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rob, Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:01)
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Practical Jokes Gone Too FarI'm not sure whether it's been asked before, but I'm always amused by practical jokes that reach the point where they cease to be funny.
For intance, it was a guy that I used to work with's last day, and we spent ages thinking up a suitable joke. The reason that he was leaving the job was because he'd just finished his Open University degree and was moving onto bigger and better things.
Being the comedy geniuses that we were, we decided to send him an email, looking as if it was from the OU telling him that there'd been a mistake and he didn't have enough credits to graduate. Me made it sound fairly convincing, and sent it from an email anonymiser where you can choose who it appears to be from.
Upon receiving it his face went white. We watched as he frantically logged onto the OU website looking for phone numbers to phone. At this point he was practically in tears. As he picked up the receiver to phone the OU, we admitted that it was a joke. He wanted to hit us. At this point, we wondered at which stage this had stopped being funny.
(, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 18:26, Reply)
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