Ok, so Dark and I were discussion new variations on Rick Rolling. God help the people he works with!

Anyway, this triggered a memory of one of the greatest pranks I was a part of.

It was a small manufacturing shop, with some offices, and a new expansion. A good friend worked in the new expansion office alone. Prime target. He's also the kind of person that can both handle and appreciate a gag like this.

We took two boiled eggs and hid them in the office and waited. We had no idea what was about to happen.

1 week:

It's a bit skanky in the room. Open the door, air out out a little, no biggie. You get used to it and nobody thought anything of it. Kind of like that office where people don't take their food home right away.

1.5 weeks:

Noticeable. Subject buys some fresh air things and cleans the place up huge. It does not last long, but was enough to keep working.

2 weeks:

Came in on a Monday, and it was foul! Still, didn't have enough potency to prevent working though. Subject brings in fan, leaves door open, begins to have meetings outside that office.

There is discussion about the smell among the office staff that are not in on the gag.

2.5 weeks:

Subject knows something is up, but NOBODY gives it up. Amazing really. We all never thought it would go that far, but it did. Subject does a search of the place, finds nothing.

At this point, people begin to come to the door, then call him somewhere else to "come look at something" --anything really to stay out of that office.

Subject is working the crowds huge. Everybody gives him some BS to think about to solve the problem and the drama continues. Will it be him, or the eggs that win?

3 weeks:

It all comes to a head that Monday. Just being near that office just reeks. Still though. Subject has an iron will, continues to work on project, mostly in office. Everybody avoids that portion of the building at all costs.

We wonder if subject has nasal damage of some kind, because it's almost not possible to work there, but he does anyway.

Company principle comes to the office, opens the door to ask subject a question and it's like a brick wall! He pauses, and exhaling only, "subject, can I see you for a moment please?"

It's all we can do to keep from laughing huge, but we do. The company figure is a prude and it's just killing us to see him try to downplay it. Of course it reeks huge, so he fails, but puts a good face on it.

Subject returns and just announces the gig is up! He announces to everyone that it's either the smell or him, and he declares it's not gonna be the smell.

Again, NOBODY gives it up. We are all going to the mat on this one, watching with morbid interest at the drama unfolding.

I was working in the area next to the office too. It smelled bad there. I couldn't actually go IN the office where the eggs were.

Took subject an hour to find the damn things. We heard retching, and saw him holding the bag, and it was MOVING! He runs to the dumpster and deposits more than the eggs!

Comes back, and shares immediate relief with everybody. (it smelled really bad)

Amazingly, he announces, "THAT WAS THE GREATEST!" Everybody is amazed that it went that long and that nobody just gave the gag up.

Every so often, I'll fax him a picture of an egg, and enjoy a quick catch up conversation!

Co-worker gets a new PC.

New PC has problems and keeps getting BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).

Re-loads OS twice and finally resolves issue just prior to going on vacation. Finishes transferring data from old PC to new one and sends old unit in for disposal and/or reassignment.

Leaves on vacation.

I download a BSOD wallpaper and put it in place.

Hide all desktop icon's and taskbar.

Disable screensaver.

Turn off monitor.

Unplug mouse and keyboard.

The reaction was priceless when he returned and powered up his monitor with the BSOD just sitting there waiting for him.

Hmmm, since I've been in the pizza business for so long ... ours involved more primitive hijinks.

Per health department regulations of course, even though they aren't public, all delivery places have to have a restroom. I started a nasty little trend on newbies working for Domino's, involving the head. When a newbie would go to the bathroom (#2, or a female for this to work), I would get a big bucket of water. I would then go to the bathroom door and talk through it to ask the employee to look up to see if there is a leak. When I heard the "I don't see anything", the entire bucket of water would be tossed under the door, soaking their pants, socks, shoes, whatver else they might have sitting on the floor.

It would of course piss off the newbie, but they would be indoctrinated into the store culture.

Since it was my doing, and I started it, everyone tried to get me back. I got smart and took a dough tray into the growler with me and put my feet and pants bottoms into it, so when the water came through I was protected.

The best one I recall was at the last get together where CJ introduced himself as Herb! I think me and Brian's jaws hit the floor on that one!

He was so nonchalant ... he just walks up and deadpans, "Hello, I'm Herb."

Priceless.

How did I miss that?

This is from the tavern days. We fired one of our bartenders. After time it was water under the bridge but her husband wouldn't let her frequent our bar. She kept up on him and he finally relented with one exception. She had a task that she had to accomplish and not until she could prove to him that the prank had been accomplished could she become a regular at the bar again.

His prank to get me and my dad back for firing his wife was to plant two fish behind our poker machines. Needless to say we didn't have aircoditioning at the time and just ceiling fans so the smell just wafted a recirculated throughout the tavern. It took us around a month to get it all figured out and then when it was figured out another customer who assisted the former bartender let us in on it and we 86'd that bitch.

Back in 1975, I worked at a TV repair shop in St. Louis. The shop was located in a small strip mall.

At the far end of the strip mall was a dairy store that had the BEST chocolate milkshakes in town. I'd go get a chocolate shake almost every day.

Well, one afternoon one of the other techs offered to get me a milkshake and I accepted.

For 2 days after that I had the worst case of stomach cramps and the shi#s like it was nobody's business.

Come to find out he's had them make it with Exlax, 2 whole packages in fact.

I stewed about this for a week or so and then decided while he was out on a service call that I'd rearrange the spark plug wires in his distributor cap (personal car). One of the other techs ratted on me and the guy had the Chilton’s manual so it was a no brainer to fix.

I stewed for a couple more days and came up with a better revenge.

A little setup, in case you have never been to St. Louis or don't know the area. St. Louis, MO and East St. Louis, IL are separated by the Mississippi river. East St. Louis is very poor and run down and not a place you'd want to frequent. Nuff said.

It was Thursday and I called the St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper.

I placed an ad that would run Friday and also in the weekend paper.

The ad read; "500 Solid Gold Soul Records. Call after 12:00 PM" and listed his phone number.

Remember what I said about East St. Louis? Get the picture?

He was pissed on Monday. He still lived at home and he said his dad was so mad about getting calls all hours of the night that he ripped the phone off the wall!!!

To add insult to injury, I had the bill sent to his house too!

NICE!!

I have done this many times before and I think it is one of the most popular pranks out there:

http://www.besteverprank.com/

You are dead meat, pal!

Oh man, I freaking CLICKED IT.

Good God Dark. You are the Rick Roll KING.

Nicely done man. Just nice. I've got Dark link anxiety now!

Here is an idea Darktemper. If you have a neighbor that annoys you go away for the day and leave that infamous song on a constant repeat from a blasting stereo system. You got me yet again.

I promise, only in humor threads or ones with appropriate titles such as this.

Anyway.........GOTCHYA SUCKA'S!!!!!!

At risk of spoiling the fun... a little tip - if you mouse over the link and look at the bar at the bottom of the browser, you can see that it's linking you to youtube instead of whatever.com.