I’m not a fan of pranks. Most of them are mean-spirited. But I got a kick out of a Kentucky man who poked fun at a friend in a good natured way.
How do you feel about pranks, Deadsplinters? would you spend $1200 to tease a buddy? And most importantly, how much cheese do you consume in a year?
“We can not stop him.” That is hilarious.
I don’t particularly like pranks but I do like cheese and I bet I eat my own body weight in it every year, if not every six months. And I’m not a small person.
The Faithful Hound is also a cheese lover and gets a slice or two every day to break up the monotony of lazing around the Casa Encatada. He really enjoys provolone, but I think that’s because there’s so much salt in provolone.
1,000% true, times four.
Oh no. Those little doggos. Yes, I suppose we are paying the cheese tax. But we just eat so much cheese and it’s always out so it seems only fair that the hound get a little. He’s also a big fan of flavored potato chips so he—I am not going into canine nutrition as a profession, that’s for sure.
Best prank I ever pulled off involved a styrofoam cup and a piece of duct tape.
This was during my job as the site clerk for power plant construction. One day I walked past someone who was wearing their hardhat inside the office with the cup in hand and let the tape stick to the hardhat.
It just turned out the guy was probably the best target as he had a loud expressive way of talking moving his head around so the cup would randomly flip onto his hardhat. Everyone in the office watched as the cup would flip onto his hardhat to see if he would notice. He stopped a couple of times asking the head electrician “Graham, did you hear that?” as the cup would make a slight noise when it tapped on his hardhat.
This went on for about five minutes before Graham fell off his chair laughing. The electrician finally realized there was something on his hardhat and noticed the cup.
My late friend pulled off one better in the office. He cut out pictures of the 3 Stooges and taped them over the faces of his cowrker’s kids in a coworker’s family picture. The coworker did not notice for almost a week that his kids were Shemp, Curley and Moe.
Those are both very funny. I have a good friend who was in a prank battle with his boss. One day he smeared chocolate icing all over the toilet in the boss’s private bathroom. And waited expectantly for the guy to be grossed out. Unbeknownst to my friend one of the high muckety mucks was on his way to the site for a visit. And after a long drive made his first stop at… you guessed it…the executive bathroom! He was unfortunately very squeamish. I don’t remember if he actually threw up or just came close. My buddy had to come clean so to speak. And his boss explained his role in the hijjnks. The Big Boss accepted the apology but strongly suggested that further shenanigans be suspended. 😂
I like a good prank if it is not mean or just dumb. It seems like the younger generation thinks filming an assault on the street is a prank. I used to put little exploding charges in my sister’s cigarettes to get her to stop smoking. She would get pissed when her cigarette would pop but would laugh later. I also put a paper clip in one so that the ash never came off, that was a good one too. As for cheese, I enjoy a good cheese/wine pairing or dishes cooked with the right kind and quantity of cheese. Good goat cheese can be amazing.
I’m curious now if Luigi’s sheep get milked for cheese.
I don’t think he’s ever mentioned it.
A prank is only funny if nobody gets hurt, physically or emotionally. I didn’t know about the paper clip in the cigarette trick. That’s a good one.
…apocryphal lore has it churchill did it on a grander scale with hair/hat pins & those cigars
…so people would be distracted & on tenterhooks waiting for the improbable column of ash to fall…& thus not interrupting him?
Not a fan of pranks, unless they are being inflicted upon people with no redeeming qualities.
And not really a prank, per se, but thrift store volunteers have a thing where they “upgrade” the store’s collection of picture frames.
That’s great! 😂
I really love this. You could save so much fun arranging the poses.
My brother had a friend who played a prank on a much hated bar owner in our home town. The guy was awful but his establishment was in a great location so everyone went there anyway. One winter afternoon he took a straw, packed it around a third of the way with snow, poured in some deer scent, filled it the rest of the way with snow. He went in and discreetly placed the straw under the bar, ordered and drank a shot. He went back out to his truck and waited for the snow to melt. Pretty quickly everyone including the owner came flying out of the place. Apparently that deer scent is powerful. Maybe more vandalism than prank. 😬 But he was a legend to those who knew it was him.
Not a huge prank fan, but gentle pranks between friends are fine.
Once you start going at random people and really attempting to ruin their day for your fun? That’s messed up. I’m always surprised people who produce those shows don’t get beat up more often.
Even between friends pranks can escalate to the not funny point quickly.
There’s an episode of “The Crown,” my lodestar when it comes to Gracious Family Living, where QEII is starting to fear that she’s losing touch with her children and arranges to have 1-on-1 lunches with each of them in turn. At Prince Edward’s lunch Mum mentions that she wished he would pay more attention to his studies. He, like his father and the others, went to Gordonstoun. He replies, “Why should I? What university in the country would turn down a Windsor?” The Queen is not happy to hear this.
Edward then relates a story. He is presented with a bottle of wine from his classmates for some reason. It was actually a bottle of urine. Apparently he was held in low esteem by his classmates, and this might have actually happened, but a private conversation between the Queen and one of her children—there’s no way that anyone could or would provide a reliable account of it, so this is all part of Peter Morgan’s feverish but delightful imagination.
I’m not a prank guy. My dad was a prankster, and he loved April Fools Day. They were all harmless dad pranks, so no serious damage besides a lot groaning from my sister and me.
Harmless dad pranks can be kind of cute.
I am not a fan of pranks. I suppose they’re fine when a) no one is getting hurt (including feelings), b) the prankee is the type to laugh at it, and c) IT IS NOT A WEDDING, FUNERAL, OR BIRTHDAY.
I am not the type to laugh at it.
You gotta know the prankee. The guy I pranked above was one of the bigger jokers on site so I was fine. I don’t prank someone who won’t like or appreciate it. Something many YouTuber and Ticktocker kids don’t get.
Absolutely , do not pick a high profile occasion to prank someone who is already stressed out or just otherwise focused.
Once I saw coworker freak out and throw shit all over the place in a rage after a phone call. As he stood in the ruins of his cubicle, he got a call from another client. I was stuck answering phones that day so I called on speaker and asked him “You sure you want to take this call? Do you want me to tell them you’re out or that you had an aneurysm?”
He started laughing hysterically. I didn’t think I was that funny but more the tension relief.
😂
hmm…i wonder how much cheese i actually consume in a year…..suspect it will be a disturbingly large amount when all added up
you know…between all the stuff i add cheese to…and all the ham and cheese sammiches i eat
and you know….the cheese i just snack on…
no pranks for me tho….safer to just not start that shit with the crowd i work with….things escalate from harmless prank to improvised explosives remarkably quickly
…that last part is…ummm…curiously specific
…starting to understand that saying about the cat in a whole new light all of a sudden?
which saying about the cat would that be?
anyways in the case of my coworkers…many of them have a can do skillset not paired with a should i mindset
add one upmanship to that…and they are dangerous when encouraged
…well…I was curious about the specific escalation…& they say that curiosity killed the cat
…so…if it was the same curiosity I had about the improvised explosives…that would make one kind of sense…& if it was the sort of curiosity that led them to see what pranking your co-workers might wind up like…probably another
…not sure shitting in their shoes would necessarily count as “a prank”…but…now I have to go see if I can find that celtic-rangers routine the big yin did way back when?
…well…that wasn’t very hard to do as it turns out
surprise connolly yay!
honestly i was failing to figure out if it was curiousity killed the cat…or now the cats out of the bag
of you know the cat toast theory….which is how you get levitation
but the moral of the story is…..umm…honestly… dont encourage technically minded folks….sooner or later…something will blow up
…I am indeed familiar with the toast-strapped-cat (butter side up) theory of perpetual motion…but it’s been a while so we can say we’re even for the surprise connolly?
…also…very much yes
[source: knew both engineers & nurses while they were students…though I’ve since heard worse from exponents of a number of trades…one enterprising driver who felt he’d been unfairly dismissed snuck back in the yard, let himself into the office of the guy who fired him…filled the keyway of every lock he could see…desk drawers, filing cabinets, whatever…with superglue…then continued to do the same on the office door…the trailer it was in…several vehicles…but not the ones nearest the gate…&/or the locking fuel cap…& finally the padlock on the gate on his way out…he didn’t go back to watch but to hear him tell it the intent was to maximize both the number of times they had to call out the locksmith…& the duration before they found the last one?]
Explosives are not a good mix with pranks. Stick with your cheese.
sounds like a plan……i do believe adhering to it is why i still have a full set of digits 🙂