[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I've got a great one bump for later......

[Rca2000]

Ping!!

[najida]

Kinda sorta here.

Kinda.

Sorta.

[Clemenza]

The sad thing is, I met a BEAUTIFUL woman (and a fellow alumnus of the U of Chicago) just a month before my move. We're going to the Tulip Festival tomorrow as part of my last hurrah on this side of the country.

[Mikey_1962]

Hey!

Your name-sake is here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1619194/posts

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Hi, RCA!

I do have a prank I played at work, that almost backfired on me.

At the time, I was a secretary to three young executives, and had to collect their resumes for a national convention in Las Vegas. Two of them provided me with theirs, but the third dragged his feet, so as a joke I made up an outrageous one in which he had worked as an "escort" for middle aged women and been a male stripper prior to working in real estate. He chuckled but never gave me a revised one.

Well, I forgot all about it, and when it came time to submit the resumes to Corporate HQ for posting ON A PUBLIC COMPUTER in our booth in Las Vegas, I sent his phony one along with the other two. Luckily, I remembered it at the last minute and had it pulled.

[ozarkgirl]

Daughter is going to hog my computer tonight but I thought I'd add a story that happened several months ago before I have to leave.

Used to date a guy a few doors down, was taking a bath, the phone rang and I could hear him on the answering machine, wasn't going to get out of the bath for that. Pretty soon I hear him pounding on my door which made me pretty mad, if I don't answer the phone, why would I answer the door?

I got out of the bath, dripping wet and angry and yanked the door open, to find him and his roommate standing there!! It wasn't really intended to be a practical joke per se but I felt like the joke was on me. He did too judging by his bent over laughing fit. (I hate when men take one look at me naked and grab their stomach in fits of laughter).

[RockinRight]

Evening everyone!

[Hoodlum91]

The ping is early!!

My only story: My dad is notorious to making my sister and I wrap all the Christmas gifts he got for my mother. Well, we were a little punchy one year - and ended up wrapping the entire office. Pens and pencils individually wrapped - they wrapped as a whole in the holder. The telephone wrapped separately so you could answer it. The chair rungs wrapped individually.

It was great. He was finding things for YEARS.

[RockinRight]

I have a funny story. I'm trying to get some cleaning done so in a bit here I'll post it.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Idle hands are the devil's workshop. While waiting to lose our jobs with Unisys in 1988, (we were all Sperry semiconductor employees, trimmed in the merger with Burroughs) practical jokes were the only things that kept us sane.

Of the hundreds (yes, hundreds) of PJ's pulled, this was our finest hour.

One of the process engineers was away for two weeks on vacation. He was one of the biggest pranksters in the group. We knew what we had to do.

We emptied his bottom desk drawer, the deep one used for file storage. We then lined the drawer with a thick, black sheet of plastic, making it water-proof. In goes the water, sand and plastic plants. The drawer was then closed for several days to allow the water to stabilize for the next step.

Yep, goldfish...a half dozen mini-carps, swimming in Wayne's bottom desk drawer.

Wayne comes back to work a week later, open the drawer, and sez: "Cool".

Six months later, we all say goodbye to one another as we are finally escorted out of the building. Wayne brought in a big glass jar, scooped out his pals, shut the drawer and headed for home.

The REAL joke was on the poor move crew folks that had no idea what was left in that desk drawer when they picked it up to send it to storage.

[carlr]

Evening to all.

[Supernatural]

I used to make my own fireworks. All sorts of things.

Some were quite loud and powerful.

[Toby06]

My favorite prank was when i was on a ship. If guys left their lockers unlocked, one of the jerky kids would turn the lock around and lock it so it was real hard to get open. I saw him do mine, and was doing some welding in the area, so I welded his locker shut. :)

[LiveFreee]

Good Evening Everyone

[DollyCali]

Nice Job on the thread RCA/Victoria..

I looked at the code, Victoria, and I think it is one of those things that formats up fine with a regular post but when in the POST THREAD form, it falls apart .. several reasons. It appears that a check spelling was done on it in the regular course of checking it out & it added a few little things that in thread posting makes the tables do what they did. Most here prolly did NOT notice what it should have been.. I can see it, and a few others here prolly can also.

You were a sweetheart for doing all that work for RCA with his input on content.

And the music.. wow. One of the first I played got the dogs going.. must be some sound that is in a range they either LIKE or don't LIKE as they were howling!

Thank you for being such a great contributor here!

Victoria or Max.. can either of you post the ping tomorrow? If you cannot, I can but it would be early as I am leaving the house at about 4 or so for day/evening. No dates tomorrow.. but two benefits. One for a couple at church with awful adoption legal fees because the birth father has stirred up a hornet's nest. 2nd is an animal rescue group.. in Akron.

I am not sure what happened with the ping url not working..

RCA.. hope you had a successful trip. Nothing worse than hauling it all back & esp with that long of a trip & the high price of gas. You were very conscientious to post the thread with all on your plate this weekend.

Max, I know you are busy/exhausted with the new job etc. It is good to "see" you. You always brighten up the forum with your presence!

[wallcrawlr]

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