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From: webb@chopin.udel.edu (W Webb Pickersgill)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Stereo Shenanigans
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:17:48 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

In article <92311.130913TWA101@psuvm.psu.edu> <TWA101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>  The last song on the album (I think it's called "I Need A Thrill") ends by
>slurring the lyrics down to a garbled stop followed by the sound of something f
>lapping around.  So immediately I think "Shit, my stereo just ate Greg's tape!"
>I rushed over to my stereo only to rememberthat it was a cd.  I imagine it coul
>d really spaz someone who just bought it on tape and was listening to it for th
>e first time.

	On a similar "note"(hahaha) I bought a CD of Mr. Big.  The album
Lean Into It.  and there is a song that has a couple of seconds of a 
CD that is fast forwarding before the song.  I thought that the CD was messed
up until I read the credits and found out that it was intentional. OOPS.
						Webb

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From: 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's GIVE IT UP GUYS!!
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:23:38 GMT

jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:

>In article <25@bbx.basis.com>, russ@bbx.basis.com (Russ Kepler) writes:
>|> In article <BxCwx0.91L@unix.amherst.edu> mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Snarfblat) writes:
>|> >I'd just like to add something under "the laughs aren't worth the risks"
>|> >category. At a party in the town next to mine, a high school senior had the
>|> >MISFORTUNE to get drunk and pass out. He thought he was among FRIENDS, but 
>|> >drunk people do some DAMN STUPID THINGS. They thought it would be FUNNY if 
>|> >put a wire in his DICK and the other end in an ELECTRICAL socket. Then they 
>|> >sat there LAUGHING as he got FRIED to DEATH. Imagine how STUPID they felt when
>|> >they sobered up and realised they had KILLED one of their FRIENDS. 
>|> >Don't Drink and Electrocute
>|> 
>|> Classic Urban Legend.  So classic that I'm crossposting this response
>|> to AFU for dissection.

>Nope.  This actually happened up here in Minnesota just this summer.
>Wires were attached to the drunken friends ankle and arm and his 
>friends took turns zapping him.  I will post the article as soon 
>as I can get to the library and find it.

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?
Sheesh.
-Doc

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From: johnc@porsche.cs.rpi.edu (John Colasante)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Pranks and Jokes FTP site.
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:29:59 GMT
Distribution: alt.shenanigans
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY


Hi folks, I've been scanning here for a while and there has been some
good stuff posted; lots of funny pranks and shenanigans.  For those
who are interested, there is an FTP site that has an electronic
archive of pranks and practical jokes.  The internet host is
FTP site 127.0.0.1.   Under the /pub/pranks directory you will
find 2 files, pranks.doc and shenanigans.txt.  Both contain numerous
sidesplitting practical jokes and pranks you can play on your
family and friends.  Try it out!

John C.
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From: rusty@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Hall)
Subject: Re: emergency showers
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:27:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.171025.2521@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Robert.T.Warfield@dartmouth.edu (Robert T. Warfield) writes...
> 
>  I have worked in research for 7 years and all the saftey showers I
>have seen have had shut offs.
> 
> 
>Robert T. Warfield@dartmouth.edu

The showers at the University Maryland @C.P. do not have shut off 
valves.  Also, forwarded is forarmed to any  U.M.er's reading this.  
Each shower is hooked up to its own tank of water up on a higher 
level.  There is no gaurantee when the water was last changed and 
could be very disgusting when released.
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From: tlund@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Lund)
Subject: parking meters
Summary: be nice to the police
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:23:10 GMT

	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-<<
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From: pinelr@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Rob Pinelli)
Subject: Re: The FINAL WORD on URINAL SHOCKS!!!!!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:02:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.051934.17643@engage.pko.dec.com> moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
>In article <1dd3bmINNit3@agate.berkeley.edu> dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher) writes:
>>THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE!!!!
>...
>>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.
>
>It comes out as a steady stream and breaks up into drops if it travels far
>enough.  Unless you have the dribbles or something.
>
>If you don't believe me, go piss on an electric fence.

   I have heard stories of people getting electrocuted from pissing off of
bridges onto overhead railroad catenary lines.  I don't know if they are true,
but there are a number of stories involving piss and electrocution.  I would
tend to think they are possible if the voltage is high enough and/or the 
distance between the droplets is small enough.

--Rob


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From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: fun phone answering game
Date: 9 Nov 1992 11:01:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


In article <BwusqA.LKx@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes:

>It seems that some hot young high school babe
>named Angelica used to have our number (over a year ago, her new number
>is in the book).  So every other friday or so some studly young high school
>boy with pimples that I can actually hear over the phone calls us up and
>asks to talk to Angelica.

Well, you could take a cue from Danny DeVito's character from the movie
"Ruthless People":

"Hello, is Angelica there?"

"Yeah, but she can't talk right now.  She's got my dick in her mouth.
*click*"
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From: cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (a.stranger)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: more numbers games
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:41:15 GMT
Organization: Minimalist Music for Hyperactive Children (MMHC)
Originator: cms2839@ultb


				a while back i posted about giving my
employer some requested statistics in roman numerals . i have since
decided to , as thoroughly as possible , convert our entire operation to
this system . so far , my supervisors have loved it , and my co -
workers have been perplexed . 

				if roman numerals are too passi for you
, you might consider octal or hex . . .

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From: mcclary@netcom.com (Michael McClary)
Subject: Re: Fun With Lasers
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:23:31 GMT

In article <=bm1b#_@rpi.edu> kudla@acm.rpi.edu (Robert Kudla) writes:
>
>So, we'd wait for a pizza dude to come walking through the square, and
>we'd sample an appropriate sentiment such as "Foooooooood" or "Pizza"
>or "Drop the pizza and put your han"

You should be aware that most pizza delivery chains have instructed their
personnel to capitualte to robbery attempts.  If any of those deliverymen
abandoned the pizza, and the police find out who pulled the prank, you
could have significant legal difficulty.

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From: webb@chopin.udel.edu (W Webb Pickersgill)
Subject: Re: Pranks and Jokes FTP site.
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: alt.shenanigans
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:34:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.021427.10324@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcrosby@nyx.cs.du.edu (Matthew Crosby) writes:
>In article <1992Nov09.205553.31205@watson.ibm.com> jennings@tran.fishkill.ibm.com () writes:
<<Stuff deleted>>
>>Hmmmm........127.0.0.1????.......looks like the local loopback to me.........		
>That is the idea, silly!  He was trying to perpetrate prank (not really a
>shenenigan) number whatever on this group, and you HAD to ruin it!  Sigh.  I
>was hoping that *SOMEONE* would post the obvious!
>
>(BTW:  This was a pretty good one.  A little obvious, but pretty good anyway.
>Great possibility!  Especially as it actually works!)

Well you got me. :)  I fell for it, HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER.

						Webb

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From: jsav@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (lime jello)
Subject: speaking of prankster high school teachers
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:50:20 GMT

I had a wonderfully cule chemistry teacher, Mr. Wurth.  He and     his students
always got along well.  I remember he was an incredible story-teller--rather
more entertaining than the chemistry stuff we were supposed to do.

Anyway, some of Mr. Wurth's stories were talllll tales, yet he was so damn
convincing and I was gullible enough to believe many of his stories.  One
day I became really frustrated...so Mr. Wurth and I placed a bet.  I bet him
that i wouldn't fall for another of his stories and he bet me that, of course,
I would.  We sent a deadline for the day before thanksgiving break, which was
perhaps a month or two after the bet was placed. 

I was very determined and the weeks rolled by with my gullible nature well-
hidden.

THEN...the day before Thanksgiving Break arrived.  I was smelling victory ...
so close thought I.  During Chemistry Class this particular day, we had an
exam.  Mr. Wurth told us to read the exam carefully before starting.  I,
the careful student I was (back then), made sure I scanned the exam intensely.
I saw that on the last page of the exam there were bonus/extra credit points
offered.  This was not at all unusual as Mr. Wurth was pretty good about
cutting  us breaks every now and then.  I did think the bonus question was a 
little strange, but I was determined to get those few extra points.

I slowly raised my hand and pronounced the instructions written on the test:

"Gooble gooble?"  errr  "gobble gobble??" 
and then I knew...I fell  out off   my chair      and rolled on the floor   
with laughter.  The bonus question on the exam was only on MY exam!         
and furthermore the whole chemistry class was in on the joke as well.
Oh, and so much for being a good student...i had mis-read the bonus
question which asked me to stand up and say "gobble gobble" for five pts (or
something like that) of extra credit.  i read it as "gooble gooble."

Needless to say, I lost the bet.  :)   and $.50 cents for the pop I owed
him (also part of the bet).

		--jenn

   
      
  

        
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban
From: jordan@castor (Chucka Zulu)
Subject: Re: Doppler Doggie was Urinal and electrical NO NO's
Organization: University of Georgia
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:06:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.001020.18313@thelema.uucp> STella@thelema.uucp (STella) writes:
>Just thought I'd share that, because I'm back from net.death, and I
>admit I wanted to post SOMEthing to say howdy....

Wow.  I think this should win some kind of award for the most incoherent,
incomprehensible post ever made (by someone other than myself) to alt.
folklore.urban.  I'm REALLY confused.  I don't see how somebody could post
something so...

>Don't blame me, I voted Libertarian!

Oh, I see.

Chuck "just Funnin' ya, there, STella..." Jordan

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From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: parking meters
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:47:58 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.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.

I did this once, in high school, when I aced an exam I'd been dreading for
weeks; I went to one of the city's largest parking lots and used up about $10
in spare change.

Several weeks before that, I'd been feeling whimsical, so I went around the
same parking lot putting everyone's windshield wipers up (you know how they
spring up to a 90-degree angle from the windshield, so you can clean under
them?). The security guards caught me, and sure enough, their reaction was
astonishment that anyone would want to do such a thing.

	Seth "the Lesser"

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From: lspangle@nyx.cs.du.edu (L. A. Spangler)
Subject: Re: answering machine messages 
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: Sat, 7 Nov 92 01:52:03 GMT

In article <UexiGJW00VB3BDE21_@andrew.cmu.edu> "Heather J. Dunn" <hd24+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>	Someone keeps calling me, listens to my answering machine message-which
>never changes-and hangs up right after the beep.  So I'll come home and
>find four or five empty messages.
>	This is starting to piss me off. Does anyone have any ideas for a new
>message that might piss this caller off in return?
>~Heather

Several years ago, I worked in an office which had a "tie-line" connected 
to the various emergency services in town.  When something BIG happened, 
the emergency agency would pick up the phone, all the other phones would 
ring, and a message would be passed along.  Emergency messages had a very 
distinctive ring.  We never knew what the phone's number was though.  

Occasionally, a wrong number would ring through.  It rang with a "normal" 
ring.  We'd answer it with official sounding voices.  Perhaps this might work 
for your answering machine.  One of the best was: 

	RING RING - 
	"North American Air Defense Command, you are on a secure line 
	Mr. President.  We have the inbound bogies on track, they are 
	targeted, and the Missile Launch Commanders are awaiting your 
	command.  Standby while I patch you through to the silos..." 

This was virtually always met with a quick hangup...or an "oh my gawd..." 
Always good for a few laughs in the office.  Of course, your mileage may 
vary.  
 
lspangle@nyx.cs.du.edu

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From: srt@aero.org (Scott R. Turner)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: An Actual Toilet Shenanigan
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:51:25 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: sun-marino.aero.org

All these toilet pranks are boring.  A shenanigan should at least
pretend to some creativity.

My undergraduation institution, like many, didn't serve dinner on
Sunday night, so we were in the habit of making soup on Sunday
evenings.  One week I told a few friends that I would make soup for
all of us.

I then obtained several of those coil coffee cup heaters and proceeded
to heat up the water in one of the toilet bowls in the Men's bathroom.
A little Lipton's Instant and voila! chicken soup.  Nobody would try
it, though.

Someone else on the same floor installed a live bass in a Women's
toilet bowl, which was somewhat amusing if cruel to the bass.  The
plan was to eat it after it expired, but again, I don't think anyone
followed through.

						-- Scott T.
From: moore@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: emergency showers
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:01:16 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina

In article <!#n1-1j@rpi.edu> scottv@rs6422.ecs.rpi.edu (Vaughan K. Scott) writes:
>
>	Has anyone ever thought of pulling a shenanigan with emergency
>showers?  You know, the industrial type you find in a lab or shop with a
>pull chain, to be used in case you get chemicals etc on yourself.  A couple
>of suggestions might be to walk in to an unknown lab in your bathrobe, with
>your soap, shampoo, and back-scrubber, and proceed to take a shower!  
>Alternatively, just get those self-adhesive soap-holders and stick them onto
>the wall behind the shower, complete with soap, etc., and a sign that says
>"Sanitary wrapped for your convenience"
>
>Vaughan Scott
>scottv@rpi.edu

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.


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From: mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Snarfblat)
Subject: Re: yet another high school shenanigan
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:16:49 GMT

Peter da Silva (peter@NeoSoft.com) wrote:
: In article <Bx5poz.HHp@unix.amherst.edu> mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Snarfblat) writes:
: > we did roughly the same thing, but with cows mooing. We ripped out the bottom
: > of someone's locker (that's what happens when they don't lock it) and hid the
: > speaker in there. The speaker cables ran under about 15 lockers to my friend's
: > where the radio was. the sad anti climax is that after the mooing had been 
: > going for a while, the vice principal ripped the speakers out and kept them.
: > and he never gave them back.
: 
: Any gear used to perpetrate a shenanigan should be considered disposable. This
: is just elementary common sense.
: -- 
: Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
:  `-_-'   "Meglelted mr ma a farkasodat ?"
:   'U`    "Zure otsoa besarkatu al duzu gaur?"
: Das kann nicht mein Zimmer sein, denn ich atme kein Ammoniak.
It was an old set of speakers, but it is in the spirit of common decency not to
steal other peoples' things, even if they are making loud mooing noises. 
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From: STella@thelema.uucp (STella)
Subject: Doppler Doggie was Urinal and electrical NO NO's
Organization: Idiosyncratic Anarchic Order
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 00:10:20 GMT

I have inadvertantly fallen backward, while pissing, into an electric
fence.  It was not fun, and I subjected the goose at fault to heat
treatment the next day.

But that's not what I hit F about.

(And we won't even mention L'il Bitch's icy nose, right?  (I'm NOT
going to admit that I've done the same basic (STUPID) thing TWICE, now
am I?)  Dogs... do they taste like chicken?)

In article <1992Nov12.155954.26216@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> 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.  

Never seen a guy do it, and I sure wasn't watching when I did, but we
were all sitting in the living room blowing smoke and bullshit when we
suddenly heard Schlep make this NOISE.

It started as a startled yelp, that quickly modulated into incredible
agony, and almost as quickly traveled away from the trailer, across
the duckyard and garden, under a sleeping pony's nose (startled
whiffle from pony), and back into the public land....  Maybe we'd been
blowing too much bullshit (or was it the smoke?). but it seemed to me
that the dogyowl dopplered, he was running so hard.

And his person said, in that shamed way of a country boy whose dog
just did something REAL dumb, "second time this week".

In other words, an enemy of my cat told me it hurt real bad....

By the way -- I did not cook that goose, as you may have thought.  I
just followed it around at a slow walk, staying just inside its
discomfort zone for the hottest three hours of a Tennessee summer day.
This ensured that the goose would continue to grow bigger until
Thanksgiving, but it would NOT do so within ten feet of ME.

Just thought I'd share that, because I'm back from net.death, and I
admit I wanted to post SOMEthing to say howdy....

STella@xanadu.com	1016 E. El Camino Real, #302, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
aka stella@glg.ucs.dec.com -- ping there if you can't find thelema
Don't blame me, I voted Libertarian!
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