Great Pranks?

Posted: 12/13/08 at 4:10pm

Hi guys!

So, I'm halfway through my Freshman year of college. Wow! One thing I've noticed about living in a dorm is how many pranks we play on each other.

For example, I woke up last week to find my entire doorway wrapped in plastic wrap. I had to karate-chop my way through to get into the hall.

Do you have any good ones to share? From college, or the workplace, or even home? I love that sort of thing.

[jenna2]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 4:21pm

My friend is away at college and just posted a bunch of dorm prank photos on his facebook. Some were lame, but some where actually kind of funny.

For one poor kid, they wrapped his door in Christmas paper. He thought that was it, until he opened it and they had individually wrapped each and every thing in his room (his pillow, sheets, mattress, chair, desk & everything on it... you name it, it was neatly wrapped with ribbon and bows).

And for another guy, they emptied his room and set it all back up, just as it was, on the roof of the building. They must have had a ton of time of their hands because they made the bed perfectly and put clothes exactly where they were... on the "floor".

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 4:22pm

Some guys in my dorm did that to the girls across the hall from me one year, except it was with duct tape. I think they got caught before they finished and everyone was crawling under the duct tape to get in and out.

[artscallion]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 5:02pm

Here's an old favorite of mine. Open your friend's door. Use masking tape to attach a thin plastic sheet (you can buy flimsy clear tarps for pennies in the paint section of Home Depot) over the door opening. leave about a foot open at the top. Use this opening at the top to fill the room completely, with packing peanuts. You can buy these in giant bags, also for pennies.)

The next part requires a few people and some focus. You're going to close the door almost all the way and then yank the plastic sheet out (here's why you used masking tape instead of duct tape.) Then shut the door. When your friend comes home to her room and opens the door, she's buried by a surprise avalanche of packing peanuts.

We usually would assign one person to maintaining the door in the right position, while the others lined up along the knob side of the door and coordinated the yank.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 6:02pm

I always enjoyed replacing their shampoo with cooking oil.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 6:15pm

The way the dorms at my school were set up, you had two rooms on either side of a living room. I, one time, got the genius idea to reverse the living room and all the posters and everything. And, naturally, the one time my roomie came in drunk was that night...it was really funny.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 6:37pm

We had a great costume shop at our college in Wisconsin. Our costume crew had made a GREAT deer costume for an original children's show we had done. It looked really real and needed two people to operate. One night we snuck the deer costume out and stood at the edge of the highway, which was near the woods. When a car came along we would dash out in front of the car and watch as the driver would swerve off the road to try to avoid hitting us! Some just skidded and went on their way, but a few actually CRASHED! It was so freaking funny, but that deer suit was a hot mutha.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 7:15pm

These are all very funny. I thought of another one, but it wasn't very nice at all. I'll just say that a hair pin, truck, and beer were involved. It was not my idea either. I was just a witness.

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 8:31pm

Pranks that were pulled at my college:

Tying doors across the hall from each other together with string (they opened inward, so they couldn't open the door) and pulling the fire alarm

Putting hundreds of dixie cups filled with water all along the hall, so you have to pick up all of them or spill them.

In the same vain, putting hundreds of dixie cups with sand in them upside-down (you use paper, and when you've flipped the cup, pull the paper out) and then when people lift the cup, sand goes all over... impossible to clean up!

[artscallion]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 10:32pm

Bud, we used to do something similar to that sand trick in restaurants if the waitperson was rude. We'd put a few coins (the tip) in a glass of water. Fill it to the brim from the other glasses. Put a piece of paper over it and flip it over onto the table and pull the paper out.

[Q]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 3:41am

Wet-blanket alert!

I abhor the concept of 'pranks'.

It stinks of 'I'm better than you, and I'll pull some ridiculous stunt making you look . . . well, ridiculous' to prove it.

Never seen the point, and hated - HATED - having anything to do with them, in any capacity.

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 4:06am

I can only remember two such things in college. One was to stretch saran wrap across the toilet under the seat. I'm glad I never encountered it.

the other thing was really nasty. I was up late with a friend, and she got the bright idea to go into the luggage room, open a piece of luggage owned by another girl whom she didn't like, and then she peed in it.

Oh-one other thing. They used to go into a room where a girl was sleeping and put her fingers into a cup of water. Then she was supposed to pee.

oy-all mine had to do with pee. that must have been the craze back in the paleozoic age.

[Q]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 4:22am

"that must have been the craze back in the paleozoic age."

That made me giggle

[Radiana]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 4:31pm

Yes it's funny except for the car crashes.

[Weez]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 4:45pm

To my mind, the ideal prank is utterly hilarious, but ultimately harmless causing no injury, upset, or serious mess. A period of frustration is acceptable for the duration of the prank, but it needs to be something where, when the end comes, the victim can go "OMG HAHAHAHA THANK GOD IT'S NOT REAL IT'S ACTUALLY REALLY FUNNY NOW!".

I have only ever managed to pull one prank that pleased me, and it was very much "right time, right place". No real set-up was required, and no real harm was done. :3

[dramarama2]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 4:46pm

My friend spiked the drinks at a party with cyanide. The expressions on everyone's face when they drank it was hilarious!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 5:02pm

These guys in college used to piss in the detergent slot while people's (usually those that annoyed them) laundry was being washed.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 5:13pm

"I always enjoyed replacing their shampoo with cooking oil."

Oh, Diva, that reminds me of a couple of guys I know who replaced their annoying female roommate's hair conditioner with something else. At least it added protein, if you know what I am saying.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 5:37pm

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsY9dhz_h1k

When I was in elementary school, my fourth grade class went camping and played all sorts of girls vs. boys pranks. One of the boys got his mom to put a melted chocolate bar in the girls' toilet, and it grossed us out. So I got my dad to smear a melted chocolate bar all over the boys' toilet... and THEY DIDN'T NOTICE. AT ALL. That is the difference between elementary school boys and girls.

I play pranks on telemarketers all the time, too.

Updated On: 12/14/08 at 05:37 PM

[george95]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:44pm

This is from elementary school, so they're not as outrageous:
At our summer camp, whichever dorm was the cleanest would get to go horseback riding that day. One day, when one of the girl's dorms won, the boys went in their dorm and took all of their mattresses and stacked them up on one bedframe. Then we took all their sleepings backs and threw they up around the rafters of the dorm. Some of the meaner boys would take some of the mattresses and put them on the roof, or they would fill some of the girls' suitcases with shaving cream.

There was one boy back in 6th grade who used to urinate into a watergun, and then spray the watergun into a a kid's ear who was sleeping. I was always shocked that the urine stayed inside the ear and that the kids never woke up while he did it.

In college, a friend of a friend used to always do stuff with tampons--tape their to people's windshields (the adhesive seemed to never come off) or tie them around trees and bushes.

One prank that made me feel bad: I was a junior in high school, and I was hanging out with this group of kids who didn't like another guy that I was friends with. They were talkin about how much they hated him, and someone said that we should order a pizza to his house as a prank. So we did, and since I knew where he lived, we even drove over there to watch the deliveryman go to the door, and my friend shaking his head, and the deliveryman walking away. My heart sank when I saw my friend shake his head, and the poor deliveryman.

[Q]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:50pm

"that reminds me of a couple of guys I know who replaced their annoying female roommate's hair conditioner with something else. At least it added protein, if you know what I am saying."

So many questions pop to mind!

How full was the bottle when they began - and finished?

Were they working individually or as a group to save time?

Did they help each other out to speed up the process?

Is there video?

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:54pm

WAs this before or after Whatever Happened to Mary?

[Select a Member Name]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:57pm

I play pranks on telemarketers all the time, too.

haha. do share!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:01am

Actually, Q, they did not know each other was doing it until after she moved out and one of them confessed to the other. It was one of those, "OH, MY. GOD!!! I did that, TOO!" moments.
Not sure if it was before or after Something About Mary, though.

[Q]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:22am

Sue - now I'm curious how a conversation like that would 'come up', so to speak.

Not that I would ever engage in one, mind you.