Pranks we did when younger... and still do?

[launieg]

I thought I'd made a long post to encourage him to return. But I guess it did not work.

in short, I too hope he returns. I appreciate his postings - a lot. I come here to share a passion and get valuable info. Nick, come back!

[mdrburchette]

Truly a shame. Nick offered so much to this forum, including a great service to revive our clocks. I also enjoyed reading the posts on his harmless practical jokes. We have all done it at one time or other. Mine were just not as clever or memorable. The email function works on the forum. Everyone should try emailing him. I got him to answer me that way. If we bombard him with emails and apologies, maybe he'll come back. This is so extremely petty and not worth losing a good member over.

[spiderrey]

I too, hope Nick comes back. Too many people have to much pent up anger and frustration nowadays. People forget about balance, you need the prank everynow and then to take the edge off. Every forum Im on something is innocently said and everyones off to the races , trying to shove thier views down someone elses throat. And it seems no one backs off till something lame like this happens. Thats to bad. I could have gone totally ballistic when that not well thought out pimped Mexican post was started, or some of the other comments that werent well thought out were posted, But I just paused shook my head and took it down another road. Nick offered something to this forum thats gonna be hard to replace. Nick is what this forum is all about in my opinion anyway. He brought some help to the table that no one else offered and is gonna be missed,

[mdrburchette]

Very well said.

[ventura ace]

In honor of Nick, I suggest we continue the thread with his original intent of good wholesome fun!

My earlier school days were so full of pranks that I can't remember the half of them. There's too many for me to tell, and I'd be hard pressed to select some of my better ones, because then I'd feel a need to write a book about all the rest of them, but instead, I'll tell about a prank that one of my buddies pulled on me.

It was in our high school years, we were sitting in the pews in church one Sunday morning, and my buddy Tom pulled out his box of Chiclets (chewing gum squares), popped one in his mouth, then offered the box to me. I took one and started to chew, and whispered to him that he might want to toss the rest since the they tasted a little stale. He said sorry, and suggested I try another, since maybe I got a bad one. "Same thing," I reported back to him. He said that he knew what I meant, and said he was chewing on 4 of them to get enough sparkle in the taste to be fresh. He offered more. The sucker I was, I ended up chewing on all 5 of the rest of them, and I didn't notice the big grin he was trying to hide. I didn't realize he had been feeding me chewable Feen-a-mint gum tablets.

Note: Feen-a-mint is a laxative that I had never heard of at the time.

You might imagine that I barely made it through the rest of the sermon, and headed straight to the restrooms as soon as the Amen from the last hymn was still trailing off. And you can maybe imagine that I didn't get too far from the bathroom all the rest of the day. We had youth group that night, and I had to excuse myself a time or 2 during the course of our gathering. Tom was there, of course, and the sucker I was, it never sunk in to me why the group was unusually jovial, and friendly to me that evening.

Next day at school, Tom commented that I looked a little peaked, and asked me if everything was OK. That was the first indication to me that something was off base. I'm thinking, "Hey, has this guy been peaking through the bathroom window at me or something?" How would he know about the strange need that I've had to run to the john all afternoon and half the night? Perplexed, I thanked him for his concern and confided in him about my problem. He couldn't stand it any more, coughed out the story, in between attempts to choke back the laughs, with all the rest of my friends that were rolling around on the floor by now. Man, had I been had. They had taken down the king of pranks, and I'm sure that I deserved every bit of it!

Alvon

[ga.spyder]

I have stayed out of this thread,since it deteriorated into the name calling and political b.s. My rule is to stay away from discussions that involve race,religion,or politics on a forum like this.In my opinion,this isnt the place for that.I was shocked and offended by the 'pimped out' thread recently, and I am not of Mexican descent.Lets keep it car related,even the off topic and social!
Nick was one of the truly 'good guys' here and I hope he reconsiders his decision to leave.Amazing how something as innocent as a thread about silly pranks,can snowball into what it did.
I understand about the silliness cutting into productive time on the job.But if it wasnt for the joking,name calling,and litle pranks on my jobsites,it would make for a very,very long and boring day.
Craig

[kmead]

This is a story from a friend from back in the 50s, which I find quite funny though a tiny bit off color.

In the mid fifties the movie The Caine Mutiny was released to great acclaim. To some its Bogarts best role. If you haven't seen it, is a movie about a Navy ship and its captain and crew. The crew mutinies and eventually there is a trial (court martial proceedings).

The high school students all went to the movie and enjoyed it greatly. One of the affectations of the captain is a nervous tic where under stress he holds some ball bearings in his hand rotating them and clicking them together, it becomes an undertone to the film and a focus at times in the film.

It wasn't long after the viewing when the sound of ball bearings clicking together could be heard in class or in study hall. It got to the point where the school banned them and the sound of them faded away.

A week or so later in a study hall the sound of those bearings could be heard in the back of the room. The study hall teacher called out: Alright, who has the steel balls? to which some other wit in the room calls out: Superman...

I think there were a few days of detention meted out for that quip.

[mbouse]

Karl..... You were in high school in the 50's ?? Does your wife know that?

[MNspiderman]

Pranks are what we did back in the 70's/80's. Deal with it.
i burnt down a garage, didn't know there was a car in it
i took a man hole cover off of a street
i peed in my x girlfriends x boyfriends cologne
I tied a car to a pole like on porky s
i shot a snakes head off with a bb gun
i wrote a bad check to a grocery store on purpose
i took a front door to a house once
i dragged a friend across a street into a cornfield to scare oncoming drivers
i did burnouts through intersections in my cougar eliminator
i toilet paper'd houses
i did donuts on lawns
i let a container of woodticks loose on my gradeschool bus
i siphoned gas from parked cars

Well I hope i offended someone, i could go on until i do. How many of these are true, I will only know. Or are they all true... Pranks, whatever they are called, someone will laugh, someone will cry, someone will get mad. As long as nobody dies. I think thats the definition of a Prank. Now this is a stolen thread. WiLd. I GUARANTEE that NOBODY here and I mean NOBODY had ever not done a prank. Dig deeper into your minds my children, deeper. Some of you were alive before the age of 19.
ps. the devil made me do it. therefore i relieve myself of all punishments allowable by this forum.
Hmmm. Was this post a prank or was the prank this post.

[Foster48x]

That sounds like the 5th step of 12 step program coming out of ya .

[Gunsmith]

I would post some more but I am still waiting on the statute of limitations to run out

[kmead]

Karl..... You were in high school in the 50's ?? Does your wife know that?

You've seen my gray hair haven't you, there's one or two up there...

No twasn't me in HS back then but I certainly knew plenty who were.

[BartusCompater]

Some of you were alive before the age of 19.

At the ripe young age of 19 I can certainly say that I have pulled some pranks in the workplace. Some of them weren't exactly appropriate (I say this in the sense that they were irresponsible and a waste of company resources), but there are times when for some reason or another we forget about what's responsible and just decide to have fun. I'm not saying that this makes pulling pranks okay, only that I'll be the first to admit that I've had my weak moments.

I work at a rental place in Edmonds. We've got just about every tool and piece of heavy equipment you can think of, from Bobcats to hairy drill-motor sewer snakes to Santa suits. A running prank between employees back when I first started was to take others' gloves and hide them. The point wasn't to make the gloves impossible to find, but to put them somewhere where they'd be found after causing some frustration. It's not much of a prank, but it's very frustrating when you've been tasked with cleaning one of those hairy snakes and you don't have a pair of gloves. After I became the subject of this prank a few times, I decided to take it a step further.

It was probably late fall-early winter, and the weather had really started to get cold here in Washington. I snapped up the jacket that belonged to the coworker that had been hiding my gloves, got on a 30' Genie lift, and duct taped his jacket to the ceiling of our main showroom, which is probably 25' high. The next morning I was sleeping in (I had the day off), and I got a call right at 7:30 in the morning when the store opened. It was my poor jacketless coworker, furiously demanding that I tell him where his jacket was. I told him to walk up to the front counter, and when he confirmed that he had, I just told him to look up. After that, I just heard a lot of laughter from everyone else standing around, and I hung up the phone and went back to sleep.

While I thought that my prank was absolutely hilarious, my coworker didn't. He was actually pretty angry. I felt bad and we've since promised not to pull anything like that on each other again. So looking back, pulling the prank was great and fun, but it also really pinched some nerves. We can't always possess the foresight to see those pinched nerves coming though. And there's a good chance that I would have lost my job if the store owner had found out about the whole thing. If he had decided to get rid of me, he would have been totally justified, and I would have left with no hard feelings.

[Foster48x]

So how was what you did any different from what your co-worker was doing? It wasn't like you pee'd in your x girlfrieds cologne or burnt down a garage or something

Sounds like one of those guys that can dish it out but can't take it. I can't take people like that.

[mbouse]

No twasn't me in HS back then but I certainly knew plenty who were.

whew... cuz i know your wife, and although i am certain she's fond of older men (she like me) i was sure that SHE'S not that old. and i was also sure that you don't carry your age well enough to be that much older than me. Only RON is older than me, at least at this forum