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Am I the most mischievous person on the planet? Not likely. Am I the most knowledeable about pranks? Highly Doubtful. I have a sneaky suspicion that Steve Allen took a lot to the grave with him.

But I do consider myself an expert in the subject of creative mayhem. And to help spread my knowledge to the next generation, I am preparing this thread as a compilation of tips and tricks I have picked up over the years. By all means, please share your own. And feel free to discuss uses for them.

My first tip involves the Incredible Edible Egg. See, it's quite a tidy package of mischief, isn't it? Compact. Slimy. Versatile. However, it's greatest asset is also it's greatest liability. Namely, the shell. Anyone who has ever had a bunch of eggs stuffed into his pants and then smashed knows what a problem shell bits can be.

However, thanks to the miracle of basic kitchen chemistry, this doesn't have to remain a problem! See, all you have to do is soak some eggs in a bowl of vinegar overnight. This breaks down the shell of the egg. Dissolves it and leaves you with a flexible membrane containing the egg. Now, they make for awful cooking, but I'm sure you can think of some creative uses for flexible eggs, now can't you? :D

you can do some interesting things with ice if you're quick enough.

Thank you for the eudcation Goofball. :D

I have always prefered the specialized uses for superglue myself, although some of them may actually be harmful.

Thank you for the eudcation Goofball. :D

I have always prefered the specialized uses for superglue myself, although some of them may actually be harmful.

I knew a guy who(much to his chagrin) had a vibrating pager superglued to his pecker. The pager number was distributed quite liberally around campus. It took him several uncomfortable days to get up the courage to go to the campus medical clinic to get it removed. Hehehe.

Glue should be applied to peckers with extreme care.

Is there any way to extract the membrane without breaking the shell? And then filling said shell with a fine powder?

Called the Anarchist's cookbook :p

You could make millions from vinegar and egg falvoured, all-natural condoms.

Is there any way to extract the membrane without breaking the shell? And then filling said shell with a fine powder?

Yes. It's an old technique used to make decorative eggshells. Poke two small holes into the shell with a nail. You know, like a brad or other thin nail or thick pin. Maybe a thumbtack. One hole on each end. Then, you can then put the egg to your mouth and blow the goo out the other end. The small holes can easily be patched neatly and unobtrusively with a bit of wax.

A friend's father was kicked out of uni for sticking a small lump of sodium to the upper part of a toilet bowl in the professor's loos.

A friend's father was kicked out of uni for sticking a small lump of sodium to the upper part of a toilet bowl in the professor's loos.

Egad. That's a bit dangerous. Funny, but dangerous. I used to fuse dumpsters shut with thermite though.

Egad. That's a bit dangerous. Funny, but dangerous. I used to fuse dumpsters shut with thermite though.

I don't know if the professor who flushed the loo was laughing at the time... As I said, he was promptly expelled from the university. I laughed my metaphorical ass off when I was told though.

Egad. That's a bit dangerous. Funny, but dangerous. I used to fuse dumpsters shut with thermite though.
Fuse dumpsters shut with thermite... I have to remember that one. To my knowledge though, thermite would melt THROUGH a dumpster, not fuse it shut. Or atleast the Anarchist's Cookbook thermite.

Fuse dumpsters shut with thermite... I have to remember that one. To my knowledge though, thermite would melt THROUGH a dumpster, not fuse it shut. Or atleast the Anarchist's Cookbook thermite.

Thermite produces a metal slag. So a small amount at the point where a metal lid and a dumpster meet, will create enough heat to melt the metal of the lid and dumpster and together with the slag, create a single welded together mass of metal at the contact point.

Fuse dumpsters shut with thermite... I have to remember that one. To my knowledge though, thermite would melt THROUGH a dumpster, not fuse it shut. Or atleast the Anarchist's Cookbook thermite.

It all depends on the placement. :)
(Note that thermite is used in some commercial welding applications. Even more fun can be explosive welding...)

Fulminate of Mercury (aka Mercury Fulminate or Fuminating Mercury) and black powder can also be great sources of fun. HOWEVER GREAT CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN. (All parties involved in the prank should go home with their body parts intact. Otherwise a prank turns into a felony - or a more serious felony, depending.)

I didn't expect this to go in such an 'explosive' direction. Hehehe. Worthwhile pursuits, but there is so much more to mischief than fire and explosions.

ANybody who powdered someone's mattress with powdered milk knows what I mean. ;)

Thermite produces a metal slag. So a small amount at the point where a metal lid and a dumpster meet, will create enough heat to melt the metal of the lid and dumpster and together with the slag, create a single welded together mass of metal at the contact point.
Ah, that explains it.

Anything explosive can be a lot of fun. So can anything flammable. Or anything that makes a lot of noise. For that matter anything can be a lot of fun.

I didn't expect this to go in such an 'explosive' direction. Hehehe. Worthwhile pursuits, but there is so much more to mischief than fire and explosions.

ANybody who powdered someone's mattress with powdered milk knows what I mean. ;)

Have you tried putting a layer of sugar underneath someones bedsheet?

Have you tried putting a layer of sugar underneath someones bedsheet?

I imagine it accomplishes something similar. :)

And of course a standard schoolyard prank....

Get a condom, put a tablespoon or so of milk into it (school-lunch milk is nasty anyway), and then slip it into somebody's stuff.

Or if you're the type of person people are used to having grab their ass, you can just shove a condom halfway into their back pocket.

Then's there's the good old 'leave an egg in the sun for seveal weeks and slip it into the school lunch room when they've got boiled eggs. You go outside and just wait for the havoc to ensue.
Or you lean into the room and chuck several at once before anyone sees you.

Then's there's the good old 'leave an egg in the sun for seveal weeks and slip it into the school lunch room when they've got boiled eggs. You go outside and just wait for the havoc to ensue.
Or you lean into the room and chuck several at once before anyone sees you.
Always fun. :)

I imagine it accomplishes something similar. :)

It 'glazes' them :D

It 'glazes' them :D

Powdered milk under the bedsheets will... stinkify them. :)

And of course a standard schoolyard prank....

Get a condom, put a tablespoon or so of milk into it (school-lunch milk is nasty anyway), and then slip it into somebody's stuff.

Or if you're the type of person people are used to having grab their ass, you can just shove a condom halfway into their back pocket.
Or you can duct tape it securely to someone's locker with the sign, "Forgot this" taped beside it.

Is there any way to extract the membrane without breaking the shell? And then filling said shell with a fine powder?
getting the powder in may be problematic, but there is definately away to clear out the egg without breaking the shell, thats how those russian egg art things (well i think russian) are done. some special solution is applied to the shell ro something, look it up online

getting the powder in may be problematic, but there is definately away to clear out the egg without breaking the shell, thats how those russian egg art things (well i think russian) are done. some special solution is applied to the shell ro something, look it up online

I believe they use the holing method I described.

Have a female friend as an accomplis, and send one of your young male friends an anonymous fathers-day card. :D

Or you can duct tape it securely to someone's locker with the sign, "Forgot this" taped beside it.

Quite similar to the prank that I let my best friend play on my locker partner. Except that I, of course, had access to the inside of the locker, so he left it on top of the books with a nice note...

P.S. DON'T ASK

hmm....made a midnight run to the drugstore and bought codliver oil....went back to my house, where my friends were sleeping, and carefully poured it onto their hair.....

They couldnt figure out why they stank the next morning, even after showering

I've only done little things

Toothpaste around the mouth while asleep
Hand in warm water while asleep
Thumbnails on the chair or behind the door handle
Setting the volume of the school speaker to maximum

oh yeah.
And if printing on your school is free, print 1000 pages of "I'm gay" and wait for a teacher to show up really angry.

This is just funny for it's stupidity.

Here's a trick for those with potential marks(victims) behind closed doors. You know, dorm rooms, separate bedrooms, etc.

Take an old vinyl album sleeve. Fill it with shaving cream. Slip the open end of the album sleeve under the door of the mark's room(making sure there's enough gap under the door. If it's tight enough to squeeze the album sleeve shut, you might get a backfire) then JUmp on it. Shaving cream will shoot out at high speed into the mark's room.

:D Locked doors are no bar to my mischief.

After a night of intensive drinking at my house, one of my friends foolishly passed out. Big Mistake.

Some friends stripped him down to boxer shorts, then out came the permanent markers. After there was pretty much no visable skin under layers or markers, we thought ... what next. Get a camera, luckily i had a disposable camera near by, 24 pictures, to be posted around college, yay !.

While he was asleep we put pretty much whatever we could find, and use on his head. Mustard, Shaving fome, tomato puree, etc. It made a lovely smelly concotion on his head. Nice.

So he woke up later that day, "slightly" pissed off so we offered him a breakfast. Big Mistake.
Pancakes are on the menu today, so instead of the conventional pancake method, insert extra hot chillies, because of how tired that young man was, he was foolish enough to eat them, he sorta regretted that ...

You may be thinking this was harsh, your probably right, but it was a right laugh.

:D

In my mispent youth, some friends and I went to a party where we removed all the furniture from the dining room, took up the carpets and floorboards and recreated the dining room in it's entirety on the front lawn.

The host had a lot of explaining to do to his parents when they came home.

(Oldie but goodie) For good measure, you could also sow cress seeds into the carpets. In a few weeks, you won't be able to vacuum it but you could mow it instead! :D

Nair or other depilatories can provide lots of fun with sleeping/unconcious victems. NEVER EVER apply to sensitive skin, especially eyes (getting it in ones eyes can cause vision damage :().

50 SPF sunscreen can be used for "decoration" of sleeping/unconcious victems at the beach or pool.

After a night of intensive drinking at my house, one of my friends foolishly passed out. Big Mistake.

Some friends stripped him down to boxer shorts, then out came the permanent markers. After there was pretty much no visable skin under layers or markers, we thought ... what next. Get a camera, luckily i had a disposable camera near by, 24 pictures, to be posted around college, yay !.

While he was asleep we put pretty much whatever we could find, and use on his head. Mustard, Shaving fome, tomato puree, etc. It made a lovely smelly concotion on his head. Nice.

So he woke up later that day, "slightly" pissed off so we offered him a breakfast. Big Mistake.
Pancakes are on the menu today, so instead of the conventional pancake method, insert extra hot chillies, because of how tired that young man was, he was foolish enough to eat them, he sorta regretted that ...

You may be thinking this was harsh, your probably right, but it was a right laugh.

:D

I've done worse. Worse has been done to me. Passing out at parties is a cardinal sin. *nod*

I like the cups prank. Get a couple thousand dixie cups, fill them ALL with water, and completely cover someone's dorm floor/hallway/gymnasium, anything else that comes to mind with them. There is NO easy way to pick them all up without spilling water all over the place. Works even better if you can trap someone inside of the cups, like when they're sleeping or something, cover the entire floor of their room. They wake up, and then - "WTF"?

I like the cups prank. Get a couple thousand dixie cups, fill them ALL with water, and completely cover someone's dorm floor/hallway/gymnasium, anything else that comes to mind with them. There is NO easy way to pick them all up without spilling water all over the place. Works even better if you can trap someone inside of the cups, like when they're sleeping or something, cover the entire floor of their room. They wake up, and then - "WTF"?

! WOW! :eek:

I've never heard of that one! ANd I like it! :D But why water? That has such... potential!

I was reading a fantasy novel (as usual) and came across something peculiar, one of the funniest pranks I've heard of.

The Vanishing Room:
Tie rope to everything, then put a heavy object by a window that's blocked by something. This block is tied to the door and when they open the door, it removes the block and makes the heavy object fall causing all the furniture to head straight towards the window.
This requires atleast a two-story window and a door that goes out, unless you have a mechanism which will reverse the pull, like a pullie. It's preferable that the window is small and their furniture is well constructed so you don't cause complete destruction of everything the guy owns.

oh yeah.
And if printing on your school is free, print 1000 pages of "I'm gay" and wait for a teacher to show up really angry.

This is just funny for it's stupidity.

A couple of guys at my school got really drunk and someone managed to get a photo of them together on a cellphone, this then went all over the internet, and we downloaded it at school and sent a print order of 3 copies to EVERY printer in the school....

The look on the design tech teachers face when he turned on the printer at the front of the class the next morning (one of the guys was in that class).

I've done worse. Worse has been done to me. Passing out at parties is a cardinal sin. *nod*

Absolutely. I've woken up in some really weird places because my "don't go to sleep at the party" instinct has taken over when my body has been forced by alcohol to shut down. :p

As to mischief - an easy and stinky one is to put prawns, anchovies or any other seafood that will fit into the ends of curtain rods. After a week or so people will be going nuts trying to find the source of the stink.

Me and some friends went on a camping trip once and of course you should never fall asleep first :D
I had prepared by bringing a roll of duct tape and me with the help of the two other tent's occupies set about taping him to the bed (not easy as he was a light sleeper). Then we attached his shoes to his face as well as cups, books, bottles and other suck things. Then after taking many pictures we went off to tape up some other people up good. This continued for the whole week and still brings tears of joy to my eyes.

One of the worst/best pranks I've heard was told to me by a physio. When she was at med school, some students 'borrowed' a human hand and replaced the inside door knob of a fellow student's dorm room with it.

Apparently he woke nigh on the entire building with his screams later that night when he got up to go relieve himself. He also didn't need to use the toilet afterwards either.

oh yeah.
And if printing on your school is free, print 1000 pages of "I'm gay" and wait for a teacher to show up really angry.

This is just funny for it's stupidity.

Ahh messing with school computers. On micrsoft word there is a tool called auto correct which chages things like hte to the. Go to your school computer. Turn this function on. Replace certain words with other one. For example "the" to "bananna" .or "and" to "Dan". Or "I" to "antidisestablishmentarism". Nothing rude, It spoils the effect. Most lightly your IT teacher won't have a clue whats going on.

As for pranks, the funniest thing I've ever done is brick up someones door. It was a student appartment on the 3rd floor. But he desevered it.

In our college computer lab, my lab partner unplugged a student's Keyboard and plugged his in (plugging hers into his pc). The pc's were back to back so the students faced each other with the PC's in between. when the girl came back, she was puzzled on why her keyboard wasn't working. He typed "stop hitting me so hard. I was asleep." He actually held a conversation with her like that for several minutes. When the instructor came along, he to was puzzled by what was going on... untill, my partner fell over trying to contain his laughter.

Here's a link to one of the most famous office-pranks:
http://www.serversunderthesun.com/tin/
Here's another idea:
http://www.comedy-zone.net/pictures/work/work22.htm
Not a big picture - they taped off the entrance and filled the cubicle with styrofoam pellets.

Too many of the suggestions here are cruel. The #1 rule of pranks is that they cannot cause physical, emotional or financial harm. If any of these things happen then they are not pranks.

That said, here are a few I like:

1) Put peanutbutter on toilet paper and come out of the restroom licking it off.

2) Paint said passed out drunks toenails and fingernails. Nothing else.

3) Depending on the computer some keys can be removed without harming the keyboard. Rearrange them.

4) Glue a pencil to the desktop.

5) Take the little paper circles out of a hole-punch and place them, in bulk, inside someones upright umbrella. Ticker-tape parade when they open it!

6) Shortsheet! Few people know how to do it right. Take the top sheet and tuck it in at the headboard. Then bring the bottom of the top sheet up and lay it under the pillow, disguizing it as the top of the top sheet. Lay a blanket over it so the victim cannot see that the sheet has been folded up.

7) Vaseline on the doorknob

8) Cut a small slit in the resivoir of a condom, put mayo in it. Slip it over a doorknob. When they grab it to remove it the mayo comes out.

That's all for now. I gotta go.

When it comes to pranks, it's hard to beat Caltech's students:
http://www.globalprovince.com/caltech.htm

This is actually one of the reasons I don't plan to go to Caltech.