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This is the practical joke/prank discussion thread. Tell us about practical jokes, and pitch ideas for practical jokes you might want to try. If possible, pics or video are a good thing to have.

So. 2 Days ago, I brought a digital voice recorder into school. I used it to record the class bell (Which comes out of a speaker in the ceiling in every room, and every 20 or so yards in the hallway.) during a free period. Then, last period, played the sound (the recorder has a speaker on it, which has a decent volume), and my teacher really tohught that it was the bell, and let us leave like 3-4 minutes early. It was last period, so my class left before all of the other classes. I had only told about 4 or 5 kids about it. I thought that by the next day, my teacher would be really mad, but it turns out that when the real bell went off, he wasnt suspicious at all! So, I took the opportunity again yesterday. Again, it worked like a charm. About a third of my class still doesnt know. I've gotten our class out early 2 times, and most people only found out because I or someone else told them. I guess it is either really convincing, or no one pays close attention. Either way, I'm going to try this everyday. I suggest that some of you try it, if you dont have anyone in your class that would tell the teacher (I hate those kind of kids.)

That reminds me of something I did at my middle school. Same concept, but a lot easier, and a little bit better. I had a tape recorder back then. My old school's PA system had speakers that stuck out from the wall. I was able to put the tape recorder on top of the speaker without her noticing. The night before, I took a blank tape and recorded messages at intervals of about 5 minutes each. I recorded myself imitating the people who worked in the school office. I would even say the teacher's name, then wait 5 seconds to continue, ensuring that the teacher would believe it.

The next day, I put the tape player on top of the speaker and hit play. It played silence for5minutes, then the voice came on and requested that my teacher needed to send me and some of my friends down to the office. She let us leave, but instead of going to the office, we hung out in the hallway, listening to the announcements.

Tape: Mrs. Fox?
Mrs. Fox: Yes?
Tape: I'm going to dunkin donuts in a little while, do you need anything?
Mrs fox: Ummm... No, I think I'm ok for now. (It was 1 P.M., btw)
About 2 or 3 minutes pass.
Tape: Mrs fox?
Mrs fox: Yes?
Tape: Do you know what time it is?
Mrs Fox: A little past 1. Arent there any clocks down there?
Tape: Thank you!
5 minutes or so.
Tape: Mrs fox?
Mrs. fox: yes?
Tape: Do you drive a blue minivan, and are parked in the far end of the parking lot?
Mrs Fox: Yes, why?
Like a minute goes by.
Mrs fox then presses the button that calls the main office over the loudspeaker.
Office: Yes, mrs fox?
Mrs fox: Is my car alright? Is there anything wrong with it?
Office: Is yours the blue minivan?
Mrs fox: yes.
Office: Hold on a second, I'll go check.
At this point, the office lady whose name I forgot went outside to go check to make sure mrs fox's car was ok. It was the best misunderstanding ever. Then the tape started playing again:
Tape: Will mrs donovan please bring the rainbow folder down to the main office? *seconds later* JUST KIDDING!
(It should be noted there that my school had emergency codes. They all involved mrs donovan bringing a colored folder to the office. If a gunman cam into school, it would be a red folder. They had a color for every possible situation, which made the teacher panic a little when The message started.)
Then the office lady apparnetly came back inside, because she was back on the PA:
Office: Mrs fox, there was nothing wrong with your car. Were you expecting something?
Mrs fox: No, but why did you call me before about my car? And what is with that rainbow folder thing? Is everything alrgith there?
Office: I'm sorry, I dont understand. I havent called you about your car. You called me.
Tape: Mrs fox?
Mrs fox was sorta confused.
Tape: What time is it?

At this point, she was a strange mixture of angry and confused, so I Got a chair to stand on, reached up, and took down the tape recorder. She was really confused, until it started playing "Mrs fox, I just broke my only pencil, can you bring one down here to the office?"

She laughed a lot. I was really glad she did. Any other teachers I had would have been mad. I really wasnt expecting her to call the office in the middle of class. By the next day, the whole thing was smoothed over. The teacher explained the whole thing to the office, and no one got made. And my class was happy, because it distracted the teacher a lot, so no one had to get any work done.

I highly suggest that you people try these, making sure that you only use them on teacher with good senses of humor. And dont under any circumstances do what I did with spoofing the emergency code. That had the potential to have a very bad ending. Looking back, I should have left that part out.

Ok, people, now you post yours.

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Happy 666th post, Bwave.

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Not sure if these sorts of things should be discussed here, since they obviously go against school policies and rules and the like...kinda like how we're not allowed to talk on these forums about downloading ROMs or music or movies illegally...

But here's my idea for a prank--someone did it already, but not to such a technical degree as my idea is:

You have to be familiar with the movie "The Ring." So MAJOR SPOILER ALERT HERE. You know the part where Samara Morgan (yes, I'm using the American version, since I haven't seen the Japanese one) crawls out of the TV? Set up the frame of a CRT TV large enough to fit a small actress inside, dressed as Samara Morgan. Find someway to project a holographic image across the front portion of the frame where the screen would normally be (it might involve simply getting the actress to hold up some flat surface on which the image can be projected), and play the segment of the film that shows Samara crawling out of the well and slowly working her way towards the TV screen itself (this part may also require a certain cut of the footage not found in the theatrical release). Then, it's just a matter of syncing up the film part of her crawling out with the actual actress physically crawling out of the TV frame. If you have the right set-up beforehand (i.e. if your target audience is already chilled with fear by the time this prank begins), then it should make for a most entertaining reaction.

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That would be epic, if you could set it up...

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Your idea is awesome, but I dont think I have the necessary supplies. Also, I usually do my pranks and such alone, although I might tell others about it beforehand, so that they might play along, which helps everything run smoothly.

I have a friend who gets scared easily. She freaks out when scary movies are over. After the ring, one of my friends called her cell phone and informed her that she only had 7 days to live. She wasnt very happy. She freaked out completely. It was great.

On another occasion, a bunch of us went to go see the texas chainsaw massacre: the beginning. After watching movies, we usually go back to my house to have a campfire. As a cemetery landscaper, I have much lawn equipment that could potentialy be used to remove a head. I got the fire started, and told everyone (Exept for that one girl, who was inside getting a drink) what I was going to do. When she came outside, I went inside, saying I needed to use the bathroom. I went inside, then snuck out through the front door, cut through some lawns, and snuck into my shed, where the equipment is. I put on a ski mask (It was dark, so she couldnt tell anyways) and started the chainsaw. I walked toward the group of kids, who all pretended to be scared. The girl got up screaming as loud as she could, and ran all the way back to her house on the other side of the neighborhood and locked herself inside. We chased her to try to get her to stop, but she had a huge headstart. She locked the doors, and continued screaming. (Lucky her parents were gone). Anyways, we ended up having to call her cell phone to let her know it wasnt really leatherface.

My girlfriend called a little while ago. Upon picking up, I imitated an automated phone line, and said "The person you called is a customer of voice solutions message service. To leave a message, wait until the beep, then press pound when you are done, then await further instructions." I pressed a button, to make a beep. She began to talk, and I looked at the clock. I head a beep, which meant that she pressed the pound key. I talked again: "Thank you, your message will be passed on to this customer. You message, which was 1 minute and 3 seconds long will cost you $121 dollars. This will be billed to your phone service, and may be paid with your monthly phone bill. She was silent for a few seconds, before I continued: "Unless your boyfriend is just playing a joke on you..."

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My friends and I are starting one on Monday.

Me and my three classmates were in this statewide competition for the Future Problem Solvers organization (basically you have to find out what's wrong with the world's ethics and find ways to solve problems). The winners get to go to the nationals in Colorado. We didn't win, but another team from our school, made up of these four totally nerdy perfectionist girls, were totally jealous that we got into the state finals and they didn't. They even accused the program of scoring us incorrectly! To get back at them, we're gonna pretend that we're going to Colorado for the nationals. We'll talk about it all the time and how excited we are. Our teacher is in on it, too. We'll make all these zany fake plans and everything! And then the week we're gonna go, we'll tell them the truth and laugh in their stuck-up faces. It'll be so fun!

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Better yet, dont tell them the truth. Tell them that you went. That might even be better.

^ This is what you get when you breed Acekirby and Strongrad. LOLOL I made stupid joke.

^Actually, I did.

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This is a prankster's Bible.

This is my favorite:

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I've had some itching powder that I've been saving for just that occasion.

Same here, but I just never really come into contact with jock strps that often.

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That site reminded me a couple others I've heard, revolving around automobiles:

1) Take a can of shaving cream and freeze it in liquid nitrogen (have fun getting this supply). Now you can peel off the metal canister, leaving you with a brick of solid, frozen shaving cream. Place the brick in your target's car...as it unfreezes, it will fill the interior of the car (depending on how big or small the car is--I'm thinking nothing beyond a mid-sized sedan), thus ruining the upholestry.

2) Place a good heap of talcum powder directly behind the air vents of the target's automobile, so that they get a spray of white dust when they turn on their AC next.

3) Smear peanut butter over the windshield wiper blades, then wet the windshield just before the person gets into the car. When they turn on the blades to wipe away the liquid, they'll end up streaking that peanut butter all over their windshield.

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FOR PONY!!!

i'm surprised there hasn't been any "you thought that was funny? it was a horrible thing to do" yet.
buuut.....i did put Tiger Balm on the toilet seat once.
oh. once, we got hold of the admin code at school, logged on and replaced everyone's desktop with a picture of a desktop with items, and hid the real desktop deep inside the computer.
oh, yes. in the sports changing rooms, we lit a piece of paper on fire, slid it under the door, yelled FIRE!!! and dropped cold buckets of water on the person.
but one i want to try is take someone's belongings and put them in the break room vending machine.

Myth busted... I got really bored one day and emptied a large can, just to see how much was in it (I don't use shaving cream, I an electric, so the can had no real use). I didn't get more than a couple cups of foam out of it. Volume of average car > a couple cups


Tee Hee. That's a good one.

That's borderline vandalism.

We had fun with a teacher that loved his car way too much. We took an oil can, sprayed some under his car, then sprayed some up onto the engine so it'd drip down. Then we sprayed WD-40 on his exhaust manifold (so it'd smoke when it got hot).

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

The oldest one in the book: Tape the handle of the spray thing on your kitchen faucet. Record and use as blackmail forever.

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My dad and I used to prank each other with that all the time. It got to the point that, not only did we check the spray thingy in the kitchen of OUR house, we'd look before we turned on the faucet in anyone else's house, too.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

I was listening to a talk station and a guy called in about the Dreamfather theory(we are all in a dream0 and the people said that if he gets a call back that's the Dreamfather(or something). They then told everybody on their station to call him.

...yeah, that's about it for me...

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I placed a huge wad of Bubble Tape underneath the Drivers-side door handle of my friends car once. Worked like a charm.

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PIZZA DELIVA BY DOMINOS!
PEPPERONI ANCHOVI EXTRA CHEESE!

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that's how mom tests the authenticity of a genuine Italian pizza place. if they don't speak Italian, their sign is lying.

Pizza is american. It was made by italian immigrants. Pizza is the italian corned beef and cabbage.

exactly.
if it really is Italian , why don't they speak Italian?

So Americans that only know American English can order, thus vastly improving their customer base, bringing the business more money.

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

I make pranks on the phone solicitors.
Phone: "Hello."
Me: "Yes, is this the library?"
Phone: "Um, no."
Me: "Oh, well, do you have a history book on the American Revolution? I have a report due."
Phone: "No, but-"
Me: "Okay, forget it. Bye."

And then I hang up.

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Clicky:

I do a lot of that to them too. I thank God for Caller ID. It's a great way to mess with family members.

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Ooh..a prank thread. I wondered when something like this would come up.

I did a twist off the old whoopie cushion trick once...the guy behind me always put his feet on the little tray underneath my chair. So one day, I put a whoopie cushion in a book, and stuck it in the tray. He sat down, and when class started, put his feet up on my book.

Tee hee. I have some more that me and my friends have done, but I can't remember any right now.

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My friend Juliette and I are planning the most epic prank ever.

Think of it as our middle school senior prank- we're 8th graders.

On the last day we eat lunch in the cafeteria, a group of students involved in the prank (spread out at different lunch tables across the room) will all rise up and burst into an incredibly complicated song-and-dance number a la High School Musical, but it'll be an original song written for the occasion. Hopefully we can get a strong sound system that we can set up quickly with no issue, and time it perfectly.

But we'll find a way. We have to make this work. It's just too awesome not to.

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Sounds funny. I think I'm gonna pull the super glue prank with me and my friends during the last week of school.

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So for our 8th grade prank (Thats the new thing, kids), we're gonna go to the school at like 5 in the morning and duct tape my friend to the lightpole in the middle of the quad. It'll be good.

Been a while since anyones done this.

TOTPD

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