[besson3c]

We're looking to prank a colleague who is on vacation for a while. Any ideas?

He uses a G5 iMac, has a cubical, etc. certainly filling his cube with packing peanuts is a possibility, but..

Got any better ideas?

(nothing cruel, of course).

[Kevin]

IF he doesn't have a leaky shower head.

Clean it out, and get all the moisture out.

Then fill it with kool-aid powder.

And short sheet his bed

oh, you mean at the office.

N/M

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Kevin

IF he doesn't have a leaky shower head.

Clean it out, and get all the moisture out.

Then fill it with kool-aid powder.

And short sheet his bed

oh, you mean at the office.

N/M

Yeah, it has to be an office prank...

[residentEvil]

Move his cubical to a storage space someplace else in the building.

Post-It note everything.

Wrapping paper EVERYTHING; his posessions and equipment in the cube.

Crazy glue all the caps of his pens on.

[karent]

subtilty is best, and pranks last longer that way too. Your coworker will just think he's gon crazy if everything looks the same but just a little different.
1. Hide pennies EVERYWHERE.
2. rearrange contents of things, like file folders, desk drawers, books on shelves.
3. Reprogram speed-dial buttons on phone
4. remove staples from stapler
5. wear down pencil points to nothing
6. fingerprint powder on the keyboard

thats all i can think of at the moment.

k-

[GSixZero]

Take a screenshot of his desktop, open it in preview, and set it to full screen mode. His mouse will move around, but he won't be able to click on anything. Hitting escape gets you out, so it only provides for a few seconds of confusion, but it can be a good laugh.

<edit> This works really well in panther, not so well in Tiger. Tiger's fullscreen in preview gives you the dashboard buttons to go to the next slide, etc

[budster101]

Children, the lot of you.

Well, some of this looks to be entertaining... just "Google": Office Pranks?

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/officepranks.html

[thunderous_funker]

Give him hepatitis. Won't see that coming.

[budster101]

OMFG..ROFLMAO.... Didn't see that coming.

[cjrivera]

Put a small piece of clear scotch tape on either the mouthpiece or the earpiece of his phone. Either way you usually get your colleague yelling into thephone for the next few calls.

Make his desktop wallpaper or screensaver rotate through some benign pictures and then put a porn pic in the mix.

[RAILhead]

Stink palm everything in his cubicle.

Maury

[dreilly1]

Originally Posted by budster101

Children, the lot of you.

Well, some of this looks to be entertaining... just "Google": Office Pranks?

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/officepranks.html

There are two in particular from that list that I like, and aren't (very) destructive:

Go into MS Word or similar program on co-worker's computer, and add an entry to the AutoCorrect feature. This is a very simple prank that will send the novice user into a frenzy. Configure the AutoCorrect option to replace the word "the" with the phrase "you suck!". They will usually panick and start scanning for viruses.

Take clear tape and tape the underside of the mouse. Make sure you take the sticky end of the tape and apply it to the bottom of the mouse so it locks the ball in place. The victim will most likely check the connections in the back, reinstall drivers, reboot, etc., before they realize what has happened.

That second one works with optical mice too!

[budster101]

I really didn't read them, I just googled and then linked it up... I am feeling lazy today.

[RAILhead]

I can confirm that the auto-correct prank is a good one. I always set it to change "the" to "my tinker bell", personally. This changes a simple, everyday sentence like:

"We have a meeting at 9:00 in the conference room"

to

"We have a meeting at 9:00 in my tinker bell conference room"

Maury
(Yes, it should be tinkerbell, but the spell checker will flag it as one word)

[FulcrumPilot]

When in doubt use crazy glue.

[Zenbone]

Get his wife pregnant.

[BasketofPuppies]

Roll him in a carpet and throw him off a bridge.

[Chuckit]

Here's one of my favorite pranks that has actually been done at a place I worked:

Turn up the volume on his computer. Record a sound file of a wacky voice (you can do it or somebody else can) yelling, "Hey, everybody, I'm looking at PORNO!" Give the file an image icon, place it on his desktop and name it "Sexy Anna Kournikova" or whatever the guy's into. Then sit back and watch the fun.

[dreilly1]

Originally Posted by RAILhead

I can confirm that the auto-correct prank is a good one. I always set it to change "the" to "my tinker bell", personally. This changes a simple, everyday sentence like:

"We have a meeting at 9:00 in the conference room"

to

"We have a meeting at 9:00 in my tinker bell conference room"

Maury
(Yes, it should be tinkerbell, but the spell checker will flag it as one word)

Can't you add words to the dictionary?

it would be great to set up the autocorrect to change all the "the"'s to "teh"'s, and then add "teh" to the dictionary to make it not show up in the auto spellcheck....

[stevesnj]

Originally Posted by besson3c

Got any better ideas?

(nothing cruel, of course).

In high school a few of my friends and I used 'shrink wrap' and wraped his car in it. It was hilarious and took him an hour to remove all the shrink wrap. Unfortunately we didn't know he just got his car from being painted the day before and between the hot day and the fresh paint some of the paint lifted up. Ouch!! but this is still remembered by all of us and even he enjoyes the story now we are older. You should be able to get the shrink wrap at home depot or Staples.


or if you have enough of them theres always the post it note prank

[Salty]

I can tell you for certain... climbing into bed with someone in the middle of the night regardless of how much you think it will shock them... won't, they just reply with things like, "David why are you in my bed?"

[E's Lil Theorem]

Do all of his work for him. That'll drive him nuts!

[Rev-O]

I intermingled a copy of the Gay and Lesbian Yellow Pages amongst the other yellow and white pages at a neighbors house. Changed the Message on the answering machine too. They figured out the message after a couple of days, but the phone book was there for well over a month.

Secret to changing voice mail/answering machine messages: you don't want to make them too outrageous. If you go over the top, the person leaving a message will say, at some point, in the left message "Man, that's one F**ked up message." You want the message leaver to be amused, and maybe laugh a bit, but not give away that the message has been changed. The message I used mentioned something about bondage and discipline. The neighbors were all confused when they got friends of theirs leaving messages like "Yah, I've been bad and need a good spanking."

Could work wonders at the office.

[as2]

[as2]

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