Update / Summary : In November 2011, we ran a competition giving our fantastic members the chance to win some retro sweet and other treats. To enter we asked you to tell us about the best practical jokes you have pulled. Have a read of the entries below – some great responses ranging from funny to cruel, some bordering on criminal !
So Halloween has come and gone for another year but here at Deals.org.uk we decided it shouldn’t be the kids that get to have all the fun… so we’ve got a new competition for all the big kids out there to enter.
What can you win?
- A jar filled with your favourite retro sweets (think Sherberts, Frosties and more)
- A jar rammed full of jelly snakes
- More jaffa cakes than you can shake a stick at (one of those big tubes of jaffa cakes)
The lucky winner will receive all of the above booty and you don’t even need to put on a spooky costume or traipse round the neighbours asking for treats!!
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When I was in school Me and a few friends locked all the toilet cubicles barring one. In this one we put cling film under the loo seat and sat and waited for out first victim. In she came running, pushing all the doors until she found our open one. all you heard was a squeal and water pouring everywhere. We legged it but were caught!
I held a halloween party over the weekend, and i was preparing the food and doing the toffee apples. I seen some onions left over from the cheese/onion rolls and thought ohh this will be funny so instead of putting caramel over the apples i put it over a few onions! My dad was the first to grap a toffee apple but wasn’t very impressed! hehehehe good job i did make the toffee apples with apples also because everyone would have probably gone home! hahaha
Had an orchestra rehearsal on 1st April once. We all arranged beforehand that when the conductor said to start on (whatever the piece was) we would all play something else entirely. The co-ordination effort was huge but it was worth it… he caught up very quickly though. Happy times…
the best practical joke i ever did to my mum was to take the stalk off a tomato and put it on her shoulder, I then shouted ‘err there is a spider on your shoulder’, the look on her face was priceless and she whipped her jumper off and threw it across the room in a panic! I have to admit if anyone did that to me I would freak out!
simply but efffective hiding and jumping out on my boyfriend!! silly but makes me laugh and he jumps out of his skin!! properly quite sad now considering im 24 and weve been together for 10 years but still gets him every time!! hahaha
best joke ever was at xmas, got a silver necklace for mum really pretty and awful expensive.
on xmas day she was given a huge box to open and inside was a slightly smaller box, and inside was a asmaller box, and inside a smaller box, and again and again to i think 47 boxes
she got to the last box which was a jewelery box and sighed with relief, then when she opened it there was a note inside ‘your present is on the tree’
oh i think she spent all day deconstructing the 6ft real tree to find a very delicate silver necklace
but oh it was a laugh
With the season of goodwill just round the corner I remember a practical joke played on my husband when the family first met him!!!! We had bought a tin of celebration chocolates knowing that he loved snickers but unbeknown to him we unsealed the tin and took all the snickers out!!!!! Should have seen his face when he saw there were none in the tin!!!! Forget the other chocolates wheres my snickers!!!!!! The best practical joke played on me was as a child when my underwear was taken whilst swimming outdoors on a camping holiday with school I was not impressed!!!!
When my friend and me were on diets i switched the skimmed milk in her bottle to full fat milk so i would loose more weigt than her!! What was i like???
When my dad was asleep in the chair me & my husband covered him in loo paper, toys, various food stuff and anything we could find, then put squirty cream in his hands and on his head and drew a moustache & beard with eyeliner, then took a lovely photo of it to show the family. :D
In our house our best joke is the constant stream of pom poms which we put in daddy’s shoes always funny yet harmless drives him mad too :)
Had an orchestra rehearsal on 1st April once. We all arranged beforehand that when the conductor said to start on (whatever the piece was) we would all play something else entirely. The co-ordination effort was huge but it was worth it… he caught up very quickly though. Happy times…
When I was young I used to balance a cushion on the top of the door to the lounge whenever my dad was upstairs, then when he came down and opened the door the cushion fell on his head. He played along with it and pretended to jump everytime….Bless him – I used to do it every day!!! One day I put a plastic pot full of cold water on the door instead of the cushion……you should have heard him scream, he was soaked! Still makes me laugh everytime I visit my parents and walk down their stairs. :)
my dear late mother-in-law fell victim to one of my best pranks. when she was staying with us, I rigged up a contraption of a part of a squeaky toy, some thin wire and a switch. I set up her bedroom by running the wire under the carpets into our room, when she got into bed, I simply laid my my bed and connected the 2 wires which made a squeak noise next to my dear MIL’s bed. as soon as the first squeak happened, MIL got up and put the light on, as soon as she got back into bed I made it squeak again, she got up again, this I repeated about 4 times until she cam into my room and told be about this “funny noise” in her room. Of course, as soon as I went into her room the squeaking stopped. once she got back into bed again of course I made the squeak again. This time MIL was getting very worried, so I had to confess what I had done, however, she wouldn’t believe me and thought I was saying it just to make her go back to bed. In the end at 2am I had to lift up carpets and show her the wire and contraption so that she would go bak into the bedroom! I really miss my MIL she was a great sport.
my friend came round for coffee we had a little spat so i put 3 teaspoons of salt in here coffee instead of sugar
When my parents got a new dog a few years ago, my daughter put a plastic poo in the middle of the carpet in their newly decorated lounge. They went absolutely mad! We had to admit to the joke though – thought my Dad was going to have a heart attack!
I re-arranged the keys on a colleagues keyboard. It took him ages to work out what had happened and though he had a virus.
I hid my husbands sports car round the corner so when he woke up he thought it had been stolen! I had to confess though before he rang the police!
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Best trick had to be telling people on April fools i was pregnant…..Joke was on me, i really was – had a hell of a job convincing people afterwards :-)
I tipped out the bottle of blond hair colourant and replaced it with dark brown colourant in the pack of permanent hair colour my sister had bought to refresh her blond hair! I was not speaking to her at the time so wanted to get my own back! She fell for it and her hair went an awful brassy brown – she ended up going to the hairdressers in a hat and spent a fortune getting it put right! My dad even wrote to the hair colourant company asking for compensation because he thought they had made the mistake lol! They just sent an apology and some money off vouchers!
When I was at Uni, I phoned into the President of the Students Union ( I was General Secretary) explaining that I was from the British Embassy in Paris and that 12 Rag fundraisers had been arrested for tearing a large piece off of the Arc de Triomphe. I told him that not only were they were likely to get deported but the Union would be held financially responsible – to the tune of two million pounds. Mayhem ensued ! He didnt even believe me when I fessed up about fifteen minutes later !!!
When my son was 6 years old he really liked lorries but I couldn’t afford the ones in the shop. At Christmas I saw one going cheap on a market stall but it had a chunk of plastic missing from the back. I bought it and left it out Christmas Eve. He loved it and also the letter with it which said Santa’s reindeer had stepped on it and broken it!
I was about 8 years old and bought some worm pellets from a joke shop, put them in my dad’s cup of tea and as he started to drink it they turned into wriggly worms!!! He wasn’t at all happy – but my sister and I thought it was hilarious! Was grounded for a week :(
Many years ago, when I was working in a very old hospital its gone now, anyway, I had to take Mrs so and so false teeth, so I got them put them in a bag and off I went, when I got to the mortuary, I knocked on the door and got no answer, I knocked abit louder and got no answer, so I opened the door and shouted Hello is there anybody here, hello at that as I went to turn to get out, a body on the slab, sat up, I screamed dropped the false teeth and ran. It was one of the porters messing about but oh my god, my heart was beating so fast. I never went down there again
i put a dead spider on my sisters bed , i lifted the legs up to make it look real , she screamed and still hasnt forgiven me .
my mum hates spiders and me and my dad got i a fake spider and put clear string and tied it and put it on her pillow soo we hid and held on the the string… at first she never saw it so we pulled it and it looks as if it was real and my mum caught it through her eye…. she was screaming and we were in fits of laughter :L her face was chalk white :L
The best practical joke we’ve ever played was on our kids. We have 6 kids so there was always a baby at home. One day when the older kids came home from school their dad said he’s been reading that some expert had stated that a parent could get a lot of nutrition from their own baby’s poo. So he lifted a soiled nappy from the bin, opened it and stuck his finger into the poo and ate it. The kids’ faces were a picture! Little did they know that it was a clean nappy filled with chocolate mousse.
we used a kitchen timer at work for measuring time on jobs and one day i thought for a laugh i would set it to go off in about 20mins and put it in my friends coat pocket just before she left work. it normally took her 20mins to get home so i thought it would make her laugh as she drove on her drive or was just in the door. but unbeknown to me she went to asda on the way home to get some milk and pack up bits. she was not amused when it went off very loudly when she was in the queue to be served. much to the amusement of the cashier and other customers but i nearly wet my pants the next day when she told me as my trick had worked even better than i thought.
My son and son-in-law are always playing tricks on each other. One day my son put a smoke bomb under my SIL’s car bonnet and caused such a panic. To get him back my SIL put a hairdressing practice head in my son’s bed along with pillows. When my son went to bed he thought it was his sister and was really worried when she didn’t respond to his anxious inquiries. The list of pranks goes on and probably will for the rest of their lives.
When working at a posh chartered surveyors in London, the secretaries got together one lunch hour and plotted against the two trainee surveyors – who were always very superior! The company managed several office blocks and flats within the area. Using the switchboard, one of us pretended to be an outside call. We got through to one of the trainees and shouted that a carpet had been delivered to one of our managed flats, and was blocking the front hall, and that it wasn’t for this block, it was for the one in the next road. The two trainees rushed off. They came back later, puffing and panting, and very hot and sweaty. They had physically moved the carpet between them. They felt they had done a good deed.
BUT in the afternoon another irate call came, saying the carpet was in the wrong building, and the carpet fitters were waiting in the right building.
The poor trainees had to go out again, and move the carpet back to its original place!!!
They never did find out who had called in originally!!!
I used to play the hitchhiker game – basically, when you see someone thumbing a lift, slow down & indicate, they’ll start to run to get in the car, when they’re almost there drive away – cruel but hilarious and a great way to teach the dangers of hitch hiking!!
Last Christmas my husband and I changed all the mint and orange after eights to the opposite covers and boxes, it took ages! You should have seen the look on the children’s faces when they were eating them – they couldn’t work out why they tasted so funny! I’ve never laughed so much!
i’ve pulled so many pranks its hard to decide witch is best;
1. i pulled one of those annoying noise makers out of an xmas card (the kind that play jingle-bells) and stuck it on my brothers bedroom door so when he came home he had to put up with the annoying tune. (this also works with those window security alarm things- when the two get pulled apart it makes a really loud noise)
2. put clingfilm on the toilet intending to get my brother again, but he came home and went straight to bed, i forgot about it until his girl-friend started screaming at him, thinking he did it.
3. put clear sellotape across the doors at eye-brow height, and closed the door so people would walk into the tape as they opened the door – got my brother and dad, the next day they were carefully looking for more tape – so i stuck it at ankle height instead and got them again.
4. during a school trip to wales i “reminded” one kid to get their currency changed, as all welsh coins had to have the dragon on the tales side – i’m welsh so they believed me and told the others.
5. i opened a pack of tongue-colour-changing crisps, then gave them to my dad saying i didn’t like the flavor, he ate them and went out to meet up with some mates not realizing his tongue was bright blue.
6. i hid the real sugar and put salt in the sugar-jar, because my brother had made his own tea he couldn’t figure out why it tasted bad.
7. my brother liked to play music where he used to work, so asked me to make him a mix cd- one of korn songs he wanted has a pause in it, so i edited the track so it came back in to a recording of him singing abba, (he worked as a pub-chef at the time so most of the bar heard it)
8. i rigged a trip-wire across the back of a door at school, had it hooked up to a couple of party-poppers, so when some one opened the door they got covered in that streamer/confetti stuff.
9. i took the metal bit out of one of the sinks in one of the school science labs, and stuffed a paper towel with a small amount of potassium in it down the sink hole and replaced the metal bit, so when some one came to wash the test tubes it reacted and a purple flame came out the sink.
10. when i was very little, my dad coated a raw egg in chocolate and told one of my brothers mates that i’d made them at school for easter, and everyone else had eaten theirs but i saved him one – he was so thankful! right up until he bit into it!
11. my brother is technophobic, so me an dad using a talk-type and text-to-speech program made it seem as if our three computers where actually having a conversation (it was me and dad with an extra set of wireless mice and keyboards).
When I was small, I slept in a double bed with my big sister, who was scared of creepy crawlies etc. I put a 2 foot rubber snake on her side of the bed and waited for the fun.I wasn’t disappointed! I think she rose inches into the air screaming. It was worth the punishment from my Dad just to see her face!
when i was little i hid in my mum wardrobe wile she doing the hoovering and waited until she came into her room and jumped out in front of her holding a cricket bat and wearing my haloween werewolf mask i found it funny she did not
At work we used to swop the labels on the coffee jars over and every day one of our work mates would always say” umm you can really tell the difference between cheap coffe and this” little did he know, he never found out.
Sorry this is my best practical joke, it’s probably only funny to me but here goes.
I love my lay-ins and my hubby always takes the piss saying layz on when he comes into the room, so one weekend i stuffed the pillows in the bed and hid in another room.
He comes in with a cuppa and says t bag (another nickname) and of course i don’t move, then he goes over to the bed to find that I am not there. He he he.
This is one plsyed on me!
We had had a field mouse in the house and I couldn’t relax. I came in fr work the next day and started going upstairs as I went up, something the size of a rat ran across the landing. I screamed and ran back down only to hear my husband laughing hysterically, he’d waited until I came in then threw a rolled up pairs of socks across the landing knowing I would think it a mouse!
The best practical Joke I pulled was when I work for the DHSS as a Giro Writer. I had to write about 80 a day. I was the only person allowed to do this (don’t ask silly civil service rules) On April the 1st I went in work with my arm in a sling and told My boss that I had damaged my arm and i could not write giros..He panicked and immediately went to see the boss of the office to try and get a replacement for me.
When he came back in the Finance room, I ambled up to him and said “I have a sick note from the doc” ( it was a piece of white folder paper ‘with April fool on it’)When he opened he’s face turned purple and all my workmates laughed.
He did see the funny side of it in the end.
When I was at school we stole the keys for the grand piano in the hall and wrapped loo roll round all the hammers. When it came to the hymns all the guy playing was some dull thumping sounds. Brilliant.
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‘I Have Good News And Bad News.’
Patient Replies – ‘I’ll Have The Good News First.’
Doctor – ‘Yoo Only Have 24 Hours To Live.’
Patient – ‘What?! So Whats The Bad News?’
Doctor – ‘I Should Have Phoned Yoo Yesterday.’
It was my sisters birthday the saturday and as I worked in a Nightclub – we decided that we would get a cab to go past her house and stealthily creep down the round at 5am and put banners outside her house and across the street on her neighbours hedge with her full name and age. Then on the roundabout on the main road we did the same so all could see. It was only the next day when someone knocked her door and said Happy Birthday that she noticed and saw a banner on her neighbours hedge!! I had to avoid her phone calls for hours the next day!! Lol!!
Well I kind of actually Made some toffee apples which were not actually apples they were onions of course you can probably imagine the funnynes of this prank when my friends bit in to the ‘toffee apple’ they were actually toffee onions I also made some of these for Halloween and me being a popular house a couple of people chose the toffee onions instead of the toffee apples I thought this was a good trick!
Many moons ago – while we were courting, my hubbie to be took part in a 24 hour table tennis marathon. After he had finished he went to sleep under the table tennis table. I was bored so I painted his nails with blue nail varnish. I didn’t have any remover and he was not impressed when he woke up but everyone else thought it was funny.
when i was a kind-of steward for a conference at a butlins camp i broke into a girl-friends chalet and left a big trout in her bed, with its fins folded in prayer and its head on her pillow. It made the chalet stink, unfortunately!
When I was back at primary school I used to tease this kid. I was always putting a note in his desk that said “Dear Paul, you stink”. He didn’t know it was me and he told the teacher that someone had put a note in his desk and showed him the note. The teacher accused him of trying to get someone into trouble and thought that he wrote the note to himself as I made it look like his handwriting. I did however feel a little sorry for him when he was crying because the teacher thought it was him.
I remember when I was a school secretary and I was due to leave in the July due to the stress it was causing and me not liking the head teacher…..I decided the last day of term to put a kipper behind the radiator in her office…Then I cracked open three eggs and left them in her plant pot…..I would have hated to smell it when they returned after the six weeks holiday….
my son always played jokes on me so he was in the kitchen making pancakes and i hid in the hall in the dark for 10 minutes. he came out with a plate of pancakes and a drink and i leapt at him, he jumped and the pancakes and drink went into the air and i just laughed so much. got ya.
My mum was always trying to find out which one of us children always ate the Glace Cherries as there was never any left when she wanted to use them in her cakes, so she filled a couple of them with mustard and put them back in the tub. We soon found out it was my brother who was the secret cherry thief LOL
When I worked as a chef we had fresh lettuce coming in every day which needed to be washed and cut. My assistant hated doing this job as she was terrified of finding a slug (it was organic lettuce). One day I hid a piece of roast pepper in there which I carefully selected for colour and cut to shape, believe it not it did look convincing! I waited for the scream then came over to “see what the fuss was about”. She pointed out the “slug” which I picked up to take a better look at, then I ate it. I never told her what really happened! :-)
On Halloween we parked the car on the drive, directly in front of the front door, so callers would be positioned between the car and the door. We then got a large furry, grey toy rat tied some dark string to it a and placed it under the car feeding the other end through the letter box. we waited until someone rang the bell and then pulled the rat from under the car and up the door. After multiple screams, 3 crying children and one irate, complaining parent,we decided it was a job well done and called it a fright night
the best practical joke joke i ever did was well i used to work at a hotel as a waitress and there was this horribly mannered man there who treated me like dirt so when him and his wife had a shower they both were wearing pure white dressing gowns so to get revenge i put two ketchup sachets under there door ripped the tops off and stepped on them lol they both came out covered in ketchup and everyone knew it was me who did it so i got a warning but it finally got rid of them lol XD everyone was greatful and never forgot it.! P.S i love sweeties and jaffa cakes!.
whoops i put two jokes lol oh well :)
My friend believes in really strange things like vampires, zombies but is really scared of the films etc!! He got really drunk (yes I know, bad!), so me and two others, who are part of a local amateur dramatics group, arranged for him to be ‘placed’ in the middle of a theatre set. They were staging a production of a zombie horror at the time! He woke up, surrounded by zombies and completely freaked out!! This was hilarious and the memory will live with me for the rest of my life. I haven’t been forgiven… yet.
My practical joke was when I had a skip delivered for building work and it was parked in my drive then I knocked on my neighbours door and said So your skip has turned up today??! They looked in total shock and then after a few seconds I explained it was mine and apologised for any disruption the building work would cause.
when we were young we used to take our dog on holiday and to the beach , my sister would make dog poo shaped clay on the foot path and make our dog to sit by it ,,we would hide behind the beach huts laughing our heads off at people tutting and trying not to step in it
The kids and I played a practical joke on my husband about a year ago when he got his brand new car. Obviously he was very proud of his beautiful shiny new car and like alot of me could be found washing and polishing it whenever he had the chance. Imagine his horror when one morning he went out to the car to find a note on the windscreen saying ‘sorry I hit you car – please call me to discuss the matter’. “I don’t believe it” and a few word that I can’t repeat were shouted and he was running around the car looking for the damage like a mad man. He then came running in doors and started to dial the number that we had written on the note!!!!! It was at that point that we owned up … Only because be couldn’t contain our laughter any more :-))
Bucket of water on top of the door……….works every time :)
p.s great comp!
Sometimes the best ones are the ones that are not planned! A fantastic example of this was when my husband (fisherman) came home from work and put a lobster in the fridge then fell asleep on the sofa.
A certain lovely lady tip toed past him and went to the fridge to get everything needed to make her hubby a lovely cooked breakfast – opened the fridge door and ended up with a lobster attached to her hand!!!!!!!!
Can laugh now but I can assure you could not laugh at the time! (and no cooked breakfast!)
fake spider on teacher chair
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH HAAHA
When I was about 13, we went on a school trip to the Eden Project. We were staying in this creepy old hostel overnight and none of us wanted to sleep because it was so scary. One of the girls in the dorm with us was being miserable and insisted that we all shut and sleep. So we waited until she fell asleep and drew a moustache on her with toothpaste, drew freckles on her face and painted her nails with felt tip pens . After taking loads of pictures and thinking how hilarious we were finally went to sleep, only to be woken up 2 or 3 hours later by shouting. Unfortunately, the girl we’d pranked was actually allergic to tooth paste and had woken up with a rash developing on her face….not such a brilliant prank after all then!
She forgave us in the end but made us delete all the photographs….
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We’ve always made dinosaur foot prints in the sand at the beach – the kids fall for it every summer.
In high school, squirting a whole sachet of tomato sauce down the back of a boys trousers while he was crouching down doing up his shoe lace. He didn’t notice until he stood up.
It was Halloween – the moon was out and the dogs were howling. Along came some lovely Trick or Treaters followed by their game-for-it parents. I dished out some sweets and asked if they’d like to try some nut-free Halloween cakes, warm from the oven. Well, they could not resist my creepy cakes and ate them there and then. And when the extra chilli ingredient hit their tastebuds it wasn’t just the dogs howling! I had such a good cackle!!
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after a night out and a friend rather drunk we decided to swap her things about we put the washin up liqiud in the fridge tea bags in the mircowave and her fruit basket in her bed. WE cling filmed her toilet seat so when she did a wee and weed on herself haha!
When I was in school, I took some cat food with me and pretended it was French food. My friend ate some and actually said it was nice so was shocked when I told her what it really was…..
When I was in my late teens we use to go off to derelict buildings ghost hunting.We had convinced a lad who always use to back out of coming with us, that if he came we would look after him. We got there and waited until we were away from the entrance and all turned our touches out and hid. Unfortunately the lad dropped his torch and the battery’s fell out so he was alone in pitch black. We soon turned the torches back on when his screaming made our ears hurt!
I don’t think I was very nice when I was younger mwahahahaha
when my sister was little she fell and hurt her leg, so my mum gave her wet tissue to hold on it, she asked me to go and get it from her, as i walked into the kitchen with it i looked at it and thought oooh it looks like chicken, so i put it on some bread and gave it back to my sister and said mum asked me to give you this, she bit into it and ate half ofd it before i tol her lol x
Whilst in Sixth Form I once removed the screws from the hinges of the door to our form room so that when my least favourite teacher came in the door fell down…he was horrified….worth the detention !
At my Grandma’s house we had to remove our shoes and put indoor shoes or slippers on as soon as we came in as soon as my sister went out i went and got the lard out of the fridge and put it on the bottoms of her slippers it was hilariously funny to see her skid across the kitchen floor but not so funny when i had to try and get grease off the room carpet.
We used to carefully remove the lids on mr kiplings apple pies and add marmite, jam, cheese and whatever we could find, then carefully replace the lids put back into the box and wait for our victims hahahahahahaha……
my best practical joke was played on my maths teacher, his nickname was poppapig! anyways i unscrewed the door handle off the math room door from both sides then shut the door with only us kids inside! he came along started shouting, the unknow to me went outside to lookin the window catching me writing things on the black board about fat poppapig popping!!!
At work we have a recurring practical joke which we call ‘Danger’. You have to make someone jump by sneaking up on them and shouting DANGER!!. It’s better if you can catch it on video also :o)
Try putting some chicken liver in your unsuspecting victims tea. Wait until they have drunk it and then they find it at the bottom of their mug!! Grose but hilarious.
THREE TOILET TRICKS: 1) Smear Vaseline on a toilet seat when no oneis looking. It doesn’t take much. Adding a thin layer of sand to it is even better. 2) Put a tight sheet of Glad Wrap over the bowl under the seat. This works best in women’s facilities where the seat usually stays in place, but in the dark (THE DARK!!!) no one can tell. [Thanks to Nemo.] 3) Lift the toilet seat and stir in several boxes of your favorite jello…yellow/lemon is particularly appropriate but any kind you choose will be just as annoying as another! Do this after the victim goes to bed and let the jello set overnight. The next morning it will be a solid block!
I took my son who was 6 trick or treating to his auntys house. We crept up to the door armed with 4 cans of silly string quietly opened the letterbox and completely covered her from head to toe in silly string. It was funny it was the quickest she had ever moved and my son thought it was hilerious.
Good old cling film on the toilet seat, it may be unoriginal but the outcome is just great!! I did this to my partner when the inlaws were visiting, after he’d got me the day before by hiding under the bed and grabbing my foot when |I was nearly asleep!! He was not impressed with my joke, he was soaked through, haha x
One christmas at University, I spent a pointless hour pulling out all of the streamers from the party poppers that we had bought for our party before we headed home for the holiday. I filled the now-empty gap with a variety of different liquids like tomato ketchup and shampoo and replaced the cardboard cap before watching everybody pull them the next day. It was hilarious, and actually worked; the goo went everywhere!
Have a friend distract someone who has just opened a bottle of coke (I imagine it might work with other pop as well, but am not sure) While the “mark” is not looking, drop a couple of M&M’s into the open bottle. Let the person get back to their drink. In short order, the cola will start to foam…and foam and foam and foam. Always a funny trick
My mum loves doing jigsaw puzzles,so one day I took five pieces out of her puzzle box and swapped them with five pieces of another puzzle with similar colours.She eventually saw the funny side but has yet to forgive me.
i am rather boring, the best practical joke i was ever involved in playing was the age old and unoriginal whoopee cushion to be sat on by an unsuspecting friend.
My best practical joke was when my son was just a toddler. We thought it would be really funny to tie some very fine fishing line to a runner bean. We then laid said been down on the floor and called in impressionable young toddler.
As he entered the room we both shouted….Look, Josh! Runner Bean and then pulled the fishing line so that the bean shot across the floor towards him!
Well, we thought it was hilarious….unfortunately the now freaked out toddler burst out crying and refused to go anywhere near the veg section for about three months!
Best one was at school when we stole all the furniture from the girls sixth form room (when they were all out somewhere) and hid it in various places in the boys school! Took some sorting out that one! I still don’t think anyone knows who did it!
My best practical joke was I was working in a taxi office and were always playing jokes on each other. It was my time to get my own back on one of the drivers and I videoed him on the CCTV driving off in his taxi. When he came in to have a cup of tea I put the CCTV tape in he was looking at the screen minding his own business and ran out saying quick someones driving off in my car!
I got one of those spoof virus programs on the pc, and I scared the pants off my husband!
My best practical joke (although harsh) is when my wife woke up at about 3 in the morning saying “where’s Jackson, where’s Jackson?!?!” (my son). I just casually looked at her and said, “who?”
She still doesn’t see the funny side
my husband likes to play an online game, one day when he had really annoyed me, I waited till he went out and changed the password on his game, email account and facebook and then when he came back, sat and watched as he went ballistic trying to get into his game account, then his email for the password reminder and then facebook to have a moan.
He didnt find it funny but I enjoyed the 24 hours before I told him what id done :)
A long time ago, when I was at university – we sent a friend to the optician – with a urine sample. The optician found it funny – he didn’t
It was an act of revenge….
Whilst at Uni my housemate pulled down my jeans (and also my pants!) whilst in a queue into a club. I was mortified and so enraged that I bought laxatives and ground them up into a powder before depositing them into his favourite drink = strawberry milkshake (the kind that’s powdered then you add milk). I felt pretty smug seeing him walk through the lounge with two big pints of the stuff, until I realised his poor girlfriend had come to visit. I felt so guilty (but ever so slightly pleased) when they got up the next morning saying they thought they has food poisoning as they’d been on the loo all night long. I neglect to mention that I had already milk powdered his bed as he NEVER showered, so that house STANK that weekend :)
I have to admit this was not my practical joke but my husbands – We have this huge life size teddy bear and one halloween he dressed the bear up in a scary mask. He left it sitting on the downstairs loo ready to scare me when i wnet to go to the loo later that night – but i didn’t. He forgot all about it and came downstairs the next morning and scared himself silly when he saw the bear sat there!!!! brilliant!!!
My best (worst) practical joke was waiting for a particularly offense bloke I knew went to use the outside portable toilets at a wedding we were both attending, I got a group of friends to join me in flipping it over, door ending up flat on the grass, with him inside. Oh dear!
Every single April Fools’ Day without fail, my mother would come up the stairs about 6am and say there was someone on the phone. I’m not kidding it wouldn’t vary. We never fell for it. Just when we thought we were too old for it, I waited an hour and rang from my mobile (witheld number)and she blundered down the stairs to get it before it rang off. Then she walked away as I stopped the call before she got to it :p then rang once more and let her see her own annoying April fool!
There used to be a nice teacher at my school that would let me and my friend use the computers after school.
One day he went to get a cup of tea/coffee, and whilst he was gone, one of us got the idea to draw round our hands and feet on bits of paper and leave them on his desk.
When he got back, we said “Sir, Sir, some kid just ran in here and drew round his hands and feet on bits of paper and left them on your desk. We tried to stop him, but we wouldnt listen”
He just looked at us like we were a bit weird, because we were so blatantly lieing.
My boyfriend is a huge fan of JackA$$ so last time all our kids were here together we put a film on and waited for him to fall asleep before we decided to “antique” him with flour. He wasnt impressed but we couldnt stop laughing, he finally saw the funny side but still made us delete the photos and video
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Best practical joke I’ve been involved with was years ago when my big brother & I went to the cinema to see a horror film where there was a severed hand that was murdering people.
Big bro put his glove on the shoulder of the person in front and when they flicked it off it went flying across the cinema accompanied by screams from the person who flicked it and everyone else who saw a ‘severed hand’ fly through the air.
We got thrown out and he never did get his glove back but it still makes me laugh even though it must have been over 15 years ago :-))
clingfilm over the toilet seat classic
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Switching salt with sugar. Everyone had very salty cups of tea or very sweet food. I was a mean child :P
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My friend fell asleep at a party so I cracked an egg down the back of his pants and when he woke up he thought he had had an accident. Never seen anyone run so fast in my life