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From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
Subject: Field-expedient porno
Keywords: Land-O-Lakes butter
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:49:37 GMT

Cut out the picture of the kneeling Native American lady from a 
package of Land-O-Lakes (tm) butter.

Using a razor blade or X-Acto knife, carefully cut out the
package of butter that she is holding in her hands.

Bend the bottom half of the picture around and backward, so that her
knees now show through the rectangular hole in her chest.

  _:-)B


--

Frank     reid@ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
Subject: lipstick
Keywords: padlock, phone
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:24:09 GMT

from _FM 23-5: TRICKS, DIRTY_ by Kentucky Jones:

LIPSTICK

My first premeditated dirty trick was so successful that it 
launched a career.  The school where I attended 7th grade had 
lockers equipped with combination padlocks.  I stole a tube of 
lipstick from a female classmate and smeared it on the back of a 
disliked nerd's lock.  Next time he opened his locker, it got all 
over his left hand.  The owner of the lipstick, who resembled 
"Fat Broad" of the _BC_ comic strip, caught him "red-handed" and 
beat the hell out of him.

Here's a refinement of the old shoe-polish-on-the-phone-receiver 
trick which is especially effective for marks with jealous 
lovers:  Smear lipstick in the phone receiver.  It takes such a 
tiny amount to do the job that the mark probably won't notice it, 
even if his phone is some color other than red.

--

Frank     reid@ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mkohlhaa@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mike)
Subject: Re: Thermos Bottle Shennanigans
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:56:04 GMT

In article <93025.111232TSMITH@auvm.american.edu> <TSMITH@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>There is probably someone at the office that brings a thermos bottle full of
>coffee or tea or what ever, right? You know, the kind with the inner cap and
>then the cup that screws on top?  Here is what you do:
>
>When the unsuspecting makrk is away from his/her desk, remove the cup and then
>remove the inner cap.  Pour the cup about half-full of coffee.  Replace the
>inner cap onto the bottle.  Turn the whole assembly (bottle and cap) upside
>down, and screw it down onto the cup full of coffee.  Then turn the whole thin>right-side up.  When the guy goes to unscrew the cup, coffee will pour down th>sides of the bottle, onto his desk, papers, lap etc.

Scalding coffee all over the lap, important papers ruined by the coffee.
Ha-Ha, boy is that a funny one.  This is alt.shenanigans, not alt.pranks.evil.


-- 
					-- Mike
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From: cstringe@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Chuck Stringer)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Idea
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:38:33 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, University Computing Services

bsmith@osf.org () writes:
| I just noticed a.s in a r.h crosspost. Made my day when I subscribed to
| discover the nefarious goings-on, especially the HK thread. It gave me an
| idea for another net.shenanigan. People often post to rec.food.cooking
| spouting off about how wonderful and flame-free it is. (This is generally
| true, much to my annoyance, although I did manage to get a small flap going
| several years ago...that's another story, though.)
| 
| Now, isn't there something that could be done to "stir things up" in r.f.c?
| Along HK lines, someone could ask for a non-existent recipe -- "Coca-Cola
| Bread," f'rinstance. Then we could submit several different recipes and even
| argue about which is the correct one. Whaddya think?

How about the recipe for hash brownies or flamable Jello? Ought to
upset a few bunheads.

----
Chuck Stringer
E-mail cstringe@ucs.indiana.edu
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From: mechalas@expert.cc.purdue.edu (John Mechalas)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,rec.humor
Subject: Care for a copy?
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:22:56 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

The usual disclaimers apply...

-----------

   It was early in the evening, and I was walking around campus with
a good friend of mine.  It just so happened that our trek took us past
one of the local copy centers, a large and busy outfit that is open 24
hours.  As we walked by, a bright, neon sign that read "COLOR COPIES"
caught my eye.
   I had an idea.

   "What are you doing tonight?"  I asked my friend.

   "How late is 'tonight'?"

   "Well...how about, say, 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning?"

   His first answer was, regrettebly, unprintable...but with a little
effort I was able to convince him to help me carry out my plan.

   We met at my place at about 2:15, and went over the details.  At
2:30, I strolled over to the copy store, and went inside.  Only one
person was working, and she seemed to be pretty busy, so the timing
was perfect.
   I strolled up to the counter (yes, we do have counters in Indiana).

   "I'd like color copies made of these, please."

   She looked down at my papers and gave me a perplexed look.  I was
holding several pie charts that had been copied on a plain old xerox
machine.  They certainly weren't in color.

   "But those are plain, black and white xerox copies.  Why on Earth would you
you want to use the color copier for black and white copying??"

   After a little arguing, I finally convinced her to use the color copier
to make copies of my charts, despite the fact that it would cost me more
than 8 or 9 times as much.  I payed her the money up front, signalled my
friend just as she was loading the color copier, and he came in.  He had a
"rush" job that he needed ASAP, and she set up the large copier while my
copies were being run off.
   Acting quickly, I quietly removed a stack of color copies from my
backpack that my friend and I had had made earlier that evening at another
store.  I ducked behind the counter, removed the black and white images
from the output tray of the color copier, and quicky replaced them with
the color ones.
   When my friend's "rush job" was finished, the clerk went over to the
color copier, and removed the copies without looking at them.  When she
got to the desk, she handed them to me.

   "Is that what you wanted?" she asked.

   I turned them over so that she could see the pie charts in all their
colorful splendor.

   Her jaw dropped open in amazement.

   "Damn!", I exclaimed, "These turned out better than I'd expected!"





-- 
John Mechalas                     \  If you think my opinions are Purdue's, then
mechalas@expert.cc.purdue.edu      \      you vastly overestimate my importance.
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From: lspangle@nyx.cs.du.edu (L. A. Spangler)
Subject: Photo Copy Fun  
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 23:30:00 GMT


Photo copiers offer all sorts of possibilitis for shenanigans.  Besides 
mooning the machine after hours and then hanging the picture up in the 
company lunchroom with a list to guess who'se bum it is, one of my]
favorites is: 

	Make a very light photocopy of some symbol or photograph.  This 
	has to be faint enough to appear as part of the background.  
	Insert this paper back in the stack of "clean" photo copier paper 
	and wait for some unsuspecting soul to have this turn up in his 
	copies. 

	Most recently, this has been done with a pentagram, which 
	resulted in an office rumor that the machine had been taken 
	over by none other than the devil.  The pentagram turned up 
	on an irregular basis over a period of several weeks.  An 
	"exorcism" was performed by some of the office wackos, and 
	guess what, no more demons. 

	In the past, photographs (from magazines) which could be 
	defined as pornographic, or at the very least, softcore 
	stuff (community standards determine such things) were 
	inserted into the paper trays of the photo copiers 
	at a public library.  Unfortunatly, the individals pulling 
	this shen. weren't able to stick around to see what happened. 

Have fun, 

Lance Spangler 
 
 |-----Straight-----|-------IN REAL LIFE-------|-------Colorado-------| 
 |      but not     |  lspangle@nyx.cs.du.edu  |  be ashamed for the  | 
 |   narrow minded  |           is	       |  passage of Amend 2! | 
 |------------------|----Lance A. Spangler-----|----------------------| 


--
 |-----Straight-----|-------IN REAL LIFE-------|-------Colorado-------| 
 |      but not     |  lspangle@nyx.cs.du.edu  |  be ashamed for the  | 
 |   narrow minded  |           is	       |  passage of Amend 2! | 
 |------------------|----Lance A. Spangler-----|----------------------|
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: More restaurant shenanigans
Keywords: worms, quarters, forks
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:15:12 GMT
Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico

In article <reid.57.728172260@ucs.indiana.edu> reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid) writes:
>If the service was really lousy, deposit your tip in a full glass 
>of water.  Cover the top of the glass with a paper card, invert 
>the glass on the table, slide the card out.  When someone picks 
>up the glass, GLURP-- water everywhere!  The proper way to defuze 
>this trap is to hold a bucket under the side of the table and 
>slide the glass over to the edge, but they _never_ think of that.

Nope, standard treatment for the glass on table trick.  A busboy
tub worked fine instead of a bucket.

A related shenanigan, however, is about as much fun.  Write up a memo,
juicy letter, note, whatever.  The idea is to have a lot of keywords
scattered across the text.  Place the note on your desk, kitchen
table, wherever your victim is likely to pass and take a casual interest 
in the document.

Then place a coke can full of BBs on top of the document.  It's
easiest to cut the bottom out of a can, wash and fill the can then to
place as the glass was placed above, but I'm sure that you can think
of alternative techniques.  The point is to cover the best part in the
document with the can in such a way that the nosy parker *can't*
resist lifting the can to see how it turns out...  this is almost as 
good as filling the medicine cabinet in your bath full of ping-pong 
balls just before a party.

-- 
Russ Kepler, posting from home   russ@bbx.basis.com, bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
"It's better to be quotable than to be honest" - Tom Stoppard
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: cmick@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Baldy)
Subject: Re: Thermos Bottle Shennanigans
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:00:36 GMT

Mike,  You should loosen up a little.
-- 
Later,
	Craig
cmick@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
cmick@acoma.ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: dlwilson@fenix.encore.com (David L Wilson)
Subject: Re: More Wrong-Number Phone Shenanigans
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:47:00 GMT
Keywords: Phone shenanigans

In article <1993Jan21.024045.5619@netcom.com> kush@netcom.com (Aaron Kushner) writes:
>A co-worker claims he does the following when he gets a wrong number asking
>for a woman...

I got a call once for "Bob".  I told the caller he had a wrong number and
hung up.  A moment later the phone rang again, and I asked a female friend
to answer it.  "Tell them he's dead", I said.  "Huh?", she replied as she
picked it up.  Then she understood.  "I'm so sorry, but, well, Bob's dead."
She said he believed it for about 30 seconds.  He was pretty cool about it,
and invited us to the party he was inviting Bob to.

Dave
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: boenne@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert C. Boenne)
Subject: Re: More restaurant shenanigans
Keywords: worms, quarters, forks
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:00:41 GMT

Speaking of quarters and resturants....

A truly horrible prank to play on a waitress/waiter is to get a glass of water,
some change, and a piece of paper.  But wait, there's more!  Drop the change in
the glass of water and place the piece of paper on top of the glass.  Quickly
turn the glass over and then pull the paper out from under the glass.

Usually, the person can't figure out what to do except lift the glass and
spill the water.  BTW, this is easily solved by sliding the glass over to the
edge of the table and letting it drop into a busboy's bin.

BTW, the glass needs to be full.


-- 
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the
young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life
you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Snarfblat )
Subject: Re: alt.shenanigans ARCHIVES now available via FTP
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:25:23 GMT

michael g moncur (mgm@world.std.com) wrote:
: Thanks to Eirik Fuller <eirik@elf.TN.Cornell.EDU>, we now have an
: anonymous FTP site for alt.shenanigans stuff.
: 
: machine:  elf.TN.Cornell.EDU 
: directory:  /shenanigans
: 
: Every message ever posted on this newsgroup, from day 1 through a few days
: ago, is there.  See the `shenanigans.README' file for details.
: 

Is there some sort of "Best of" file for those of us who don't feel like 
digging through thousands of posts?

Sna
From: pettit@cs.unc.edu (Cynthia Pettit)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: More restaurant shenanigans
Keywords: worms, quarters, forks
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:07:38 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NNTP-Posting-Host: tigger.cs.unc.edu

In article <reid.52.728083933@ucs.indiana.edu>, reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid) writes:
|>[..]
|> 
|> WORMS--  Tear off one end of the straw wrapper.  Carefully 
|> scrunch the paper down to the other end, trying not to split the 
|> seam.  Remove the compressed paper from the straw.

You can rip the seam -- it still works.  It works because the water makes
the paper "want" to go back to it's original straight form...

|> Using the straw as a pipette, transfer a puddle of beverage 
|> (about 1" [2cm] diameter) to the table top.  By now, your 
|> associates are wondering what's going to happen.
|> 
|> Drop the paper in the liquid and watch it squirm!


Another fun one is to leave one quarter of your tip like this:

Take two forks and hold them together, tines matching on top of one
another [so you can see through them] and the handles going opposite
directions.  Put one edge of the quarter through *both* tine-holes of the
forks, leaving as much of the quarter sticking out as possible.  Now
balance the other edge of the quarter carefully on the edge of a glass. 
If it wants to tip or fall off, you can "adjust" the construction by
moving the quarter to a different "notch" made by the tines, or by
changing the [slight] angle of the handles.

Before you leave the restaurant, blow sligtly so it rocks slightly...


Variations:

My mom can do this by forcing the two inside tines of the fork into the
bowl of a spoon and proceeding above with the quarter -- but I find the
two forks work best.

Also, I've been told that you can do this with wooden matches, then burn
the match down to the edge of the glass [the glass puts the flame out.] 
Then it's balenced even *more* precariously!

Cyn
-- 
	"It's not about driving down rt 66 and stopping at the Holiday Inn!
		It's about *adventure*!!"
				---Richard P Feynman
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: bbrown@willamette.edu (Brian Brown)
Subject: What's Real in Bowling?
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:53:35 GMT


I've been reading/scanning the posts on rec.sport.bowling recently, and I
can't tell which posts are serious and which are shenanigans.  All that
stuff about Rhino balls (blue, pink, etc.) and now the buzzsaw ball all
*sound* rediculious, but would not suprise me if they were real.

Someone please shed some light on the subject for me!!

-- 
------------------  bbrown@willamette.edu  (Brian W. Brown)  -----------------
Old Computer People never die, they just go to bits, lose their memory, and
cache in their chips.  Old Mathematicians never die, they just disintegrate.
------------ Walt Disney didn't die.  He's in suspended animation ------------
From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Restaurant shenanigans (straw wrappers)
Summary: kid stuff
Keywords: worms, missiles
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:32:14 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

from _FM 6-66: TRICKS, NASTY_ by Kentucky Jones:


Paper wrappers of plastic drinking-straws have several uncouth 
applications:

WORMS--  Tear off one end of the straw wrapper.  Carefully 
scrunch the paper down to the other end, trying not to split the 
seam.  Remove the compressed paper from the straw.

Using the straw as a pipette, transfer a puddle of beverage 
(about 1" [2cm] diameter) to the table top.  By now, your 
associates are wondering what's going to happen.

Drop the paper in the liquid and watch it squirm!

Kids love this!  My Victorian maiden aunt Martha taught it to me 
during a rare lapse.

---

A better-known shenanigan with straw wrappers is to launch them 
as missiles.  Tear off one end, blow into the straw.  If you 
first dip the forward end of the wrapper into something sticky 
(ketchup, mashed potatoes/gravy, etc), the extra weight and 
modified center of gravity makes it fly farther and straighter, 
and it will stick to the ceiling!

--

Frank     reid@ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,rec.humor
From: kmurphy@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin Murphy)
Subject: Re: A little Wednesday excitement
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:19:19 GMT

In article <C17w9z.1r7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> mechalas@expert.cc.purdue.edu (John Mechalas) writes:
>Standard disclaimers apply.....
>
>------------
>
>It was another boring Wednesday night, and I was sitting in my room
>watching television (in the hopes that I would be entertained) when the
>phone rang.
>
>

John, I hate to say this, but you must lead an extremely boring
life.  Not only are we in the same state, and same city, we are
also on the same CAMPUS, and I've never been as bored as all of
your postings that say how bored you are.  I can always find
something exciting to do!  Anyway, maybe you should go to Spitzer
Court (Cary Quad) and run a few laps naked in the Nude Olympics,
maybe that would bring some excitement into your boring life.

Deepest regards,

Kevin

-- 

Kevin J. Murphy                              Life is what happens while
kmurphy@sage.cc.purdue.edu                   you're making other plans.
Purdue University Computer Technology                            -JL
Organization: Hidden - I don't speak for them...
X-Stuff:      <This should be witty, but I'm too tired right now.>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41:09 EST
From: David B. Horvath, CDP <MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Net Death Shenanigans
 <1993Jan22.112439.586@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>

In article <1993Jan22.112439.586@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, cairnss@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
(%obsidian%) says:
>
>Post to bit.listserv.cinema
>that
>Audrey Hepburn has died.
>
>That will get them.

Well Damned, didn't she just die earlier this week???

     - David

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,rec.humor
From: mechalas@expert.cc.purdue.edu (John Mechalas)
Subject: Re: Another boring evening...
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:50:19 GMT

In article <C16r1F.JJo@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> mechalas@expert.cc.purdue.edu (John Mechalas) writes:
>
>   A few minutes later the coffee arrived (with the waitress, of course),
>and as she turned and walked away from me, I quickly and quietly opened
>up my oil and poured a small amount into the cup.  I grabbed a nearby
>match (everyone at cafes carries a matchbook...it's the law), lit it, then
>dropped it into the coffee.
>   With flames spurting out almost 3 inches above the rim of the
>cup, I called the waitress over, and in a calm, rational voice said:
>
>   "Excuse me Miss, but my coffee's too hot."
>

All right, all right...I've already gotten several letters asking about
how and if this was really done...with people saying they want to do it
themselves.

Hey...I can't stop you from trying this at home, but BE CAREFUL, okay?
Playing with fire is dangerous stuff, and *I* am not going to assume any
responsibility for it.  I'm leaving the details vague for a reason.

-- 
John Mechalas                     \  If you think my opinions are Purdue's, then
mechalas@expert.cc.purdue.edu      \      you vastly overestimate my importance.
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General Consulting                   \                     #include disclaimer.h
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:12:32 EST
From: <TSMITH@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Thermos Bottle Shennanigans

There is probably someone at the office that brings a thermos bottle full of
coffee or tea or what ever, right? You know, the kind with the inner cap and
then the cup that screws on top?  Here is what you do:

When the unsuspecting makrk is away from his/her desk, remove the cup and then
remove the inner cap.  Pour the cup about half-full of coffee.  Replace the
inner cap onto the bottle.  Turn the whole assembly (bottle and cap) upside
down, and screw it down onto the cup full of coffee.  Then turn the whole thing
right-side up.  When the guy goes to unscrew the cup, coffee will pour down the
sides of the bottle, onto his desk, papers, lap etc.

Do this for two days in a row.  Then, on the third day, when the mark is
expecting it, he will turn the whole bottle upside down to unscrew the cup
down off the bottle.  Only this time, you haven't filled the cup; instead all
you did was loosen the inner cap.
---
_________________________________________________________________________
| Tim Smith                                                             |
| TSMITH@auvm.american.edu       ___        Real Life isn't like this   |
| Standard Disclaimers etc.     (o o)                                   |
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