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(Vanity) Funny Business: Readers Share Office Pranks (DON'T MISS!)
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | March 2, 2005 | Delma J. Francis

Posted on 03/02/2005 11:21:15 AM PST by srm913

One of my co-workers is a saver. About 15 years ago, our insurance company used a new password each week to identify company representatives. About a year ago, my co-worker found a file with all the passwords. He showed it to all of us and we all agreed there was no reason to keep it, so he threw out the file.

We have a sales convention every year and a top management person would leave company-wide e-mails to update us on information for the convention. A couple of days after my co-worker threw out the file, I called a top manager who sends e-mails updating us on the annual sales convention and asked him to send a fake company-wide e-mail to my co-worker announcing that there would be a contest at the convention and the person who could recall the most company passwords from the old days would win.

My co-worker read the e-mail and came out of his office white as a sheet. We only let him suffer for a couple of hours before we told him the truth.

Ann Mikiska, Farmington

The president of the company where I used to work had a very efficient secretary. When she put a stack of letters on his desk to be signed he didn't read them, just signed each letter and sent them back to her. The office jokester slipped in a sheet with the president's resignation on it, and of course he signed it. The jokester had a good time with it and no harm came from it.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: greatpranks; prank; pranks; workplace
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To: srm913

Used to be a bunch of people who HAD to be the first ones out of the parking lot at work a soon as 5:00 hit. We spent a couple of days in the machine shop making axle jacks to hold the back tires an inch or so off the ground on their trucks. They ran out, hopped in and tires spun. It worked because they were in such a hurry to leave that they backed into the spaces.


121 posted on 03/02/2005 1:55:14 PM PST by JustRight
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To: Bon mots

heh, good old political mischief - gotta love the USA


122 posted on 03/02/2005 1:55:32 PM PST by Republicus2001 (C)
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To: srm913

Bump for later reading


123 posted on 03/02/2005 1:56:48 PM PST by capt. norm (Rap is to music what the Etch-A-Sketch is to art.)
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To: cjshapi

A light afternoon ping.


124 posted on 03/02/2005 1:57:13 PM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Waxhawbud

We would send the new guy to supply for 100 yards of flight line...


125 posted on 03/02/2005 1:59:29 PM PST by Snardius
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To: Eaker

Whoa. News to me. I think everyone in the family has had it at one time or another, and I've never heard of it being permanent.


126 posted on 03/02/2005 2:01:34 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: srm913
In the 80's the landlord's daughter lived next door. Even though it was in town, she had farm animals. (She wasn't right) Anyhow, me and the other neighbor used to get tired of her chickens, so we would feed them greasy popcorn with a box of crushed Exlax sprinkled on it. We'd wait a few hours and then call the health inspector. She must have had some dirt on someone, because the city never did make her get rid of them. Eventually we added hot sauce to the mix, which seemed to keep the roosters quiet for several days. We also had fun thinking up Burma Shave like jingles:

If your chicken has been naughty,
Chickenlax will make him potty.
Chickenlax

She also had 5 or 6 dogs that she kept in a small pen right outside my bedroom window. If I made any noise at all in my bedroom (coughed, open or closed a door, dropped anything), they'd start barking. If they kept on yapping, she'd let them all in her house. (Can you see where this is going?)

By this time we realized that exlax by itself only produced foam, so we mixed it in with 5 or 6 BIG cans of dogfood. We thew it in with them about 10 PM, and then played MrDo on the Atari while we waited for her lights to go out. About midnight we dropped a shoe to get them started barking, and she let them in. We kept playing MrDo. About 2AM, there was a BUNCH of yelling as her boyfriend went storming out. My buddies wife went there the next morning, and she said the Malamute or the Spitz must have been wagging his tail, because it was thrown and spattered everywhere - walls, TV screen, ect. It took about a month before her boyfriend came back.

127 posted on 03/02/2005 2:03:38 PM PST by Slump Tester (John Kerry - When even your best still isn't good enough)
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To: Deguello
if the statute of limitations is up.

So long as nobody died 10 years oughtta do it...
128 posted on 03/02/2005 2:08:24 PM PST by BJClinton (What's the difference between the Super Bowl and the Grammy's? The Eagles have won a Grammy)
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To: srm913
A friend sent a new corpsman all over the ship looking for 20 feet of sterile falopian tube.

Another disassembled all the cubes in an unused floor and built a maze (they were being paid but told not to start working untill the project budget was approved).

129 posted on 03/02/2005 2:11:14 PM PST by Dinsdale
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To: srm913
Okay, I got one and it still involves law enforcement. It was pulled on me by the Game Warden in Knox County Texas.

We had permission from the County Judge to park/camp on County property. We called the Game Warden the night before to let him know that we would be in.

Being that other people were not to be tresspassing on location and such was a problem, I strung fishingline across a roadway 100 yds from where we would be sleeping in the back of our trucks. The fishingline was attached to two coffee cans with loose rocks inside as a noise maker to wake us up if someone came in during the night.

When we left out that morning to hunt the river, I forgot to retreived the coffee cans.

We met up with the Game Warden much later and finding out who laid out the trap, told me that I had broken out his windsheild. He laid it on me for 45 minutes, had me show him that I had a credit card, called the Judge, called a local repair shop (Knox City is not very big) for me to fix it that afternoon.

He finally let me off the hook, had a laugh and said the trick with the cans was something he always has to look for.

130 posted on 03/02/2005 2:12:12 PM PST by Deguello
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To: IamConservative

Reminds me of the time I had a little fun at the campfire. Let just say firecrackers can be concealed very well inside of a marshmallow on the end of a stick. Nobody notices the tip of the fuse sticking out, and then..


131 posted on 03/02/2005 2:18:30 PM PST by Mountain Dewd
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To: srm913

bttt


132 posted on 03/02/2005 2:19:46 PM PST by landerwy
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To: HamiltonJay

We use wireless bluetooth headsets, where do you put the whipped cream?


133 posted on 03/02/2005 2:23:55 PM PST by BJClinton (What's the difference between the Super Bowl and the Grammy's? The Eagles have won a Grammy)
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To: Snardius

We also sent them for Relative Bearing Grease.

The TTY machines in the commcenter had 1/2" plastic tubes to carry the chad from the tape to the little bin. We called them fallopian tubes. We'd send the new guys to sickbay to get replacements.

A Navy E3 is called a Seaman. We'd call over to the Wave barracks and have them page "Seaman Stains". Worked every time...


134 posted on 03/02/2005 2:30:05 PM PST by CTOCS (This space left intentionally blank...)
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To: srm913

for later read...


135 posted on 03/02/2005 2:33:42 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (You are witnessing History in the making! (We are having to rewrite prehistory))
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To: Slump Tester; Squantos; cyborg; TheMom; humblegunner; Tijeras_Slim; glock rocks
By this time we realized that exlax by itself only produced foam

You can learn something new EVERYDAY on FR!!!

136 posted on 03/02/2005 2:34:15 PM PST by Eaker (stop and kick dirt on these n00bs actin like b00bs.......:o) - Squantos 18-Feb-05 -)
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To: Eaker

Well what a relief. I was just dying to know that :o)


137 posted on 03/02/2005 2:39:27 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Crusher138
During the early 1970's, I attended Indiana University - recognized even then more for it's social opportunities than its academic rigor.

During semester breaks, it wasn't unusual for students to stay on campus and party rather than going home or actually finding gainful employment for a few days. At the end of one semester, with the money run out and several days to pass before classes resumed, an ad appeared in the campus paper promoting the "Cuba Book Drive". Students were urged not to re-sell their used textbooks back to the nasty capitalist book stores, but, as a sign of their solidarity with the workers of Cuba, to donate them instead to the Cuba Book Drive.

The books could be dropped off at any number of collection points around campus whence they would be forwarded to Cuba for use in that socialist paradise. It occurred to one of my fraternity brothers that the leftist campus establishment was dangerously naive and that it was our sacred duty to help them shape up. We carted off (and re-sold) enough books to buy all our beer for the entire second semester.

Late one night while emptying the book depository in the Arts & Sciences building, we were caught by the janitor (as I recall, he had the Marine Corps emblem prominently tattooed on one arm). Thinking we were agents of the Cuba Book Drive, he explained in no uncertain terms what he thought of communist sympathizers, hippies, homo's, druggies, and the like. When we explained that we weren't hippies, just good ol' boys committing grand larceny for beer money, he helped us haul the books out to the loading dock.

Those were the good old days.

138 posted on 03/02/2005 2:42:04 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mannaggia l'America
I.T. people might appreciate this.

How about this one?
I waited for a co-worker to leave his desk one day. While he was in the men's room I went to his Win2k desktop PC and hit the "Print Screen" key. I then opened Paint and hit ctrl-v and created a bitmap file. I made this bitmap image his desktop wall paper and then dragged all of his desktop icons off of the screen.

When he returned, double clicking the icons produced no action. We all watched as he tried everything he could think of. I had to step in though as he picked up the phone to call the IT dept. No sense getting them on your bad side.

Just last week I went to the same guy's PC and opened his Intel Extreme Graphics GUI from Control Panel and set the display to refresh at 90 degrees rotated to the left. That one pi$$ed him off.

139 posted on 03/02/2005 2:49:48 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: nobody
I once made up a bunch of fake 1970s Texas Air National Guard documents on Microsoft Word, ran them through the copier a few times, and then faxed them to Mary Mapes at CBS News and told her that I got them from a "Lucy Ramirez" at a rodeo! She fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

141 Posted on 03/02/2005 1:21:16 PM CST by TexDemBurk (Wanna buy my book?)

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To: TexDemBurk

You really did that?

140 posted on 03/02/2005 2:51:07 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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