems so lame compared to that. Sending the annoying kid to the auto parts store for a Flanagan pin, muffler throwout bearing and a 55 gallon drum of air just doesn’t compete.

Dyed purple balls… jeez…

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Geez…

I forget one little detail and I’m shot down in flames.

It’s not my fault. Really. I’ve spent a lifetime “getting ahead” of my pals that for some reason thought that they had to “get even” for something or other. You can’t expect me to remember all the details.
I passed part of these skills to my kid brother. For my next installment I’ll tell of HIS senior prank. It’s one of those “you had to be there” kinds of things, but it’ll show that it runs in the family.

And come to think of it, these traits come from both sides of the family. I’ll share how these genes came to be, also.

Maybe I didn’t pass the torch. The little pecker might have also come by it naturally. :wink:
SouthernStyle

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Looking forward to more of these stories, Southern.

Oh, and I remembered another one. Not as good as some others, but, you do what you can.

High school, house party, Saturday nite, lots of teenagers with low tolerances. This guy we knew and thought was pretty annoying shows up. He tries to be kool, fails miserably. Trying to impress us, he drinks waaaaaaay more than he should have and decides to go out to his car to sleep some of it off. While he’s passed out in his car, we cover every window on the car with black engine enamel.

I went home soon after, but got filled in later by some friends who slept over. Apparently, around noon the next day, there is frantic pounding on the door. There’s the guy, who is having a complete fit. What did you do, how could you do that, you ruined my car, I’m suing, etc. They told him that they wanted him to get some good sleep, so they made his windows dark. And see? You take a razor blade, and the stuff scrapes right off the windows. We were just looking out for you.

It worked too well. He had woken up a few times, looked up, dark, go back to sleep. He kept doing it and doing it, and was now completely freaking out becuase he was an hour and a half late to a lunch date—to meet his girlfriends parents for the first time. And he was hungover, unshowered, and still had the task of scraping the stuff off his windows.

He didn’t come to any more of our parties.

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I was going to start a thread on this but noticed it had already been done and I figured if I did a new thread an old-timer would pop in and say, “Youngster, we done that thread back in aught-zero.”

So what was your best prank? I sent my wife flowers on Valentine’s Day every year for ten years until FTD messed it up. It was always red roses (can’t be more generic) and these were in addition to the ones I got her but the second arrangement was anonymous with messages that were creepy without being sexual like “When you are not around, I think about what you look like.” When she would accuse me of sending them, I never lied but managed to equivocate out of it. It got even funnier when she started throwing out names of guys who she thought would send them.

If we add on 2nd best, I tell y’all about the TV remote prank.

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if he hasn’t paid you back by now, a quarter of a century later, chances are, he’s all but forgotten about it.

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This is pretty mild as pranks go, but it’s all I have.

We stay at vacation homes when we travel. These homes’ televisions often come with an assortment of “channels” to watch, and youtube is one of the things you can choose. A couple of times, prior guests have left up their youtube accounts, and to my surprise, I could access them.

The first time, a prior guest’s subscription to youtube channels consisted of right-wing news, monster truck rallies, hunting videos, and country music. I searched youtube for the most left-leaning news channels I could find, one of which was Mother Jones. I subscribed him to three or four of these.

The second time, one of the prior guests was Russian, apparently. Their screen name was in Cyrillic, as were all their subscribed channels. All the channels looked like Russian-centric news channels, the best I could tell. I searched and found some channels that looked like Ukranian hysterical misinformation news sources (“Moscow bombed! Putin flees in terror!”), and subscribed them to the guest’s account.

And I’ll never see their reactions to seeing their new channels nor all the “suggested” new ones that youtube will present to them.

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with them still signed in at their googly accounts, have you tried www.gmail.com

:wink:

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Not as wild or as imaginative as some of the things I’ve read here. (God, but I’m glad I live far away from most of you menaces!)

I volunteered at a Recycling Center years ago, and one day I was given the job of tearing the (non-recyclable) covers off a large number of books so the pages could be recycled. For a bibliophile like me, it wasn’t easy to destroy any of the books, but I nearly lost it when I came to a set of the World Book Encyclopedia, But it inspired the best prank I ever played.

Understand that the World Book was the reference we had growing up. I have no idea how much it set my parents back, but it must have been considerable. It became the information source for countless school papers, the source of hours of reading random stuff, lying on the living room floor. These were cherished volumes!

So I snagged a volume from the waste stream and brought it along next time I visited home. My brother (an encyclopedia in his own right) was visiting at the same time and agreed to argue a question of geography at the dinner table and to make an incorrect assertion.

“You’re wrong; I’ll prove it to you!” and I left the room, ostensibly to get one of our beloved encyclopedia volumes. “See! It says so right there!” He did his best to look sheepish and admitted his error.

“Well, this is a rare day. Here, take this to remember it by,” and I tore the page right out of the book.

Horror warred with disbelief on every other face around that table. Mostly they were just too stunned to know what to say. There was much stuttering and sputtering. In retrospect, I’m probably lucky I didn’t cause any strokes that evening

By pure lucky coincidence it was also April 1.

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No immortal pranks on my part, but several of my gaming buddies were Canadian Military Intelligence officers, and one had a reputation for pulling pranks. He once was on duty at National Defence HQ on Christmas Eve and spent several hours wandering the halls in a Soviet Army officer’s uniform before someone noticed. To be fair, the place was half empty, and there were a number of legitimate foreign liaison officers in different uniforms assigned there.

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Quarter of a Century-old Zombies like pranks, too!

I didn’t do this one, but the guys on my floor in the dorm did back when we were undergrads.

They took out the Don’t Walk panel at the traffic light where we crossed the street to go into the main building of the campus and replaced it with one that read Chew. It was slickly and neatly done.

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I worked with a guy who was technology challenged. Computers were a mystery to him (he was 25 going on 90). I installed a clapper on his monitor plug. Then coworkers would walk by his cube and make a loud noise and it would shut off. He was completely confused as to why his computer shut off all the time.

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For some reason we had an inflatable penguin about 4 feet high. When kid was a junior in high school, the penguin would show up in impossible places. My wife and I would always deny seeing it when he pointed it out. We were having the roof redone so it was up there one day when he got back from school, etc. This went on for more than a couple of weeks. The best was he had a dental appointment so we let him drive to school. After he was there I drove and put the penguin in the back seat. Then when he was at the dentist, I went and took it out. Of course we “didn’t believe him.”

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In my very early days of naval officer training, towards the end of a ship-board phase when we were tied up alongside, one of my classmates was in his bunk. I shook him almost awake - he seemed responsive but he was basically still asleep. I told him that he was supposed to report on watch on the quarterdeck, by the gangway.

So, he got out of his bunk, got dressed, and sleepwalked aft down the main passageway to report for duty. I quietly followed him at a distance until he reported for duty. I watched from a distance as he had a conversation (while in his sleep) with the guy he thought that he was relieving, until he actually woke up.

A few minutes later he ran into me and all he said was, very sarcastically, “ha…ha…ha”

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This is great. Sort of like that gnome that vacationed all over the world.

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I’m not a pranker by any means, but I witnessed one by a coworker. He took the automatic air freshener sprayer out of the men’s room and mounted it under Bob’s desk. Bob, while a great engineer, wasn’t all that tidy, so there were piles of paper on and around his desk, including in the knee hole and that’s where the sprayer went. Periodically thru the day, there’s be an audible “psssssst” followed by a floral scent and an irritated “What the f#&% was that??”. It took Bob several weeks to figure it out.

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I can tell stories, or just say, “That’s a wrap!”


We had a cube war where I used to work. One guy's cube was turned into a snow globe - Saran Wrapped it closed, but not before dumping in bunch of small Styrofoam balls (think bean bag chair) & two fans on the floor, one horizontal & one vertical; the first one blew them to the second one & the second one blew them up in the air.

The payback was done with a couple hundred cups & a pitcher or two. Starting from the far corner lay out the cups close to each other & fill each one halfway with water. When he came back, he couldn’t walk into his cube & the pitcher had gone back home so he could only take a couple of cups at a time to the bathroom to dump them. Yeah, that took a while to undo.

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That would certainly be a gift that keeps on giving. You would never find all the Styrofoam.

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It’s a given that most folks at the Dope know @Beckdawrek. I count myself as one of her hundred or so best friends. We have the same warped sense of humor, and if any disaster happens, it’s either at her house or mine.

Both of us have learned to laugh at Life.

Beck has had more than her share of health problems. A lot of them are directly related to her Type 1 Diabetes. It has been Hell on the poor lady’s kidneys. First, one was removed, and she did better for a while. Then the second one conked out, and her entire family was upset that it, too, needed to be removed.

We all commiserated with her, and then I got an idea.

A diabolical idea.

We were going to prank her family.

She asked her butcher for a veal kidney. Then she made a clandestine visit to the neighborhood moonshiner for some hootch. Kidney + moonshine + quart jar + a few blue Jolly Rancher candies for color = Prank Royale.

I think she waited a few days after she came home from the surgery. She placed the jar on the kitchen counter and walked away. I’m sure she waited in the next room, peeking around the corner to catch the reactions from the family.

The grandkids thought it was totally cool. The adults had a few heart palpitations, some squeals and screeches, and I imagine plenty of swearing.

Beck explained that she asked the surgeon for her kidney and he obliged. She brought it home for everyone to see.

They all (eventually) figured it was a prank. I would have loved to have been there, giggling, snorting, and maybe even a little pants-wetting, right next to @Beckdawrek.

~VOW

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I only pulled off one practical joke that I can remember, but it worked out well.

I used to go out to yard sales with my stepdaughter on Saturday mornings,
back when people were switching from corded phones to cordless ones and cell phones.
My place had a plethora (8, I think) of unused phone jacks, so I was buying up phones for them for next to nothing. There was this beautiful French-styled cradle phone for $2, so I got it. Kid said she wanted it! I took it home and plugged it in and dialed the callback number. The thing “rang” with a horribly loud discordant buzz that made me jump! I pretended to like and use the phone for a week before I broke down and let her have the phone.

An hour after she left with the phone, my phone rang. I answered and said hello, to hear “I hate you!” screamed by her. Ahh, good times.