Who knows of some good but harmless practical jokes to pull?
Not any cliché stuff.
Or just for the fun of reading, what have you pulled in the past? :)

Not stuff that goes too far. Like a friend of mine hired people to pretend to be cops, and they told his friends and family he was in a car crash and died. That was going wayyyy too far. And just to get back at him, another friend called him in the middle of the night telling him he was in trouble...and then went on vacation without letting anyone know he went away.

But more simple stuff like:
A few years ago I worked in a computershop. We had this old 286 motherboard, and smashed it to little bits with a hammer. Then we put all the bits into a bag and sent it to our dealer with a note: "Motherboard still under guarantee. Won't start up from A: Drive."
The bag with little bits was sent back to us some days later with a note: "No problems found."

Love reading practical jokes, and perhaps there's something I can use with friends and collegeaus :).

I once for april fools had a friend take a screenshot of my desktop, photoshop it 180 deg and make it the background. FREAKED ME OUT. I ended up removing every cable doing a hard reboot and running a diagnostic disk before i figured out what they did. Was a clasic one.

I watch a good video the other day of a prank. Its quite simple and harmless unless your one of them people that beats your computer up.

Winxp users
1.Take a screenshot of your desktop with nothing at all open.
2.Right click your desktop and uncheck Show desktop icons.
3.Go back and set your desktop as the screenshot you just took.

Now the desktop looks normal like it always did but when you click on the icons nothing happens. It will stay this way even if you have rebooted.
Eventually you will have to fix it for them but it might be fun to see them go crazy with it. I was gonna try that with my roommate but he would just wake me up to fix it lol.

*Edit:Damn you peon I was typing as you was posting :P Similar but not same. I like yours tho

Joedeuces and Peon posting almost the same thing was a good practical joke too :p

not sure if considered cliche

but I always crack up at the putting a friends/co-workers car on blocks or jacks....just enough to have the wheels off of the ground by like 1/8th of an inch..something not noticible...they get in..put in gear and go no where...lmao...cracks me up everytime

it's even more funny when you do it to someone that has had some transmission problems recently....

sure that's done on a daily basis worldwide though...but always one of my faves

Joedeuces and Peon posting almost the same thing was a good practical joke too :p


What can I say. Us geeks think alike. :)

Once for April fools. Me and my sister were pulling into where we live and as we passed the store the windows were boarded up. She wanted to know what happened. I convinced when we got home that world war 3 had started. It was funny until she started to cry. Someone broke the window to the store. This would be really bad if we were young but I was in my early 20's and her almost 30 lol

I don't know if this is cliche, but when after school me and my mates used to hang out at the park, then one of us would take a coin of medium value, glue it with Super Bond( Hard glue). and stick it to the floor about 25 mts away from us, then we would just wait for people to bend over to grab the coin, and laugh when they couldn't.

I don't know if this is cliche, but when after school me and my mates used to hang out at the park, then one of us would take a coin of medium value, glue it with Super Bond( Hard glue). and stick it to the floor about 25 mts away from us, then we would just wait for people to bend over to grab the coin, and laugh when they couldn't.

It's cliché :p. But still fun. Done that a few times also and always funny.

When my brother and I were kids, we used to raid the house looking for where our parents had hidden our Christmas Presents, obviously over time our parenst came to realise this, so rather than us attempting to do acrobatics across the top of my mums wardrobe whilst noseying through the stuff hidden in a storage chest on top, they decided it would be better to just tell my brother what I was getting and I what he was getting.

Every year we used to trade these secrets, until one year I had not been told what my brother was getting, but being the devil I was, I told him I would tell him his surprises if he told me mine first. So off he listed all these great gifts, I was so excited. I knew my brother really wanted a drum kit for Christmas, so I told him this was what my mum and dad had bought him.

Christmas morning arrives, we open all our presents and are both sat there me absolutely giddy and him looking sullen, my mum asked him what was the matter and he said I am just wondering why my drum kit isnt here, where have you hidden it. My mum just stood dumbfounded looking at him and said Andrew we didnt get you a drum kit, he was gutted for weeks after that, and he still goes on about it now nealry 24 years later lol.

Thats not really a practical joke, more a joke at his expense lol.

Have you tried posting a video on YouTube insulting another countries national hero? Always a riot (literally).

Too cliché? :p



I have always liked the wrapping everything on the desk up in aluminium foil (or gift wrap, but it's more expensive and time consuming. Even down to individual pens in the pen holder. I saw it as a series of pictures, not sure if it was one of my friends or something off the internet anymore (had beer since then), but it looked awesome! "The Office" had a prank where they made a bowl of jelly and suspended a piece of office stationary in it. That was very funny looking too.

I did that once to an old boss, where I sellotaped everything to his desk, then wrapped reels of tape around his chair legs to the table legs, he spent about 3 hours trying to sit at his desk lol.

Ahhhhh the gross inefficiencies of the corporate world :)


Having said that, I really should get my butt out the door, I got work to do aswell.

Luke, if you happen to have cubicles at KPN, this looks like a good one:

http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/images/work/200503/cubicle.jpg

Luke, if you happen to have cubicles at KPN, this looks like a good one:

http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/images/work/200503/cubicle.jpg


Thats a whole lot of packing peanuts and a good one lol

Had a colleague once who placed a notice on each of the bath-room stalls in the male bathroom. The notice said something to the effect of: please do not stand on the toilet-seat. These toilet-seats are made of fragile porcelain and might break under the additional weight. Thank you, <name>

Then a few days later, he changed one of the notices with "Closed, toilet-seat broken". He placed a toilet roll in a certain way within that particular stall to see if anyone would use it at all.

Apparently it took several weeks before the notices were removed and the toilet roll was used :)

You could buy some powder from a 'kid's detective kit' used to look for finger prints, go to your colleague's desk and look for finger prints everywhere, of course leaving all traces on desk, chair, PC, cups, folders etc :)

Works better if you can find a 'police line - do not cross' tape and add that to the scene

Should make for an interesting look on his/her face when he/she comes to the office in the morning.

Thats a whole lot of packing peanuts and a good one lol

I am sure that was a lot of fun to clean up hehe

hahaha that's funny.
Though here we don't use cubicles. They are against cubicles as they want collegeaus to interact during work.
If I had them, I would do something like that on my last day of work :D

hahaha that's funny.
Though here we don't use cubicles. They are against cubicles as they want collegeaus to interact during work.
If I had them, I would do something like that on my last day of work :D

Doesn't Ghetto-Bob have cubicles in the US ? They seem to be quite popular there...

Doesn't Ghetto-Bob have cubicles in the US ? They seem to be quite popular there...

LOL, yes, I manage a ~500 seat cube farm in Houston but they are configured so that the people can interact. Most are only 4'x6' work stations but there are a fair few that could be filled with packing peanuts.

I had a co-worker once who had no typing skills what-so-ever. He didn't have any idea where the keys were, and had to look for each one with his index finger while typing.

Well - His name was a 4 letter name (Mike), and so I popped the keys off of his keyboard and rearranged them so that every time he typed his name on a document he was really typing an expletive that starts with F.

I never did tell him why it did that, bu the was so mad after 2 days that I shrugged my shoulders and brought him a new keyboard :). He was going to destroy his machine in rage.

I had a co-worker once who had no typing skills what-so-ever. He didn't have any idea where the keys were, and had to look for each one with his index finger while typing.

Well - His name was a 4 letter name (Mike), and so I popped the keys off of his keyboard and rearranged them so that every time he typed his name on a document he was really typing an expletive that starts with F.

I never did tell him why it did that, bu the was so mad after 2 days that I shrugged my shoulders and brought him a new keyboard :). He was going to destroy his machine in rage.

:D lol
Nice one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ZEz38qC7s


Eh....that one going too far? :o

awwwwwwww, that is mean... poor kids... :nope

Mean....mean....what is mean?
Isn't this teaching the kids something too?
Teaching them that things aren't always what they appear to be? :o

Oh man I am SOOO making one of those.

Already got a big mailbox with a small mailbox inside surrounded by 3 inches of concrete.

If I had the means, I'd go with this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBESV1DodaY&feature=related

:p

Man, the cement ball video is sooo evil...
:rofl
How many heads were broken during the video?? Poor kids!

Talk about raising the bar on practical jokes...

http://www.kingofforwards.com/?p=983#more-983

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYmsr8Sy4K0&feature=related

this ones really funny