For the sake of some good Friday night discussion, I pose to you this question:
What was the best practical joke you ever played on anybody or had played on you?
Remember...the humor is in the details...
I'll start it with one that's pretty darn good but will follow it up after some responses with the coup de gras of all practical jokes!
When I was in college at Ga State back in the early 80's, I worked at a law firm in downtown Atlanta as a currier. Most of the other curriers were my fraternity brothers. We did have one guy who worked there named Howard. Howard was a little off to say the least.
Anyway, one of the guys, Greg, had a semester long project that he had worked on. Keep in mind that this was in the days before PC's and desktop printers. All told, it was about 50 pages long. He had poured his life into this thing.
When it was finally ready, he gave it and 50 bucks to one of the secretaries to type for him into the Nissan Pathfinder sized computer we had for word processing. He took the final draft and bound it very nicely. When he was all done, he brought it up to the break room where we hung out and asked us to proofread it throughout the day. Big mistake!
Did I happen to mention that Howard ate egg salad sandwiches for lunch practically every day?
During a time when we knew Greg was going to be gone for a while, we took the report and copied the first 5-10 pages. We grabbed a bunch of blank pages and bound them all together just like the original.
Somebody found Howard's egg salad sandwich of the day. We dropped egg with a little mayo and some yolk on the faked report, kind of smeared it around into the paper, and left it there to be found...
About an hour later, Greg got back from his run and asked if we had read his report. We told him yes and that it was in the back. As he went off to get it, we all about fell out laughing but had to hold it together.
Well, suffice it to say when he found his "report" he dang near came unglued! All we heard was him yelling at the top of his lungs, "GD-it, Howard. I'm gonna kick your arse!"
He came barreling out of the room with steam coming out of his ears. We let him get as far as the elevator before somebody magically produced his real untouched report. That may be as close to crying over something that I've ever seen a man get that didn't involve his wife, kid, dog, or a spilled beer! When he finally settled down, we all had a good laugh, but I know we took thee years off of his life.
OK, Sowallers...who has one? Let's hear it! After we have a few replies, I'll hit you with one that will blow your mind. It has all the elements...surprise, fear, unexpected twists, etc...
It's a mind blower!
What was the best practical joke you ever played on anybody or had played on you?
Remember...the humor is in the details...
I'll start it with one that's pretty darn good but will follow it up after some responses with the coup de gras of all practical jokes!
When I was in college at Ga State back in the early 80's, I worked at a law firm in downtown Atlanta as a currier. Most of the other curriers were my fraternity brothers. We did have one guy who worked there named Howard. Howard was a little off to say the least.
Anyway, one of the guys, Greg, had a semester long project that he had worked on. Keep in mind that this was in the days before PC's and desktop printers. All told, it was about 50 pages long. He had poured his life into this thing.
When it was finally ready, he gave it and 50 bucks to one of the secretaries to type for him into the Nissan Pathfinder sized computer we had for word processing. He took the final draft and bound it very nicely. When he was all done, he brought it up to the break room where we hung out and asked us to proofread it throughout the day. Big mistake!
Did I happen to mention that Howard ate egg salad sandwiches for lunch practically every day?
During a time when we knew Greg was going to be gone for a while, we took the report and copied the first 5-10 pages. We grabbed a bunch of blank pages and bound them all together just like the original.
Somebody found Howard's egg salad sandwich of the day. We dropped egg with a little mayo and some yolk on the faked report, kind of smeared it around into the paper, and left it there to be found...
About an hour later, Greg got back from his run and asked if we had read his report. We told him yes and that it was in the back. As he went off to get it, we all about fell out laughing but had to hold it together.
Well, suffice it to say when he found his "report" he dang near came unglued! All we heard was him yelling at the top of his lungs, "GD-it, Howard. I'm gonna kick your arse!"
He came barreling out of the room with steam coming out of his ears. We let him get as far as the elevator before somebody magically produced his real untouched report. That may be as close to crying over something that I've ever seen a man get that didn't involve his wife, kid, dog, or a spilled beer! When he finally settled down, we all had a good laugh, but I know we took thee years off of his life.
OK, Sowallers...who has one? Let's hear it! After we have a few replies, I'll hit you with one that will blow your mind. It has all the elements...surprise, fear, unexpected twists, etc...
It's a mind blower!
