(Vanity) Funny Business: Readers Share Office Pranks (DON'T MISS!)

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | March 2, 2005 | Delma J. Francis

[Drawsing]

Before computer days (BC) I worked as a designer in a small design studio with three employees. Frequently we would have catalog layouts taped down on our drawing tables. It was very important to keep these clean since they would later be sent to the printer. Any dirt or mistakes on the pages would mean a lot of work and another trip to the typesetters. So once, actually more than once, I took some india ink and dropped it onto a piece of clear acetate and let it run down. It made a nice splat and a run. I then let it dry and then carefully cut it out with an xacto knife and lightly spray-glued the back of it. Then I placed it in the exact center of one of my co-worker's layouts. It looked super real. When he returned, he was incredulous. "Look at this!" he yelled, "Will you just look at this!" "Oh, that." I said, and then I simply reached over and picked it up. I think he threw something at me.

[Drawsing]

Another coworker told me of a trick he played once. Soak a kleenex in milk. Then tape it under someone's desk. After a few days the odor is overpowering.

[alfa6]

Friday night humor ping if you need a laugh.

Did y'all see the thread about the office pranks that was posted on Wednesday? It's up to 300+ posts :-)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1354412/posts

ROFL Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[mlmr]

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[Soaring Feather]

Thanks for the ping!!

[mlmr]

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[snippy_about_it]

Good reading material, thanks.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Loud Mime]

You know all those bumper stickers with the hearts on them? Like I "heart" my husband = or = I "heart" my golden retreiver?

I got some stickers that had a picture of a wood screw on them......you place it over the heart.

It's loads of fun!

[JoeGar]

When I was in Vietnam, someone in Saigon issued a new "authentication codeword" to US forces every day. If we suspected someone we talked to on the radio was the enemy, we would say "authenticate please", and that person would have to use the day's authentication codeword in a sentence. For example, if the word of the day was "class", the person might respond with "history was my favorite class." I began to pay attention to the day-by-day passwords one day when "Poppins" was the word of the day. I remembered the previous day's word was "Mary". The word for the next day was "has". And the following day it was "ghonorreah".

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I was working at a small AM oldies station in the mid '80's in a very conservative area. It was so small, the morning drive jock, the Rock 'N' Roll Renegade (!), got his slot because he also worked in printing and could get us all our forms for free. We had a sales manager who was a strutting little monkey, a wannabe C&W singer who dressed the part. The morning jock printed up a bumper sticker with a piece of '50's clip art of a dad with his hand on his son's shoulder, along with the legend "I Support Gay Rights". He slapped it on the sales manager's rear bumper. For three days, the manager couldn't figure out why he was getting honked at and shot the bird wherever he went!

This same guy printed up "Honk if you've laid the 'Gade" bumper stickers and put them up everywhere. He even plastered the front door of our main competition. I saw them around town for years afterwards.

[Straight Vermonter]

I had to look it up!

This steel-encased briefcase was discovered outside of the Royal Food Mart on East Market Street Saturday morning, just yards from the store’s gas pumps. The Loudoun County Bomb Squad was called in and members of the squad detonated the briefcase in the afternoon. A computer, left by a traveler, was inside.

[ken5050]

Thanks for the heads-up...

[chief_bigfoot]

faxing a roll of paper towels is fun too. Be sure to get a roll that has a nice floral print....

[HiTech RedNeck]

For the more timorous, plain blue food coloring would probably do just fine.

[chief_bigfoot]

LOL. Did the same thing to a co-worker, except I used silicone lubricant. The target talked on the phone for a few minutes, all the time wondering why his ear was getting warm. He said he was cleaning that stuff out of his ear for days after. He was the same guy who would leave his service truck unlocked. We'd go in and turn everything (wipers, heater fan, radio) on full blast. Got him on more than one occasion with that one. That and putting a PVC pipe fitting in the hubcap on the drivers' side front wheel. "WHat's that noise?" He actually took it to a garage to see about getting it fixed... heheheh

Another gag was taking the foam ear cover off of a headset and taping over the speaker. The poor receptionist was convinced she was going deaf...

[Quilla]

[lepton]

Then when the new doc would come on, I'd show him what I got out of a kid's ear and eat the raisin.... that looks just like ear wax.... total gross out, absolutely hilarious.

What? And no one distracted you while they replaced the one with the raisin with one with earwax (or similarly appearing substance)?

[lepton]

Some of the night shift guys lined the boots with plastic wrap, filled them with water, and put them in a freezer. They were back under his desk the next morning.

We used to do the same thing with hats. ...In the military, you can't go outside without a hat on, so they had to wait until it thawed.

[mowowie]

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