Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Happy Prank-Tober!

The leaves on the trees around my apartment are bursting with color and there's beginning to be a bit of a chill in the air. Birds are heading south, farmers are harvesting and the pumpkin patch is ripe for the picking. All of these signs can only mean one thing. It's Prank-tober and time to check out some of the goulishly funnies found on Youtube.

Halloween Pranks by PrankedUpon-


Want to scare the devil out of some random folks? Pull up a bench and take a look at one way to send them off running.

Kids scare the hell out of there Dad by gabehicks-Several Australian kids set up a staged crime scene to scare Dad. They provide some down and dirty instructions on how to pull off this prank before setting their trap. Would make a great Halloween gag!

Funny Halloween Prank by irishqueen208-



What looked like a rather benign youtube video turned into something pretty funny. I would love to see this prank pulled off. You'll want to bone up on your anatomy and physiology for this one. Would be the perfect Halloween prank to use at a nightclub. It would fit wonderfully in the ladies room.

Funny scary pranks part 2 by robertjan93-


This is a minute long collection of Halloween pranks aired on what appears to be an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos. The link does provide some pretty good ideas for scarying the socks off of your friends and family.

Momma meets Dracula scared to death Halloween prank by maxshannon-This short and sweet video is just the right thing for the novice prankster. Requires minimal setup and achieves maximum fright in just a few short seconds. I am going to try this one on my room mate. Warning: if your room mate is a big scaredy cat like mine you may want to have puppy pads on hand.

Happy Halloween my fellow pranksters!

Prank of the Month: I Wanna Sex you Up

Hey everyone. Ok, this month’s prankster extraordinare is Kelly, from Houston, Texas. I could not stop laughing when I read this email, and I had to send her a note asking for more details about what happened once she and her pals actually pulled off this nefarious little ploy. Hopefully she’s still employed and will us all in on what happened:

”Often, as I sit with my compadres at lunch, we talk about ways we'd like to get back at our boss (well, either him or the building custodian who never seems to be able to refill the toilet paper). Our plans for revenge run the gamut.

We've discussed everything from having a secret camera installed in his office (kind of afraid to see what he does in there late at night) to getting a group of the brawny boys and picking up his car and hiding it behind the building.

Yet nothing seemed to peak our interest until...

Graham, our resident computer tech, suggested something of the unsavory variety and all of our ears perked up like a pack of dogs sensing the hunt.

Phone sex prank call.

This will take cunning, advanced scouting and a level of deception unseen since I wielded a similarly artful manipulation upon a former boyfriend I suspected of cheating.

The high jinx was on!

First, we round up a sweet sultry sounding college girl from campus and offered her a $20 iTunes card to play the roll of the naughty operator. We gave her a script full of things a madam would blush upon hearing and told her we would call her when we were ready for the prank call.

Next we paid off his office assistant with lunch at the swank restaurant down the block from the office. Free eats at cool digs gets them every time. She would be in charge of getting the call to the boss.

Finally, we got some really cheesy porn flick music recorded and ready for airing over the office intercom system.

The pump was primed and ready to go.

Let's just hope the boss doesn't explode!”

Prank ‘Em Until they Smile

It's been a hectic day around the office. People are all sorts of cranky because of the new processes institued last week involving taking sick days and scheduling vacations. While most of my office buds are busy sounding the "I hate this place" alarm, I was holed up in my cubby little cubicle planning my shenanigans. I can’t stand to see people bummed so it is now, after much planning (ok not really "much" but hopefully enough) that I begin to spring my plans into action. Hey, if nothing else, I’m hoping to elicit a few chuckles from my cranky fellow employees.

I began by switching the laces in my running shoes and then coloring the white laces hot pink. Everytime I catch someone starring down at them as I walk by I tell them I haven't misplaced them since I made this subtle change.

This little mixer upper gets me a few glares (from management), a few stares (from the hoity toity girls in new accounts) and one genuine belly laugh from Ezmerelda the cleaning lady.

But I was not spreading nearly the amount of joy I anticipated, so I moved on to phase two of my plan.

I wrote a very well thought out email detailing my support for Elmo versus Oscar the Grouch in the Battle of the Childrens Television Network. I pose intelligent arguments for why Elmo should reign supreme and why his second in command should be the number 9. I forward this email throughout the office's global email listings and wait patiently for replies.

This gag gets plenty of returns. Most of the email replies are in support of Elmo with less than 10 percent decenting and in favor of Oscar the Grouch (from, you guessed it, the management).

My last and final prank is pretty low budget and low maintenance according to the prank standards of my humorous peers.

I paged myself over the office intercom and wait to see how long it takes anyone to stroll by my cubicle and inform me that I am looking for me.

A day that began cranky and full of contempt morphed into one filled with a few laughs. Hopefully, I have inspired a few of my fellow coworkers to spread the cheer, as well.