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- From: cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: practical jokes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.183936.20326@eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:39:36 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.043629.46261@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Sender: cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks)
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- >>> I'm looking for a new and original practical joke to play on a roommate.
- >>> It has to be a really serious one. Something along the lines of locking
- >>> him
- >>> in his room for a whole day, or something like that. Does anybody have
- >>> any good ideas?
-
- >>How about setting his clock, watch, alarm clock, etc., an hour or two ahead
- >>of schedule. Worked great on a friend's roommate. He was looking very
- >>puzzled when he walked into his "10:00" class and not recognizing the
- >>professor or any of the students in his class.
-
- >last year in our freshman dorm we had access to firecrackers. they became
- >pretty useful...since most people go to bed by 12p-2a in our old dorm, we
- >would wait till 3-4a, and set off fireworks in the window sill of the lucky
- >victim. i also recall a time where we set off a few, and then called the room
- >in which the firecrackers were set off in....ie. we laid the firecrackers in
- >the windows sill...let them xplode....and then pretended that we were the
- >campus police investigating this firework stuff.....we said that the person
- >would have to come down to the campus police and fill out forms, and all that
- >other good stuff...well have fun
-
- Picture this:
- 1. Guy goes away to see a friend for the weekend.
- 2. His "mates" get some watercress seed, and blow it under his door,
- with a vacuum cleaner.
- 3. They then spray a water fire-extinguisher under the door.
- 4. The watercress grows nicely in the carpet for a few days.
- 5. Guy returns, to find a new green carpet in his room...
-
- This was done to a friend of mine (not by me...), and he took it remarkably
- well, considering.
-
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- Christopher Hicks | If it doesn't fit...
- cmh@uk.ac.cam.eng | ...you need a bigger hammer.
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