The most genius one I've ever been involved in happened after we were all out with underwriters late one night and one of my coworkers met a hot young thing at the bar. He was all disapointed that he didn't get her phone number, but he did tell us her distinctive-sounding name.
In the morning, one of us set up a hotmail address in best approximation of her name that we could get and started peppering him with emails asking him out. He was all proud of himself, thinking he'd given her his card or something and set up lunch with her that afternoon (at "her" prompting for that). Lunch was scheduled at 12:30, and he didn't tell any of us animals why he wasn't going out with us instead. There was a mention of lots of work, but he clammed up as far as telling the rest of us what was going on after he got a second email.
Needless to say, we all got to the restaurant (different than the one he thought we were all going to) about 20 mintues before the "date", enlisted the help of the manager and laughed our asses off when the manager escorted him back to our table. He didn't think it was nearly as funny as we did, but it still goes down as one of the greatest pranks I've ever been a part of.
Note: this obviously works equally well with non-coworkers.
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