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From: lyons@hubcap.clemson.edu (Eric Lyons)
Subject: Classroom shenanigan
Organization: Clemson University
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:34:33 GMT

A friend of ours is a forestry graduate student and teaches an undergraduate
forestry class at 2:00 on Tuesday/Thursdays.  Anyone have a good idea
for a shenanigan?  Our only ideas were to send a "gorilla-gram" or
something like that....

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: schrey@oak.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Timothy M. Schreyer)
Subject: Re: Halloween shenanigans
Reply-To: schrey@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 04:05:30 GMT

   Perhaps you've all heard the urban legend about the small liberal
   arts college on the East Coast of the U.S. being the site of a mass
   murder on Halloween.  The college is supposed to be near a river
   and a cemetery.  This one gets recirculated every year including my
   Junior year at Bucknell in PA.

   Anyway, the morning after Halloween we all emerged from our dorm rooms
   to find police-style chalk outlines of bodies scattered all over campus.
   This included one which had a ten foot leg stretched halfway across
   a road and another with a don't-park-on-the-walkway post in the place
   of the male organ.

   I laughed and laughed and only wished I had thought of it first!

        TIM
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mgoodwin@nmsu.edu (Michael E Goodwin)
Subject: Re: fun phone answering game
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<Bww9rF.E0K@da_vinci.it.uswc.uswest.com>
	<1992Oct30.014503.27384@gvl.unisys.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:08:37 GMT

I just had the thought of wondering how those phone solicitors would
react if you broke down crying, then started berating them on how
cruel it is to play a joke on a blind person. 

Mike
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: eliot@chutney.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot)
Subject: Re: parking meters
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:49:31 GMT
Reply-To: eliot@dg-rtp.dg.com
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

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
...
|> 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?

Well, you can do like Cool Hand Luke...

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From: norbert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Classroom shenanigan
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:41:57 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Nov13.043433.26328@hubcap.clemson.edu> lyons@hubcap.clemson.edu (Eric Lyons) writes:
>A friend of ours is a forestry graduate student and teaches an undergraduate
>forestry class at 2:00 on Tuesday/Thursdays.  Anyone have a good idea
>for a shenanigan?  Our only ideas were to send a "gorilla-gram" or
>something like that....
>


Did you ever see the movie THE FISHER KING?

Wonderful film...

And a wonderful twist on the "gorilla-gram" idea
if you are looking for a heavy embarrassment factor...

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From: sabo@girtab.usc.edu (Jim Sabo)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Annoying Lab Neigbors
Date: 11 Nov 1992 18:18:25 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.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've got long enough legs and decent dexterity, you might find some power
cords that are itching to get knocked out of their sockets... I'd suggest
pulling out out from the wall once, then trying to pull it out from the back
of the machine a second time. Most people that would be so rude would also be
so dense as to think that just plugging everything back in securely wouldn't
be enough to keep it from happening again and move...

Jim

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From: ftit@ob.engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman)
Subject: Annoying Lab Neigbors
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 13:46:20 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: ftit@ob.engin.umich.edu


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?

Some ideas we've had:

Talk loudly.  In foreign languages.  Gesture wildly.

Do., in loud nasal dones.  Like you 'ave a chronikkly sduffed-up dose.

Sit silently, opening and closing your Swiss Army knife.  Glare at the
offending parties every now and then.

Drool.

Pretend to sneeze as close to them as possible.  Come up with a handful
of the slime you can buy in vending machines at K-Mart and wipe it on
your neigbors' table.

Retch.  Talk about how what you had for lunch wasn't all too fresh.

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From: cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates)
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's GIVE IT UP GUYS!!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:55:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.152338.6735@dragon.acadiau.ca> 
890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie) writes:
> There's not a doubt in my mind that 10,000
> volts can travel up a stream of urine... 
You heard about using a spark coil from a model T Ford to protect 
shrubbery around the house, right?

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From: cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (a.stranger)
Subject: Numbers game
Originator: cms2839@ultb
Organization: Minimalist Music for Hyperactive Children (MMHC)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:49:27 GMT

				today , at work , a manager asked me to
give him a list of the number of people enrolled in each section of our
program . i did just this , but wrote the numbers in Roman numerals .

				he loved it . . . 8^>= it also helps if
you write them in gothic blackletter .

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From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Annoying Lab Neigbors
Date: 13 Nov 92 12:43:34 GMT
Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

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?

Why not tell him that he is irritating you, and politely ask him to
keep quiter The KISS principle applies here as always.

Any indirect scheme must necessarily assume that the neighbour is
bright enough to understand why you are acting weird.

Just in case you don't know, KISS = keep it simple, stupid.

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From: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: parking meters
Date: 13 Nov 1992 02:04:13 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
NNTP-Posting-Host: asparagus.berkeley.edu

I know two good parking meter tricks. The first is to take a photo of a parking
meter with some time left, blow it up to lifesize, and paste it over the window
on the meter. The success of this will vary with the type of meter and whether
the meter maids come by on foot or on the road. Trick number two is to try
putting a penny in the dime slot. On some meters, this will rack up a lot of
time, even more than you'd get if you had put in a dime.

DISCLAIMER: Such actions are, of course, stealing. So, if you've never stolen
	    anything and always eaten all of your dinner before you've had any
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From: flanad@aix.rpi.edu (Pink Floyd)
Subject: Re: Stereo Shenanigans
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:33:11 GMT

On Roger Waters' spectacular new album, _Amused to Death_, there is a great
sounding phone at the end of "What God Wants, Part III". The recording is in
Q-Sound, which means that if your stereo speakers are in phase the phone sounds
like it directly to one side of you, not in the direction of the speakers! At
least three of my friends went to answer it the first time they heard it!

Dave
flanad@rpi.edu
"It was the greatest show on earth-- but then it was over." - R. Waters
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From: cmraman@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Focused on Infinity)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: The FINAL WORD on URINAL SHOCKS!!!!!
Summary: steady stream or droplets
Keywords: shock
Date: 7 Nov 92 19:33:51 GMT
Organization: Geeks-R-Us
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


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.

]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.

No need for that, Mr. V. At one of the Institute gatherings of recent
memory, there wsa, in fact, a strobe light set up as the sole illumination
for one of the bathrooms. Despite a significant level of intoxication, I
clearly recall that I produced a steady stream for at least 2 feet before
it started breaking up. That should be long enough to meet the average
urinal.
Mr. Bucher is clearly an anatomical anomaly. :)

though, we *could* check this at the party tonight...
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: jennings@tran.fishkill.ibm.com ()
Subject: Re: Pranks and Jokes FTP site.
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 20:55:53 GMT
Distribution: alt.shenanigans
Reply-To: jennings@tran.fishkill.ibm.com ()
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In article <0_n1bvk@rpi.edu>, johnc@porsche.cs.rpi.edu (John Colasante) writes:
> 
> 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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Hmmmm........127.0.0.1????.......looks like the local loopback to me.........		

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: medic@hardy.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:52:34 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Mind the Gap) 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:

>>>[leakin' and 'lectrocutin' deleted]

>>Classic Urban Legend.  So classic that I'm crossposting this response
>>to AFU for dissection.

>Actually, today's Mike Royko column features the unfortunate victim of
>someone who peed on the third rail, and passed away from the resulting
>600 volts.

Seems this happens a few times a year in Boston.  Some drunk decides he's
going to relieve himself on the tracks, and in the process zaps himself to
the big depot in the sky.  And disrupts the rail service, too.

(It also happens when little kids play unsupervised around the stations.
But it sure is fun to watch the rats crawl around the rail at Park Street.
They never do seem to hit it, though...)


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From: etlanar@yogi.ericsson.se (Alan Arthur)
Subject: Lift shenanigan
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:45:46 GMT


One of the best shenanigans perpetrated in my prescence was done at 
Strathclyde University, (Scotland just in case you dont know!) For the story
to make proper sense, Ill set the scene. It was the start of the year, and
there were plenty gullible freshers wandering about the place. The tallest
building on campus, the Livingstone tower, has four lifts, in the centre
of the building, two facing two. 

We were in the lift going up the top floor, when we stopped about half way up
by someone wanting to get on. They asked (as was the norm) Going up? 'No'
replied someone just being obnoxiuos, 'Oh' said the poor unsuspecting target,
'Down then?' (Bloody stupid question, so they deserved all they got) 'No'
replied some quick thinking comedian 'Across'.. 'Oh OK' mumbled the fresher
'looking confused' At the this point, we all wet ourselves laughing, hit the 
button for the floor above the one we'd stopped at, leapt out, and caught 
the first lift down again, and pressed for the floor with the fresher. When
the door opened we all had dead-pan faces, walked out and strolled down the 
corridor. The look on the freshers face was priceless, I dont know how we 
managed to stop laughing, we only lasted about a minute before we collapsed
on the floor laughing!!


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From: 2691deedyj@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: 1-800 shenanigans
Date: 13 Nov 1992 20:27:33 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2691deedyj@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

If you really want to make someone feel loved and needed, send them mail.  The kind of mail that I am talking about is the kind that you can send by calling
variouse 1-800 numbers.  We have all had the misfortune of watching the 
Sally Struthers whining channel.  If you call the number that is flashed on 
the screen and give a friends name and address to the nice operator on the
other end of the phone, believe me your friend will get mail.  Another 
neat number to call is the Church of Latter Day Saints.  They send 
books, video tapes and cassette tapes.  
     If you really want to confuse a friend, invest in a Bridal magazine.  
These publications are packed with cards that you can send to variouse
companies who in turn will send your friend samples of engraved wedding
invitations, napkins, and even samples of fabrics for table cloths.  
    This works really well if your friend is currently dating someone and 
you give the companies their name as well.  Both will start to recieve 
letters saying such things as...
    Dear Sally and Bill, 
     Now that you have made that important decision to marry, I hope that 
you will consider ordering your wedding invitations from XXX.

This is a great way to make your friends extremely nervouse.

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From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: Telephone shenanigan #01
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:11:21 GMT

[NOTE:  This is the first in what will probably be a long list of
telephone shenanigans that my friends and I perpetrated a few years back. 
I recorded them all on a cassette.  I will post these as I remember and/or
hear them on the tape.]

I called a local Radio Shack.  The conversation went something like this:
 
rs:  Radio Shack.  May I help you?
me:  Yes.  I'm looking for an RCA CA3096 Transconductance-type operational
     amplifier potato chip. 
rs:  Just a moment...  Let me check the cross-reference. 
<after a long pause>
rs:  What was that number again?
me:  CA3096, Transconductance Operational Amplifier _potato_ chip.
rs:  Okay, hold on...
<another pause>
rs:  Nope!  Sorry.  We don't have it. 
 
It's amazing that he didn't notice that I said POTATO CHIP, and twice.  I
was expecting him to laugh, or hang up, or something - but he took it
seriously.  Radio shack is a strange, strange place...


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From: chaplin@keinstr.uucp (Roger Chaplin)
Subject: Re: a couple of classics
Organization: Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, Ohio
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:10:04 GMT

Paul R. Brown (pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: My own personal favorite supermarket trick; great for grad students...
: 
: This trick requires a supermarket which uses price scanners. Buy something
: small, like a pack of bubble gum. Use a scanner to scan the UPC code off of
: the item and then use a laser printer to print it out onto a sheet of labels
: of the appropriate size (try an office supply store). Then, go shopping, and
: buy lots of stuff, affixing your UPC codes over a few expensive items. Then,
: as the clerk scans your box of Froot-Loops, <<BEEP>> "Wrigley's $0.40", and
: you saved at least a buck. Around here, this is especially effective since
: the clerks rarely look at the display as they ring things in. Only done it
: once, didn't get caught...

This seems to me more a prank than a shenanigan, because if you succeed
in this you ARE harming someone: the store owner.

: Disclaimer: Neither I nor the UC Berkeley Math department nor anyone else
: assume any sort of liability or responsibility for anything which might
: or might not happen to you if you try either of these things.

Disclaim all you like.  That does not change the fact that you have
published a clever way to steal.

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From: thomp@netcom.com (Thom Philabaum)
Subject: Re: Stereo Shenanigans
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:22:10 GMT

Laurie Anderson's Big Science album has a section where a phone starts
ringing (old, western electric style bells) during a quiet spot in the
album.  It fooled my sister enough that she went and _attempted_ to
answer the phone.

This trick is best played in the morning before coffee has been served.

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