Whats the best practical joke

that you have ever done???

I once switched mice at work between 2 computers...
funny cause the 2 guys were trying to figure out why their computer wasn't responding the right way....
the computers were back to back so easy to switch...
lol

oh and there's always the fun part of taking a picture (screen print) of the desktop..then using it as your desktop..so if you double click anything..
it does..nothing!

About ten years ago, DH and I had a friend live with us for several months. When he was gone to work we put several programs on his computer. One would have the cursor move complete opposite of what he wanted then the other one was when he would click on his screen the screen gave the appearance of his desktop "melting". He was so freaked out. Poor guy.

I'm such a horrible spoilsport but I can't do practical jokes!! I think they're so mean....

Originally Posted by KitEKats4Eva!

I'm such a horrible spoilsport but I can't do practical jokes!! I think they're so mean....

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Not if the person you do it to likes to do them as well. The friend we played the joke on thought it was funny and then got us back big time. We would have not done it if he was not the type to like practical jokes.

I had a group of friends in high school that decided to play practical jokes on each other. We had rules that they couldn't be harmful, but this was the best one I came up with.

Take a huge box of instant mashed potatoes and sprinkle it in the grass of the person's yard. If it dews that night they'll have a yard filled with instant mashed potatoes.

This one does require that one pays attention to the weather and have a Sam's Club membership, but it's fun just the same.

Originally Posted by mistressotdark

oh and there's always the fun part of taking a picture (screen print) of the desktop..then using it as your desktop..so if you double click anything..
it does..nothing!

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I did this to someone at work (when I was a student worker). However, it was worse because it was the machine that monitored all the network equipment...and I took the screenshot after a power outage (so half the buildings were RED). It took my coworker about 5 minutes to figure it out. He about had a heart attack (I didn't feel bad about it though...maybe I should have). Our manager had to bite back laughter.

I've also placed a piece of scotch tape over the optical eye on a laser mouse...that makes things really fun! It's hard to see, but it causes the light to refract just a bit.

oh ya..and I've also taken the "tracking ball" out of some of the mice at work...
so...
they just kept moving the mouse...and it wouldn't work..would take them forever to look for the ball..now that was funny....
and i'd place the ball right in front of them..lol

Originally Posted by mistressotdark

that you have ever done???

I once switched mice at work between 2 computers...
funny cause the 2 guys were trying to figure out why their computer wasn't responding the right way....
the computers were back to back so easy to switch...
lol

oh and there's always the fun part of taking a picture (screen print) of the desktop..then using it as your desktop..so if you double click anything..
it does..nothing!

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For those that work in cubes, and who doesn't?
Take a hand full of toilet paper and wet it in the sink and squeeze off excess water into a ball. Do this early in the morning: Throw the ball of wet toilet paper up on the ceiling, directly over your victim. Some time during the day, the paper will dry out and fall right on the victim's head. The victim will spend the rest of the day trying to figure it all out!

I've taped a guy's phone buttons down with tape on April 1st. Was really funny when the phone rang, he picked up the receiver and it kept on ringing

I've seen another one where a bunch of guys saran wrapped their bosses car so he could not open the door!

my best practical joke..... well i have two of them, both on the same person. This was back with Russ and I were dating in college. (back story is he was cheating on me and i found out about it. I decided i wasnt gonna let him see me cry so i got mad instead) my best friend and I decided that since Russ liked hooking up with girls from the internet we would "make" him a girlfriend. We came up with a great story, pictures and the whole thing. I kept him going for about 3 weeks or so, i even called him pretending to be this girl using my real voice and he never noticed and my best friend did the background noizes of "ashley's baby, her ex bf-pimp, her cat, etc) and after about 2 weeks he was totally in love with this made up gf. Well one night he called me asking me to go get on his email to get this other girls address and i went off on him. we were still dating this whole time, he says "i dont see why you are so upset you never get mad over "ashley" by this time i was boiling mad, i said "mf i AM ashley" he at first didnt believe it until i said something that they had talked about earlier in the night and my friend did the baby noize. OMG he flipped out and started bawling! All we could do is laugh. needless to say we broke up! After a few weeks of pouting he was ok with the whole thing and back to being friends with us. so this leads to our next joke.

In college bordom is a killer so we decided to kill it before it got us. Again poor Russ was the butt of the joke. We called him one night and pretended to be the phone company for the college... it went like this.... I knew he was waiting on his new "gf" to call him and was very excited about it.

me as osu telecom operator-- "hello sir, i am sorry to call this late but we are having some issues with our phone system. I have to inform you that we have a repair technichian working on some lines, we are asking all residents NOT to answer their phone for 30 minutes, if you do, our technician maybe electorocuted.

Russ--"Ok, thank you"

we waited ten minutes and called back-no answer
three more min-no answer
four more min-no answer
another min-

Russ-"Hello?"

me and my bff then screams this bloodcurdling scream into the phone and slams down the reciever
after a few minutes of un controllable laughter we call back-no answer
so we wait about 5 minutes and try again

Russ(crying and shaking)-"hang on i will call you back, dont leave i HAVE to talk to you"

about 5 minutes later he calls back and tells us the whole story of how he is sure he killed someone, i was still trying not to laugh. Then he explains that he called the campus police and city police but all they will do is laugh when he explains how he killed someone and he dont understand why they wont quit laughing and help him find this person and try to get them help. Then he gets angry when we start laughing again and hangs up. About 45 minutes later we finally are able to control ourselves long enough that we call back and explain what we had done. it took him about a month to get over being mad about it, esp since he called the cops and admitted he murdered someone!

that week they had a news story in the paper warning of this type of phone "scam or joke"

he and i still laugh and joke about both of these now, even his new wife knows of both jokes and teases him about them!

I have done the "old fashioned" ones. Short sheeting a bed, plastic wrap over the toilet bowl, vaseline on the door knobs, removing the labels off all the canned good in the house.

This one didn't happen to me, but I was there. It's long, so grab that cup of coffee and go potty

When I was a kid in the 1960's we lived just on the edge of the City in an area that didn't have running water piped in. We had to get our water from a pumping station about 1 mile down the road from where we lived. We also had out houses.

The neighbour directly to our right was a married couple. Her name was "Rose". I don't know his name as everyone called him "Bull Moose". I remember he was a big burly looking man, and very MEAN! He hated kids and made sure everyone knew.

I was about 5 or 6 at the time and remember him running out of his house with a shot gun everytime a kid ran across his yard (there were no fences and you know kids will take the shortest route as the crow flies, )

He was always having arguments and fights with the neighbours and my family was no exception. My Mom liked Rose, but everyone hated Bull Moose.

One year my Dad and his brother, who lived next door, wanted to cut down an old dead tree in the front of our yard. Bull Moose refused to let anyone on his property and refused to let my Dad onto his property in order to cut down the tree. He ended up cutting the tree down on an evening when Bull Moose was at work, LOL

We also had tornado-like winds that knocked down our chimney and blew over our outhouse on more than one occasion, and whenever Bull Moose caught my Dad on his property retrieving our out house building or gathering up the bricks for the chimney, Bull Moose had a total fit, and out came the shot gun. To my knowledge he never shot anyone though

A few times my Dad and cousins would go and knock over his out house so that it was partially on our property and then my Dad would sit there with his 30-30 Winchester and watch while Bull Moose tried to lift up his out house without stepping on our property, It was like the Hatfields and McCoys!

Anyway, my Dad's brother lived on the other side of us and he didn't like Bull Moose anymore than anyone else did. Plus Bull Moose pulled a gun on my cousin more than once and that didn't sit well with my Uncle!. So my Uncle and my Dad, my brother, and cousin got together and concocted a scheme to get back at Bull Moose; they enlisted the help of my Mom and my Aunt.

Because we lived just outside the City it was pretty dark even though there was the occasional street light on the street, but the back yards, and especially the out houses were totally pitch dark and you had to use a flashlight to see. Bull Moose had a routine. When he got home after midnight he went into his house and got his flashlight, grabbed a magazine and then made his way to his out house.

The plan was to have my Mom and Aunt make a life size dummy/manikin and the rest would position it in old Bull Moose's out house late at night when it was dark.

That night after they put the dummy in his out house we all hid in bushes and behind trees. I climbed up into our Apple tree and watched from high up there.

Like clockwork Bull Moose arrived home, went into his house, grabbed his flashlight and magazine and went out to his outhouse. He opened the door and went in, and I guess by the light of his flashlight saw a "dead man" sitting in his out house!

He burst back out through the door nearly knocking the building over in the process and ran screaming and yelling into his house. OMG! I nearly fell out of the tree from laughing, and my Mom literally piddled herself from laughing so hard, due to stress incontinence. We all scrambled to get inside our house before Bull Moose came back out and realized what was going on.

Not long after that we heard a police siren and saw a black and white police car show up at Bull Moose's house. We were all sitting in the dark running from window to window to see what was going on. The police went and looked at the "body" and realized it was a dummy. We saw them drive off with it sitting in the backseat of the car. One officer was sitting in the back seat with the "apprehended suspect",

OMG! We had some fun times back then.

I live in a small town so senior pranks are a big thing in High School

We "borrowed" a port-a-potty from a construction site and hauled it onto the steps of the school. The we went to the local salvage yard and found 2 airplain wings that we attatched to the sides of the potty then we of course also "borrowed" the team mascot costume of the rival school and placed it on a blow up doll sitting in the potty.

Oh gotta love teenage highjinks!

One winter when I lived in Texas, I taped the forecast from the Weather Channel on TV when it was calling for freezing rain. Then, on a hot August day I played it back and pretended I was watching the weather forecast. My husband came into the room and was completely confused. "What's going on?!!!," he asked.

Originally Posted by mistressotdark

oh ya..and I've also taken the "tracking ball" out of some of the mice at work...
so...
they just kept moving the mouse...and it wouldn't work..would take them forever to look for the ball..now that was funny....
and i'd place the ball right in front of them..lol

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I've done this too! Hehehehehehe Evil, but funny!

Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45

I've taped a guy's phone buttons down with tape on April 1st. Was really funny when the phone rang, he picked up the receiver and it kept on ringing

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Hehehe - We've done this one at work too! Love the little harmless jokes!

This joke is just in time for April Fool's. A few years back my daughter took an Oreo, scraped out the filling, replaced it with toothpaste then gave them to her sisters.

Yuck!!!

Tip... you have to use toothpaste that doesnt smell like mint

Originally Posted by KitEKats4Eva!

I'm such a horrible spoilsport but I can't do practical jokes!! I think they're so mean....

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I'm with you on this. I had a couple of roommates in college (there were 3 of us in the unit) who just loved practical jokes. I told them many times I didn't find them funny, but they just kept on.

Then, I developed red spots on my torso. Little, red, oval spots all over. I went to the doctor, and discovered I had pityriasis rosea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pityriasis_rosea

Essentially, it's a rash that does nothing in particular, is caused by an unknown agent, and disappear in a few weeks or months.

So, when I got back to school, I told my roommates what it was, and that the doctor had given it between 6 weeks and 6 months. All of which was true.

I let them suffer for almost a week. And when I told them, I explained again why I detested practical jokes. Never had any more trouble from them!

And yes, they were good friends.

I can't recall which chemicals it takes.... but I do recall putting one in a toilet bowl, one in the cistern and just waiting for someone to flush. the resulting foam was hilarious.

How about shrink wrapping the door opening of a cubicle shut and filling it with packing peanuts, and then on top of that, filling the cubicle's owner's car with packing peanuts?