View Full Version : Since April 1st is around the corner, it's time for a discussion of pranks!
Alright guys, it's time to put together our nerdiness to find the ultimate prank! What are some good ideas and what is your past experience with your pranks?
I haven't really pulled any pranks (well, funny ones anyhow), but I've read online that you can freeze shaving cream and cut the can open. Then you can put the frozen shaving cream anywhere. Cars, backpacks, and even beds. I really want to do it, but I can't find any good targets. :(
Disclaimer: The pranks that is in this post and probably in the following posts could be very dangerous, even lethal. If you don't have medical insurance, still young, or really worried about poking your eye out, then please do not do any of these pranks. And also, most of us have experience (or just plain lucky) in this field.
I know of a couple good ones:
1) Go to the hardware store and get some double sided tape. Unroll toilet paper roll about six inches and put round three strips of the tape in the roll and then roll it back up. Remove any other paper objects from the bathroom (or anything you can wipe with for that matter), and wait for the hilarity to ensue.
2) Go in your kitchen and get some chicken bullion (sp?) cubes that are used for adding flavor to hot water. Then go to a sibling or your parents bathroom, and unscrew the shower head. Take a couple of the cubes and put them in the shower head and put it back. The next time someone showers in there, they will have a nice surprise of chickeny goodness.
Have fun!
Sterculus
03-25-04, 10:04 PM
I believe for the shaving cream trick to work the best you need dry ice. Get a cooler with some dry ice, chuck the can in there for a few minutes, and cut it open. The cream should be frozen solid. Put it in someones car, room, whatever, and it should expand as it thaws to its normal size :p
I've heard that that shaving cream trick absolutely destroys upholstry and stuff in cars, and I've heard of windows being busted out because of it. Don't do that trick, because it could be the last you make for a while.
Newbie_Doo
03-25-04, 10:19 PM
Take a screenshot of someone's desktop. Load it as the background, then hide the icons. (Windows Only) :)
N_D
UberBlue
03-25-04, 10:40 PM
If you have a habitual soda drinker around...
ingredients:
one (1) can of canned air.
one (1) bottle of soda. 16oz is best. Darker the better
one (1) unsuspecting victim.
Everybody has to of the kind of person that always has a bottle of soda with them.
Wait till they've drunk about half of it. When they set it down and aren't looking, swipe it. Take the cap off and spray the canned air into the bottle until there is about 1/2" of the liquid canned air on top of the soda. Quickly recap it. The fluid will stop boiling as the bottle pressurizes and sink to the bottom. Put the bottle back where it was, then hang around till your victim is thirsty. The instant they break the seal on the cap, all that previously liquid canned air has warmed up to room temperature and instantly flashes to gas rapidly expelling the contents of the bottle everywhere.
Lusankya
03-25-04, 10:55 PM
Put tape on the bottome of someones mouse.. ball mice are better for this.
Re-arrange 2-4 letters on someones keyboard.
Put a frozen can of shaving cream in a desk drawer. You don't need to cut the can.. the freeze and thaw will burst the can anyways
Load about 200 copies of sheep.exe into someoens start folder
Zerileous
03-26-04, 01:14 AM
put a small shutdown routine into somoens startup folder. In order to break they cycle they must boot into safe mode and delete it from folder (extremely cruel to the un-computer-savey unless you fix it for em after laughing for a while)
@md0Cer
03-26-04, 08:59 AM
Load X-shooter in the startup folder. It is a program that just makes a wild west type movie gunshot sound and puts a hole in your screen. You cant click anything I think. Only place you can click is the task manager, and that is where you have to go to disable it.
Another, is you could saran rap the toilet. (works best is low light areas ) :D
@md0Cer
03-26-04, 09:00 AM
Originally posted by UberBlue
If you have a habitual soda drinker around...
ingredients:
one (1) can of canned air.
one (1) bottle of soda. 16oz is best. Darker the better
one (1) unsuspecting victim.
Everybody has to of the kind of person that always has a bottle of soda with them.
Wait till they've drunk about half of it. When they set it down and aren't looking, swipe it. Take the cap off and spray the canned air into the bottle until there is about 1/2" of the liquid canned air on top of the soda. Quickly recap it. The fluid will stop boiling as the bottle pressurizes and sink to the bottom. Put the bottle back where it was, then hang around till your victim is thirsty. The instant they break the seal on the cap, all that previously liquid canned air has warmed up to room temperature and instantly flashes to gas rapidly expelling the contents of the bottle everywhere.
LMAO! thats a good one
DaveSauce
03-26-04, 09:13 AM
Originally posted by JoT
I've heard that that shaving cream trick absolutely destroys upholstry and stuff in cars, and I've heard of windows being busted out because of it. Don't do that trick, because it could be the last you make for a while.
upholstry being ruined? most likely. Windows being busted out? No way.
I can't remember the site, but someone "documented" the expansion of it in a large pot. I think it expaned to like 2.5 cubic feet, if even. It overflowed in a rather large stock pot, but not much more. You would need SEVERAL cans in order to fill up a car.
take 1 forum
hire random members to play along
delete most all staffget martyr to play a complete loon and act like stalin
lock registration
start bickering and fighting and spread across every site possible
....... oh wait thats not a prank....
//had to say it as it was bound to come up.
clear saran wrap on victims toliet... under the seat.
listen for the scream
//edit
sorry amdocer I did not see you posted this one already
@md0Cer
03-26-04, 02:10 PM
Originally posted by jbell
//edit
sorry amdocer I did not see you posted this one already
nah dont owrry about it, its cool.
Originally posted by DaveSauce
upholstry being ruined? most likely. Windows being busted out? No way.
I can't remember the site, but someone "documented" the expansion of it in a large pot. I think it expaned to like 2.5 cubic feet, if even. It overflowed in a rather large stock pot, but not much more. You would need SEVERAL cans in order to fill up a car.
Glad to see someone knows a little bit more about this than me. Still, don't do it if you want to stay friends with that person for long, it's not fun to get out, and it may destroy the upholstry.
Malpine Walis
03-26-04, 07:23 PM
Saran wrap also works over the top of drip type coffee urns.
If you know someone who has the type of telephone where you can unscrew the mouth piece, you can take out the transmitter. When someone calls, your friend will hear what they are saying but the caller will just hear silence. When the caller says that they cant hear anything your friend will raise his voice a bit. If you get lucky he will eventually shout “can you hear me now” into the phone as loud as he can.
If your friend has any type of precision optics (camera, binoculars, telescope) a coat of Vaseline on the objective will ruin his day. Also do not forget to put a bit of Vaseline on your finger-tip and lightly run it around the edge of the eyepiece before dipping it in some nice black powder like crushed pencil lead or carbon black.
No, shaving cream will not do much to a car unless you have lots of it. Go to home depot and get a contractor's size box of two part insulation foam. That should be enough to fill a mini-van.
Speaking of cars, how well do you like your friends? You can jump the 12volt connection from the brake lights to the horn. They will figure out that there is something wrong before they are out of the parking lot and if you are there for the gotcha moment you can pull the wire before they have to do any real driving.
If you have access to guitar effects, connect a mike through an octave divider and reverb then to an amp. Call your friends answering machines and leave a message from God.
If your friend has an folding or seti box that uses an older version of windows you can create a ms/dos boot disk for it. In notepad type “del tree/y” and save that to the boot disk as autoexec.bat... Then leave the disk in the drive and install the other distributed computing app.
Sentential
03-26-04, 07:31 PM
Ahhh this reminds me of military boarding skewl.....
Here are the 3 best pranks that pplz did @ school.
*Disclaimer* Most of this stuff is pretty cruel and I have only witnessed(*participated*) the first 2.
#1 Leaners.
Late at night you take a 50gal trashcan filled with water and sticky stuff (or other *choice material*;) ) Lean it against the door (the doors open inward at skewl). Knock on the door and run like hell. Its funnier than hell to hear the <kasplooosh>. Most ppl get knocked to the ground by the water.
#2 Push the hallway coke-machine in front of someones door.
The way that our halls were set up you could never tell that this is a door behind it. All you hear are the muffled bangings of the pplz behind the door.
#3 MRE heater down the toilet.
This one is kinda wrong, but so are the other onez. You take the MRE heater and flush it. The chemical reaction causes it to blow out the pipes in the wall.
#4 Trash the Superintendant's House (principle/president)
They totally ruined his house b4 a major buisness meeting the next day. Complete with toilet paper (400+ rolls from what Ive heard). Plus the powedered Mashed potatoes mix on his lawn was downright nasty.
Especially since the sprinklers were on all night long:eek: To say the least he wasnt happy when he saw "C/O 2003" made in nasty mashed potatoes on his front lawn.
POL-tec2002
03-26-04, 07:31 PM
ok guys i need a good joke to play on my math teacher....:D
abitavenger
03-26-04, 07:53 PM
Put clear tape around the sink faucet so when u turn it on all water is directed to the person face\shirt.
Malpine Walis
03-26-04, 09:30 PM
OK, here is one that is over fifty years old but never gets tired -- the dribble cup:
Keep a standard paper punch in your pocket. The next time you are out with friends at a place that has paper or styro cups and free refills wait for someone else to get low on their soda and observe the fact. Say you are going for another one and offer to get them a refill. When you get to the machine, stand so that your body blocks any view of what is going on. Take the punch and put a hole in the cup about a half inch from the top and fill it to just a hair below that point.
When you hand your friend his soda, make sure that the hole is facing him but wrap your index finger around the front of the cup so that he does not see the hole and put it on the table in front of him so that the hole is well below eye level.
When your friend takes a drink the soda will flow freely out of the hole and all over his shirt. April fools....
itshondo
03-26-04, 10:02 PM
wrap a big rubber band around the kitchen sik sprayers handle- make sure you point the sprayer at the middle of the sink- instant shower guarranteed.
put black shoe polish on a black phones' mouth/earpiece, then walk away...
set a buch of little mouse traps on the floor, right where your room mate will put their feet when they get out of bed (college prank) girlfriends and wives don't appreciate this one, too much like the Stooges...
itshondo
03-26-04, 10:05 PM
as far as the dribble cups go, poking a tiny hole in someones pop or beer can will drive them crazy! (can't see the pinhole)
Cjwinnit
03-26-04, 10:25 PM
Beware of forum pranks... http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=182441&highlight=funny ;)
CrystalMethod
03-27-04, 12:51 AM
Originally posted by Newbie_Doo
Take a screenshot of someone's desktop. Load it as the background, then hide the icons. (Windows Only) :)
N_D
My friend and I used to do that to one of the sales rep's at my last place I worked at. Only difference is we pretty much did it everytime she wasn't at her desk and we had a minute to spare. Suprizingly, no matter how many times we did it, she never caught on. :rolleyes:
BigJk-47
03-27-04, 01:14 AM
Best one ever.....
Superglue coins to things.....
The floor,tables, toilets...etc.One drop of krazy glue will make it impossible to get a penny off the floor with bare hands.
Food in vent shafts and heater ducts.Fish works good,meat,eggs.
TommyHolly
03-27-04, 04:12 AM
This one is kinda funny...
On your Kitchen sink there is a usually a hose thingy. (I don't know what you call it?) You use it to spray water at dishes. Well if you have one of those, put a rubber band around the handle/trigger and make sure that it is facing towards you. The next time someone turns on the water, they get sprayed.
What else? This is harmless. When someone in your house is taking a hot shower, go to the kitchen and fill up a large container of ice cold water. Run into the bathroom and pour it over the shower curtain onto them. WOooooooHoooooo is that frikkin cold! Heh heh
Some guy at work told me what he did last year. (Probably all lies, who knows) He said that he took a bunch of pictures from his buddies house of them with their wives and scanned them into his computer. He then photoshopped his face over the faces of his buddies and replaced the pictures with the one of him and their wives.
TheGhengisKhan
03-27-04, 08:32 PM
I've already got 1 prank lined up, I installed a little program on my roommates computer, that at midnight March 31st, his icons will all swap possitions on his screen every 10 minutes. The best part is, I set the program up to run as a hidden service, so it won't show up in the Task Manager at all, and it will only happen on April 1st, and will stop running at midnight on the 1st. :D
Hughhefner
03-27-04, 08:54 PM
a FEW pranks I learned in College.
Take a beer bottle and fill it a third full with Muriatic acid AKA Hydrochloric acid from the hardware store. Drop in a few pellets of Iron 2 sulfide and the resulting smell is of ROTTEN EGGS, for a time delay wrap the Iron sulfide pellets in aluminun foil. Iron 2 sulfide can be found in most HS and college chem labs.
But a bottle of Mercapo acedic acid from a chemical supply store, not many around but they exist. This is the SKUNK smell we all hate. Uses, we put about 1 oz. in a neighbors shampoo bottle, YUCk--VERY TOUGH TO GET OUT.
The same neighbor, we broke into his dormroom and wiped the same stuff on the INSIDE of his door, because the wood was Porous the stuff was almost impossible to remove, he actually got a hammer and chisel to whack away the contaminated wood,,
By the way --YES HE DESERVED IT!!!!!
Got back at my landlord for borrowing my stereo system for his NEW bar--Under our apartment, he kept it for 2 months instead of 2 weeks, didn't pay me the $30/week he promised and YEs it was a good system. at least until I got it back.
WE-- stuffed Banannas up his tailpipe, all the way up to the catalytic converter, yes he was driving illegally with an open muffler housing, like 2 dozen banannas.
diggingforgold
03-27-04, 10:25 PM
Hmm... I wonder if that whole XS thing is a drawn out april fools joke. HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
And about the coins trick:
http://jeffsrig.no-ip.com/oc/diggingforgold_coins.jpg
I was messing with my dremel and cut out an opening for half of a nickel to fit in... I superglued it in... then I superglued a dime.
Well the nickel was in the way, so I tried everything to get it out, but that sucker was stuck. So I had to get my dremel out again and cut it out... :D. Dime isn't coming out anytime soon either...
put hair removal cream in a shampoo bottle
when someones sleeping, put toothpaste around their mouth
smear something sticky to the inside of door handles
swap the salt and sugar
diggingforgold
03-28-04, 08:37 AM
... or loosen the salt lid...
abitavenger
03-28-04, 08:58 AM
Originally posted by diggingforgold
... or loosen the salt lid...
*classic*
Malpine Walis
03-28-04, 09:39 AM
You can do way better than just loosening the cap on the salt shaker.
Take the lids off of both the salt and the pepper. Tear off two squares of napkin and make little cups that hold about a tablespoon of salt and pepper. Put the pepper in the salt lid and the salt in the pepper lid.
If the diner you are in has lots of assorted condiments you can make other exciting mixes. Tabasco can be added to pretty much anything else on the table. Pancake syrup is one of my favorite places to put a half bottle of the stuff.
My brother is an EMT and he has access to topical nitroglycerin. What he does with that is to put it on the underside of door handles where it is not visible. His friends go to get into their cars and a few seconds later they have to sit down due to the sudden drop in blood pressure.
Originally posted by Malpine Walis
My brother is an EMT and he has access to topical nitroglycerin. What he does with that is to put it on the underside of door handles where it is not visible. His friends go to get into their cars and a few seconds later they have to sit down due to the sudden drop in blood pressure.
Couldn't that be kind of dangerous to someone with blood pressure problems?
abitavenger
03-28-04, 10:10 AM
Originally posted by Bensa
Couldn't that be kind of dangerous to someone with blood pressure problems?
Yea what if they already have low blood pressure... wouldn't they die or something?
Malpine Walis
03-28-04, 11:59 AM
Well, he has been doing it for a few years now and thus far he has not caused anyone any permanent harm. But then I am not a doctor so I really do not know what could come of it. But then this thread has a bunch of stuff that is not exactly the best stuff to be doing.
For example, I would reccommenmd not throwing icewater in the shower if the mark has heart problems. And the guy who is putting butyl mercaptan on porous wood caused someone to weaken the structure of their door.
tom10167
03-28-04, 12:32 PM
Drive THROUGH the McDonald's next time you go. I'm sure the passengers and store manager will get a laugh out of that one.
GET IT?? AAAAHAHAHAH AHA *Everyone chuckles*
Take your wife or girlfriend's car and drive it around the block early in the morning and then go back to sleep. She'll think it's stolen, and this joke could really go on for a few days if you wanted it to.
Take the labels off of all the spices, cans, etc. in your house and just throw them away. Again, your family will appreciate your comedic efforts.
Pour ketchup all over a white shirt and just run through the town screaming with your arms flailing.
Drive up to a prison with a megaphone and just start telling people the escape vehicle is here.
Walk in to somebody else's house and just pretend like you live there. Make sure to make yourself a nice sandwich before you get kicked out.
APRIL FOOLS!!
Originally posted by tom10167
Drive up to a prison with a megaphone and just start telling people the escape vehicle is here.
APRIL FOOLS!!
Haha. I want to try that one out so badly. There are tons of good pranks in this thread. Some others I have thought of.
Have a buddy that uses aftershave right after he shaves? Get a bottle of rubbing alcohol and put some in the bottle. He'll do a homealone impression.
Get powdered kool aid, or powdered milk and put in the shower heads of your bathrooms.
Make a sign that says "This is used toliet paper" and put it in a public restroom, right on the toliet paper dispenser.
For ladies restrooms (if there are any ladies reading this thread, this is for ya!), if there are any tampon dispenser in the public restroom, get a pack of trojan condoms and put it in there. When they go to get a tampon, they'll get a condom instead.
If you're very good with taking mice apart (the electronic type you sicko!) take out the optical sensor and put it back in turned around. When they go to move the mouse up, the cursor goes down.
If you live in the dorm rooms, buy a bunch of kid's clothes that looks like your friend's clothes. When he goes to do his laundry and leaves, quickly switch out his clothes with the kid's clothes. Then comment on he's getting fatter. :p
Fast-Fob
03-28-04, 04:02 PM
Originally posted by tom10167
Drive up to a prison with a megaphone and just start telling people the escape vehicle is here.
A local Radio station did something like that. One of the
DJs for the Morning Show donned a prison outfit and
pretended he broke out of the local Jail and
went door to door fanatically asking for a ride out of
town, or if he could hang out. The residents didn't
know it was a joke or think it was funny and called the
PD and they came out in full force and arrested him.
Once it was known that it was a Radio stunt, the station
was fined like $200,000 and the DJ was fired.
He sucked anyway.
germanjulian
03-29-04, 10:22 AM
Take one big jar made out of glass (pref. thin glass). Fill the sucker with 70% chicken meat (breast legs…) and the rest with milk.
Close jar and hide in ventilation shaft etc….
Wait 1 or 2 weeks….. bummm jar explodes (decay = gas)…. Smell….
I read it smells really bad and the smell wont go away either for a long long time
tom10167
03-30-04, 10:17 PM
Originally posted by Fast-Fob
A local Radio station did something like that. One of the
DJs for the Morning Show donned a prison outfit and
pretended he broke out of the local Jail and
went door to door fanatically asking for a ride out of
town, or if he could hang out. The residents didn't
know it was a joke or think it was funny and called the
PD and they came out in full force and arrested him.
Once it was known that it was a Radio stunt, the station
was fined like $200,000 and the DJ was fired.
He sucked anyway.
I can't believe him, and the radio station were that stupid, that's a HUGE fine, I thought he would have been at least impirisoned for a few weeks over that.
Oh well.
Another good one. Go crazy at your job, cursing out your boss, exposing all the bad things that everybody has done, breaking crap, smash a few windows, and leave.
...
That's it.
One time at my old job at CVS, I put one of the alarm-sensor tags in my pocket, and walked through the doors, when the alarm went off(in front of like 15 people, managers included mind you) I looked all around and shouted "You'll never catch me!!" And ran outside. I came back and everybody was laughing. :D
Malpine Walis
03-30-04, 11:07 PM
Make a sign in your favorite graphics program ( you can use word if you must) with nice borders (I prefer flowery stuff in the corners but that is just me) and tape it up inside the stalls of your employers restrooms. The sign should say something to the effect of:
The management respectfully requests that patrons refrain from looking at the toilet paper before dropping it in the bowl.
That will get more than a few people...
Or if you do not mind causing some turmoil, get some dry ice and some real blood (animal blood will work if you know someone who works in a slaughterhouse). Put the blood in a tomato sauce can so that you can slide it out easily and freeze it with the dry ice.
Put the frozen cylinder of blood somewhere where it will drip openly but will not actually damage anything. A desk drawer wher someone keeps her purse will work well. It will take a day or two before the blood melts but eventually someone will have blood dripping out of somewhere they do not expect.
Superglue makes for some of the best "instant pranks", it's easy to conceal and drys almost instantly...
Try gluing someone's mouse to their mousepad. They'll have real fun ripping the mousepad off the mouse... :D
Or glue the handset of their phone to the base. They'll rip the base off the desk when they go to answer it :D
aah, fun times... ;)
mbentley
04-01-04, 10:38 AM
i know that i really shouldn't be posting this (as i am a swing manager at a mcdonald's) but here are some fun pranks that you can do at a mcdonald's (or any fast food restaurant)
these are from an article by Charlie X. i can't find the exact info on the article, but i just wanted to make it clear that i didn't make these up :D
Since McDonald's is usually a busy restaurant, the trash bags fill up quickly and must be changed frequently (but never are.) There are several things you can do to the trash cans. For starters, ask for hot or boiling water. If you don't want to attract attention by doing this, bring in your own really hot water... boil it, put it in a Styrofoam cup or a thermos... once in McDonald's, locate the filled trash can (should not be hard to find) and dump the hot water down the side. Not only will this melt the side of the bag, causing the trash to go everywhere, the person who takes out the garbage must pick up all the trash by hand and dump out the trash can with water in the bottom. This also soaks the trash, breaks up paper, and makes the whole experience quite unpleasant, but hilarious to watch.
If you happen across a McDonald's that is expecting deliveries, or has cleaned the parking lot, you will notice traffic cones. You can move these cones around the drive-thru sign. Some people are stupid and will drive thru them anyway, so you may want to place a sign saying "DRIVE THRU CLOSED -- SORRY - MANAGEMENT." You can also place a legitimate order at the drive thru and right after your order, you can put a sign on the drive-thru sign saying the same "closed" message. The drive thru sensor does not sense foot traffic, so you can walk up to the sign and put one there...
This next trick involves little or no intelligence, or imagination, but seems to get people every time. Behind McDonald's, usually found next to trash cans or the empty soda-syrup containers, you will find a large drum marked "not-fit for human consumption" or "inedible contents." Although these warnings belong in the food, they mark the grease vat. This is tightly sealed for a reason... it smells like dead human. They are also easy to open. Usually, you can loosen the ring around the top and open the lid. Be sure to cover your face when you do this... it does smell like ****... The nice thing about this is that the smell will cover the entire parking-lot area in roughly 10 minutes. Chemically, the smell will cause nausea, and definitely a loss in appetite. People will get sick everywhere, and definitely cause a loss of customers at McDonald's...
A simple addition to the previous trick would be to tip the can. The grease will probably have hardened, but on a warm day or if the black can is left in the sun, it will leave a sticky, raunchy mess in the parking lot that will be impossible to clean up, and will stink infinitely. This is a way to make the trick more damaging and longer lasting.
these are things that would definitely suck, but are funny to at least read about... :D i get a laugh out of them
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