Pranks

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What are some of the best pranks you can think of?
This one is good:
http://xkcd.com/237/
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I used to have some people in CS class I used to play dirty tricks on to irritate them.

Our school network had a folder where scripts in a certain format were called. I could use these scripts to determine who logged in (based on student ID) then send them a basic message and log them out. I could also get them in trouble by using a VPN and a tunneler to put some porn up on the screen.
Put mentos in ice cubes and then hand your friend/target a glass of coke with said ice cubes :P
Air-horn taped under desk chair so that it goes off when they sit down.
Same affect as sitting on a tack, but less painful and more effective.


Take a screen shot of someone's desktop. Set it as their desktop wallpaper. Hide icons. Kill explorer.exe
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Put mentos in ice cubes and then hand your friend/target a glass of coke with said ice cubes :P
1. Fill ice tray with each slot just under half full, and wait for it to freeze
2. Place mentos on top of each frozen half-sized cube
3. Fill the rest of each cube slot full and freeze, completely encapsulating ice cubes
4. ???
5. Provide free refills until it's time to hide

@Cheraphy: why would you tap an airhorn? Also, several services and processes restart explorer.exe
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Do mentos float? If so, that would make them difficult to embed in an ice cube.

Wouldn't the water dissolve the rough outer layer of mentos pretty quickly, thus eliminating one of the largest contributing factors of the "fountain" effect?

Has anyone tried this? Or is it just a theory?

I demand answers because science.
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Has anyone tried this? Or is it just a theory?

Sorry just a theory, for now. I got close but my mom caught me and told me to throw the cubes away.
you tell your friend that theres this awsome drinking game, you crack open a beer each and you explain that you have to balance a grape or buiscut or whatever on your head and you have to drop it into a funnel thats stuffed in your belt, you get your friend to balance thing on his head and then you pour your beer down the funnel
That's more of a "you can't trust me as your friend" than a prank. Also I still can't believe people fall for these kinds of pranks but somehow they do.
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they're the best kind of pranks the "you cant trust me as a friend" ones, they only seem to be socially acceptable in a male working environment I wonder if its to do with old psychology.
Another prank i was thinking of recently is vinigar in a toilet systern and some strong but safe alkali in the toilet bowl.

then theres cling film over the toilet but you will proly have to clear that up after the prank.

or frozen shaving gel cans peeled and the frozen insides placed in a sealed box that will be opened (glove compartments not so wise though)

poisoning people with laxitives is plain wrong and an abuse of power and trust however, im dead against that
poisoning people with laxitives is plain wrong and an abuse of power and trust however, im dead against that


While I do agree it is wrong:
Laxatives don't kill you, therefore they are not poison, therefore you are not poisoning anyone :)
So you walk up to your victim before beginning the prank and ask "Hey, are you allergic to laxatives at all?"
Also, several services and processes restart explorer.exe

I imagine that terminating the explorer is just to get rid of the start menu and any other explorer features enabled on the desktop. If the victim is a noob with computer's they're screwed.

I made a console app that just swaps the mouse buttons around until a password is entered. Nice and simple, just chuck it into the startup folder to trol while you're away.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646264(v=vs.85).aspx
> I imagine that terminating the explorer is just to get rid of the start menu and any other explorer features enabled on the desktop.

When explorer.exe gets restarted these things come back :p
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