Well, I received quite a few pranks these past few days. Some good ones, some bad ones—mice in the blender? Come on Emeril!—and here’s the best of the worst. The Bronze Medalists dealt almost exclusively with computerized mayhem, which is kind of a cop-out. But you’re all special in your own ways.
The most basic prank came to us from just about everyone. It’s good and important, don’t get me wrong, but it’s been played. Essentially, you take a screenshot of someone’s desktop and make that the wallpaper. Hee hee.
Brendan Colby writes:
We took a co-worker’s monitor power cable and ran it through the wall into a separate power strip/surge protector so we could turn his monitor on/off at our leisure.
Rubin sent us an entire list of possible pranks including, but not limited to:
Taping up the microphone of someone’s phone, causing them to speak louder.
Put a piece of clear tape on the glass of the photocopier. This is fun, but it has a second part to it. If the sheer frustration of someone having to make 100 copies all over again isn’t enough, you could try making 100 copies of the piece of tape, and then load the paper into the paper feed. Funny to see people go crazy trying to figure out why the copy is coming up with this square on every page.
Post a For Sale on the lunchroom posterboard with your co-workers extension, offering to sell “One size adult XL outfit of baby clothing, including pacifier, bottle, bib and diaper.”
James suggested using BoinkMail which allows you to send embarrassing things to your coworkers. Or just send embarrassing things to your co-workers.
And the winner of the Bronze Medal is the big, pink office created by Dan. The performance and planning were quite ambitious, though the ultimate delivery could have been improved by a hit of Hello Kitty.
Stay tuned for the Silver and Gold medalists later today.
