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Topic: Your Favourite Practical Joke.....
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koiflower
Knowflake Posts: 2350
From: Australia
Registered: Jun 2008
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posted January 30, 2009 09:39 PM
 
Mine:In a cafe while I was working the graveyard shift, a drunk dude fell asleep at the table. My colleague and I moved all the pot plants from around the cafe, and surrounded him with them. We built a mini rainforest on the table and around his chair, and waited for him to awaken. When he did wake up, he looked around surprised and stumbled out of the cafe, with a bewildered look on his face. Worth the laugh, indeed..!!!!  IP: Logged |
MyVirgoMask
Knowflake Posts: 2303
From: Florida for now
Registered: Sep 2008
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posted January 30, 2009 09:47 PM
LOL, I love it Koi!
I love practical jokes!!!!!
I would've paid to see the expression on that guy's face I haven't really done any good ones, but I can be a complete nightmare if I'm bored because I like to hide in corners and then jump out at my sisters when they're walking by, unsuspecting. There was the time I left a pile of small rocks (a la Blair Witch) on a neighbor's welcome mat because he wouldn't turn down his music EVER (and management wasn't helping). Then I drew a big pentagram with some salt too, in front of his door. Didn't have much trouble with him after that LOL My mother is terrified of insects, so I like to throw those little plastic ants at her randomly while she's focused on cooking...she screams bloody murder every time I know, I'm terrible. IP: Logged |
26taurus
Knowflake Posts: 15764
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Registered: Jun 2004
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posted January 30, 2009 09:59 PM
Funnnny.I cant really think of any atm... Putting Post-It Notes with messages written on them on unsuspecting people's backs is always fun. Youve got to be slick about it though. We had lots of fun doing that at one of my last jobs.
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AcousticGod
Knowflake Posts: 14483
From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted January 30, 2009 10:12 PM
As I said here:
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum17/HTML/001117-9.html I wouldn't mind getting some chaulk, and writing some confounding messages on sidewalks, and then observing the result of my work. You could maybe write as if you're a crazed stalker outside of an office building or something. Address your message to some common name, and tell them how much you love them, and want to be with them. Or you could maybe say something like, "Free Donuts --->" and have it pointing into some random place... maybe a toilet. IP: Logged |
26taurus
Knowflake Posts: 15764
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Registered: Jun 2004
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posted January 30, 2009 10:18 PM
oh i missed that AG. That sounds like a really good time.   IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 2825
From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted January 30, 2009 11:26 PM
I'm a dry one.
(Most of you already knew that about me)
I really do not like them...or playing them...with rare exception.
I find them to be often cruel or unkind.
The last I remember kind of being involved in was long ago...1979 I think.
Was way down south at a potluck lunch/dinner.
I KNEW exactly what kind of weird foods would be served there at the Okefenokee Swamp State Park Banquet Hall. 
(I had lived near there in 1963)
My husband at the time(ex#1) and one of my teen sisters were with me.
They wanted to know what the food was.
I said..eat..don't ask. 
Well they thought the bourbon "chicken", sweet and sour "pork, "lobster bake, "beef" stew, city fried "chicken" and so forth, was
exactly what it seemed to be, and yes, tasted like.
Afterward everyone got a good laugh out of the "Yanks" reactions when told they had just eaten crawdads, rattlesnake, possum, groundhog, squirrel, pea chick, pine nuts, cactus butter, prickly pear pickles, water rind pickles, turtle soup, chocolate covered/or honey ants, cattail (the plant} shoots, cola gravy, grits with pigs feet, frog legs, snails, and so forth.
Man were my sister and (ex)husband upset with me! 
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future_uncertain
Knowflake Posts: 3124
From: ohio
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted January 31, 2009 09:28 PM
At school I found a stack of pamphlets entitled: Are You Being Stalked? I took a few and spent the next few weeks "distributing" them in a friend's locker, then his coat pocket, then his book, his folder, etc. He realized it was a joke, but couldn't figure out where they were coming from! I usually can't pull a practical joke because I am utterly unable to keep a straight face in situations like these. I like ridiculous spur of the moment practical jokes that make no sense. One time a friend of mine had lots of people in his apartment and when he went to use the bathroom I decided we should all perch ourselves on the furniture like gibbons and watch for his return. Needless to say, he was a bit baffled to walk out and find us like that. I feel like I should have some explanation for that, but I don't!
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sunshine9
Knowflake Posts: 1127
From: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted February 01, 2009 10:22 AM
LOL, future-uncertain! I'm the same way with random practical jokes - at work, when a coworker went to the bathroom when a few of us were waiting to talk to him, we decided to stand right outside the door, staring at it, so when he came out, he was taken aback! It was hilarious and utterly nonsensical, but hilarious! Then, we lock the main door at work after 5:30, so when someone wants to be let in after that time, I ask for a password (we don't have one), which never fails to amuse. It's silly, but funny all the same. IP: Logged |
sunshine9
Knowflake Posts: 1127
From: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted February 01, 2009 10:38 AM
But my favorite one to do (i know i can be kinda silly at times), is when I'm passing on a message to a friend/coworker that someone was looking for them while they were gone - I add some emotion to it - like, that the person was 'livid', 'purple with rage', barely choked out my friend's name, left in a huff, etc. The unsuspecting friend is taken aback (esp. if the person in question is a boss or advisor), but most usually catch on quickly. In fact, some turn it around on me when they get the chance! IP: Logged |
amowls
Knowflake Posts: 1166
From: Richmond, VA USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted February 02, 2009 12:28 AM
We do that to my friends when they pass out drunk.My friends work at Starbucks and they have really big refridgerators in the back and once one of my friends hid in the fridge until my other friend went back there to get more milk and scared the crap out of him lol. IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 2825
From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted February 02, 2009 12:41 AM
I think I got cured of desiring to play practical jokes because of a few mean ones played on me.
These are just a few of them.As a very little kid, my mother spilled ketchup on her chest and hands. I did not know it, and walked into to find her with a look of horror on her face...(the blouse, her favorite one, was white and most likely stained).
Well she saw me and my look of horror thinking she was badly hurt and she played it up...until she realized I was really freaking out.  But she kept laughing anyhow. Another time my stepsister called and said my dad had been killed in a horrible accident.
An hour later after calling the hospital and funeral home...
I called her back and got.."April Fool!"
Big ha ha. So yeah, I find practical jokes often nasty and cruel. My ex, his wife, and my son, did one on me too.
He sent his wife over to bring my son home from visitation. My son was on crutches and she explained what "had happened".
Then they both started laughing at me and my ex comes over and revealed the prank to me.
How? They told me to feel my son's foot.
Well it fell off. All bloody looking to boot.
I realized then, it being near Halloween, that it was a costume zombie foot. I did not find it funny.
Oddly a few months later my son did suffer an accident similar to the faked one and had to have serious surgery on his leg and ankle and foot.  IP: Logged |
wheelsofcheese
Knowflake Posts: 1816
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted February 02, 2009 05:55 AM
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At school I found a stack of pamphlets entitled: Are You Being Stalked?
I took a few and spent the next few weeks "distributing" them in a friend's locker, then his coat pocket, then his book, his folder, etc.
I love that Future. I'm also going to start doing sunshine's messages+weird emotion at work from now on. I love this one. When you're at a dinner table with a few people, or at a table in a bar - lean over to someone opposite and say: "Pass me the maddabooboo" and point to something near them in a general way.
and hopefully they say (confused):
"What's 'the maddabooboo'?"
and then you say:
"Nothing Yogi" Freaking hilarious, but best down to someone familiar with Amercian cartoons of the 1970's.
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future_uncertain
Knowflake Posts: 3124
From: ohio
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted February 02, 2009 08:13 AM
LEXX... those aren't practical jokes. A joke is funny and doesn't leave scars. I'm sorry you had to deal with those things. Along those lines, I was about 12 I was spending the night at a friend's house and she went to the bathroom and didn't return for a long time. Suddenly I heard a thump on the floor. I went to check on her and the door was open and she was surrounded by pill bottles. We were home alone and she kept up the unconscious act for a good long time. All in all it really p'ed me off.  IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 2825
From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted February 02, 2009 08:27 AM
future_uncertain
Thank you for understanding and your sharing your negative experience with what some think is a harmless practical joke.
Sorry you had to experience one too.
I did post one above which was kinda funny, but I still feel bad about being involved in doing it.
A Knowflake posted one sometime last year I think.
I thought it very cruel but I think everyone else (to my shock) though it very funny.
It was about a RADIO STATION making on the air, a prank call to a Pizza place.
The man at the PP got very upset and cussed at the caller(s),
Yeah, he may have been a grumpy guy, but what if that prank call had been like his 10th. that day? It is hard enough doing one's job without getting prank calls repeatedly as they did to him and then publicly aired it!
I would have sued that RADIO STATION if I were him. It is illegal after all.
In Jr. High a "joke" was played on me by some cheerleaders. They put red paint on my chair and I did not notice it, and when I stood up, with "blood" red paint on my skirt, one of them shouted.."ewww, sick! Use a pad when you're ragging it stupid!"
I was poor and my skirt was ruined.
And I was so humiliated as the class of over 40 kids, boys and girls laughed uproariously.
For days people would come up behind me and say things like, "wearing a rag today?" Or,
"hey ugly is leaking!"So when folks accuse me of often having no sense of humour, being too serious about everything...and not knowing when people are joking; and not being able to take a joke......well I can give them dozens of examples why I am this way. IP: Logged |
future_uncertain
Knowflake Posts: 3124
From: ohio
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted February 02, 2009 07:13 PM
How horrible! The only practical jokes I engage in are ones that will make the jokee laugh. If it's going to embarrass, scare, or hurt someone, then forget it. I just don't think that's funny.I don't remember where I saw it, but Ellen Degeneres once made the same point, that jokes are only funny if everyone is laughing. I wish I could find the actual quote, but I thought it was very cool of her. IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 2825
From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted February 02, 2009 07:39 PM
future_uncertain
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jokes are only funny if everyone is laughing.
Thank you!  ------------------
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koiflower
Knowflake Posts: 2350
From: Australia
Registered: Jun 2008
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posted February 03, 2009 04:09 PM
Thanks everyone for the laugh!! I'll be back with comments!!LEXX - sorry about the tasteless acts of people who have hurt you and others. They are not jokes. Some people are confused about what a joke really is, because their minds are full of abuse and inappropraite social behaviour. Back later today!! IP: Logged |
LEXX
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
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posted February 03, 2009 05:16 PM
koiflower
Thank you for your understanding.I did not mean to be a wet blanket here when folks are posting things they find funny. However I hope my posts of my experiences help people to consider their practical jokes from the recipient's point of view.
If even a normally amusing one for all is done to someone
who is laughing on the outside but crying on the inside...
especially if they have been hiding their depression....
a well meant joke could push them into feeling better (which would be wonderful!) or it could push them into a deeper depression, and even suicide. I shan't post any more of my nasty encounters here.
Carry on!
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koiflower
Knowflake Posts: 2350
From: Australia
Registered: Jun 2008
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posted February 05, 2009 04:16 AM
sunshine_lion - that's one of my favourite jokes!!! Wait till someone comes back for the loo (or anywhere) and everyone is doing a weird pose, or staring at them!! MVM - that must be the upside to having sisters!!! Plenty of oppotunities to practise the art of Funny Moments - hehehe 26taurus - remember doing that school? How much fun was that when it was with cool friends who loved a laugh?!!!
 AG - I LOVE the idea of leaving a chalk message somewhere like 'Free Donuts' - that's really funny!!!! My Sag Moon is plotting already ****evil cackle**** LEXX - the perfect joke I would play on you, would be to fold the sheet in your bed in half, so that you couldn't get into bed properly!! I did that once to a friend!!  future_uncertain - Excellent!!! My Virgo stellium just loves the clever subtlety. Your friend's mind must have been ticking overtime wondering what was going on. Well done!! amowls - further updates please for your next visit to Starbucks!! wheelsofcheese - I think your idea is absolutely maddabooboo !!! Practical jokes can liven up the atmosphere, break ice, energize and help create bonds amongst people!!! Thanks everyone for dobbing yourselves in  IP: Logged |
Yin
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posted February 05, 2009 03:24 PM
I hate practical jokes. I find them crude, tasteless and usually offensive.
And LEXX, you are not a dry one. There is nothing wrong with being sensitive or considerate.Actually, I like what MVM did to her neighbor with the rocks and the pentagram but that was more of a payback. IP: Logged |
koiflower
Knowflake Posts: 2350
From: Australia
Registered: Jun 2008
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posted February 05, 2009 04:02 PM
Practical jokes can liven up the atmosphere, break ice, energize and help create bonds amongst people!!! Liven up and laugh!! Health boost with laughter found here:
http://stress.about.com/od/stresshealth/a/laughter.htm Or alternatively, avoid offers of Free Donuts IP: Logged |
LEXX
Moderator Posts: 2825
From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
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posted February 05, 2009 04:49 PM
Yin quote:
I hate practical jokes. I find them crude, tasteless and usually offensive.
And LEXX, you are not a dry one. There is nothing wrong with being sensitive or considerate.
Thank you yin!
Like I said, I felt guilty about being involved in the "Southern" food one I posted about.
I think even the so called funny ones can often leave one feeling it was not funny but they keep their shame or humiliation, even if minor, to themselves. koiflower quote:
LEXX - the perfect joke I would play on you, would be to fold the sheet in your bed in half, so that you couldn't get into bed properly!!
LOL! It would not work on me.
I do not use a top sheet.
I use a sleeping bag, or coil myself like in a cocoon in a blanket.
Being allergic to cotton fibre, sheets against me is a big no go.  ------------------
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koiflower
Knowflake Posts: 2350
From: Australia
Registered: Jun 2008
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posted February 06, 2009 05:30 AM
Well then LEXX, I have the perfect practical joke for you, which I did on my brother!!!!!!!If your sleeping bag is under a blanket, I would tie a knot in it!!!! Then I would wait and watch for you to go to bed. Then I would burst with laughter when I saw you try to slide in. And then we would be great friends from that moment on IP: Logged |
LEXX
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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion!
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posted February 06, 2009 01:11 PM
OK...that is kinda funny! ------------------
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