Practical jokes

I can't remember there being a Practiacal Jokes thread on here lately, and if there has been one, lots of new people will have joined the forum since then, so this will give them a chance to leave a comment. So, have you ever played a really funny joke on someone?

The funniest one I ever played was actually really simple, and I never expected to get such a good reaction from it. I was flicking through a magazine one day, when I was about 16, and I came across this life-sized picture of a Desert fox, and I decided to cut it out, and stand it up in the bushes, in our garden, to make it look like it was peeking out, in the hope that I might make my Mum think it was real. Anyway, sure enough, later that day, my mum was sat out in the garden with the family dog, and she saw the fox, and started panicking, trying to get the dog indoors, fearing the big-eared cut-out might get nasty!

We managed to convince our housemate at Uni that our house was haunted as we used to move stuff around in his room and tap his window with tree branches and stuff.

We had a confession day on our move out day and admitted it all.

Oh and we convinced him he had this desease where a couple of hairs would grow really long out of his head (it was just us putting our hair on his head and prentending to pull them out). He came back saying he'd seen a report on it and that he wasn't the only sufferer.

Quote: EllieJP @ June 1 2009, 9:38 AM BST

We managed to convince our housemate at Uni that our house was haunted as we used to move stuff around in his room and tap his window with tree branches and stuff.

We had a confession day on our move out day and admitted it all.

Oh and we convinced him he had this desease where a couple of hairs would grow really long out of his head (it was just us putting our hair on his head and prentending to pull them out). He came back saying he'd seen a report on it and that he wasn't the only sufferer.

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Not so much practical jokes, more bullying.

I don't think he minded that much living with 4 girls who he adored. And we adored him!

Quote: EllieJP @ June 1 2009, 10:34 AM BST

I don't think he minded that much living with 4 girls who he adored.

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Stockholm Syndrome.

At my medical school, whilst in the halls of residence, it was 'de rigueur' - if one of one's fellow housemates left their room unlocked and unattended for a period - to go in there and turn every piece of furniture and every possession upside-down. Halcyon days!

Quote: Tim Walker @ June 1 2009, 1:04 PM BST

At my medical school, whilst in the halls of residence, it was 'de rigueur' - if one of one's fellow housemates left their room unlocked and unattended for a period - to go in there and turn every piece of furniture and every possession upside-down. Halcyon days!

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Now that's dedication.

Quote: Curt @ June 1 2009, 1:41 PM BST

Now that's dedication.

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Oh yes, posters on the walls, toiletries, individual CDs, pubic hairs... We were young, we were free, we had teeth nice and clean...

Best one I've played on somebody: Many Haloween's back, it was three O'Clock in the morning, I was awake. I heard my Mum go to the toilet, so I put on a Haloween mask and crept to the bathroom door. She opened it and screamed.

Best one played on me: When I finished for Christmas at work, I was invited to a house party that night- an early Christmas party. But as it was my last day at work before Christmas, there was a matter of having a few pints in the pub with my work mates. But our boss allowed us to go early that day, so by half eleven in the morning we were in the pub. Half six I left the pub to go to the party, so I was quite pissed by this time. I got to the house, managed one drink before falling asleep on my mates settee before going home. I went back to his house the next day to see his mini £200 fridge was all smashed up. He told me I did it. So I was threating at losing £200, but I thought it was only right, so I went to the bank, took £200 and gave it to him, to which point he admited I didn't smash his fridge, he was getting a new one as his one wasn't really effective anymore, so he as a joke smashed up the old one and blamed me for it.

Quote: Jack Massey @ June 1 2009, 2:44 PM BST

Best one I've played on somebody: Many Haloween's back, it was three O'Clock in the morning, I was awake. I heard my Mum go to the toilet, so I put on a Haloween mask and crept to the bathroom door. She opened it and screamed.

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A life time of work for a psycoannalyst that.

Once working at a homeless hostel we convinced a girl who was working on her own that the client who was coming to visit was actually an escaped psychopath.
Did this by phone, the guy was in on the joke and just sat in the lounge smiling at her.
She wasn't so annoyingly chipper after that.

When I was younger football coaching, me and all the coaches decided to go out for a Christmas drink, as you do. Anyways there was about seven of us and we invited some of the mum's and dad's of the children we coached and the receptionists and stuff and it was gonna be a big crowd. One of the older coaches came to me and said that everyone had agreed to wear black tie just to make it a little formal and stuff.

I didnt have a suit so they took me shopping for this formal wear and stuff ended up spending alot of money. The night of the event came and I turned up and was the only one wearing black tie everyone else in casual, felt like a right ruddy idiot.