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Practical jokes
August 2, 2015 at 1:32 pm
I'll start off with an admission, I still have a childish sense of humour. So I don't expect everyone to appreciate the joy of pranks.
This thread is for people to post stories or videos of practical jokes they want to share.
This first prank is someone convincing their grandmother the world is ending by using a fake emergency broadcast simply downloaded from youtube. It seems very cruel when she actually falls for it though.
Here is the fake emergency broadcast itself. It looks like a BBC News program so will only work in the UK.
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RE: Practical jokes
August 2, 2015 at 1:39 pm
I couldn't understand a word!
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RE: Practical jokes
August 2, 2015 at 1:44 pm
(August 2, 2015 at 1:39 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: I couldn't understand a word!
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RE: Practical jokes
August 3, 2015 at 3:49 am
Yeah funny but they didn't go berserk like "War of the Worlds" berserk.
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RE: Practical jokes
August 3, 2015 at 9:33 am
My pranks are more sophomoric. Plastic wrap on the toilet, salt in a drink, glass of cold water in the shower......... Does not require a whole lot of thought or planning.
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RE: Practical jokes
August 3, 2015 at 9:54 am
a co worker from a job years ago once shrink wrapped my entire car... Not sure where she found the time to do that lol...
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RE: Practical jokes
August 4, 2015 at 8:18 am
(August 3, 2015 at 9:54 am)QuarkDriven Wrote: a co worker from a job years ago once shrink wrapped my entire car... Not sure where she found the time to do that lol...
Office pranks are fun. Vaseline is a must have, drawer pulls, ear section of the phone, stapler. I also liked tape over the mouse infrared and switching the mouse from right to left hand. For those who have to look at the keyboard to type switch two keys covers next to each other.
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RE: Practical jokes
August 4, 2015 at 9:07 am
Those are good, but most people in my office wont know what to do if the mouse is switched from right to left or if the screen is inverted and they'll call IT which will result in them knowing someone did it and now it is interrupting productivity... lol what a shame... In this current job, someone completely swapped my desks around.. i have two desks making and "L" and everything was a mirror image when I walked in one morning.. all fully functional so no productivity lost, except when we had to put it back, but funny none the less
you mentioning vaseline made me think of hot dogs lol more specifically (and this is now more of a way to get back at somoene vs. a prank) putting a hot dog on someones car windshield in the winter and letting it freeze on there.. no windshield wiper is going to move that.. and if it snows, that wont be seen till its removed...
if you're wondering why the vaseline made me think of hot dogs, haha, i've always heard that vaseline on a windshield is ridiculously hard to get off.... thus my train of thought... vaseline, windshield, hot dog lol
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RE: Practical jokes
August 4, 2015 at 9:46 am
Unanswered is whether or not hot dogs make you think of Vaseline . . .
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RE: Practical jokes
August 4, 2015 at 10:02 am
(August 3, 2015 at 9:54 am)QuarkDriven Wrote: a co worker from a job years ago once shrink wrapped my entire car... Not sure where she found the time to do that lol...
How much plastic wrap would shrink wrapping a whole car take?? :p
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