Best one I ever pulled was on a passenger in my car, a long time ago. We had just left a friends house, and neither of us realized that friend was in the car behind us. Keep in mind if you are the driver, the rear view mirror is slanted to the driver, so the passenger cant always see what you see as a driver that is behind you. So we pull up to a traffic light, an we hear a loud honk behind us. Both of us were startled, I look in my rear view, saw it was our friend, looked over at my still startled passenger, and a split second thought "opportunity". 

So in that split second I raised my voice and said, "Who does that fucker think he is?" My passenger not knowing who was behind us, dropped his jaw, and mind you, I am a complete fucking wimp. My passenger was like, "What, Brian, let it go". I responded with with, "No, he's not going to get away with that".  Then I started to open my car door as if to imply I was going to start a fight with our friend behind us, and my passenger swung his left arm and grabbed my shirt/chest to pull me back in and shouted "NO!"

What was funny about it was I am a complete wimp, and for him to think I was going start a fight with a complete stranger was funny as shit.

Next best joke involves my current best friend Hillbilly Atheist, from Oklahoma, but at the time he lived in Denver.

So one night I Skype him and it turned out he was on Denver's public transit bus. So he has a hearing problem so he has the volume turned up high on his headphones. I took notice of the automated pre recorded voice that transit uses for stops. It was a very sexy female recording. So I started to make jokes about how I wanted to date the bus, and what I would do to the bus, and John(HB) was like "Dude, lower your voice, other people can hear you."

The best are not pulled on friends - that you want to keep......


That's what co-workers are for.....

(February 28, 2020 at 1:07 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: The best are not pulled on friends - that you want to keep......


That's what co-workers are for.....

If you can't joke with friends then you are antisocial. But I still value a line if it is something you don't like, and you tell them to stop, and they dont, then that is when you cut them off. Good friends know where the line is.

And I've pulled jokes on my co workers too, people I like. I once took a big bowl of potato salad that a guy was working on, he left it on a prep table, walked out to go to the bathroom, and I hid it. He came back in and I watched him search the kitchen for 5 minutes.

Sure, usually when I'm with a group of people, and there is a toddler around, I just start farting, so that whole place stinks like shit, and then the parents of the toddler get embarrassed because everyone thinks their kid filled the diapers. And they go like "Melissa, you should have really checked Cedrick's diapers before we got out of the house."

It's a matter of scale.

A good prank should instill primal fear in your victim without actually endangering life or property.

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You just stick to whoopie cushions and leave the serious pranking to professionals....

My favourite practical jokes are the ones that backfire and cause grievous bodily injury to the prankster.

Boru

Mom's youngest sister (Ruth) came up to Indiana from Missouri to "babysit" (husband hunting) and found one, aka "Max". Max was building a house and living in a trailer on the grounds when they got married, but did have water hooked up to it. There was a portable toilet right outside the door to the trailer. It got very drunk outside that night after the wedding and the relatives pour the newlyweds into their bed at the trailer. Then Max's five brothers hooked the trailer up to a tractor and towed it to downtown Alexandria, Indiana, pop. <5,000. The town was having a "sidewalk days" event and the streets through town were blocked off.

The fun part was when Max got up to go to the toilet the next morning. Who knew newlyweds slept naked?

(February 28, 2020 at 1:33 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Mom's youngest sister (Ruth) came up to Indiana from Missouri to "babysit" (husband hunting) and found one, aka "Max". Max was building a house and living in a trailer on the grounds when they got married, but did have water hooked up to it. There was a portable toilet right outside the door to the trailer. It got very drunk outside that night after the wedding and the relatives pour the newlyweds into their bed at the trailer. Then Max's five brothers hooked the trailer up to a tractor and towed it to downtown Alexandria, Indiana, pop. <5,000. The town was having a "sidewalk days" event and the streets through town were blocked off.

The fun part was when Max got up to go to the toilet the next morning. Who knew newlyweds slept naked?

I don't get it. Are you saying they moved the trailer knowing the couple was drunk and one of them woke up to try to go to the bathroom and walked outside?

I’ve never seen the point of practical jokes. The whole point of them seems to be to cause humiliation (or at least discomfort) to other people.  What’s funny about that?

Boru

(February 28, 2020 at 1:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’ve never seen the point of practical jokes. The whole point of them seems to be to cause humiliation (or at least discomfort) to other people.  What’s funny about that?

Boru

Huge difference between friendly teasing and bullying.

Bullying is when people who don't like you pull down your pants on the HS field when you are in gym. Yes that happened to me.

Friendly teasing is when you pick up your friend at a hotel (HB) to pick him up on a holiday trip, and he opens  the door and he is shirtless with a scary old man halloween mask on to startle you.

Jokes are fine when everyone knows the other who pulls one on you isn't trying to hurt you. Bullying is when the person doesn't like you and wants to humiliate you in a harmful context.