Back in Junior High, there was a TV commercial for a free trial of Depends underwear/diapers. I called the 800 number and confirmed they would be shipped in discreet packaging. So I sent a box to one of the pretty girls in town. I later learned that once the unmarked box arrived, her entire family gathered around to see what it was. She was pretty embarrassed.

There have been many since then. Some I shouldn't discuss!

Let's hear about yours!

My dad smoked cigarettes until I was about 13.

They used to make explosive inserts for cigs/cigars that you could buy at the fireworks stand. They looked like a 1cm long toothpick but white and slightly thinner.

My aunt did the dirty work and put one in a cig one day. He was sitting on a bench at a campground and we heard a sudden "pop" and all jumped to see what happened.

My dad was sitting on the bench, staring straight ahead, slightly trembling, with a cig in his mouth that had pealed back 1/2way and looked like the peeled cigar you see in cartoons.

Was in MS when I called KILT and told them I was another kid at our school, and then professed my love for one of the fatties we went to school with, and then dedicated JMM's "I Swear" to her, which was one of the top songs at the time.

A couple years ago I taunted a Rangers fan all season about how many days until they could get back to .500. They never made it so I had a bottle of Champagne delivered on opening day with congratulations for getting back to .500 with a 0-0 record. He was pissed and he hasn't spoken with me since.

Freshman year I learned that the same phenolphthalein used in our chemistry classes is also the active ingredient in Ex-Lax. I wanted to put some in a pisshead's toothpaste but ended up putting some in his beer on a company canoe trip. He **** himself the next morning and had to get out of the river at the first pull out.

My older brother was in junior high getting ready for the school's haunted house with his buddies. He allowed me to help them. They were stuffing dummies with hay. One of his friends had the bright idea to stick one of the dummies halfway out from underneath a car on the street while it was dark. Of course the rest of us went along with it. Sure enough, the first car that drives by is a plain clothes cop. We run into the house. My dad had to go out and explain what we did. We were young and dumb.

In middle school, there was a chair that already had a leg starting to bend inward. I bent it a bit farther, and then placed it at the desk of somebody else in class. When he sat down, the leg bent all the way in and he fell over.

At A&M we lived in a condo and the condos were connected by the attic. The girls we hung out with lived next door. On April fools day we climbed through the attic door and stole all of their lightbulbs when they went out one night. We met up with them at the chicken.

The light or lightless jokes/ references came out that night and they had no clue what we were talking about until they got home.

Junior year of high school. We went to the other high school in town for an AP Physics Tutoring session. If we went to both sessions, we were excused from the final exam.

They did a raffle at the end of the tutoring. During one of the breaks, me and a buddy stole around 100 raffle tickets. He wrote "Turd Ferguson" on half of them and I wrote "Mike Hunt" on the other half.

About 2-3 names into the raffle, the teacher shouts out "MIKE HUNT" and the place erupted with laughter.

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A couple years ago I taunted a Rangers fan all season about how many days until they could get back to .500. They never made it so I had a bottle of Champagne delivered on opening day with congratulations for getting back to .500 with a 0-0 record. He was pissed and he hasn't spoken with me since.

Freshman year I learned that the same phenolphthalein used in our chemistry classes is also the active ingredient in Ex-Lax. I wanted to put some in a pisshead's toothpaste but ended up putting some in his beer on a company canoe trip. He **** himself the next morning and had to get out of the river at the first pull out.

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Only took four posts for the Ex-Lax prank to come out - wow! no one ever thought of that!!

jwoodmd said:

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lb3 said:

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A couple years ago I taunted a Rangers fan all season about how many days until they could get back to .500. They never made it so I had a bottle of Champagne delivered on opening day with congratulations for getting back to .500 with a 0-0 record. He was pissed and he hasn't spoken with me since.

Freshman year I learned that the same phenolphthalein used in our chemistry classes is also the active ingredient in Ex-Lax. I wanted to put some in a pisshead's toothpaste but ended up putting some in his beer on a company canoe trip. He **** himself the next morning and had to get out of the river at the first pull out.

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Only took four posts for the Ex-Lax prank to come out - wow! no one ever thought of that!!

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Not the most original idea but getting the ingredients from Heldenfels is likely a bit unusual. I suspect it was a bit more potent than Ex-Lax.

Not my first prank...but one of my best...

I worked for an O&G service company right out of college. All the field hands liked to bet and often won instead of the office employees. My boss lost big once, so he asked me to **** around with them.

I created the "Texas Gaming Commission". I made a state seal and created a letterhead. Then I found some legal documents on the internet of petitions filed against people from THE STATE OF TEXAS vs (whoever) and edited them to fit my joke and the included the names of the guys. Then I had a friend "serve" them the papers. The guys were on edge for about a week, until my boss and I let them off the hook.

I don't have the papers anymore because my boss showed his attorney (just to get a laugh) and the guy chuckled and said, "yeah, that's pretty funny. you should probably destroy that soon." So we did.

I'm aware now that what I did was probably illegal on several levels.

The ID 10 T prank is legendary in plants and offshore rigs. My son had this played on him once. They had him running all over the rig to "talk" to the right people.

Multiple times gluing rookies shoes to the floor while they were out running fire calls.
Freezing t-shirts into blocks of ice
Sending them to the auto parts store in search of non-existent parts.

The fish in my class nearly got suspended or kicked out at the end of our first semester for flooding a Corps dorm, an... interaction with the police regarding a Christmas tree and some other stuff. Our CO lost his spot. We penny locked about half the pissheads in the first day back of that semester that were mostly involved and no one on the floor could trust their door knobs for super glue. Especially since we had their schedules and knew when they'd head back to the dorm. Calmed down after a couple weeks when the seniors called for a truce.

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My dad smoked cigarettes until I was about 13.

They used to make explosive inserts for cigs/cigars that you could buy at the fireworks stand. They looked like a 1cm long toothpick but white and slightly thinner.

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I used to put those in my dad's cigarettes. It was funny until one went off while he was driving. I got in a lot of trouble for that one even though he laughed it off every time before.

New Years Eve when I was 12 or 13, my parents went out to a party at a friend's house. My mom left us some of those plastic poppers with the pull strings that go bang and shoot out streamers, so we could celebrate NYE on our own when it turned midnight. I'd been watching too much Rambo First Blood and was in a booby-trap engineering phase, so I convinced my younger brother to help me rig up this fishing line trip wire that would set off one of these poppers when they walked in the door from the garage. They get home and we were giddy with excitement at how my prank would surprise them, until my mom is the first one in the house, carrying empty casserole dishes, and nearly falls on her face since she's wearing heels and a dress with her hands full.

I recall a strong reaction from my father and learning a lasting lesson on unintended consequences which was imparted upon my stupid rear end.

We were big fans of dropping fake spiders from the rafters on folks at Stock Shows growing up.

When my 4 boys were little, my stepmom, for some reason, gave them a few antique dolls that they think are very creepy esp after that movie Annabelle. They are teens now. Well I bought some wireless servo motors, popped the head off one and inserted a motor so I could turn the the head with an RC remote control. I set it up on a cabinet under the living room tv and would hide the remote so I could slowly turn the head at them until they noticed but not so much that they were sure of what they saw. Then I had 2 other motors rigged - one to knock off a candle and the other to roll a ball out from under the cabinet (which the dog would usually grab). Freaked them out! And their friends too!

Early on in my life, I tried to pull off the funny "52 Card Pickup" prank to my sister but ended up in crying meltdown mode picking them up myself since she had done the prank perfectly on me weeks earlier and refused to participate.

Freshman year we lived in an apartment on the first floor right by the bus stop. Basically every student who rode the bus walked past our apartment every school day. When someone was in the shower , any of the other roommates might sneak in the bathroom and remove all the towels and your clothes and open the front door and place all the towels and your clothes about 5 feet outside of the door. We also locked the bedroom doors so that option was off the table. One guy came out with the bath mat wrapped around him ( only covered about half of what you wanted covered) . Other roommate wrapped the shower curtain around himself . After that we called a truce.

I used to find an elderly couple in a shopping mart and toss a box of condoms, KY, or the like in their basket while they weren't looking. I'd try to be around when they unloaded the basket at the checkout to see how they reacted and the looks that were exchanged when they saw it.

Now that I think about it, this might need to be done again.

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The ID 10 T prank is legendary in plants and offshore rigs. My son had this played on him once. They had him running all over the rig to "talk" to the right people.

Multiple times gluing rookies shoes to the floor while they were out running fire calls.
Freezing t-shirts into blocks of ice
Sending them to the auto parts store in search of non-existent parts.

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My dad and worked summer pea harvest I Walla Walla. I drove a combine, he was a mechanic and drive the welding rig. One of the other mechanics was standing on the expanded metal platform off the engine compartment, wearing shoes wit metal plates on the soles. My dad welded the guy' shoes to the metal landing.

Latest prank- while doing the baby registry at buy buy baby I definitely scanned some Preparation H and one of those hooha pelvic trainer things while the wife wasn't looking. Her family called those two things out right away at Sunday dinner.

We have some friends with a half bath outside their master bedroom. It HAD an alarm clock in it.

I'd set the alarm for 3am.

I finally confessed after the 3rd time.

Gilligan said:

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We have some friends with a half bath outside their master bedroom. It HAD an alarm clock in it.

I'd set the alarm for 3am.

I finally confessed after the 3rd time.

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I was hoping for something about a "three hour tour" but this is pretty good!

My father was in on lots of pranks. Mostly the idea guy who Huck Finned others into doing the deeds.

In one high school prank, the local town cop always visited a dance hall on Friday nights and always backed in under the same tree so he brought a hundred foot hay rope and had a friend tie one end around the tree and the other around the rear axel of the police car. Then had another friend do a burnout in the parking lot to get the cop to come chase them. The chase ended as you might predict when the bolts sheered off the leaf springs.

He attended a religious college and he convinced some friends to load talcum powder into the pipe organ. He took me to visit the school some 25 years later and the old timers on the staff knew the event well and talked about the mess that made (and how long it took to disassemble and clean the organ).

There are many others but those are the best two.

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Early on in my life, I tried to pull off the funny "52 Card Pickup" prank to my sister but ended up in crying meltdown mode picking them up myself since she had done the prank perfectly on me weeks earlier and refused to participate.

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My little sister and I would always play games with my grandmother, all 3 of us piled on my grandmother' bed. Clue, parcheesi, card games, etc.

One time she looked at my grandmother and said "Do you want to play '57 chevy'?

My grandmother said "You mean '52 pickup?

Sister: yup!

Grandmother: shuffles all the cards into my sisters face.

Good times

Not my first, but one of my best...

Youngest sister in law got married, bridal party managed to get the key to their hotel room. I went and bought 5/6 battery operated travel alarm clocks and set the alarms to go off at different times in the night. A few of us hid them around the hotel room so they couldn't be found.

Man, the bride and groom were pissy the morning after at breakfast.

Locker stacking. At least that's what we called it. Our high school had two-piece lockers where the bottom was two half-width lockers for jackets, and above them were two normal-width locker shelves, each with their own door, for books. Opening the bottom locker automatically unlocked the upper book door and allowed it to swing open. Problem was the administration liked to brag to visitors about the school's "no locks on lockers" policy, which of course meant all the school lockers were accessible. The popular prank was to "stack" the textbooks against the upper door in such a way that opening the bottom door created a textbook avalanche. It was a small school, so hearing the sound of a successful stack during class change was pretty much a daily occurrence.

It always amazed me that the no locks on lockers policy meant more to the administration than dealing with all the damaged textbooks.

There was also that one time someone opened their locker and discovered a very angry groundhog sitting on their textbooks. It happened right outside of ag shop, so a couple of us grabbed some welding gloves and were able to extract it without getting bit or dropping it. We never did figure out who put it there.

ctrl + alt + down on some versions of windows xp would turn your screen upside down,, did that to more than one colleague back in the day

agz win said:

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Early on in my life, I tried to pull off the funny "52 Card Pickup" prank to my sister but ended up in crying meltdown mode picking them up myself since she had done the prank perfectly on me weeks earlier and refused to participate.

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I think the same thing happened to me.

High School will working at McDonald's there was a new hire, this kid I didn't like from school, I had him go and mop out the deep freeze. He gave up after about 30 minutes, the mop kept freezing to the floor.

Sent the same kid to look for a box of steam since the grills were running low; Manager had to go tell him to stop looking.

Freshman year at A&M, my roommate's girlfriend was over to watch the series finale of Cheers with us (yes, I'm that old). She took a nap on the couch and made sure to tell us to wake her up when it started. Instead, we moved all the clocks forward in the room, including her watch, went to our suitemates room to have them do likewise, as well as the guys across the hall. We shut the shades and turned the lights down to affect the look of later in the evening.

She woke up about an hour later, still more than an hour before the show as going to start. Looked at her watch, jumped to hear feet, and screeched "WHY DIDNT YOU WAKE ME UP?????!!!". Roomie and I looked at each other in sheer bafflement and he said, "We were going to but you looked so peaceful we didn't want to."
She was trying to see if we were going to start laughing but we held it together and she was melting down. When she asked if we at least taped it, I said, "Yeah, yeah. That would have a good idea. We should have thought of that."

She flung open the bathroom door, went and pounded on my suitemate's door, and the big Hispanic guy from San Antonio who did nothing but take massive ****s and drink like a fish all year, opened the door inexplicably wearing a sweater with his collar popped up and says, "Can you keep it down? It's a school night." She pushed past him and saw the clock on their wall read 9:30 p.m. or whatever and started screaming/crying like we had run over her dog.

She stormed back in and told my roommate that she effin hated him and grabbed her stuff, and slammed the door shut. The RA heard the commotion and decided to come see what the problem was and caught her as she was heading for the stairwell. He told her that she had been pranked and that she hadn't missed the show.

She came storming back down the hall and start pounding on our door, to which I called through the door, "Hey, can you keep it down? it's a school night." The fact that my roomie laughed loudly at that joke was the real stake through the heart for him. I believe he had to say he was sorry 9 million times before he was allowed to hold hands with her again.

Oh God, forgot about this one...

My junior year at A&M and me and the same 3 guys lived together again in an apartment. One of the guys was a very religious Baptist who was by the book. He didn't cuss, drink, smoke, or do anything. Another roommate of ours was able to get our Direct TV card programmed so we got every channel, including the PPV ones since we were broke and too cheap to get cable. Anyway, the religious roommate began dating a girl from church (still married today), and he came to us one day to let us know there was a movie coming on like HBO or something that his girlfriend wanted to watch, and wanted to see if we were OK if they had a movie night. We were fine with it and told him it wouldn't be a problem (because he was still a cool guy).

Our DTV receiver had a reminder kind of thing where we could program it to switch to a certain channel at a specific time (before DVR), so my other roommates and I decided we would program it to switch over to one of the porn channels in the middle of their movie.

So, movie night arrives and they begin getting their popcorn, blankets, and other stuff ready for the movie while my other roommates and I go to our rooms to BS around the internet before getting ready to head to NG...we were not going to miss this. They finally set down and begin watching the movie...anticipation is growing, and then...BOOM! Channel switches and all we hear from the surround sound was a woman moaning and screaming stuff like "**** that *****!" His girlfriend begins flipping the **** out while he's scrambling around trying to find the correct remote to change it back. The whole time, we're in our rooms rolling.

He finally gets the right remote and changes it back and we come out trying to play dumb asking questions like "what are y'all watching," but she knows better and gets pissed at us and leaves, which upset him as well, but he even admitted that it was a good one. Since his night was shot, he decided to drop us off at NG and went back to the apartment to play video games.

I'm really curious if they ever consummated the marriage