Is there a particularly good practical joke that you pulled off or had done to you? Are you generally the bluffer in your group of friends or are you still looking to see if "gullible" is in the dictionary?

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

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well not really . I just wanted to be the first to put an answer here. Nothing more , unless the topic was , how to waste more time than one should.

-trevor

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

oh, i'm so the bluffer. i can say almost anything, true or not, with a straight face. it's fun to get my gullible friends.

and once a friend and i left anonymous love haikus on the windshields of all our friends with cars. that was a lot of fun as well. something i recommend, if you write haiku well.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

I have a cruel streak a mile wide, so my jokes tend to be kind of nasty. I think the most evil thing I have done that I could mention here(which could sort of be considered a practical joke in the sickest way) was a couple of years ago while I was still living in Nebraska. I was hanging out in a friend's dorm room while he was gone, and I was talking to his roommate and watching TV. The phone rang and I decided to pick it up and take a message for my friend. It turned out to be his no-personality girlfriend, and she thought that I was him! Instead of just clarifying my identity and taking a message, I decided to run with it. I broke up with her.

Everything was sorted out after a few days, and I apologized for it. Oddly enough, I wound up being the only one in our little circle of friends that she went out of her way to talk to with the exception of the boyfriend. If I was in her situation I would have hired a hitman.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

Chris, are you talking about Josh and Kristina? I always felt sorry for her because everyone was always playing practical jokes on her.

She was right out of high school and into the Air Force, and on one of her first days at work, someone in her shop asked her to get some fallopian tubes. So she started looking around for fallopian tubes.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

When I was younger, I got into a joke phase. One ended up to be a bad one. My dad had had a heart attack a year earlier, I still pulled this one.

I took my cabbage patch doll and tied a string around her neck. I then set her in the top of the closet and attatched the other end of the string to the top of the door, thus causing her to fly when the door opened.

When my dad came home, I was struggling not to laugh before he opened the door. When she came at him, he hit the floor like the stunt men do in movies. he actually covered his head, thinking it was a bat or something. I was laughing so hard - neither parents were amused. I still giggle thinking about that day.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

Yeah, that was Josh and Kristina. I noticed later on that she was an amazingly gullible target, which took the fun out of tormenting her. Bullying mental parapalegics get boring quickly. I started to be nicer to her after the breakup. I wonder how many people were friendly to her, because she was awfully cordial to the kind fellow who reduced her to a sobbing wreck for an entire day or so.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

Good practical joke is an oxymoron. People who pull them are evil.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

Of course I would never pull any mean, cruel practical jokes these days... mainly because you have to watch your back for months afterward. However, I remember one year when I wrapped up most of my sister's panties for Christmas. I did this about three weeks before the holiday, mind you. She had to survive with only a couple of pairs, never realizing the rest were in that beautifully wrapped box under the tree. Younger sisters are ideal for practical jokes because they're used to sibling oppression and they rarely attempt revenge.

Or is the constant nagging by my mom and sis when I'm visiting them to put on better clothes, to get my hair out of that trashy ponytail, to do my nails and wear makeup -- all of this usually led by my sister -- a sneaky and effective method of revenge on her part? Perhaps she's more clever than I thought.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

Back in the old college days, some friends and I made a receiver that could find radio frequencies, and we discovered the frequncies of a local McDonald's and Burger King's drive thru's that were about a quarter mile apart. So we built a signal exchanger and dropped the Burger Kings input to the McDonald's Receiver and Upped the Mcdonald's signal to the Burger King's receiver. Then we got to listen in on the fun as some one would drive into Burger King and order a Whopper and be told that McDonalds serves BIG MACS... IDIOT!... and so on. Took 'em almost 3 hours to even begin to catch a clue as to what was happening. Ah....hap

-- Anonymous, June 23, 1999

One of the few real practical jokes I've ever had the opportunity to pull, was my sophmore year of college. A friend had a frat-boy roommate, the kind that always comes home drunk and pukes on the floor. We decided to scare him off. Every day for two weeks my then roommate and I stopped by at a time when we knew out friend was not going to be there, and handed the frat-boy a candle carved with interesting things.

What you have to understand is is that my then roommate and I are both very tall and scary looking. My roommate was dressed in a three peice suit, and I was dressed in a floor length black cloak with my hood up.

It took about two weeks for the frat-boy to move out. We heard later from a mutual acquantance that he told all his friends about his satanic roommate and his friends. Granted the story grew in the telling. I hate it when my reputation is more clever than I am.

-- Anonymous, June 24, 1999

In college I lived with 5 other girls for a year, and we were always playing practical jokes on each other. One night one girl had a date, and while she was gone we pinned all of her underwear to the ceiling in the kitchen. The front door opened into the kitchen. So she walked in with her date, and walked right back out. Another time I and another girl both had dates to a formal dance. When we got home our entire bedrooms had been moved out into the hallway of our apartment building-beds, dressers, night table, everything. We were to tired to move it all back, so we just slept out there. We were such crazy college kids.

-- Anonymous, June 24, 1999

oh, and the significant others of a hockey teammate's housemates once turned all the posters (20+) on the walls upside down while all residents of the house were out of it. the hockey team got a huge kick out of the whole thing.

-- Anonymous, June 24, 1999

Remember when Chuy and Cathy had that big party and Chuy was like,"We have an announcement to make. Cathy's pregnant." and everyone was so stunned and then he was like,"Just kidding. We're getting married!"? I remember, Whoo! Funny.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 1999

I once went out with a guy who had a friend of his call me up at midnight (as soon as it was technically April Fool's day), and inform me that they'd gotten into a fight with an undercover cop and my boyfriend was spending the night in jail. He said he had no idea when he'd be getting out. It never even occurred to me that it was April Fool's day, and I was slightly freaked out. Anyway, two days later I get a call from my boyfriend, and he's talking to me as if nothing happened. So I'm like "Uh, what the hell happened to you, I heard you were in jail, for chrissake!", and he was like "Oh yeah, April Fool's!" He actually FORGOT that he'd played a trick on me, and meanwhile let me freak out for two days. So I was a tad pissed off, and he said I should be happy, since his original plan had been for his friend to call me pretending to be a cop and ask me if I could come down to identify his body. Ha ha. I broke up with him a few days later.

There are funny practical jokes, and then there are practical jokes that are pure evil. Avoid pulling those ones on people.

-- Anonymous, September 11, 1999