Reply to: Best practical jokes thread

[doodab]

In the days when telephone handsets had mouthpieces you could unscrew a piece of smelly cheese could be concealed inside.

Swapping the labels on tins (e.g. pedigree chum and tinned curry) is a good one. Some people will eat anything.

[administrator]

Cling film stretched carefully over toilets is a good one, can't see it's there until too late

[Sockpuppet]

Few years ago told one of the project members that we all had to wear our hi vis jackets inside out due to interference with the machines sensors. We all duly did this. Big boss turned up to visit so all but one of us turned ours the right way round. The victim turned up to be asked "can't you dress yourself properly?"

[Diver]

That is cruel. I don't like practical jokes, mainly cos so many of them are cruel. They are always at someone else's expense and are done to make the joker seem important and belittle the victim.
I am not referring to silly things like taping over the mouse ball or rotating someones screen 180 degrees whilst they're in a meeting - that's just daft.
Anyone who does this sort of thing past the age of seven is a moron.

Replacing Eye drops with superglue

[Doggy Styles]

A pal of mine was a junior partner in a vehicle hire company. On 1st of April one year I knocked up a supposed letter from a lawyer, very realistic it was, telling him that the company was being investigated for fraud or something similar. It was back in the 1990s, so I can't remember the details except that the lawyer's name was Avril Erster.

He wasn't best pleased when he found out it was tosh, but said knowing his partner he wouldn't have been surprised.

[Doggy Styles]

Playing golf in a four-ball, as we went round we kept furtively dropping stones into one bloke's bag. It got heavier and heavier and he didn't cotton on until the end.

Despite the extra exercise he suffered a mild heart attack the following year.

[Doggy Styles]

A lolly-pop lady (crossing attendant these days) worked the crossing just up the road from the office and would stand next to a phone-box.

We got the number to the box and called her up one morning telling her she'd won the 'lolly-pop' lady of the year, nominated by the kids at the local school, and someone would be along with Champagne and flowers for her.

She waited quite a while after the kids were in school ...

You bastard.

[Pogle]

A lolly-pop lady (crossing attendant these days) worked the crossing just up the road from the office and would stand next to a phone-box.

We got the number to the box and called her up one morning telling her she'd won the 'lolly-pop' lady of the year, nominated by the kids at the local school, and someone would be along with Champagne and flowers for her.

She waited quite a while after the kids were in school ...

That is cruel. I don't like practical jokes, mainly cos so many of them are cruel. They are always at someone else's expense and are done to make the joker seem important and belittle the victim.
I am not referring to silly things like taping over the mouse ball or rotating someones screen 180 degrees whilst they're in a meeting - that's just daft.
Anyone who does this sort of thing past the age of seven is a moron.

[Moscow Mule]

At uni, at the agricultural campus, a bunch of enterprising souls taped over the slot of the yale lock on a flatmate's door.

When he went home for the weekend, they all waved cheerio - and he shut his seemingly locked door behind him and drove off.

Over the course of the weekend, they removed everything from his room, including the carpet, and stored it. They then got hold of some turf, and did a fairly professional job of turfing his room, tapering it so the door could open. Then they kidnapped a sheep from a neighbouring farm's flock, and smuggled it back - manhandling it into the room. Then they removed the sellotape and closed the latch, the sheep happily munching away.

Quite a few people, me included, were in the kitchen nonchalantly having a cuppa, when he came back from his weekend away, and greeted us, before opening his door in the hallway and just staring... then the audible 'baaa' from the sheep kicked us into fits of laughter.

Now that is Champions League quality.

[realityhack]

At uni, at the agricultural campus, a bunch of enterprising souls taped over the slot of the yale lock on a flatmate's door.

When he went home for the weekend, they all waved cheerio - and he shut his seemingly locked door behind him and drove off.

Over the course of the weekend, they removed everything from his room, including the carpet, and stored it. They then got hold of some turf, and did a fairly professional job of turfing his room, tapering it so the door could open. Then they kidnapped a sheep from a neighbouring farm's flock, and smuggled it back - manhandling it into the room. Then they removed the sellotape and closed the latch, the sheep happily munching away.

Quite a few people, me included, were in the kitchen nonchalantly having a cuppa, when he came back from his weekend away, and greeted us, before opening his door in the hallway and just staring... then the audible 'baaa' from the sheep kicked us into fits of laughter.

[Moscow Mule]

Done to a flat mate of a mate in halls at uni, once said flatmate had gone away for hols: Pour water under door of room, so carpet is slightly damp. Sprinkle cress seeds liberally under door. Two weeks later, flatmate returned to watercress mat as he stepped in the door.

When mice had balls, sellotape over the ball. Similarly, sellotape the spring switch under a telephone receiver and ring victim from other side of the room.

[eek]

In the days before we internet one of my colleagues organised a transfer to our Sydney office.

Upon acceptance of all the paperwork we organised for new instructions to be sent changing his transfer to a very grotty mining town in the real middle of no where. This did not go down well so we continued on the path by organising a conference call with said colleague and both senior partners both there and here to lay it on thick how important this job was going to be.

This carried on for three months while the guy tried to find any means possible to get out of the transfer and remain in his current job. Finally one week prior to departure the full story was revealed when we revealed the full stash of Australian letterheads a colleague had previously returned with, the fact that the Australian "senior" partner was that colleagues Australian based brother and that everyone in the UK had been in on the joke all the time.

To say that the guy was not amused was a slight understatement.

[TestMangler]

Levering the G & H keys from peoples keyboards and swapping them. Makes it hard for the unix guys to lohon......

Had one contractor once, who had been a useless tit all through his time and he was flying off on a golf holiday on his last day so had all his luggage with him. I was talked out of buying an air pistol and a couple of bags of baking powder and stashing it in his case. Instead, a couple of blokes filled his golf brolly with soggy teabags, coffee grounds, a packet of tortilla chips and other various smelly tulipe from the bins. Never found out if he opened it.......which was a shame.

[BrilloPad]

I once called a number at random from a phone box.
"Is Mr Walls there?" No
"Is Mrs Walls there?" No
"Are there any Walls there?" No
"So what is holding the roof up?"

[Old Greg]

A lolly-pop lady (crossing attendant these days) worked the crossing just up the road from the office and would stand next to a phone-box.

We got the number to the box and called her up one morning telling her she'd won the 'lolly-pop' lady of the year, nominated by the kids at the local school, and someone would be along with Champagne and flowers for her.

She waited quite a while after the kids were in school ...

I would be thoroughly ashamed of myself if I'd been involved in that.