As I have mentioned
in previous QOTWs, my A-level German teacher was a prize twunt* and was unbelievably gullible. Among the many pranks we played on him were these:

- Convincing him the English word for "music like Andy Williams, for older people" was "shite", meaning he went up to the headmaster the next day and said "in Germany, we listen to a lot of shite." Bollocking for that one.

- Regularly timetabling our own "room changes", usually to another vacant room in the sixth form centre, or hiding in the kitchen/common room/cloakroom/cleaning cupboard/outside. It would take him damn near the entire lesson to find us.

- On the rare occasion we were in the languages block, hiding in the big fuck-off cupboard and locking the door from the inside. (We once did this to the other German teacher and she threw a massive shitfit so we didn't try that one on her again). This again could go on for ages.

- Buying him a tape of Andy Williams for Christmas... wrapped in tissue, wrapped in paper, wrapped in a box, wrapped in another layer of paper, tinfoil, cracker box, shoebox, medium sized box, large box (the outside of which had German swearwords written on it).

- Refusing to do homework, writing ludicrous versions of homework ("we believe you should set up a town twinning with our beloved Potsdam because of the witch who dances naked in the town square every Thursday evening"), making up songs about random stuff in German and singing them to him (unfortunately, Stalker Boy played a large part in this and this is what he means by "the fun we had in our lessons").

- Immortalising him on Geocities by calling him a "vibrating idiot".

- I once managed to stay concealed under the desk in one of his classes for a good 25 minutes before his leeriness looked under the table and said "Ah ja, here you are."

Our other German teacher was slightly harder to fool so we settled for confusing her: putting the chairs on the desks and sitting on the floor in half lotus as if meditating, listening to New Agey music, hiding under desks, hiding in cupboards, buying her a plastic toy lawn-mower for Christmas (again in a box covered with German swearwords), and generally acting like mad people.

I still got a B for German!


And to History Teacher, who had made his dislike of me apparent, we balanced the bin on the door closing mechanism so when he came in it fell off and bounced all over the place (he later put his foot in it), calling him Kermit the Frog (apparently he looked like him, though I don't see the resemblance myself, setting the clock 15 minutes fast so as well as being perpetually late for our classes, he was even later than he thought, drinking tea and eating biscuits in his classes...

We dressed our Latin teacher's most favouritest bust of Zeus in a woolly hat, scarf and shades on the last day of Year 9 (complete with sign on the blackboard "LOOK AT COOL ZEUS!". All we got for our hilariosity was "Remove."

* Ingolf, if you're reading this, that means "idiot." Just so you know.
( Maladicta, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 16:53, 3 replies)

Those are the best teacher pranks
Ones that involve thinking, rather than just locking the poor sod in a cupboard or beating them up.
Have a click
( Greenbat, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 15:30, closed)

haha!
The image of him looking down and saying 'Ah ja, here you are' makes this story. He actually sounds like a funny bloke.
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Mon 17 Dec 2007, 6:31, closed)

liking it
the best we did was learning the "lumberjack song" in german and singing it at our then german teacher for the best part of a lesson, she wasnt ammused!
(pogo_it, Wed 19 Dec 2007, 14:45, closed)