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From: rjones@itchy.dsd.es.com (Ray Jones - Perp)
Subject: Cafeteria Shenanigan
Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 22:12:26 GMT


(Yet another shenanigan form the Mike and Ray Scrapbook.  This got one
of the best "Why?" looks I've ever seen.)

While Mike and I were in school together (luckily for the school, it
was only a year) we used to hang around with 4 or 5 other guys, all of
the same nature when it came to shenanigans.  We used to eat lunch
together, usually in the lab.  (Quieter, less crowded.)  

After lunch, we were pretty apathetic in returning the trays to the
lunchroom.  One of the guys had a locker right next to the lab, that
he really kept nothing in, so it often became the depository for
dishes and trays.  I should add, this locker was 6 feet tall, about 2
feet deep, maybe 1.5-2 feet wide.  By the end of the year, it was
*packed*.  There must have been a hundred trays, plates, and sets of
silverware in there.

The day came when we were supposed to clean out the lockers.  We got a
cart, put all this junk on it, and wheeled it as a group to the
lunchroom.  Lunch had just finished, there were some cafeteria-types
cleaning up.  We carefully unloaded the cart, one piece at a time,
handing it to each other like it was a bucket line for a fire, looking
as solemn as possible the entire time, and saying nothing.  After
finishing, we walked out, maintaining the same air of purposfulness
and solemnity.  The workers just watched us the whole time, growing
more and more confused with each tray, plate, and spoon.

(Next time:  The book drop.)
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                                          rjones@dsd.es.com
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: gak@wrs.com (Richard Stueven)
Subject: Found this one on alt.drugs
Reply-To: gak@wrs.com
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:57:54 GMT

In article 646@ab.wvnet.edu, white_w@ab.wvnet.edu () writes:
>After reading the discussion of cigarette smoking I was reminded of something. 
>
>	A couple of years ago tobacco was banned from all school property in
>West Virginia.  Early the day before the law was to go into effect my high 
>school biology teacher went to the teacher's lounge with a *PACK* of cigars.
>(he quit smoking a few years earlier because his wife doesn't like it).  He
>them proceeded to chain smoke the ENTIRE PACK.  All the teachers who smoke went
>around complaining the whole day about the "horrible stench" in a room which
>was normally so thick with smoke that fog horns were required.
>	I don't know about you, but I think that is funny.  That was the first
>day you could walk through that end of the hallway without smoke rolling from
>under the door.
>	Please E-Mail flames to me personally, other people probably don't want
>to read them; unless, of course, they are exceptionally good.
>
>			Will White
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
>        Disclaimer:
>	A.B. College isn't cool enough to share my opinions.  

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From: medic@hardy.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's GIVE IT UP GUYS!!
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:12:01 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:

>Pissing on an electric fence is definitely a _bad_ idea.  I have
>seen guys do it and they _did_ get shocked.  

Hey, this is AFU -- I want proof.  Show me.


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From: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Stereo Shenanigans
Date: 5 Nov 1992 19:29:03 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
NNTP-Posting-Host: asparagus.berkeley.edu

A friend of mine has a CD player with a remote. I was sitting on a couch across
the room from the stereo and he was fiddling with the stereo, starting a CD. He
always waits for the first few seconds of the CD to run and then sits in his
"listening chair". Anyhow, there is the remote control right on the arm of the
couch. So, he starts the CD, waits, and all of a sudden it stops. He pauses.
"Geez. That's weird." He starts the CD again, waits about 3 seconds, and it
stops again. "Oh no. I just got this thing repaired!" He tries one more time,
and this time the CD drawer slides open. He takes a step back wondering what's
going on, and the CD magically slides back in. Then, the player starts stepping
through the tracks. At this point he's really freaked out, and I'm sitting on
the couch, remote control in hand and no longer able to control my laughter...
(This of course, requires that your friend's CD player doesn't have a little
"REMOTE" light.)


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: First shenanigan on alt.shenanigans, AGAIN...
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 03:56:00 GMT


Hiz Lord Dementia: 

If you're keeping track of shenanigans on this newsgroup, it should be
noted that the creation of this newsgroup was an unintentional shenanigan
(the best kind) :
 
Just after the creation of the newsgroup, rjones@dsd.es.com, Ray Jones,
left an astonished post, asking how the newsgroup was named, since the
only time he had heard the word "shenanigans" used for this purpose was
from a teacher at high school...  
 
Ray laughed his head off when he learned that the group was created by
someone (me) who happened to be in the same class.

It isn't much, but it WAS first.



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Michael Moncur      mgm@world.std.com (preferred)
                    sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org
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From: ritter@claude.ma30.bull.com (Roger Ritter)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Stereo Shenanigans
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:18:37 GMT
Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.

I'm reminded of another shenanigan I pulled on a friend.  Shortly after
Star Wars came out, I bought the soundtrack album.  Unfortunately, it
got stepped on a few days later, breaking out a heel-shaped segment of
the record.  This was shortly before the Christmas break, and I had a
brainstorm.  I carefully glued the fragments back into the record, using
Elmer's glue (guaranteed not to stick very well to vinyl).  Then I
waited for the Christmas break.

I was planning to stay over with a friend, and so took along the album.
As we were catching up on each other's activities during the last semester,
I mentioned I had bought the Star Wars soundtrack, and proudly dragged 
the album out from my luggage.

My friend said "I bought a copy, also", and dragged out his copy from
the record stand.  (Knowing him, I had planned on this).  My face fell,
and I said, somewhat dejectedly, "Well, hell.  Might as well *eat* this
one, then."  I pulled the glued disk from its cover, and took a big
bite of it!  Chewed for a couple of seconds, spat out the pieces, and
said "Yuck!  This tastes like vinyl!"

The expression on his face was utterly priceless!
-- 
Roger Ritter N1FZZ (R.Ritter@ma30.bull.com) PP-ASEL, AGI
1946 Luscombe 8A N71983 "Rocky"
Sheep do not so much fly as plummet!        NH CAP: Profile 49
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: ftit@minorca.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman)
Subject: Re: Fun With Lasers
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 15:58:29 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: ftit@minorca.engin.umich.edu


In article <1992Nov6.123539.29009@linkoping.trab.se>, ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin) writes:
|In article <fz-=bM_@engin.umich.edu> ftit@engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman) writes:
|>
|
|We had a homicidal maniac do much the same thing in Sweden some time
|ago.  Only difference was that he had a gun attached to the laser
|sight (or what-ever-its-called), and popped a few people.
|

My friend, you're forgetting one detail: Sweden is rather far from Ann
Arbor.  Besides, by the time the laser got to where it could do its
dirty work it had spread out too much to look like anything with which
you would want to sight a gun.  No, People spooked by our little trick
reacted only to the strangness of little red lights on the ground for no
apparent reason.

Sorry.

|
|-- 
|Anders Thulin       ath@linkoping.trab.se 	013-23 55 32
|Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

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Say no to four-line .sigs.
From: gigawalt@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Walter "GigaWalt" Belgers)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: telephone joke
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:30:14 GMT
Reply-To: gigawalt@info.win.tue.nl
Organization: The TimeWasters

Today, Paul and I had a little plan. A teacher we know has his own SUN
computer in his room. What we did was this: I logged in remotely on this
particluar SUN and started playing a sample of a famous Dutch comic
which goes like this (translated): "telephone telephone telephone
telephone.. etc." (sung by the comic). At the same time, Paul called him
up on the phone :) Shenanigan? Too bad we weren't at the scene..

Walter.
-- 
Walter Belgers             "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time"
gigawalt@win.tue.nl           - Bertrand Russell
gigawalt@giga.hacktic.nl
From: haljibur@coos.dartmouth.edu (Halim F. Aljibury)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Urinary stream dynamics . . . was: The FINAL WORD . . . .
Date: 8 Nov 92 21:08:37 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Haven't any of you ever seen a dog piss on an electrical fence? (they only
do it once, you know..)

Merlin@dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: etlanar@yogi.ericsson.se (Alan Arthur)
Subject: Re: car trouble
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:14:13 GMT

In article <BxCu9L.KFn@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umgyles0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gyles) writes:
>
>One time when I was in a friends car, I put a rock in the ashtray
>in the back seat.  I didn't mean any harm by this.  However, my friends
>Dad started hearing the rock rolling around in the ashtray and started 
>getting really worried.  He eventually took the car to a mechanic, who
>not surprisingly couldn't find anything wrong.
>
>Eventually, the Dad found the rock and got *really mad*.  I really
>thought this was funny and never admitted being the culprit behind
>the rock.
>

Alternatively put a stone inside one of the cars hubcaps.. (works best
if the hubcap is metal) This makes a good noise that gets worse as the
car speeds up, and soon sounds very 'terminal'... schnicker...


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From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: What ISN'T a shenanigan?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:03:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


mgb5528@cc.utah.edu (Beck, Michael Gregory) writes:

>In article <1d2eqfINN73u@agate.berkeley.edu>, dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes...
>{In article <Bx1yzA.A4w@unix.amherst.edu> mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Snarfblat) writes:
>{>Is it a shenanigan if you put ex lax in their shampoo? 
>{
>{Maybe.
>{ 
>{But it definitely is a shenanigan if you put it in a sandwich.
>{ 
>{Lemme 'splain. See, when my friend was in elementary school there was a 
>{time when every day his lunch would be stolen from the classroom's walk-in
>{closet, where all the kids would leave their jackets, lunches, etc. There
>{was no way to tell exactly who had been doing it, as everyone had access
>{to he closet. So finally his mom made him a special lunch--with an ex-lax
>{sandwich.
>{ 
>{Sure enough, it was stolen.  But it never happened again. :)

>That reminds me of the problem I had last year in the dorms.  I kept my milk in 
>the communal refrigerator and people would keep taking swigs and I would never 
>have any.  So I invested in some ivory dish soap and put a little in a special 
>carton of milk.... Needless to say they left my stuff alone from that time on.  

One of my dad's acquaintences at work decided to play a prank on a
co-worker who always brought Oreo-type cookies for lunch.  When the Cookie
Guy was off getting his coffee, this guy scraped out the fillings of all
the cookies and replaced them with white grease.  The guy came back, started
eating the cookies . . . and continued eating the cookies!  They even
prompted him by asking how the cookies tasted today; he shrugged and said
they were ok, why were they asking?  They said "No reason," and went back
to work, enlightened!
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From: aalto@ocf.berkeley.edu (Rolf Aalto)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: parking meters
Date: 12 Nov 1992 02:00:19 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: maelstrom.berkeley.edu
Summary: Evil parking laws

In article <BxIGs0.3Iv@news.udel.edu> webb@chopin.udel.edu (W Webb Pickersgill) writes:
>In article <1992Nov9.162310.24258@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> tlund@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Lund) writes:
>>	Ever feel sorry for those poor parking meter cops who have to give
>>tickets all down that line of cars downtown?  Help them out a little next
>>time you see them by putting a nickel in every (expired) meter down the
>>street.
>>
>>-o-<<
>
>	Hate to be the one to break this to you but, that is ILLEGAL.
>Iv'e heard stories of people doing that and getting tickets and fines
>and arrested for interfereing with the duties of an officer.  
>DO NOT TRY THIS.  Hate to hear that someone was arrested from the net
>because of this post.
>
>					Webb

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...
1) Attempting in any way to remove a chalk mark = BIG FINE.
2) Moving car a few feet to hide chalk mark = TICKET.
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.  
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.
6) Parking facing the wrong way = BIG TICKET.
7) Missing front liscense plate, etc. = FIX IT TICKETS GALORE.
8) Paint worn off curb or covered with grass so it is NOT visable to the
   unaided eye is still no excuse.  MORE TICKETS.

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?
.


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: g91a2724@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR GJ ANDREWS)
Subject: Re: Urinals.
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:52:11 GMT

In article <7NOV199200331600@cc.utah.edu> mgb5528@cc.utah.edu (Beck, Michael Gregory) writes:
>From: mgb5528@cc.utah.edu (Beck, Michael Gregory)
>Subject: Urinals.
>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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Thank you
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: wayman@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Jeffrey Wayman)
Subject: Re: parking meters
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:11:09 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1dsdrjINNe2q@agate.berkeley.edu> aalto@ocf.berkeley.edu (Rolf Aalto) writes:
>
>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?

This isn't a great shenanigan, but it did get some looks.  I had a speeding
ticket once and showd up to court, got called up before the judge and
all.  They asked how I was going to plead.  I said, "Guilty."  The judge
looked at me for a second and said, "Well, why did you even come here, then?"
I told her I was getting my money's worth out of my court costs.
Again, not the best shenanigan, but functional.

Jeff
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From: rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's GIVE IT UP GUYS!!
Date: 10 Nov 1992 19:12:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie) points out,
 
>You're all missing the point here...this started out with a urinal, and
>now we're doing high voltages.  Originally, it was about 9 volts or so.
>This is not a lot of potential.  There's not a doubt in my mind that 10,000
>volts can travel up a stream of urine...but how about sticking to the
>original article, eh?  Better yet, let's drop it...I'm sure everyone's
>getting tired of debating it.  I'm still skeptical that it happened, but
>IF IT DID, IT HAD TO BE UNDER IDEAL CONDITIONS (conductors, etc.).  Okay?
 
In last week's episode of Ren 'n' Stimpy, Stimpy and Ren's Old Country Cousin,
Sven, play the ever popular board game, "Don't Pee on the Electric Fence (tm)"
(by Blammo - the makers of "Log (tm)").
 
Maybe cat or chihuahua urine makes the ideal conductor? 
Does this imply that kitty litter is the ideal insluator? 
Is there a Nobel in Physics or Chemistry in this somwhere?
 
Randy 'Maybe if you add a Paladium rod and move to Utah?' Holt
-- 
Randall W. Holt      rxh6@cwru.po.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban
From: cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates)
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's GIVE IT UP GUYS!!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:34:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.021201.19976@u.washington.edu> 
medic@hardy.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes:
> Hey, this is AFU -- I want proof.  Show me.

OK, but first you have to urinate on a spark plug while the engine is 
running. -- just to show good faith.  Now if you will excuse me while I 
crawl out from under the bomber s ECM antenna where I went to sleep  on 
the pavement and never woke up.

************************************
I worked as a technical writer ... editing manuals ... on how to dispose 
of sewage in permafrost; we all had to wear white shirts -- that was 
mandatory -- and I was fired at the end of two weeks for spending too much 
time staring out the window.  
(Edward Abbey)
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: jim@apsicc.aps.edu (frost...)
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:28:00 GMT
Organization: Albuquerque Public Schools - Career Enrichment Center
Distribution: usa
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <Bx7GyA.5xz@rice.edu>, kridnix@faraday.rice.edu (Alan Cheville) writes...
>In article <1d81rlINNlfr@agate.berkeley.edu>, pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) writes:
>|> OK, everybody enroll in E&M at the nearest university. Aren't there any physics
>|> folk out there? I'm just math...
>|> 
> ________Parts deleted for bandwidth savings...J.
>-- 
>Alan Cheville   	 # For this is the school of Babylon
>Electrical Engineering	 # And at its hands we learn
>Rice. U.		 # To walk into the furnaces
>Houston		 	 # And whistle as we burn.
>		 	 # 		-T. Blackburn
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Hello all,
  There is another slant on this prank. This tale was taken from a Reader's Digest
quip of a few years back that I remember. No big mean old capacitors sitting out
there like assassins. Seem there was this gentleman who was getting a bit steamed
because his neighbors dog would always come over when let out and take a leak on
this fellows plants which he had around his house. The plants were slowly dieing
off so he decided to do something about it. He was an electrical engineer and, rather
than setting up a confrontation with his neighbor about the dog, got more ingenious.
He put two long pieces of metal screening material in front of the plants his
neighbors dog always hit. To these he hooked up an electric fence charger with the
'live' end attached to the piece of screening he had leaning up against the plants
and the return attached to the piece of screening he had laying flat on the ground
in front of the plants. Sure enough the neighbor let his dog out on schedule and
it came around to water this fellows plants. The dog didn't take any particular
notice of the screening material but as soon as it let go with a stream that made
contact with the 'live' screening the circuit was comlete. Since fence chargers
pulsate their output the dog had a good chance to escape but not before it had
learned its' lesson. It gave out the doggie version of a whoop!!! and rapidly
disappeared back to its' owners house with the owner none the wiser. Needless to
say the fellow's plants were never visited by the dog again.
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