What were some of your favorite pranks from yesteryear?

One time when my brother was asleep I jammed a whole thing of chapstick in his ear and broke it off. Oh man, that will wake someone up in a hurry. I have never run so fast in my life. He never caught me. He was picking that crap out of his ear for weeks!

Years later, we were sitting in a diner, and unbeknownst to me, the whole time we were sitting there eating, he had a lighter under a spoon, heating it up. He then waited for the right moment and stuck the superheated spoon to my neck, searing my flesh and leaving me with a nice spoon-shaped scar on my neck.

Good times.

My favorite from college days...

We'd wait 'til our roommate's obnoxious boyfriend fell asleep, then we'd squirt a thin line of lighter fluid on the floor all around his bed. (Vinyl tile floors...don't try this with carpet) Then someone would scream "Fire!" to wake him up just as we lit a match to it. The wall of flames only lasted about 3 seconds, but it was enough to make him pee in his pants in front of all of us, which kept us laughing for at least a week.

I used to like to dress up in army fatiques, a fake cast, arm sling, one of those head bandages McG is fond of and a realistic-looking ear necklace. Then I would sit in a wheelchair on the street and ask people for change. If I didn't get any, I would just yell "You don't understand man, you weren't there" over and over while following them down the street in my chair. Yeah, those were the good old days.

When I was young lad, I enjoyed breaking into my dad's gun cabinet and firing potshots through peoples windows. It would scare the bejeesus out them, and I would laugh. I had to stop when I killed someone's kid though. Dad wasn't happy. "No guns for you for two weeks," he said.

Eva, that's a great prank. I did it once, too. Different outcome when you do it to a sleeping horse in a barn.

In college some dork moved into our townhouse, we used to torture him. His bedroom door was directly across from another door, and when he was in there, I tied a jumprope from his outside door handle to the other door handle.
We duct taped his car up.
On his first or second night, my roomate was walking around, straight faced, in front of him wearing only shorts, which were pulled up like thongs. Poor kid was horrified.

once in '68 I went to a Young Republicans Dinner

A sleeping horse in a barn, Slappy? What if the hay had caught on fire?!

Good one, dys!

Another good one...I once worked in the management office for my apartment complex. I took some stationery when I left, and afterward I delighted in sending letters threatening eviction to the drugged-out neighbors on the other side of the wall who kept me up all night. Worked, too! They moved out shortly thereafter.

Oh My God!!! And all this time I thought I knew you, my lover, the love of my life, as a perfectly wonderful anarchist, atheist, obtuse and obscure skeptical man. Republican dinner?????? Arrrrrgh.....

So a Republican politician decides to pull a Ron Jeremy and go into porn. When the director asks him what he thought he had to offer to a porno fick, he said "Hey, we Republicans cock up everything."

i'm doing something now; i'll tell you all about it if it works (those that are left!).

We just did the usual stuff like drawing on the faces of drunk people or putting shaving cream on their hands before we tickled their face with a feather.

My stuff was boring, but I'd sure love to see you guys in action.

I can't stand it...no one has asked....

Dys, what did you do at that dinner?!

Eva, I was just kidding about the horse in the barn.

Oh yea, one thing I did do, that should send me to hell: There was a nursing home in my neighborhood growing up, and there was a big porch out front they would all sit on during the day. I rode up from behind on my bicycle with an M-100 firecracker, lit it, threw it under the porch and rode away.

Boys are so mean!

We would do that with parked cars on the local lovers lane. We would wait until the car was in obvious rocking motion and then toss a fire cracker at the car.

I'll have you know I was in one of those cars, Acquiunk!

Yep, Slappy, yer goin' to hell. And a few of those geezers you killed by giving them heart attacks are gonna be there to meet you. Watch your back.

This wasn't a strict practical joke - it was just me letting of some steam.

Coupla years back some of the locals in our area must have been hooked into those 'Make Money Fast At Home With Your Computer", "Make up to $10,000 a month!". They were sticking up therse posters all over the area - and it just used to sh!t me coz it's just a complete scam. And I wasn't sleeping very well about then.

So I grabbed a poster and checked out the fonts they used and cranked out a few new 'additions' to their signage. Kept the top half and just changed the details.

Soon they were offering deals to get rich by:

Speaking of pranks, I saw one the other day that was rather amusing.

I was driving down a road that passes in front of a very exclusive gated community. An expensive curved sign passes over the entrance to the community and proudly announces the name...

White Birch Hills

Except now, the name has been changed, courtesy of some creative souls who obviously paid a nocturnal visit and changed the sign, and, I might add, changed it in such a professional manner as to look original, to...

White Bitch Hills

Knowing some of the women that live in that neighborhood, I would say the sign is much more appropriate in its current state.

Once, at a restaurant I used to work at, baby beef liver was written up on the chalkboard as a special. I erased the 'beef' part. Imagine my surprise when it flew off the menu. Damned sickos...

Gus, I LOVE that one!!!