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Old 11-19-2004, 08:51 AM   #107 (permalink)
Lasereth
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Originally Posted by Jeff
I think flour is amusing. We went to a dorm one night and lined flour across the bottom of the door. Than we took our portable fan and blew all the flour into the dorm room. Everybody was in bed, and when they woke the next morning there was fine layer of powder on everything in the room.
I'd make people pay for my electronics that got damaged. Even dust can permanently fuck over certain electronic devices...flour would be the nail in the coffin!

I've seen many practical joke sites on the Internet but most of them are simply schemes to utterly destroy an aspect of someone's life. There's a difference between something you can go to jail for and something that would be funny.

Examples I frequently see: "One time we took a bunch of chemicals from the lab at college and poured them all into a cauldron. Then we lit it on fire and blew half of the chemistry lab up in flames! It was fun and people couldn't believe we did it."

Or how about the classic "Get your neighbor real good! Shoot their dog with a gun and put it on their doorstep. Ha ha!"

"Poor chemical XXX in someone's car and watch their engine blow up a mile down the road!"

None of these are practical jokes. They're crimes that you can go to jail for. I hate when people say practical jokes but really mean "plot to destroy someone's life."

Sorry to bitch and moan but I see this happening a lot. Let's keep it realistic!

The only practical joke I can think of is concerning me wanting to be a teacher. When I graduation with my Bachelor's I'd love to go to my first class that I have to teach and sit down at a desk and act like I was a student. Then ask if anyone had heard anything about the teacher. The entire class would be talking about what the teacher was like, then I'd just get up and walk to the front and say "Hey, I'm your teacher." It'd probably embarass the hell out of the students.

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