Office Prank - Page 2

bryanthompson · bryanthompson's Garage

It made an appearance in the joke thread, but I think it was removed

araine901 · araine901's Garage

I like poppin a few keys off the keyboard and changing their location. But it they are a good typer they may not catch it.

mikester · 07-07-2005, 08:32 PM

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Originally posted by dhoward
How'd you keep their little legs apart?

I knew someone would run with it...

In scotland they call it "sheep style."

Rob Channell · 07-07-2005, 08:44 PM

I heard a story from my Dad about a guy with a Volkwagon Beetle that used to brag all the time about how good his gas mileage was. The office got tired of hearing about it and decided to do something. They started adding a little gas to his tank everyday, just a little at first and then more and more. Eventually he was "getting" close to a hundred miles to the gallon. His bragging stopped as abruptly as when they quit adding gas to his car.

craigster59 · craigster59's Garage

Hey Rob.... Lindbergh made it!...

Moneyguy1 · 07-07-2005, 08:52 PM

Rob..We did that years ago to a guy with a beetle who worked at the GM plant we worked at....(small plant in upstate NY and he parked right next to the building..nice and out of the way and out of sight)

elwood-914 · 07-07-2005, 08:57 PM

Smear Linberger cheese under his keyboard!!

Moneyguy1 · 07-07-2005, 09:05 PM

ANother one..We had a young intern who liked to "nap" in the afternoon (very lax research lab). One day we turned the clocks ahead about 45 minutes, made all kinds of end-of-day noises, walked out and hid in the mans room. We watched him take off for the front plant gate, only to have the guard stop him "Where do you think your'e going?" By the time he got back, we were all at our tables or desks working away as if nothing happened. One other time we put a bar of steel in a guys briefcase and put it on top of a magnetic joe block. Use your imagination when he tried to pick it up.

djmcmath · 07-07-2005, 10:38 PM

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Originally posted by nostatic
Dan, I never realized you were into gaslighting...

That's exactly right. We did this to my Navigator's shiny new convertible (4 cylinder) Mustang. He took it back to the dealer numerous times to have the radio repaired, because it "wouldn't hold it's presets." He was never quite the same afterwards...

M.D. Holloway · 07-07-2005, 11:51 PM

You could get the office involved - have a group lunch, invite him, eat like pigs, have him paged our wait till he hits the head and chew/screw hime - leave him with the tab.

Have everyones voice mail and e-mails say that they are on vacation and he is accepting all the calls and e-mails.

Go to your local strip joint and pay some tramp $20 to barge into the office and make a scene about "lab test results".

Or, pay a co-ed $20 to come into the office and anounce that he is her/his long lost daddy! Works even better if they are Black, Asian or Mexican (no offense to our folks of color!)

Had a roommate in college who drank like a fish everynight. When he passed out, we would move him to various places on campus. When he woke he was always in a very strange place (on top of a vending machine, in the middle of the soccer filed or basketball court, under my car or in a tub filled with leftovers). Needlass to say, he stopped drinking afetr 5 days of this. Got the idea from a looney tunes cartoon...
I don't think this would work on him but it is a pretty cruel thing to do.

Tishabet · 07-08-2005, 05:39 AM

If his car is old enough to have an actual distributor, squirt a tablespoon of powdered graphite into it.

djmcmath · 07-08-2005, 08:14 AM

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Originally posted by Tshabet
If his car is old enough to have an actual distributor, squirt a tablespoon of powdered graphite into it.

Ok, I'm a little uneducated ... what's that do? Short out the whole thing? Wouldn't that be a fire risk?

Tishabet · 07-08-2005, 08:41 AM

Graphite is conductive, it would coat the internals and make them all "connected" like if you had the distributor cap made of copper. I doubt it would be a fire hazard, but i bet it's a ***** to clean up.

M.D. Holloway · 07-08-2005, 10:45 AM

Grant - you are an evil man! I'm surprised you didn't suggest sugar in the gas tanl or at least pissing on his air intake vents on his hood!

Tishabet · 07-08-2005, 01:59 PM

Hey, I'm not saying I've actually done it...but I wouldn't hesitate to do it to, say, a VW bug where I knew I could replace the dizzy at low cost. Plus, it's so much less obvious that removing the distributor cap itself.
yes, I'm bad.

88BlueTSiQuest · 07-08-2005, 02:32 PM

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Originally posted by LubeMaster77
Grant - you are an evil man! I'm surprised you didn't suggest sugar in the gas tanl or at least pissing on his air intake vents on his hood!

Mythbusters busted the sugar in the gas tank. What does work though is Bleach in the oil pan. Made that motor overheat in no time.

RickM · RickM's Garage

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Originally posted by Rob Channell
I heard a story from my Dad about a guy with a Volkwagon Beetle that used to brag all the time about how good his gas mileage was. The office got tired of hearing about it and decided to do something. They started adding a little gas to his tank everyday, just a little at first and then more and more. Eventually he was "getting" close to a hundred miles to the gallon. His bragging stopped as abruptly as when they quit adding gas to his car.

With the price of fuel these days I'd modify the joke to taking a litttle bit out every day. Instead of a smile for the stellar mileage he'd be pulling his hair out looking for the cause of the poor mileage or leak.

elwood-914 · 07-08-2005, 07:31 PM

On a construction site once, the guys would either grind up styrafoam or saw dust and put it in the defroster vents. When the defroster went on it looked like it snowed in the car, or they would also tie a clip of .22 blanks we used for the concrete fastener to their exhaust manifolds, about a quarter of a mile would do it, rapid fire explosions!! They would be on the side of the road looking under the hood and we would drive by laughing our asses off.

johnco · 07-08-2005, 08:17 PM

not an office prank but once I wired my friend's horn to his headlights. he made it home before dark so that didn't work out. but what did work was when his wife was sneaking out at 2am that morning to screw around and woke him and the neighborhood when she turned on the lights to leave. BUSTED! also funny is to jack up the rear end and block it where the tires barely touch the ground so there's no traction. works better in the grass

M.D. Holloway · 07-08-2005, 08:56 PM

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Originally posted by 88BlueTSiQuest
Mythbusters busted the sugar in the gas tank. What does work though is Bleach in the oil pan. Made that motor overheat in no time.

I saw the episode but I can assure you with direct authority that it does mess an engine up. I didn't think it would have because the sugar would not be soluable in gas but the guy it happened to did have a very varnished carb. It didn't mess up the engine in the show, than again I think they used a Chevy small block 8 which seemed pretty bullet proof.

A banana in the tail pipe (if a tight fit) also will stall the car - but I think it really depends on the car. My son once jammed a tennis ball in the tail pipe, car would even start.