Recall a practical joke you played in your youth

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Here's mine.

During the '70s and '80s I tended to be a ''70-percent'' TREK fan, with the remaining 30 percent going to STAR WARS. My youngest brother was and still is 100-percent STAR WARS, maybe due to the fact the only two TREKs he saw in the theater revolved around probes.

So it was only fitting that I create a negative----actually false----scenario to ruffle his midi-chloridians. CBS was just about to air STAR WARS on television for the first time, and my brother wanted to tape it very much. I took great sadistic pleasure in telling him that would not be possible because my father had already ordered me to record and edit the all-time cinematic 1948 musical classic GAIETY ON THE FARM* on the UHF station instead. So WARS could not be watched or taped that night. He bought it hook-line-sinker at the time. I'd never seen him so livid.

(*Don't waste time googling it. It was never made.)

 

[Oddish]

I used to leave BASIC Bombs in the computer center at school... you use BASIC to rig the computer to count down five minutes on screen, then emit an obnoxiously high-pitched beeping sound at 0:00. Then you leave. For best results, do it at a busy time.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I used to leave BASIC Bombs in the computer center at school... you use BASIC to rig the computer to count down five minutes on screen, then emit an obnoxiously high-pitched beeping sound at 0:00. Then you leave. For best results, do it at a busy time.

Some guinea pigs have been known to do that at school. There was one ''police siren''-imitator....

 

[Paul Weaver]

I used to leave BASIC Bombs in the computer center at school... you use BASIC to rig the computer to count down five minutes on screen, then emit an obnoxiously high-pitched beeping sound at 0:00. Then you leave. For best results, do it at a busy time.

For best results set it to go off during a test you haven't revised for

 

[flandry84]

Our whole class once convinced a rather gullible classmate that we were switching to a decimal day...ten hours per day,one hundred minutes per hour and so on.Poor guy was totally sold.

 

[Oddish]

Our whole class once convinced a rather gullible classmate that we were switching to a decimal day...ten hours per day,one hundred minutes per hour and so on.Poor guy was totally sold.

They tried to do that a couple hundred years ago... and I read a sci fi story about a planet that did it: 10 day week, 10 hour day, 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. Since their planet's day was a little longer than ours, duration of seconds was comparable.

 

[LAFR]

Placed a tack on a classmates seat. (I know - I was a wild kid)

Instead of sitting, he kneeled on the seat.

 

[Finn]

I tend to overthink those things to the point where I'd ruin it. But once, I dialed back the classroom clock fifteen minutes or so when the teacher was out of the classroom. The teacher bought it and we left way too early

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Placed a tack on a classmates seat. (I know - I was a wild kid)

Instead of sitting, he kneeled on the seat.

That happened to me once or twice. One girl did it. Her parents were called and very regretful. I may have gotten a tetanus but at that certain age I welcomed it.

I also literally sat on an already-dead bee. And I am not making it up. That was much worse, despite my being three times older.

 

[Velocity]

I don't do practical jokes or pranks, but one time on April Fools Day, when my 3 kids were in grade school, they taped the sprayer on the kitchen sink to spray when someone turned on the water. Got me in the face...

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I began a fake April 1st rumor that MAD MAX 5 was to be directed by Dennis Dugan after George Miller dropped out. Not exactly youthful, of course.

 

[Finn]

I think I started a silly rumor back in high school, something out of character for me as I was a quiet kid. I can't remember what it was about but IIRC it persisted for a bit while.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Not so much as a youth, but maybe 20 years ago I switched two "key" keys on a co-worker's keyboard. He was a real hunt & peck type guy and he couldn't log into the system for a while.