dorm room pranks?!?!

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KC5AV

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Does anyone else have the ad at the bottom of the page for all the packing peanuts? It seems like some sort of omen to me....

:evil:
 

rh71

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Originally posted by: KC5AV
Does anyone else have the ad at the bottom of the page for all the packing peanuts? It seems like some sort of omen to me....

:evil:
Yes, they have targeted ads here... this is the first time you've noticed?! :D

ones I've seen done:

- Tabasco sauce on the door knobs
- Urine in a cup... leaning on a closed door in the middle of the night... just wait till they wake in the morning (don't knock- there's always witnesses).
 

JoPh

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baby powder under the door and blow. they will have a nice white room.
 

BoomAM

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If you know them, and they`ve got a computer, try this, its the oldest prank in the book.

take a screenshot of their desktop.
move all of their desktop items to somewhere on the HD.
set the screenshot as the background/wallpaper
make the taskbar as small as possible,
use the monitor to move the screen down enough to hide the small taskbar.

I had both my IT teacher and Local Administrator Fooled for 2hours with this.
They got to the point where they were going to reinstall windows, until i told them what "someone" must have done!!!
 

Spyro

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Originally posted by: BoomAM
If you know them, and they`ve got a computer, try this, its the oldest prank in the book.

take a screenshot of their desktop.
move all of their desktop items to somewhere on the HD.
set the screenshot as the background/wallpaper
make the taskbar as small as possible,
use the monitor to move the screen down enough to hide the small taskbar.

I had both my IT teacher and Local Administrator Fooled for 2hours with this.
They got to the point where they were going to reinstall windows, until i told them what "someone" must have done!!!

LOL :D
 

Confused

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Nov 13, 2000
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Originally posted by: BoomAM
If you know them, and they`ve got a computer, try this, its the oldest prank in the book.

take a screenshot of their desktop.
move all of their desktop items to somewhere on the HD.
set the screenshot as the background/wallpaper
make the taskbar as small as possible,
use the monitor to move the screen down enough to hide the small taskbar.

I had both my IT teacher and Local Administrator Fooled for 2hours with this.
They got to the point where they were going to reinstall windows, until i told them what "someone" must have done!!!

Did something like this at a lan party, added a load of Porn links/pictures/folders on his desktop, took screenshot, set as background, removed the actual ones. Watched for 15 mins as he tried to click/select them, delete them, until he finally figured it out (after a little hint from all the laughing!)


Confused
 

Conky

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May 9, 2001
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Originally posted by: Phuz
Originally posted by: SuperFreaky
edit: beat me to it LordThing!!


1. Fill a trash can with water
2. Prop agaist doomroom door so that it spills in when door is opened (the door needs to open in)
3. Knock
4. Run!


Also works great on an elevator! ;)

Thats evil. :evil:


That's not evil. Evil would be urinating and defecating into the water beforehand.
:evil:
 

LS20

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Jan 22, 2002
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just get a rope and tie the door knobs of the doors accross from each other together
 

Spac3d

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Originally posted by: BoomAM
If you know them, and they`ve got a computer, try this, its the oldest prank in the book.

take a screenshot of their desktop.
move all of their desktop items to somewhere on the HD.
set the screenshot as the background/wallpaper
make the taskbar as small as possible,
use the monitor to move the screen down enough to hide the small taskbar.

I had both my IT teacher and Local Administrator Fooled for 2hours with this.
They got to the point where they were going to reinstall windows, until i told them what "someone" must have done!!!
That is good. I will try that sometime.

 

WebZeus

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Jul 24, 2000
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Be careful if you do the penny trick I had a friend do it to a girl. She just wanted to scare him so complained to the CA and he was written up and had to go to J board and all only way he got off was by her writing a letter saying it was a joke. Security considered it a fire hazard. One we did considering upstate NY is always fing cold is filling a dorm garbage can with snow and dumping it on the victim in the shower or watching tv/ game playing in the lounge. A funny one we did was switch the drawers of two different dressers of a guy and girl in seperate rooms and see how long it takes them to figure it out...for us 8:30 the next morning when the dude was running up and down the hall asking who the hell has his jeans and who's undies are these!
 

adinar

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A variation to the 500 dixie cup prank. Find a nice large flat surface in the room (floor, desk, bed, whatever). Get paper cups (dixie or larger) and set them out so they are touching each other. Staple each cup to every one adjacent to it. Fill with water. Watch face of roommate as they try to figure out how to clean it up large mass of stapled cups filled w/water. Either they dump the water out creating a huge mess or they have to sit there & remove each cup individually from the ones next to it.

Another variation of packing foam peanuts. Find a LARGE box and fold the lids inside the box on one side. Fill to the top with packing peanuts. Find a large board to place over the open side. Carefully turn the box upside down using the board to keep the packinig peanuts inside. Place box on bed, desk, someplace generally annoying. Address the box to your roommate so it looks like he got a package. Carefully remove the board. Hillarity ensues when roommate picks up the box & peanuts go everywhere.
 

jurzdevil

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not a dorm prank but this is the plan for our high school this year.

3 canadian geese in the basketball gym with the numbers 1 2 and 4 painted on them.
 

mdennison

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Make up some dog food burritos(canned dog food) and leave them in the dorm fridge...someone is gonna eat em :D
 

MarkW

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I'm not sure about pranks... but I remember watching mighty ducks 3 and they had things like that :)




*sarcasm*


but yeah, if you are doing it to more than one person, i would agree with tieing the doorknobs together would be awesome and harmless. also the small dixie cups on the ground sounds pretty cool too
 

thomsbrain

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i dunno about those water ones. lots of people have their computers on the floor. computers are sacred! ;)
 

p0ntif

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Here's one:

Usually, people in dorms have an area where they scatter a lot of miscellaneous things, a desk, a cabinet top, etc. Carefully glue every item down exactly where it is. hilarity.
 

Howard

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I suppose you could always try the tested-and-true cheapie. Poke a hole in the bottom of a soda can, inject TurboSuperExtraLax, and then seal off the hole with superglue.

If you want, you could even attach a post-it to it, with "dont drink this is mine".
 

AUMM

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if you can take off the shower head in the bathroom put a couple of hard lifesavers in there, when someone takes a hot shower theyll get a nice sugar coating. doing it on girls has added benefits :p
 

rh71

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Originally posted by: BoomAM
If you know them, and they`ve got a computer, try this, its the oldest prank in the book.

take a screenshot of their desktop.
move all of their desktop items to somewhere on the HD.
set the screenshot as the background/wallpaper
make the taskbar as small as possible,
use the monitor to move the screen down enough to hide the small taskbar.

I had both my IT teacher and Local Administrator Fooled for 2hours with this.
They got to the point where they were going to reinstall windows, until i told them what "someone" must have done!!!
See the first thing I'd do in a situation like that is hit the "Windows" key on the keyboard to see if Windows is responding (aside from my mouse) ... so the Start Menu would popup off-screen somewhat... and well... this joke just wouldn't work so well in that case. Call me a party pooper.

 

Busie23

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Save up all your beer cans and construct a "canned door" out of them by using duct tape. Make it so it fits in the frame of the door exactly and proceed to tape it down by running tons of duct tape from one side of the door to the next. Make sure to leave a door knob spot and a peep hole so the victim can see out if needed.

Then proceed to place in the doorway of the cranky RA and wait til he comes out. We did this to the RA one night and we actually had him in tears casue he could not get out. The door was so durable that we used it the following morning on a kids door who had an exam at 8:45am. I have never seen someone so pissed in my life.

The door was so well built that it lasted the remainder of the year.


Another thing we had planned to do was save all the pizza boxes and stack them across the hall and 3-4 rows deep. Then when security comes on their patrol they hit a road block.

Another good one we did was cut out the bottom of a bean bag chair and carefully turn it over using something like a flat piece of cardboard to keep all the filling in. Then set a sign on it saying "don't touch" in the hallway in front of kid's room who was jerk. He came out and kicked the bag out of the way and the small white peanutty things flew everywhere, mostly because of our strategically placed fans blowing down the hall. Now that i think of it a little bit of talc powder would have made it even better.