As graduation nears, pranks proliferate. Here’s a place to discuss them: ones you’ve been involved in, ones you’ve heard about, ones you’ve been involved in but want to pretend you only heard about. Consider it a Kokopellian korrective to the earnestness of the IlluMimiNati.
(Thanks to Kokopelli52 for recommending this topic.)
We were going to take the literature teachers captive and force them to give us LotR for an assignment, but we didn’t do it. Not to mention that time we were going to make it look like one of us was dangling off the balcony… That was fun. (First Post?)
On april fools day, our class news-papered the door.
Don’tDo this at school/home !You need:
About 50 newspapers
A door
Lots of tape
Helpers
An unsuspecting teacher/parent/person
Instructions:
1) Tape the newspapers together to make a big enough sheet to cover the door to the frame. 2-3 layers are best.
2) Tape the sheet to the frame (otherwise the victim can sneak around the side).
3) Wait.
It works on some teachers; in 5th grade, we got the german teacher (who was very mad) and the geography teacher (who gave a surprise test that almost everyone flunked). We tried it on our german teacher this year, but she noticed and came in by the side as we’d forgotten to tape it to the frame…
The best prank day here is Maturistentag. I’m trying to write a Muserology on it, since it’s quite… eventful.
I can create chaos wherever I go, no prior planning needed.
However, perhaps I should think out some more carefully crafted schemes, more than just “if I stall long enough I can make the excuse to go out and brush my hair and see if anyone replied to my text messages before breakfast” sort of thing. Oh whoops, did I say that out loud (or type, as it were)? Apparently. *hastily arranges countenance into proper innocence*
Not like I’d do something like that, of course, just an, um, example.
I am always doing things to put off math. I’m homeschooled, and my mom thinks that I should do math right after I eat breakfast. :roll:Sometimes I hide my math book and pretend to not know where it is. However, that almost always backfires.
4-WHAT!? I love math!
haha pranks? You’ve come to the right person!
Enh, what should I start with? The time I tricked one of my friends into eating–no, maybe the time I convinced J to–no wait, the time I got F to beleive that H had–no not that one yet, maybe–OH! I got it! The time I persuaded J to play a trick on C for me! haha! So I didn’t get the blame, lol!
4- I love math ! I always developed sudden serious deficiencies whenever i was supposed to do german though…
The teachers here think that almost straight A students don’t play pranks…
They’re wrong. This thread is better for me than IlluMimiNati, since I’m sort of mischievous/not inclined to be nice by nature.
In chess, we were allowed to hang up “puzzles” where you had to figure out the next move in the school house. I leaned over the around a pillar by the staircase, so that only people my height or tall couldn’t get at it (I was the 2nd tallest present
) Everyone else had to sit at the foot of the stairs and crane their necks…
Stuff around me breaks, gets lost or cascades to the ground every whenever I’m not paying attention. Then I feel guilty and clean up not only what I knocked down, but everything else too. But that isn’t really IlluMimiNati since I knocked most of it over anyway…
SFTDP: I meant… people my height or taller could get at it… *is tired*
Ever tried wrapping up a piece of pink clay in a chocolate wrapper and giving it to someone? (The pink clay is so they don’t actually eat it. I played that trick on my chocolate (and strawberry) loving friend. I don’t play tricks often, though…
Ack! Did not close my parenthesis. There’s supposed to be a ) after “eat it.”
I ony hide it if it’s a kind of math that I don’t like. For some reason my
did’nt work. How about now?
Pranks!
Every year, tech crew (run crew, light, and sound for plays and musicals and everything else at our school) prank’s our tech director’s car and sometimes office.
Last year, when we did Beauty and the Beast. we collected empty water bottles for months and on the last day of the show snuck out before it started and filled her car with them (…after we… “borrowed” her keys for a bit). We had to climb in through thw windows when we had to take them out, but it was like a huge ball pit (she has one of those not-quite vans, but not exactly a jeep cars) and lots of fun to swim through XD
We also TP’d her office while she want out to look at the car
For Grease we covered an entire room in the sound/light booth with bright coloured post-it notes.
This year, me and a few others snuck out during act 1 of our play Noises Off (long act where we do absolutely nothing) and went out to her car with a ton of packs of Oreos (well a cheaper brand but you get the idea). We carefully pulled them apart so there was cream on both sides, licked it a few times, and stuck it to her car. We went all around the window and wheel rims and did pretty designs, and the hood… she got mad about that but we paid for a car wash too XD
We also get her presents, mind you, and good ones. This year was a dry erase board for the scene shop and a mini fridge for her office.
I need to start planning next years prank! I’ll be one of the major seniors so I get a lot of input ^^
The extent of my pranks are something along the lines of popping out behind doors and yelling boo, especially at people like Vildana who scream a lot, even after they’re done being scared and then running away and when they get caught by teachers they can’t just say “this kid jumped out and said boo and then ran away” because it sounds so typical.
Also fun: carrying around two things, one in each hand that are so weird they get people thinking what you’re going to use them for.
Example: letter opener and fire hydrant.
I’ve seen that idea in a Dilbert book.
…A roll of duct tape and a jar of honey.
…A funnel and some glue.
If someone asks you about it, say, “It’s a long story,” accompanied by mournful head shaking.
*cracks up*
Next April Fools Day, I’m definitely doing that.
These things remind me of xkcd…..”combination of things to buy that most freak out the cashier. winner: coathanger and pregnancy test”
Once I had an old Skittles wrapper in my pocket, so I filled it up with Skittle-sized gravel and traded it for a bag of potato chips. On April Fools Day, I made Oreos with “Sweet and Spicy” hot sauce in it. ( :barf: Should be an emoticon.) Except that kind of backfired on me because one person said that they tasted like salad and that they wanted more. Except they were joking. I think. And I also injected the hot sauce into SmartFood with an eyedropper, and gave it to a bunch of boys who ate it all fast, then got in trouble for screaming (EWW! GROSS! WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH THIS?) in the cafeteria. but not too much trouble.
4 – I don’t like math either. Sorry to all you math fans, but it makes no sense to me.
10- Nice and nice.
Yay for pranks!
On April Fool’s day, one of the classes decided to prank our math teacher. They weren’t going to show up for class and would hide in the health teacher’s classroom. They were going to leave the math teacher clues all around the school for her to find until she found the class hiding. (And video tape it!) They’d been preparing for weeks. I helped them set some of it up. BUT, she found out about the prank and instead of going along with it she called them on it and was sooooooo mad! It was crazy.
OK, pranks. Well, one April Fools Day, I told my highly arachnophobic mother there was a spider on her head. I’m glad I timed the prank to when we were at a red light, because she took her hands completely off the wheel, yelling “GET IT OFF!!! GET IT OFF ME NOW!!!” Luckily I told her in time that she reagained her composure enough to drive a second before the light changed.
My mom has some great stories of things that happened at her school when she was a kid….spiders, a teacher’s car disappearing, the clock in the classroom getting set back, another teacher’s car getting wrapped up like a Christmas present, and there are more, oh yes, there are more! I remember hearing all these stories with glee when I was younger.
Our April Fool’s joke in Driver’s Ed (making a poster on WhiteOut when we were supposed to talk about drugs) was fun, but the rest of the class didn’t really get that it was a joke. *sigh* The look on Mr. S’s face though, that was priceless.
One of the best times, however, was when mom was teaching a bookbinding class to a group of about 5 or so. There’s a wheat paste you use at one point in the process that has the appearance of a clear-white, thick but slimy looking pasty liquid and a strong smell of peppermint (to keep the bugs away).
Well, in the morning they all come into the shop and immediately found the mixing bowl containing this substance. Since mom is busy, they, of course, ask me what it is. Being the earnest and serious child that I am, a very solemnly reply that it is boogers. Looks of horror and disbelief cloud 5 young faces as they stare at me. After all, I am the teacher’s kid, I probably do know what it is, but…am I telling them the truth? Could this be so? They decide that I am not, in fact, being entirely honest with them, and demand to know why it smells minty.
“Why, that’s to keep the bugs away, they don’t like the smell.”
Unsure glances around at each other.
“But….that’s a big bowl. How’d you get so much?”
“Oh, we’ve been saving them for quite some time, and I had a cold a few months ago which helped a lot.”
The glances are getting a little more frequent.
“What do you use them for?” ventures some bold one.
“I’m not entirely sure, mom told me last night but I forgot.” Smiling innocently, “But we’ll find out today!”
Uneasy shifting of weight and each looks for another to ask again if I’m telling the truth.
“But that’s gross!” someone bursts out, “It’s can’t be boogers!”
I roll my eyes, this discussion is getting tiresome.
“Well I know it’s gross, but they are.”
“Why should I believe you?”
Uttering a heavy sigh I shake my head and prepare to turn away, “Well whatever you want to believe, but what does it look like to you?”
They all shuffle about a little bit, uneasy but out of arguments.
I turn around and start to walk lightly off, just as mom comes up from the other direction, and they try asking her.
“Ms. D, is that boogers?”
She stops, slightly puzzled and amused, “No, it’s wheat paste, whatever put that into your minds?”
Accusing glares are shot in my direction, shrugging, I make a noncommittal grunt and mutter something about “I can’t believe you actually thought I was serious!” before bursting into hysterical laughter.
Of course, in a few months they completely denied the incident.
I put molasses on a classmate’s seat. It made a delightful squelching noise when she got up. I like to think of pranks as a way to keep the IlluMimiNati deeds in balance. And a few days ago I sneaked into the school canteen and put salt in the rice. But nobody noticed. AND I made a clay cookie, wrapped it up, gave it to a friend, and she actually ate it! I have an idea for an automatic kick-me-sign-slap-on-backer. It has to do with a LOT of tape and some wire.
SFTDP. It’s also funny if you make yourself seen walking down the hallway in a purposeful manner and carrying a load of silly string cans in one hand and a load of confetti in the other. Especially if you walk past the janitor.
My father has so many stories about stuff he did when he was a kid…Does anyone know where I could get a 5ftx5ft map for geography ? Our teacher has one to lecture us on europe, and we were going to exchange it for one of middle earth and see if he noticed. Unfortunately, we got a new teacher now, and she is more prank-wise and would look at the map before starting to lecture…*sigh*
On April Fool’s Day this year, I replaced my father’s cereal with (clean) kitty litter. He woke up way earlier than me, but I heard him laughing from all the way downstairs.
OH! I know! I can tell about pranks my dad has done! His pranks are always hilarious and well-planned. Or sometimes he just uses whatever is on hand to produce ridiculous effect. For instance, the time he filled an empty banana skin with pistachio shells right before a party, and whenever someone came in, he offered them a banana! Then, they pick up the top one, which is the one that is filled with pistachio shells, and pistachio shells spill out! Then, he re-did it and waited for the next arrival. Of course, the previous victims would linger around the table, laughing hysterically at the faces of the victims that came after them. I remember the very last person looking quite baffled as my dad offered her a banana and every single person at the party laughed hysterically as she reached for it! It was sooo hystericall! *giggles*
At my school, there are three different lunch periods. I have second lunch, which means that we go to class for a while, then to lunch, and then back to class for another while. I was one of the first people back from lunch today, and a couple other people and I decided to trick the rest of the class and the teacher (who always comes back late). We went into the room which had been left unlocked, shut off all the lights, and hid around a corner. One person volunteered to stay outside, which was necessary for our prank. I held the doorknob for about forty-five seconds until two or three people had tried to open the door but found it “locked”. After that, we just waited inside while the entire class was out in the hall, trusting other people to have tried the door. Eventually the teacher came back and tried to unlock the door, only to find it unlocked. I still can’t believe no one was smart enough to check if the door actually was locked–the class waited outside for almost ten minutes!
19- I did that! And the teacher didn’t notice until he looked to find Riga, Latvia and found Anon Hen instead! Of course, my entire class is so dim-witted that they didn’t realize it wasn’t Europe. They assumed, apparently, that it was a new map written in an old-fashioned manner. And my teacher apparently hasn’t read LOTR, so he just shrugged and frowned. But then our Science teacher came in and laughed until he got a really bad stomachache and had to be taken to the nurse’s office. We have a weird teacher.
For my year’s senior prank, we’ll either get three chickens and set them loose in the school, labeled one, two, and four (a classic), or, if at all possible, get techno going over the PA system, shut off the lights, and have a rave in four corners.
/gradster(1)/ – Secretary of Bureaucracy of the ASAP
This year’s senior prank was letting crickets lose in the math hallway. I didn’t even notice until someone told me about it.
Senior pranks at band camp were quite a bit better, though. Did you know that if you spread vaseline really smoothly on a doorknob it’s not visible?
23) Awww…That’s to bad. Our old geography teacher was a riot- if you got him nervous, he’d start talking about his expedition(s) to the Amazon when he was a young student. One day, we had swimming (on obligatory part of gym in 5th grade) in the first two hours, then geography. There was a sprinkler in the park outside our school, a big one which slowly turned from side to side. Everyone dared each-other to run under it, stay under it, e.t.c.… In the end, 32 soaked 5th graders sat in geography class and pretended not to notice the puddles under every desk. Since everyone acted as if it were perfectly normal to come to class soaking wet and denied being anything more than “a little damp”, the bewildered teacher just lectured off about people that he’d met/life in the Amazon rainforest, forgetting that we’d finished that chapter months ago and were now supposed to learn about the tundra. Personal experiences aren’t adequate material for a test, so we didn’t bother to correct him and let him talk on until the bell rang, showing sincere (wet) little faces.
Does any of you schools have hanging lamps? Ours has high celings, so the lamps hang down. They’re easy to access: with a tall girl with high heels on a chair on a table you can even tape a cell phone to the back of them, and program it to play the uncensored version of a certain rap song in the middle of german class. The teacher wasn’t pleased, but she could hardly lecture the lamps…
22- Amon Hen. Come on, get it right! Okay, I’m done.
9- At my uncle’s wedding, my dad and a bunch of friends blew up a WHOLE bunch of balloons, and put them in my uncle’s car. The car was stuffed! Then, they convinced my sister to get in the back seat, under the balloons, and pop out of them when they were on their way, and say “So, where are we going?” They wanted me to do that, but I wouldn’t.
K, this didn’t happen at my school, but at a friend’s. A friend’s private Christian school, no less.
They have this circle of benches in the center of their main quad (outdoors, since it’s California) which used to be some sort of cistern or well, because the benches form a perfect circle that is watertight. Some seniors last year took advantage of this and filled it not only completely full of water but also added koi, a blow-up toy, and several “ornamental” plants. To my knowledge, it took the administration nearly two weeks to figure out how to get rid of all the junk.
Another good one is the “flash freeze” where at a certain time, all the seniors just freeze (usually during passing period) in whatever attitude they’re in (mid-walk, mid-bite, whatever). My cousin did a variation on this where they all lay down in the middle of the corridors…needless to say caused a complete gridlock of the school.
27- Hah! That’s evil! *laughs*
I would love to do really good pranks, except a lot of things only work with more than one person, and I know a whole bunch of party poopers. I have been known to wear mismatched patterned knee socks, but that’s hardly a prank. I have also run through the lunch room when it’s full but really quiet, yelling (at top speed, mind you). I also get someone to follow along behind me, at a very sedate pace. It’s very fun.
26- Someone Bluetoothed an uncensored, X-rated rap song to our teacher’s phone (while the teacher was supervision the IT lab), set it as the ring tone, put the volume really loud, and then asked to go to the restroom during class and called it from downstairs. For some reason most people in my fourth grade class already knew the song…
28) Ohh, I wish I could get people to do a flash-freeze. Or flood the cellars-
30) Ours wasn’t exactly x-rated, but our german teacher is very… uptight.
28) I would KILL to do that. Well, not KILL, but something, anyway. I would love to, except y’can’t really have a flash freeze with one person. Though I have been known to lie down in the middle of the HS hallway. Not REALLY unusual. People SIT there all the time, there’s almost no difference.
30) That would never happen in my school, because the only teachers who don’t turn their phones off are either a) Rabbis (and you just don’t do that), b) they know your parents, or c) both.
the seniors at my school attempted to have a “pirate day” today, but all that happened was 30 kids (out of 300!) dressed up and looked silly haha.
A flash-freeze would be awesome. Except no one would listen to me, and then I would be frozen by myself and it wouldn’t achieve the same effect.
For one month out of the year, around March, or for the first two weeks of that month, you can basically wear whatever you want. Generally, we have a uniform, but you can get away with anything as long as it follows a certain dress code and you call it a costume.
This is because of the Jewish month Adar, and the holiday Purim.
I wore a costume every day, and they were all crazy. Giant sunglasses with a red nose attached, with a backwards Phillies cap, and one day I wore a cape and crown, and one day a hamburger hat, etc. I have a ton of funny hats. One day, I wore a bathrobe and slippers. And on Purim I walked around the neighborhood with my brother, and both of us were wearing bathrobes and pajamas, and carried teddy-bears and blankets, and I wore my hair in pigtails. Fun stuff.
And on the last day of Adar I wore a multicolored Cat in the Hat hat, and I attached a sign that said “It’s Still Adar.”
SFTNP – Sorry For The Nonsensical Post
Sorry, this is probably off-topic since I haven’t exactly been *coughcoughbeingagoodkidandactuallyreadingthepreviouspostssoasnottodisturbotherswithmyactsofrandomnesscoughcough* But I typically do not need to go looking for mischief, mischief finds me. And when I do actually go looking for mischief? Well, then it never works out. Like, one time I tried to pull off a prank on my friend by jumping out at her and yelling BOO! as loud as possible but she just stared at me like I was crazy. Which I am. So you see, mischief is much easier to cause when you don’t mean it…
The senior pranks at our high school rule half the time and suck the other half. Last year, the sprinklers came on during lunch and then all the seniors started laughing. It was incredibly boring. This year, they covered the quad with sand, put in a kiddie pool, set up an umbrella, and put in two very confused goldfish. They also set up a little lemonade-stand-esque table selling “ice cream”, which was actually paste from gluesticks. It was hilarious.
Me and my friends want to do a “senior” prank this year, since we’re the graduating class of our school. (I’m in 8th grade.)
Here are our guidelines for a prank:
It can’t be hurtful to a specific person.
It can’t cause lasting damage or cost the school money.
It can’t be something we could get in serious trouble for.
It can’t harm animals.
It has to be actually FUNNY, not just stupid and immature.
Preferably, no one should find out who did it.
Sadly, that doesn’t leave much. We agree that convincing everyone to do something would be good, but we can’t really think of anything.