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Lol RickRolling the whole building would be hilarious, but only i'd get the joke >.<

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Then have a distorted voice of someone(to the point that none can recognize it) say 'You lost the game'....

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and then the internet would claim win and we'd become the subject of many 'a meme.
of course somebody would have to be charg'n some splazers and sham-wow would have to be involved but then we might be trying too hard.

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If your the only nerd in your school, I feel sorry for it.:p

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its not that i'm the only nerd, i'm just one of 4ish that are educated in internets =)
Charlie the Unicorn is about the limit for everybody else.

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Now I've done quite a few pranks over the years, and some I pulled at my high school are still ongoing, even years later.

The best pranks require a lot of background research; the more you know, the more epic the pranks will be. And bonus points will be awarded to original pranks. Case in point: some intercom systems in public areas are accessed by an internal phone number calling into a voicemail box. All you need to know is the internal phone number (and extension) and the intercom is yours.

Since I don't want to spoil all the best pranks I've discovered (the best branks are discovered, not learned :D), I'll just share some easy ones:

Pop off keyboard keys and rearrange them. On nearly all keyboards, this can be done without permanent damage. My personal favorite is to switch the M and N keys.

Replace all writing implements in your teacher's desk with Crayons.

If you still use a chalkboard, put pieces of chalk in the eraser.

If you use a whiteboard, get mini dry erase markers and embed them into the eraser.

Have fun with MS Word autocorrect.

Get several hundred "Happy Birthday!" signs and balloons and stick them on random lockers. Bonus points if you use a mathematical sequence instead of random lockers, such as prime numbers or the Fibbernaci sequence.

Make a giant cardboard/wood/PVC UFO, and make it look like crashed into your school. The crash site has to be highly visible. The UFO has to be at least 12-25 feet across. Put a fog machine inside, and then get random students to come to school in alien halloween costumes (or as much of a costume as your dress code allows).

Stage an Improv Everywhere style musical or freeze event in your school cafeteria.

Get cheap 3D glasses (the ones with the red and blue lens). Disperse them out to as many students as possible, as quickly as possible, then have them all walk through the hallways between classes with their hands out saying things like "Whoa! That looks so real!".

Teach at least thirty or so students to go skanking [dancing]. Someone pull a stereo out of a bookbag in a hallway, cafeteria, etc. and blast something like Goldfinger by Superman. Why skanking instead of something more mainstream like rap/pop? Because it's not what everyone would expect from "spontaneous dancing". The best pranks shatter someone's preconceptions, or make them think outside of the "I eat the exact same lunch everyday" mindset.


And remember, always use your powers only for awesome. Because when all is said and done, if it's still funny, then it was a successful prank. It's even better if it can momentarily break people out of the same mediocrity of life. ;)

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After one of our coaches left for the day, the remaining college mentor distracted the other teacher while myself and two other students inverted most of the stuff in the first teacher's room. Computer mice, keyboards, the calendar on his desk, empty coffee mug, we turned the phone around, the clock required duct tape to stay on the wall, things he had pinned above the white board...

good times.

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OK, let's be honest. Stuff like glittery soap in the bathrooms or chalk in the erasers (does anyone actually still use chalk any more?) is cute, but pretty pedestrian. Maybe OK for a quick gag at summer camp, but these are not really the stuff that legends are made from.

The surprising addition of a flag pole (complete with pirate flag) or moving a multi-ton rock is heading in the right direction, and worthy of an honorable mention.

But if you want examples of how the professional leagues do it when it comes to institutional pranks, then there is only one place to go - to the great M.I.T. Hacks.

MIT engineering students have a history of creative, clever and non-damaging pranks that combine the best of an engineering challenges and good sense of humor. They are so good that they have spawned several books to record their history, and are a regular feature on the MIT campus. It is not unusual to find them on the front pages of newspapers around the world each spring.

Some of the favorites include this year's installation of the Apollo 11 lunar lander on the top of the great dome:


and the Robot Rights Protest



although this has to be one of my favorites:



-dave


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The high school I attended has a tower that is something like 65 feet tall, with a convenient spire on top. According to my uncle and my father, around 1950, some person or person unknown somehow inflated a truck inner tube to enormous proportions and dropped it over the spire. The school had to hire a professional steeplejack to remove it.

I have no idea how my uncle and father would know this, but they suggest that two war-surplus weather balloons could have lifted the inner tube up there -- but neither will talk about how they could have known that.

(I was the third generation of my family to attend Huntington Beach High School. My uncles, mother, father, and great-uncle all went there. Our senior prank did not -- unfortunately -- involve the tower.)

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Dave is right about this one! (not that he's not right about anything else) Last year for my folklore class, I did fieldwork in the area of pranks and one of the books I checked out of the school library was Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT. I ended up not using it as a source because my paper switched from being about "geek" pranks to focusing on how a serial prankster operates, but the book was so much fun to read! It convinced me that being a geek is more fun than being anything else! Of course, after returning the book to the library, I was slightly disappointed with my school... either they are too dumb to realize what having a book like that in their school library could cause or they just don't think Mason students have it in them...

There was another interesting book, too: If At All Possible, Involve a Cow that is about different pranks from different colleges (it has a whole chapter dedicated to MIT and Caltech's pranks).

Heidi (who again thanks Dave for the interview for her paper, I'm sure he's partially responsible for the A+ :p )

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Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that this is your way of pointing out Dave's serial prankster capabilities? hm?


edit: kudos for the A+

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In the manner of pranks...
I would like to submit the following quote for your perusal...


"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage..to move in the opposite direction..." A. Einstein

Elegance and creativity in pranking is the hallmark ....

I see too many of my students just using the internet to come up with ideas...
You can certainly draw from the masters.... (Caltech and MIT..etc..)
but do your own thing.... make it good... make it unique...

If you make it destructive be prepared for the consequences....
Destructive pranks are almost universally disliked....
And remember you WILL NOT be able to keep everyone quiet.
Some will ALWAYS talk about it....it is human nature

Use the FIRST model..... get together... brainstorm....
develop your plan....

The best pranks are the simplest and most elegant...
the ones that make the observer scratch their head...

good luck

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This year our seniors got permission and forked the whole front and the whole back of our school the used sidwalk chalk and wrote all over the side walk in the front of the school they put FORK HHS 09

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First bold: we were stumped for two weeks
second bold: did that and ^^^^
third bold: that's the plan =)

I thought i'd add that my brother's senior class tied a parking lot of cars together. it was funny until three mirrors got broken off from rope being pulled. and my bro's antenna got bent.

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Our seniors pulled off a nice one this year:

All of the seniors smuggled fake swords armor costumes into school a few days back. Then roughly halfway through third hour one of them distracted the people in the office and someone got a hold of the intercom and announced: Attention all seniors. The battle begins now! All of the seniors then proceed to rush out onto the front lawn and have a massive mock medieval brawl. I later learned that in addition the guys in one of the design classes had constructed a functioning catapult which they dragged out and used to fling cardboard projectiles into the crowd. A lot of the people in my class thought it was stupid but hey no one got hurt, and the seniors had a blast.

Our English teacher also told us her classes senior prank. have all the seniors bring in alarm clocks, set them for the same time, and have all the seniors leave. Time comes the bells rings and just doesn't stop ^_^