September 30, 2009
Calling Mike Rotch
In the mid-1970s, two young men, John Elmo and Jim Davidson (later known collectively as The Bum Bar Bastards, or BBB), began calling a bar named the Tube Bar which was located in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Tube Bar was owned by Louis "Red" Deutsch, and most of the time, Deutsch was the person who answered the calls. During each call, the callers would ask Deutsch to call out fictitious names, which, when said aloud, sounded like something else entirely (for example, "Al Coholic" = alcoholic, or "Cole Kutz" = cold cuts). Most of the time, Deutsch would call out the names, unaware that he was being subjected to a prank. Sometimes, however, Deutsch would catch on to the prank, and when he did, he responded with extreme hostility, shouting at the caller with profanity, obscene sexual references, usually involving the caller's mother, and threats of physical harm.
In an act of apparent desperation, Red also claimed that he would reward the caller with $100 if they would "come on down" to the bar and show his face, or meet Red at a place of their choosing. Red eventually raised the reward to $500, in hopes of enticing the young men, however it is widely believed that the callers never collected their reward because of fears of having their "prick cut off", or their "belly cut open"….
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November 16, 2008
Is this viral? I got a strange book unexpectedly in the mail…
“…I got a book in the mail yesterday. It came from Sweden, with sufficient postage. It was in a white envelope, with my name and work address written by hand in pen. On the envelope, there was also a note that said "Will tell you more when I return!" Inside was a white volume, hardback, called "Being or Nothingness", with the well known picture by Escher on the cover of two hands recursively drawing each other. The author is given as "Joe K". There is also a sticker that says "Warning! Please study the letter to Professor Hofstadter before you read the book. Good Luck!".
Inside the front cover is, indeed, a neatly typed letter to Doug Hofstadter, with the right Bloomington address etc. It is dated Nov 9, 2006. It relates to what is presumably a prior acquaintance between the letter writer and Hofstadter. The letter is signed "The Writer". I'd reproduce the whole letter, as this is getting interesting at this stage, but then I'd have to do the same for the whole book, because it is an interesting little text, quite incoherent in an artistic way, that mingles themes from Hofstadter's Strange Loop, Douglas Adams, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The text is vaguely related to some Christian themes, but also to recursion and the meaning of life.
Now, I have no idea who sent this, nor can I imagine anyone I know in Sweden doing so…”
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May 16, 2008
Porta Potty Toilet Prank
The 18821 May St., Homewood, IL girls are showing off for the StreetView camera of the Google beetle! Ok, you are world-famous now
Sweet Baby Jesus - Check out this poncho
Snuggle your head - and everything within it - inside a warm wool Klein Bottle Hat
Another one I haven’t reposted in 3-4-5 years or so: How the world will end
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March 29, 2008
Bike fuel
A new superstore in Arizona resembles gas station down to smallest detail. (Click on photo to biggify)
Re-post: A Spinning wheel
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March 02, 2008
Cheetos prank
Hacking the Utrecht central station big screen (YT)
2 new ones from Improve Everywhere: Mobile Desktop and Frozen Grand Central
What do you do with 400 9 oz. bags of Cheetos for free? Dump them into the office of an unsuspecting co-worker while he's out at lunch, of course
Students Punished After Buying Lunch With Pennies. 29 NJ Eighth-Graders Get 2 Days Detention After Forking Over Nearly 6,000 Coins
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January 30, 2008
Mystery Bench
Mystery Bench Baffles City Officials
Schwarzenegger pranks Mitt Romney
The entire class of 2008 was expelled, but it was worth it: Bouncy-Ball Senior Prank
Similar: 500,000 colored balls thundered down Rome’s Spanish Steps (With video)
Icelandic teen dupes White House
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November 28, 2007
Go ahead, make this prank. Your co-workers will be glad you did
Pickled dragon mystery. The author who was desperate to get his book published, staged the baby dragon hoax
Top Office Pranks, Part 3 at "Dark Roasted Blend". More ideas at AskMefi
J-Walk decided to blog less. The next day, he disclosed that the post was a copy from Scott Adams’s blog. Previous hoaxes by John Walkenbach: The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference & Web Designs and Writing by MYRTLE
10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets. (From Optical Poptitude)
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October 29, 2007
The Crosswalk Prank
How to wake up your dad, friend or husband
The Los Angeles Cacophony Society is an open network of creative dissidents, artists, seekers, and radical pilgrims. Here’re their “Prank Flyers”. (From Laughing Squid)
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July 13, 2007
The mannequin in the washroom
The mannequin in the washroom prank
A prank dedication read out on BBC radio Leicester
On 27 April 1978, Jeffrey Vallance bought a frozen chicken at a supermarket, took it to a pet cemetary, bought a casket for it, and had it interred. Blinky, The Friendly Hen. (From Mad Professor)
Czech pranksters sneak mushroom cloud into weather report
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May 30, 2007
Smile
The Turk was a chess-playing machine, an automaton of the late 18th century, which was later proved to be an illusionary hoax. Publicly promoted as an automaton and given its common name based on its appearance, the Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master to hide inside and operate the machine
More of the same: Lords of the Drunk Sleeping Beauties
Phonebook Prank. Let this be a lesson to all college kids out there. Lock your doors when you go away
Smile! You're on candid camera
You’re Getting WHAT? Tattoo’ed WHERE? (NSFW)
Re-post: Car Crash Prank
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March 31, 2007
Happy April Fools Day
Scott Adams describes the best workplace prank he knows: Find someone who has two phones – say a work phone and a home phone. Pick a time when you know the target is near one of the phones and no one will answer the other. Call the phone that won’t be answered, then use three-way calling to call the phone that will be answered. When the target answers, say nothing but connect the three-way call. He’ll hear his own answering machine at home telling him to leave a message. (231 readers left comments with additional suggestions)
Coke Bomb explosion # 11
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February 02, 2007
Украинские студенты развлекаются
Ji Lee’s NYC Graffiti TV
Google TV - An Elaborate Hoax by Mark Erickson
Breaking news: Police in a Wiltshire village have been trying to get to the bottom of an underwear mystery
Russian prank above from Numlok. I guess that RuTube is YouTube in Russki
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December 24, 2006
Bill Plympton's Dirty Shorts
Upskirt prank. (YouTube)
Since 1914, the Johnson Smith Company has been astounding young and old with its catalogs of novelties, practical jokes, puzzles, magic tricks, and every sort of whacky entertainment item you can imagine. Here is an assortment of goods from the company's 1940 catalog. Why are kids no longer entertained by fake blisters that squirt water at unsuspecting friends?
More YouTube: Invisible Clean Glass Prank
Re-post: I’m afraid we have to fire Bob….
The ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron
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November 15, 2006
Selling the perfect offspring
A Kissing Prank: Girls think they are to participate in a blind test of lip balm by kissing two male models but at the last second the models are switched
Cats do not like men with long beards, especially long dark beards
Veterans of Future Wars and other nonviolent political pranksters
I am away on a short vacation to China at the moment. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment
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October 08, 2006
Word It
In the spring of 1982, Jose Ramon Carillo, owner of a little grocery shop in Teacapan, Mexico, is rudely woken from his afternoon nap by a piercing scream. He is on his feet in a heartbeat, grabs his baseball bat and runs over to the back of the shop, where he finds Lucilla Maria Rodriguez, pale as a ghost and staring at the stacks of preserved foods. Following her gaze he finds himself looking at a jar containing a human foetus, neatly stacked in between the pickled vegetables
Thai Atkins Chairs Prank, a copycat of Cockeyed Starbucks Chair Prank
Vote Nurse Ratched! She knows what’s best for you!
Giant Sheet of Glass Prank. (Turn down the sound! Not having a TV, I always forget the horribly annoying voices of the “anchor persons” explaining stuff to the idiots who listen)
More Japanese TV - Ski resort massage prank. (More on the sidebar)
(Photo by Peter M. Graham)
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