Great practical jokes

[Aerows]

I need ideas.

My mother is the foremost practical joker I've ever encountered. She will fill your purse full of tampons, and everything available if you leave it around.

She's been known to be deadly with a water gun. *grin*

I took apart her calculator and reversed the numbers after she did the exploding purse bit, but now, I need another one.

I have also done the tadpoles swimming around in the flower vase at dinner.

Ideas?

She got me good yesterday with the "purse full of crap" thing, again.

[krispos42]

1. Fill her medicine chest full of ping-pong balls.

When she goes to open it... avalanche!

[Aerows]

7. Oh! That's a good idea

I may try that one :D

[Grantuspeace]

2. Use electrical tape to depress kitchen sink sprayer.

Return it to the "holster". And aim strategically. Next person to turn on the water gets it.

[Aerows]

8. LMAO!

I'm not sure how that one would work though, and I don't want to get my father. He's an innocent bystander in all of this.

[Recovered Repug]

3. Try the bowl of water on the ceiling trick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQzPNT780bs

[Aerows]

12. My mother would KILL me

OMG. I think I need to do that one, too LMAO.

She would flay me alive over that one. It's awesome.

[quakerboy]

4. hmm

are there any fragile/potential health risk issues? I ask because there are some great pranks and fun to be had, but not at the danger of hurting an elder, particularly ones own mother.

[Aerows]

9. Nothing harmful

If it involves someone getting wet, that's fine, or someone getting confused because something isn't working as expected, that's good, too. NOTHING that could harm a person, though, or affect an innocent bystander.

This is a little game we play. Usually, it involves someone being doused with water, or something harmless like that.

[quakerboy]

13. not quite what I meant.

I was thinking more of "weak ticker, don't surprise em too much" kinda harm, which can be an issue when trading pranks with the older generations.

There's always clear packing tape, which can be strung across doorways and such, particularly in low light situations. Done right, its like walking into a really annoying spiderweb. But be careful how hard you stick it down, as it can take someone down if misused.

Or just some tape on the bottom of a mouse. Or across the sensor of a remote control. Or the battery contacts of some other convenient device. A few small pieces of bubble wrap under the contact points of a toilet seat, or the legs of a chair.

If they tend to be not so much a morning person, one that was particularly effective and fun, a personal invention: They commonly sell small tablets to turn kids bath water fun colors. A little carbonation and food coloring, as best I can tell. If you break one up, remove a shower head, and insert a tab or two into the pipe, and reattach the shower head. Next mornings shower is colored. An only partially awake person can come up with amazing reasons to explain brightly colored shower water...

My favorite is Iodine. If you can make iodine crystals in liquid, let them dry, you have a harmless, loud surprise. It is pressure sensitive, since the "explosive" is only the cracking of crystals. A doorknob, somewhere a door slaps against a frame. When it gets really dry, it becomes sound sensitive. A small open container on a high shelf can go off days later, unexpected.

[Aerows]

14. OMG

Colors in the showerhead.

I hadn't thought of that one. That would be awesome :)

I wouldn't want to hurt a fly, and neither does my mother. It's just our little game to play pranks on each other. But she's getting blue. LOL, thanks for the suggestion.

[quakerboy]

24. That one was particularly beautiful in action.

I saved it for the exact right time, I wish I could say I had planned it that way. Somehow I nailed the day when my early riser housemate was sleep deprived and slightly slow/groggy.

The red pill.

And he thought that blood was coming from the shower head. That it was end times and judgement. I would guess this only lasted a few seconds at most, but even without being there to observe, it was well worth the 4 bucks I spent despite being really broke.

[Aerows]

25. LMAO End times and judgment

That's hilarious.

I have to do that one, but I'm doing blue or purple for my Mother. It's clearly a practical joke, and she'll love it.

[quakerboy]

27. Oh... classics

Short sheeting is classic, always in style (though more difficult with those who do not make their beds. Not impossible, however.)

[Aerows]

28. Short sheeting has been a staple

Yes, that, and saran wrapping the toilet. My mother is, as I said, a practical joker whiz. I had to get new ideas to keep up with her.

I love her dearly, but I enjoy getting her good, sometimes. I wanted to reprogram her card games so she always had a bad hand. Imagine, Solitaire, which she plays every morning, and it always has aces on the bottom of the deck so she can't play it LOL.

[quakerboy]

29. Fake snakes?

The computer is fair game?

Look around online. there are lots of good ones. You can swap directions on the mouse, so it goes away from where you want it to go. You can set the monitor picture upside down. Change what the mouse buttons do. Take a screenshot, set it as the background, and remove all the icons so she cannot open her usual programs and whatnot.

Its not to hard to reset how the computer directs to websites. So whenever she, say, goes to check her email, it takes her to look at Ebay's selection of fine whoopie cushions. Or whatever seems appropriate to redirect from and too.

[struggle4progress]

5. (1) disassemble her automobile while she's out and reassemble it in her living room

or (2) spray paint her bedroom windows opaque black while she's asleep and set her clock back eight or nine hours

[Aerows]

10. No

That's rough. I want something harmless.

[beam me up scottie]

6. Fill a cardboard box full of marbles, unseal the bottom and seal the top.

Place it on her stove or anywhere she will be inclined to move it without opening it first.

Then wait.

[Aerows]

11. OMG

That's AWESOME!!! I'm going to do peanuts and confetti, too, just to make it more awesome.

Yep, that's the one :D.

Thank you. God I hope I can video it LOL!

You rock!

[beam me up scottie]

30. You're welcome!

I have to credit my coworkers in the tool and die department, though. They were so creative I was afraid to go to the bathroom on slow days. :D

[trof]

15. The 'iced' dishpan.

For her next birthday volunteer to bring the cake.
Either DIY, or have a bakery ice a round metal or plastic tub the size of a birthday cake.
The fancier, the better.
Candles and all.

Bring it in with great ceremony.
But when she tries to cut the first slice...
:rofl:

The kicker, have a smaller cake under the tub.
After she sees the joke, lift the tub with suitable 'TAH-DAH!' flourish to reveal the real cake.
Viola!
;-)

[Aerows]

16. That's beautiful!

OMG, I'm going to do that one!

Iced... ice LOL. That's wonderful.

[WolverineDG]

17. Or get a clean brick & do the same thing to it

My uncle once told me he was getting me a brick cake. And he did. My aunt probably ran that thing 20 times through the dishwasher & then sterilized it some more (she was an RN) before putting loads of icing & decorations on it.

I loved my brick cake!

dg

[Aerows]

19. LMAO

I've never heard of that one until you guys mentioned it. I HAVE to do that one. It's hilarious.

[Bucky]

18. Leave her a telephone message to call & ask for someone name Myra Mainz. Don't tell her that

the phone number goes to the local funeral parlor.

[Aerows]

20. She's got the funeral parlor one down pat

I can't even go into the ones she's done with the phone. LMAO.

Good idea, but she could beat me with the phone with one hand tied behind her back.

[MilesColtrane]

21. Two words:

Live crickets

Find your local bait shop. Take a large styrofoam cooler.

[Aerows]

22. I can't stand crickets - they look like roaches to me

I'd have a panic attack even attempting to touch a cricket. LMAO, kudoes for something non-threatening, but I couldn't carry that out because of my own heebie-jeebies.

And I fear the day she finds that out. Yuck x 10.

[Enrique]

23. two words

pot brownies. Make sure to get video. :-)

[Aerows]

26. I don't have marijuana, and she doesn't either

I think I'll stick to some of the other gags that have been suggested, like dye in the showerhead or icing on a block of ice.

That's more my style, legal and isn't harmful.

[RedCloud]

31. carefully peel an orange. Enjoy contents.

Put something else in there to give it volume, glue orange back together.

There used to be anumber you could call to give someone the "clickers", series of noises phone technicians used to make sure land phones got the signals. Don't know if it still available.

[kentauros]

32. Simple yet very effective computer prank:

Post-It note affixed to the bottom of an optical mouse, covering up the LED. People will think their mouse is dead and because roller-ball mouses aren't used much anymore, they won't even turn it over thinking they need to "clean the ball" }(