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Mint_Sauce
09-07-2004, 12:45
I was once bored at work so spying my mates PC I did a printscreen of his desktop. I then removed all his desktop icons and set the image as his wallpaper. ho ho ho, how I laughed. :D He used his start bar for the next month at least. :D
Some of you must have done some crackers? :nod: :D
voodoo_melon
09-07-2004, 12:48
I've done that one, only I moved his icons and printscreened a few times, so he had about 6 of each icon, none of which worked :wack:
At my last job, we used to move peoples cars around in the carpark (company cars only) - always good for a laugh.
We also used to re-record each others voicemail messages
So, instead of "Hi, this is XXXX from XXXXX, sorry can't take your call right now, please leave a message and I'll get back to you"
would magically become
"Hi, this XXXXX from XXXXX - I'm currently out of the office on a three day drinking binge - I might call you back if I like you or want to speak to you"
Best one was quite recent, at my old place of work.
The system we used for policies was called Misys and the client's are given a reference number so that you can find them on the database. The references are made up with the first 2 letters of the surname, and then 2 initials (if you didn't have a middle name it would be replaced with an X). Therefore, my reference would be CRAX (Crombie A - X as no middle name)
A mate of mine had stiched me up earlier in the day by making me take a call from a complete w@nker of a broker :rolleyes: which shouldn't have come to me. So decided to get revenge.
Made up a bogus client information sheet for him to enter up on system, the name being Mr A L Andrews - reference ANAL :D
I then instructed him to treat the policy as "not taken up" ie the client didn't want it. So on his new business spreadsheet he gave to the manager it had a table with columns as follows:
Name Reason for canx Reference
A L Andrews Not taken up ANAL
He didn't notice it at all, and neither did the manager :D It was only when the report went up to the insurers at the end of the month and they stropped out big time :D I Got in, umm, a little bit of trouble over that one ;)
mattpayne
09-07-2004, 13:02
not done it myself... but a bunch of milk poured into someones car, either in the airvent, or on the carpet or chair as always made me grin....
realistally thats about as funny as thermite on the bonnet though :D
ooo!! forgot one - years ago my bro and I went to Canvey and decided to feck about crab fishing. We locked a dead crab in the glove box of my bro's mate's car and let him work out where the stink was coming from himself :D
Definately has to be spoofing emails.
Telnet into port 25 of the email server and re-write the email to come from someone else.
works great until you get caught and bollocked big time :D ..... :(
LOL, not actually a wind up but just as funny and fortunatly no one noticed, when we used to mailshot companies the system used to put a client ref. on the letter, 1st 3 letters of the first name of company title, 1st letter of any other word...
think Cunningham Turner Solicitors must have recieved quite a few without complaining before I noticed it and fixed the problem :D
LOL, wonder what *AB*'s gonna put in here...
Years ago when I was about 15 or so I went up to the Lakes on a trip with about 12 others. There were other groups of guys and gals aswell, but anyway... We were in big old ridge tents - 4 to a tent. One of the guys was being a right arse all week and we all got fed up to the back teeth of it... He was a bit out of order to one of the girls too so we took revenge... Got a packet of itching powder and completely swamped his sleeping bag with it. WHen we all went to sleep that night he didnt stop ithing - we all played along and made out someone had done the whole tent with the stuf... ;):D He was red raw through scratching the next day though LOL:D
realistally thats about as funny as thermite on the bonnet though :D
Oooohhh !!! *winces*
When I was an apprentice, me and the other apprentice used to play each other up whenever one of us would go to the toilet, i.e flameing toilet paper over the door or water. Any way one day I was in the toilet reading the paper and he came in a chucked a soakin wet bog roll over the door which went all over me. I didunt say anything and waited till hed left piss**g his self, I then ran all the way round the factory walked up to my mate and he was laughing I then asked him what he was laughing for he said that hed just drenched me. I stood there looking bermuzed and convinced him that it wasunt me as i had been in the toilet block at the back of the factory. He then started to look worried, I then went round to the biggest guy in the factory who was about 7 foot tall and built like a brick s**t house and told him what I had done. I then went back to my mate and told him this bloke was looking for him as hed heard hed thrown water at him, with that this massive bloke came round the corner and started havein a go at my mate who was absoulutely shi*in his self, whilst i was laughin so hard I almost cried. After he attacked me with a broom but it was worth it lol. :)
Get some sellotape and stick the button down on someones phone, so when it rings they pick it up and say hello but the phone keeps ringing. Its hilarious to see them panick.
I also do loads of other crap like stick loads of paperclips in peoples jacket pockets just to pee them off. Also if you go to the woolwich website they do a call back service. On that you type in someones mobile and the woolwich will ring them instantly or in a few minutes. You aint using your phone so they couldn't possibly tell it was you....
Change someones home page on internet explorer to something like mingers.com or whatever you think will pee them off.
the list is endless
I gave a horse a whole lemon wrapped in a lettuce leaf in order to disguise the fact it was a lemon once.
And a screeensaver saying "it is now safe to turn off your computer" is always a good one.
Ashworth
09-07-2004, 14:26
In the morning put sellotape over the earpeice of someones phone and watch them tell every one they speak to, to speak up!
then after lunch, swap it to the mouthpeice so they have to shout to be heard!
take the ball out of the mouse.
simple, but prooves that a lot of people have no idea.... ;)
This was quite amusing.. Took a screenshot of my boss's desktop (startbar and all), then applied it as a wallpaper. Then, hid his startbar and program icons and sat there watching him trying to work out why his machine had 'locked up' and wouldnt work anymore. :)
edited to add.. Just realised the same as Mint Sauce's first post.. Clearly Im not paying attention today..
Papa Lazarou
09-07-2004, 15:12
I used to work in a big open plan office. I was in the call centre part using an Aspect phone (a call centre headset phone). The sales people on the other side of the office used ordinary phones. One of the salesmen was very highly strung about hitting targets etc, so I thought it would be fun to ring his phone every time I saw him walking down the office returning to his desk. As soon as he got to his desk, I'd hang up (well press a button to cut it off, you could do all this without being noticed with the headset phones).
On about the 4th or 5th time he was completely fuming, I mean turning red and grasping his head in his hands :wack: He realised someone was winding him up when I started ringing it as soon as he turned his back to leave his desk, then hang up as soon as he turned around again :D
John Bennett
09-07-2004, 15:22
At 6th form, rather than resort to eggs and flour for the end of year :ghey:, we put a dead fish (from a skip on the quayside) above the ceiling tiles in the 6th form common room. Was there for 2 summer weeks....
Came back and there was a bluebottle infestation, the place stank for 6 months, and hundreds of pounds worth of cleaning up (threw out all the furniture in the end). The caretakers came to move the wet ceiling tile to find the source and got splattered in dead fish and maggots :eek: . Puked up on the spot.
Nearly got done for criminal damage and stopped from doing our exams for that one :indiff: . Legendary though :D .
I used to do a similar thing with the phones...
At my old company, we had a desktop app that did things like handsfree dialling - you logged it into the phone switch with your number and your 'unique' password..
Once we found out everyones passwords, we had all sorts of fun.. You would log in as someone else across the room, then make their phone call someone else...
Both phones would start ringing, they would both pick up and say hello at the same time... cue lots of 'why are you calling me', 'no, you called me' arguments...
It took months before anyone cottoned on :D
You can also tape the mouse ball in a mouse so it doesn't spin, subtley change keys on peoples keyboards round, set their windows mouse speed to a - value (so it goes backwards), or so that you have a high vertical mouse speed, but a low horizontal mouse speed... Hours of fun ;)
piehound
09-07-2004, 15:31
half a pint of homebrew topped up with half a pint of pernod , when we supped ours we said ffs this tastes odd so the dood who had the pernod in his just thought it was horrible after 2 of em he was amess lol,
The Artist
09-07-2004, 15:57
Were I used to work our room was in the basement (no windows) and one of the lads used to have an afternoon nap. So one day we wound the clock forward to way after finishing time and crept out the room switching the lights out....he came running up throught the canteen with his coat, bag etc...when infact he had only been asleep 20min....
@ Uni, fill the large removale shower heads with yorkshire teabags .. and other tea bags .. as the water gets hot it stats showering them in tea :D works well also with herbal / fruit teas :thumbs:
gaz.thomas
09-07-2004, 16:02
Immac in a leave-in conditioner bottle.:D :D :D
Gaz
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kyle cook
09-07-2004, 16:10
Film the toilet flushing and when a mate goes to the toilet put the video on loud and start laughing when he or she comes back. :D
At 6th form, rather than resort to eggs and flour for the end of year :ghey:, we put a dead fish (from a skip on the quayside) above the ceiling tiles in the 6th form common room. Was there for 2 summer weeks....
Came back and there was a bluebottle infestation, the place stank for 6 months, and hundreds of pounds worth of cleaning up (threw out all the furniture in the end). The caretakers came to move the wet ceiling tile to find the source and got splattered in dead fish and maggots :eek: . Puked up on the spot.
Nearly got done for criminal damage and stopped from doing our exams for that one :indiff: . Legendary though :D .
someone done something similar to this at our school sixth form...... Lol
very funny reading guys :D
siliconslave
09-07-2004, 17:00
got into a bit of a prank war with a aussy guy i used to work with. I used to drink a load of water from one of sports bottles so he cut a load of holes round the neck so when i went to drink it i got water everywhere.
So i replaced all of his mp3s with "tie me kangeroo down sport" but so the file name and id3 tags were the same as the old song :) also set his windows locality to Aus and changed evey windows sound to Rolf songs and set random events to trigger them to start playing - took him weeks to find them all :D
removed all the keys from a mate at uni's keyboard and layed them out on his desk in order
erm....
replaced the desktop, login page, start up and shutdown pages, home page and a load of random bookmarks on a friend at uni's machine to point at gay pron. His girlfriend at the time wasn't too amused :D
voodoo_melon
09-07-2004, 17:24
Some people I knew in halls once removed everything from someones room (pc, bed, shelves etc) and hid it in their rooms. They also swapped a couple of peoples rooms ever once, right down to the position of stuff on the pinboards.
a good one i did when i drove plant machinary was to go in
the cabs in morning and turn the volume knobs up full so when
they turned the ignition on they got deafend. :wack:
gaz.thomas
10-07-2004, 12:26
Or the ever popular (requires some serious prep though) completely relocating someone's room in the halls of residence.
1)Find willing accomplice (whose room is on ground floor in equivalent spot)
2)Arrange for mate to go out on the lash
3)Enter mate's room (on the third floor) and move *all* of his stuff down to the ground floor. A polaroid/digital camera comes in handy here.
4)Meet mate out on the lash and ensure he's completely slaughtered.
5)Go home, disorient mate a bit by using lift
6)Go into "mate's" room
7)'For a laugh' stand on mate's windowsill
8)Fall out
9)Stand up and laugh your ass off at panic-stricken mate who thinks you've just fallen to your death
:D :D :D
Gaz
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Or (somewhat tamer) wear a bedsheet like a ghost and scare people on the Derby Ghostwalk that insist on looking through your window every fcuking night.
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