Spoony magic
As students we regularly visited the £1 shops to see what bargains were on offer. On this particular day, we returned lighter by £1 and heavier by a small tube of super-glue. Many and various were the prankular opportunities of this inspired purchase, but one sticks out in my mind.

There was this guy, Felix, who occasionally came and hung around with us. He was a nice enough guy, too handsome for his own good maybe but not vain. His biggest failing was that he could be a bit naive sometimes. Ideal prank-fodder, then.

We were lounging around in someone's room when Felix came in. We'd been chatting for a while, when I noticed a plastic cup to the inside of which someone had earlier super-glued a metal spoon (so that the bowl of the spoon was halfway up the side of the cup, with the handle sticking up out of the top). I picked it up and, shielding it slightly behind my hand, I faked moving the spoon up and down on the inside of the cup. At the same time I said,

"Hey Felix, look at this. If you rub a metal spoon on the side of a plastic cup like this, it sticks." Then I took my hand away, and help up the cup-spoon marvel with a flourish. "It must be static electricity or something!"

He was amazed. So I pulled the spoon and cup apart and handed them over to him, suggesting he have a try. Oh, how we chortled to ourselves as he rubbed away unsuccessfully. Then we suggested that maybe it only worked if you did it underwater...so he dutifully filled the sink and carried on rubbing.

Eventually we couldn't contain our mirth. He stormed out of the room, quite justifiably identifying us as the shower of bastards that we most certainly were.
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Wed 19 Dec 2007, 11:40, Reply)