Pranks. Crab Bloke once connected a hose from ...... the sink to my bed and turned the tap on. I was asleep. I woke up - both angry & wet. What pranks have been played on you, or have you played on a friend?
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rob,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 6:33,
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my girlfriend(before I was going out with her, but whilst I was sharing a house with her. It's complicated)
once wired up my bed to the doorbell so that it rang as soon as I got in. Bastard.
(once wired up my bed to the doorbell so that it rang as soon as I got in. Bastard.
chthonic,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 6:43,
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No needSimply wire up a second doorbell button in parallel to the first, and locate it under the mattress. The weight of you getting into bed will make it ring. If you do it exactly right, the initial pressure of you getting into bed will press the button (Ding!) and the matress will bend around the switchbox allowing the button to return (Dong!). Such careful positioning isn't necessary with one of the fully electronic doorbell units that do both the ding and the dong when the switch is pressed down.
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Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 7:03,
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my brother's wifewas fed up with him falling asleep on the sofa. So she changed all the clocks (including the video), woke him up around midnight and pretended he was late for work. Apparently she didn't let on until he was getting out of the shower.
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PeterSeychelles,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 6:48,
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Untried ideas, that I probably read on the web 5 years ago1. Advertise bosses job in paper.
2. Make video of toilet. Invite friends round. Watch TV. One friend goes to loo. Stick tape in. They return to find you all laughing watching a toilet on TV. They think you have installed CCTV have have been watching them take a dump. Lose friend. Ha ha!
(2. Make video of toilet. Invite friends round. Watch TV. One friend goes to loo. Stick tape in. They return to find you all laughing watching a toilet on TV. They think you have installed CCTV have have been watching them take a dump. Lose friend. Ha ha!
rob,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 7:00,
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I did number2 a coupla years back at a party... We timed the videotaping and made it so someone could leave the room and appear on the tape waving. Took a lot of planning and sad people to pull it off - the stonedness of the victim was a hugely helpful factor.
( helmetcream,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 7:24,
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my mate wasdressed up as a sheep so i set him on fire as a witty prank. we both received severe burns, but how we laughed....
( mikeisbrill,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 7:06,
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A mate of mine-he's a clever bloke on an intellectual level but he has absolutely no practical skills; simple DIY tasks, putting up a deckchair, etc. are all beyond his capabilities.
Anyway, he was working up in Newcastle a few years ago and staying at a flat up there. He invited me and some friends up for a weekend to go out on 'the toon' (It's a great place to go out on the lash by the way, you should all try it sometime), but he made the fatal mistake of going to work the next morning and leaving us to clear the flat up before we left.
We decided it would be good fun to move every last bit of furniture in the place and carefully cram it into the kitchen - sofas, beds, tables, the lot. It took five of us about an hour to do, but by the time we'd finished there was not a single cubic centimetre of space left in the kitchen and not so much as a coat-hanger left in any other room in the flat.
When the poor lad eventually calmed down enough to speak to us again (about a month later) he admitted that it had taken him until 1am on sunday morning to get everything back where it should be again.
(,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 7:13,
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Anyway, he was working up in Newcastle a few years ago and staying at a flat up there. He invited me and some friends up for a weekend to go out on 'the toon' (It's a great place to go out on the lash by the way, you should all try it sometime), but he made the fatal mistake of going to work the next morning and leaving us to clear the flat up before we left.
We decided it would be good fun to move every last bit of furniture in the place and carefully cram it into the kitchen - sofas, beds, tables, the lot. It took five of us about an hour to do, but by the time we'd finished there was not a single cubic centimetre of space left in the kitchen and not so much as a coat-hanger left in any other room in the flat.
When the poor lad eventually calmed down enough to speak to us again (about a month later) he admitted that it had taken him until 1am on sunday morning to get everything back where it should be again.
It's not quite a prank but..It was the done thing after final exams at college to cover those finishing with egg/flour/milk etc. The English course exams had just finished and I saw my friend Michelle carefully avoid the people throwing flour. Not wanting her to get away with it, I caught up with her and totally covered her with flour, to which she turned and said "I do Languages and I have another exam in an hour"
( MartinH,
Tue 26 Feb 2002, 7:23,
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