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From: hawk@cs.mcgill.ca (Matthew HOCKER)
Subject: Re: naive teacher
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:41:20 GMT

I had this English teacher in high school who always gave us vocabulary tests
which were exactly the same as samples found in the back of the textbook. As
a prank (and possible mark assistance!) I wrote the entire vocabulary on the
blackboard in the exact same format as the test (basically, I just wrote the
answers up there).

The teacher came in, handed out the tests, and sat down at his desk. He didn't
look at the board, but he looked very confused by all the students snickering
and looking up during the test. When he eventually turned around and saw the
writing, he said something to the effect that the material was for upper year
students.

Good laugh, and a great mark on that test!

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: n5gax@leo.unm.edu (Duke McMullan (n5gax))
Subject: Urinary stream dynamics . . . was: The FINAL WORD . . . .
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 02:56:06 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1defraINNj3s@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at
the Gates of Dawn) writes:
>dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes:
>>Now i suppose most of you don't have adjustable strobe lights sitting 
>>around, so you're just gonna have to trust me on this one. Piss is a 
>>bunch of droplets, not a solid stream. No connection can be made through
>>the urine from the urinal to the penis. This prank DOES NOT WORK.

I must concur with my collegue on this matter.  I discovered this years back
playing with a little strobe I'd built.  Solid stream . . . maybe for four
inches.  You know why that stream's so noisy as it hits the water in a normal
toilet?  Multiple droplets, that's why!

For years, I've heard about dudes, greenhorns and other suckers being persua-
ded to commit urination on a spark coil or an electric fence.  These were _all_
FOAF-type tales, and I've been vewwy, vewwy skeptical of them ever since that
day that (for no good reason) I had a strobe light in the bathroom.

>Perhaps your piss hole is too small.  I can guarantee you a solid stream
>for some distance from _MY_ penis.  I'll check to see if its good enough 
>to make it to the bottom of a urinal.  Perhaps I'll drink a lot of beer 
>first.

Don't drink so much you can't see straight.  Also, there's no need for anything
as fancy as a repeating strobe light--a photographic strobe will do the job just
fine.

In all fairness, urethral opening size _should_ affect the "solid-stream dis-
tance."  Still, I don't think you'll get things to go very far.

Perhaps one could direct the stream at a flashlight lens.  See if the solid
stream (if any) has "light pipe" properties.  Don't write me; just post it to
the net.  It's just what this group needs.

Kuden:  To whiz _quietly_, shoot the stream at a surface only a couple of
inches from the end of the barrel.  Also, don't apply too much hydraulic pres-
sure.

God!  This topic really has me pissed!


					Aaaahhhhhh,
						d
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From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
Subject: Re: parking meters
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:33:38 CST

In article <Nov10.224613.81277@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> wayman@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Wayman) writes:
>
>I saw a news story about a guy, maybe in Washington DC who runs around
>in front of the meter person putting money in the meter.  He then puts
>a card under the wiper with his address and asks them to send him a 
>donation.  Anyone know the specific legalities of this?
>
>Jeff

Ha... this is great!  I'd really like to think that it is legal.  Hell,
if I got out of a $20 parking ticket because the guy put in a quarter
for me, I'd easily send him a couple of bucks!  He's probably  not going
to make much money off of it, but it sure is a nice thing to do.



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From: flanad@aix.rpi.edu (Pink Floyd)
Subject: Re: emergency showers
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:43:44 GMT

moore@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore) writes:
>I'm not saying that there are no shenanigan possibilities involving safety
>showers.  However, if you pull one, be prepared for a huge quantity of water
>to come out.  Also, remember that safety showers do not (usually) shut off
>when you release the handle.  They release a set amount of water (kind of
>like a toilet).  The people who own the shower in question will NOT be
>amused, so be prepared to run.

Also, a _lot_ of them (esp. around here) don't tend to have drains underneath
them.  Probably a big mess!

Running is good advice.

MDDave Flanagan
flanad@rpi.edu
"It was the greatest show on earth-- but then it was over." -R. Waters, _AtD_

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From: rey@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Troy Lovata)
Subject: Drug Search
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:30:00 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

Back in highschool the administration was pushing hard for drug sniffing
dogs to search the lockers. The parents finally said NO loud enough that 
they never went through with it (perhaps the only bastion of sanity left
in this no-knock-search-warrant-world, it was nice to see all those property
tax dollars not being squandered), but before this happened and it looked
like the admin. would actually go thru with it, we scraped enough money   
together to purchase a fair amount of weed and slide a little into the
ventilator slots of about half the school's lockers. Nobody seemed to notice
a sprig of the happy parsley in the bottum of their otherwise dirty lockers
(well, no one admitted it). I suppose we could of turned a fine profit for
all that weed at the junior high across the street, but deep down I don't
think it was wasted.


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From: ralf@fester.dell.com (Raymond La France - X2787)
Subject: Re: yet another high school shenanigan
Reply-To: ralf@ioscc.neosoft.com
Organization: IO SpecialistsConsulting
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:22:23 GMT

One along the same thread.....our school had a P.A. system whose wires radiated
from the console in the administrative offices building out to the roofs of all
of the buildings.  The wires were accessible to anyone who wanted to get onto
the roof and play with them.  We did.  We made a solar-powered radio with a 
cheapie Radio Shack kit and sent the output into the science building's
P.A. input cables.  Then, we covered it with a shoebox and cut a long, thin
hole into the top of the box.  When the sun reached the appropriate azimuth
each day, KLAC (a very powerful Southern California C&W radio station) would
fade in, grow louder for awhile, then fade out.  The whole thing took place
overa period of about 2.5 hours and was annoying to the faculty but hilarious
to those of us in 4th period Physics who were in on it.

After about a week, my physics teacher asked me to step up to his desk.  He
took out a schematic drawing illustrating exactly what we did and just said,
"I don't care where it is or who was involved.  Just remove it."  Since
discretion is the better part of valor AND shenanigan-playing,  I complied.

I got an A in the course, by the way.

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From: mikem@misg.csd.harris.com (M. K. McCole)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: slipped disco
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:59:44 GMT
Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Ft. Lauderdale FL
NNTP-Posting-Host: misg.csd.harris.com

The guys in the next room to mine in the dorm would play loud disco music
late on school nights despite my pleas and protestations.  This was in the 
mid seventies.  It went on for weeks.  Finally, I got completely fed up.
I borrowed a big sound reinforcement speaker from my brother, removed an
electrical outlet cover from the wall adjacent to their room, butted the
speaker up to the outlet, cranked the stereo volume, inserted an 8-track
tape (8-tracks play continuously) with Hank Williams Greatest Hits on it,
and left for three days.
 
                  Your cheatin' heart will make you weep.
                  You'll cry and cry, and try to sleep.
                  But sleep won't come, the whole night through.
                  Your cheatin' heart will tell on you.
                  
                                              Hank Williams

When I got back, they BEGGED me to turn it off.  I never heard any noise
at all from them for the rest of the term.
  

                               Mike

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2101 W. Cypress Creek 33309  Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
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From: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter)
Subject: Re: parking meters
Originator: usenet@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:05:09 GMT
Organization: Gallifrey - Home of the Timelords

In article <1dsdrjINNe2q@agate.berkeley.edu> aalto@ocf.berkeley.edu (Rolf Aalto) writes:
>There are so many stupid parking laws dreamt up by city officious people
>that this almost constitutes a burocratic shenanigan played on the entire
>US population.    For example...

Well, most of these vary wildly from place to place:

>1) Attempting in any way to remove a chalk mark = BIG FINE.
>2) Moving car a few feet to hide chalk mark = TICKET.

Chalk mark? Why would you want to remove one? Or do cops in Berkeley do
weird things with chalk?

>3) Not moving car for 72 hours, EVEN if you have a parking permit, legally
>   means that you have abandoned it -- the city can tow it, store it, and
>   eventually sell it -- all at your expense.  Recently I left town over
>   the weekend and hence didn't move my car for ~4 days.  They towed it
>   and it cost me $120 to get it back.  This was especially annoying since
>   I had just paid $30 for a street parking permit.  

Common, though the length of time before the car is considered "abandon"
varies.

>4) Unloading/Loading at a yellow loading zone will often get you a ticket.
>5) If the meter is broken, you, not the city, are responsible -- you get
>   the ticket more often than not.

Don't know about there, but this happened in Norman once. When I brought it
to the attention of the court clerk that the meter was broken, the complaint
was immediately dismissed and they apologized (after confirming). Of course,
Norman only collects 1 cent (yes, a penny) from it's meters. Or a nickel for
a whole hour.

>6) Parking facing the wrong way = BIG TICKET.
>7) Missing front liscense plate, etc. = FIX IT TICKETS GALORE.

Moot. Most states don't have front plates anyway.

>8) Paint worn off curb or covered with grass so it is NOT visable to the
>   unaided eye is still no excuse.  MORE TICKETS.

Never happened to me, but you'd likely have a chance in court, if you could
take pictures and say "Judge, can YOU find the yellow?"

>Of course, you can fight it in court.  Just show up at city hall numerous
>times to get your date, waste hours of time, and probably lose.  So perhaps
>we need to discuss clever "shenanigans" to even the score with City Hall?

Hmmm... good idea. I don't have any, though.

				- greg
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From: faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted)
Subject: Re: answering machine messages 
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:19:44 GMT

adwright@iastate.edu () writes:

>Anyone ever call a disconnected number and record the message as the outgoing
>message? This is not really a shenanigan, but it is a good way to avoid
>people you dont want to hear from. Of course your friends will know enough to
>wait for the beep.

	A friend of mine's message is
	"We're sorry, the number you have reached, XXX-XXXX, is still in
	service."  delivered in a dead monotone.  Sounds just like a
	disconnection message unless you're listening carefully.

>Allen
>
"Well, do you have a report?"
 "Sure.  On Monday we went to the ballgame, but he a'fool us: he no show up.
  On Tuesday he was at the ballgame, but we fool him: we no show up.  Wednesday
  was a doubleheader.  Nobody show up." -- Duck Soup

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From: tlund@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Lund)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: from rec.games.abstract
Summary: this was taken from rec.games.abstract
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:29:09 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA


Subject: Re: TRY THIS
Newsgroups: rec.games.abstract

In rec.games.abstract Daniel Vincent writes:

>Hey netters,
>	you could probably try this. all u need is a small cassette player(the
>one that uses the smallest type cassete).
>	Record the following message using a friends voice "Yeah that is the 
>one. Are you in it. Get out as fast as you can"
>	Next step get into a crowded elavator and 1/2 way thru talk into your
>talk into your machine asking if that was the elevator cabin and then switch on
>the player.
>	U could see the response of the people in the elevator..
>	Good luck
>Daniel Vincent.

I think the fake walkie-talkie schtick is a great idea.  Let's get this guy.

-o-<< tl
From: devol@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WILLIAM DEVOL)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Yellow Postings
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:40:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

What has this group become---alt.physics.urine.  I must admit the topic 
does seem natural for the 13th graders that post here.

****************************************************

Friends don't let friends go to Miami University.

Bill
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From: cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin)
Subject: Phone shenanigans
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 21:23:05 EST

Telephones are wonderful devices, and can provide hours of entertainment 
for you and your fellow pranksters. Some of my favorites:

1. Call the local number for the weather and record it. Then call some 
poor person (preferably someone you know :) , and play back the recording.

2. Call someone's answering machine, record thier message. Call them back, 
and play back thier greeting as your message. Some people actually get 
worried that thier answering machine is broken...

3. With conference calling, call one person and put that line on hold 
while you dial another number. After you're finished dialing, put both 
parties on the line and don't say anything. It's hilarious to listen to 
two people who didn't call each other say "Hello?" "Who's this?" "You 
called me..." "No, you called me..." 

ObDisclaimer: In areas where this sort of thing is considered illegal, I 
didn't actually recommend doing it, I just noted some hypothetical 
possibilities ;-)


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From: liz@joseph.WPI.EDU (PostMistress General)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Annoying Lab Neigbors
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:03:18 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: joseph.wpi.edu

In article <v#C=yr_@engin.umich.edu> ftit@ob.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman) writes:
>
>Have you ever had an annoying neigbor at the computer lab?  The sort
>that sits down at the next terminal while you are debugging a
>complicated program or doing something important (like reading news) and
>talks loudly to his pal, or snorts his nose in your general direction?
>Well, my lab partner and I are currently in this predicament.
>
>What do you suggest for us to do?
>


If you have workstations (we have DECstations), you can always
get some sort of scribble program, log onto their machine, and 
write messages on their screen...

We also used to have a few programs floating around that when
you would cat them to someone's screen, they would do strange
things.  We had one called Twilight Zone that did a whole bunch
of things that tied up your terminal for about 3 minutes.  Very
annoying at 2400 baud.  :)

					--Liz
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From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: picking on hayseeds
Date: 9 Nov 1992 11:55:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


wayman@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Wayman) writes:

>I grew up on a farm in a rural area.  Occasionally I run into
>prejudice of this sort.  It's like any other prejudice, racial
>or otherwise.

Except that "being a hayseed" consists of much more than simply having been
born in a rural area.

>What a zany prankster you must be, Frank, pulling these 
>madcap tricks on these poor, undereducated country folk.
>Somebody build a cage around this guy, he's rippin' me up. 

Anyone wanna guess whether Jeff here needs a nap?

ObShenanigan:  Go into a restaurant (or college dining hall >:) ) where
they have salt and pepper shakers at the table.  Take the top off one of
these condiments.  Place a paper napkin over the mouth of the open
container.  Push it down a little to form a little crater and fill this
crater with the opposite condiment.  Screw the top back on, carefully tear
away all excess napkin so that none is visible from the outside . . . and
watch the fun!!
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From: ralf@fester.dell.com (Raymond La France - X2787)
Subject: Drive-thru fun
Summary: Favorite drive-thru prank
Keywords: Drive-thru fun
Reply-To: ralf@ioscc.neosoft.com
Organization: IO SpecialistsConsulting
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:55:17 GMT

Finally a group that looks like it might be as much fun as the
"tasteless" ones!

Reading all of the McDonald's pranks, I was amazed to see that no one
thought of my all-time favorite. Picture this:

You're going through a fast-food drive-thru.  You're in the passenger
seat while your friend is driving.  He's placing the food order, and
at an appropriate time, you yell out, "AND A BLOW JOB!....NO, MAKE
THAT *TWO* BLOW JOBS SO (S)HE CAN GIVE ME ONE!"  Since many drive-thrus
use a loudspeaker that's usually cranked, everyone in the restaurant
hears it.

Obviously, this only works if you're a guy and the friend driving the
car has enough of a sense of humor that (s)he doesn't beat you into
a coma or make you walk home.

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From: hanus@epas.utoronto.ca (Peter John Hanus)
Subject: Re: The FINAL WORD on URINAL SHOCKS!!!!!
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:21:14 GMT

In article <1dd3bmINNit3@agate.berkeley.edu> dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes:
>There has been much consternation over whether or not one could possibly
>shock the penis of a man who is pissing in a urinal. 
>
>THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE!!!!
>
>Everyone has missed the single most important factor of all this. First though,
>it is true that you do not need a complete circuit on order to do this (by
>complete circuit I mean, for instance, wires carrying current in a full
>circle as in from one pole of a battery, to a device, then back to the 
>battery's other pole) 
>
>If you can set up enough differential in static charge between, say, the 
>urinal and the body, then the charge will tend to even itself out _IF_ any
>connection is made. A two-way circuit is not necessary (consider lightning).
>
>In other words, this could still potentially work even without making any
>connection between feet and floor. Provided there is a connection between
>URINAL and PENIS. And now I come to my point.
>
>The URINE does NOT make the connection between URINAL and PENIS! Urine is 
>NOT a steady stream. If is a procession of DROPLETS and they are quite 
>separated from each other. Here's an experiment by which you can prove this.
>If you have a strobe light handy, and if it's adjustable, take it into the 
>bathroom with you next time you take a leak. If you adjust it 
>so that it blinks with the frequency of the droplets, you will see what 
>appears to be a line of drops standing still in midair. 
>
>Now i suppose most of you don't have adjustable strobe lights sitting 
>around, so you're just gonna have to trust me on this one. Piss is a 
>bunch of droplets, not a solid stream. No connection can be made through
>the urine from the urinal to the penis. This prank DOES NOT WORK.
>
>-dan
>


Uh, guys!  What are the odds that theology students set up a urinal
that shocks people? (Is this #3?)



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From: mgb5528@cc.utah.edu (Beck, Michael Gregory)
Subject: Urinals.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date:  7 Nov 1992 00:33 MST  

   I am not too sure, but I think that we have our third shenanigan on 
alt.shenanigans...

Hiz Lord Dimentia,  how do you rule?


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From: chrisbee@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu (I live in the water!)
Subject: Another Drive Thru Shenanigan
Originator: chrisbee@nick.csh.rit.edu
Keywords: dirty, looks, galore
Organization: YoYoDyne Propulsion Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:11:36 GMT

I have yet to try this but I really want to. (If anyone does mail me the results)
Do the standard drive in thang, except order enouh food for about eight people,
BMacs, QPounders, Flies, Soda, etc. and after you've run up a good amount say
something along the lines of "Do you still have apple pies?" Obviously they'll
answer yes, so you say (doing you're best impression of Mr. Horse) "Hmmm, it's
been a long time since I've had an apple pie, and I'm not as hungry as I thought,
forget all that other stuff and just give me an apple pie please!" I didn't come
up with this one but it sounds SOO cool!! 
						The wayward Chrisbee



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Let's take something whose whole purpose in life is to be
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