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From: thomp@netcom.com (Thom Philabaum)
Subject: Re: answering machine messages 
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:59:55 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.

When I moved and changed my phone number I sampled the "number has been
changed" message and swapped the old and new numbers.  Then I reversed the
second number so what I got was:

"The number you have reached, <new number>, has been changed.  The
new number is <goobldigook>"

Most people were simply too confused and hung up...


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Anserphone game
Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:54:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


n5gax@leo.unm.edu (Duke McMullan (n5gax)) writes:

>Here's a story I heard from a fellow who shipped as a cook on a steamer
>out of Australia back in the 1940's. It seems the mate kept a penguin in
>his room...female, of course. The bird was no more cleanly than the mate,
>and it used to cli{{]{{~~B~~~~~~~~~~~~{{{4{{{{{{{{{{\\\\\\{{\\{\{
>~~~~xx~~x~x~neer had set up for making illegal booze, so the captain
>didn't notice when th [mmate's shoes were left abov~~~~~~~~{{{{~~{~{{
>              






>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~xx~xxxxxxxxx~x~```````````x~X~~~Xxxxxx`x~xx`x`xxxxxxxxxx`
>[mwo of the sailors, blotto drunk, found the captain's
>private stock of rum, and "spiked" it with the engineer's bathtub booze.
>Then the stupid penguin shit in the capt~~~~~~~~~~~~xx~xx~~~x~`
>{4gation, the ship owners decided
>that the captain could, under strict probation, keep his command.



>Well, that's the guy's tale. I don't think I'll _EVER_ believe the bit
>about the broom and the belaying pin!

>						d

Nice try.  If you want to pull a shenanigan on this group (or at least this
reader of this group), you'll have to do better than a non-existant story
obscured by fake line noise.  <evil grin>
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From: cmcgav@coos.dartmouth.edu (Christine B. McGavran)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Halloween shenanigans
Date: 8 Nov 92 16:25:23 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:

>It's also been thought that the college in question is Dartmouth, where
>the rumor arose again last year. 

i don't remember that...
and hanover's had one murder (last summer's) in the past 100 years, so it
couldn't have been recently.

>I just wish I had some good cemetery shenanigans.

there was a good, but unintentional one played at the dartmouth cemetery by
one of my friends. he's one that likes pagan-type religions and 
therefore enjoys hanging out in the cemetery. one night he was out laying on
eleazar wheelock's grave (the founder of the college) and fell asleep. some
drunken frat pledge was out that night on a dare to visit that grave, woke up
my friend, who in surprise, sat up and scared the shit out of him!

-sneetch
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: scotts@emperor.scs.com (Scott G. Stewart)
Subject: Re: parking meters
Date: 13 Nov 1992 18:23:04 -0800
Reply-To: scotts@emperor.scs.com (Scott G. Stewart)
Organization: Mentor Graphics


In article <1992Nov12.204931.2337@dg-rtp.dg.com>, eliot@chutney.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot) writes:
>  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...


George Kennedy: "Cutting the heads off of...what was it?  Bubblegum machines?"


-- Scott



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		XUXA - Hands off, she's mine.

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From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Fun With Lasers
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:35:39 GMT
Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

In article <fz-=bM_@engin.umich.edu> ftit@engin.umich.edu (Sergej Roytman) writes:
>
>What we did was hide out in the lounge with the lights turned off some
>Friday or Saturday night and did Things to passers-by.  Some of our
>favorite tricks:
>
>The Spot: victim is walking around minding his own business.  Suddenly,
>  a Red Spot appears in front of him.  He stops, looks around, no spot.
>  As soon as he starts walking the spot reappears.  We sent several
>  people running for cover this way.

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.

Imagine how bystanders laughed when someone suddenly noticed that red
little dot on their clothes, and started to run for cover. Hilarious!

I have a variation on this 'shenanigan' you might try some other time.

Walk up to someone in the street, stare at him fixedly and whisper
slowly 'blood, blood, blood, ...'. 

-- 
Anders Thulin       ath@linkoping.trab.se 	013-23 55 32
Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: tlund@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Lund)
Subject: Teachers
Keywords: nerd, blood, death, shenanigan
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:25:04 GMT

	The P&A teacher in my high school did not like the biology teacher.
The biology teacher, Mr. M. was a MAJOR nerd: scrawny, nearsighted, nerdy-voiced
scientist.  The bio teacher would often end up as a rather unpleasant example
in P&A when it came to diseases etc.  One day, Mr. M. poked his head into the
classroom during an early class.  They talked for a few seconds, and then the
P&A teacher pulled out a gun and SHOT him.
	Yes, that's right, they had rigged the little exploding bag of red
stuff and pulled it on all of those poor kids at 8:30 in the morning.  I only
wish I had seen it myself.

 /\//\
  //
\//\/
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:09:13 EST
From: <TWA101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Stereo Shenanigans

I was the victim of a stereo prank that was nobody's fault but that of the albu
m.  I borrowed the "Four Horsemen" cd off of a friend of mine to listen to it.
 There is one song about bootleggin whiskey.  In the background there is sirens
 .  The kicker is that it is that well mixed that it REALLY sounds like it is o
utside.  So sure enough I found myself looking out mywindow wondering if my nei
ghbor's house was burning down.  Little did I know that the best was yet to com
e.  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.

Tim AumAn
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mtabbott@unix.amherst.edu (MTA)
Subject: Re: The FINAL WORD on URINAL SHOCKS!!!!!
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:34:27 GMT

Daniel Bucher (dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: 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!!!!
: 
: 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.
[...]
: 
: -dan

buuuuuuuuut, what if you bang your penis against the side of the urinal when 
you're done?  That would complete the circuit now, wouldn't it?  Huh, huh?

	MT
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: adwright@iastate.edu ()
Subject: car trouble
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:15:33 GMT

My wife used to take a jar lid or anything else that made a clicking
sound and click it (without the driver seeing) when she was a passenger
 in a car. 

It makes the driverthink something is wrong with the car. She even says "whats that sound?"

It works really well if you make the series of clicks rhythmically and
only when the car exceeds a certain speed.
Allen

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: wyvern@iastate.edu (Nuno Bettencourt)
Subject: Re: The FINAL WORD on URINAL SHOCKS!!!!!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:30:26 GMT

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, the first guy is definitely right. I hate to continue this, so
I guess I have to post my obligatory shenanigan. :)

	Methinks that everyone has thought of putting a piece of napkin
in the bottom of a friend's soda straw when they're not looking, but some
time when you go to a taco joint get the really hot green stuff and suck
it into their straw so it fills about 2 or so inches of the straw. Discretely
place the straw back into the cup of course.
	When I pulled this one on my friend, I laughed so hard that I puked
my soft taco back onto my tray. I wonder if I pulled the shenanigan on
myself? ,:)


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu (Snarfblat)
Subject: Re: Toilet Pranks.... ouch!
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:10:34 GMT

Holographic Banana (slb1b@cc.usu.edu) wrote:
: In article <gxg1y1p@rpi.edu>, macmib@aix.rpi.edu (Brian Edward Macmillan) writes:
: > In article <1992Oct31.012414.21711@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Michael.P.Colburn@dartmouth.edu (Michael P. Colburn) writes:
: >>A couple more toilet pranks:
: >>
: >>Place a couple of packets of ketchup (like you get at a burger place)
: >>on the rim of the toilet where the seat make contact...gently lower the
: >>seat and be sure the packets are under the plastic mounts that are
: >>attached to the bottom of the seat.  When some one sit...*splat*...of
: >>course, this only works if the person doesn't raise the seat.
: >>
: >>Another one is to smear clear petroleum jelly on the toilet
: >>seat...eeeeyew!!
: >>
: 
: Oh come off it!  Use >>>>> HONEY <<<<<<
: 
: and then TRY to get up!

How about acid? I don't want to sound like the shenanigan police squad, but
none of those ideas (mine included) sound like shenanigans. shoe polish on
your ass would require you to take a shower immediately. That's more of a 
prank. I'd think honey and vaseline would also be too annoying to be 
shenanigans. While I am not against putting things on peoples' toilet seats,
(by the way, i never thought of putting shoe polish on them  >:) ), it isn't
in the spirit of this forum. A shenanigan would have been if,back in high
school, we had been able to set up manequins playing a poker game on the roof
of the cafeteria, in sight of the school's main hallway. but we couldn't get
used manequins from department stores for free.
How about a new forum, alt.evil.pranks?
From: rey@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Troy Lovata)
Subject: RE: Drive Thru Fun
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 20:59:59 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523



	Many years ago I went thru the drive thru at Mickey D's in a school bus
freshly purchased from the Sargent, Nebraska public schools. They told us they
were very surprised when all we ordered were two cheeseburgers. Unfortunately,
this is no longer possible where I currently reside, as their parking lot is a
lot smaller and has a pretty nasty turn between the speaker and the pick up
window. I already have plans with my brother to retire his trusty Dodge Diplomat
to that used car lot in the sky by abandoning it in the drive thru in the middleof the lunch time rush.


****any hope from Clinton's victory snuffed out by amendment # 2's passing****


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From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Urinal and electrical NO NO's
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:38:47 GMT
Organization: IBM Rochester
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

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.

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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: plecs_b@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael B Plecs)
Subject: Re: emergency showers
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:59:53 GMT

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!  

If I am not mistaken, some (all?) emergency showers only turn ON when you pull
the chain.  That is, they do NOT turn OFF when you let go.  Someone has to
manually close an emergency shutoff valve somewhere to shut the thing off.

Just thought I'd mention that before someone goes and floods a lab somewhere...

LC



Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin)
Subject: Re: answering machine messages
Organization: Michigan State University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 05:09:59 GMT

"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?

"Hello.  If you're not bright enough to know when to leave your message,
don't expect ME to tell you!"
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From: dbucher@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Bucher)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: The FINAL WORD on URINAL SHOCKS!!!!!
Date: 6 Nov 1992 06:29:10 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: earthquake.berkeley.edu

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
From: alan@gizmo.usc.edu (Alan Petersen)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Drive-thru fun
Date: 6 Nov 1992 09:24:25 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gizmo.usc.edu
Keywords: Drive-thru fun

I once saw a couple of people on horses go through
a McDonald's drive through.   I wonder how you could
top that?  A camel?

asp


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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: will@trigger.owlnet.rice.edu (Bruce E. Williams)
Subject: Re: Stereo Shenanigans
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:42:26 GMT

	On Wierd Al's parody of the Nirvana CD, the last song ends, and there
is about 15 minutes of silence, followed by 10 seconds of the wierdest screaming
you have ever heard.  So you listen to the CD with your friends, and after the
last song plays, unobtrusively turn the volume way up.  15 minutes later the
innocents will get quite a shock!

BW
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: kudla@acm.rpi.edu (Robert Kudla)
Subject: Re: Fun With Lasers
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:04:42 GMT


A few friends of mine managed to obtain a laser a few years ago, and
we'd have fun on nights of concerts that didn't interest us (the best
was a New Kids concert) illuminating people's white tee shirts or
reflective jogger clothes, and especially putting the dot (which
everyone must know from The Terminator, 'cause the responses were
pretty hilarious) on someone's back when someone's walking behind them
("Oh my god!  DUCK!!" said one impressionable teenager).

Related to the freaking-out-pizza-people thread, we got an SK-1 when
they first came out and hooked it up to a rather large guitar amp.  A
few times, not enough to make the joke get old, we sat in our third
floor dorm window with the speaker in it (hidden by a blanket).  The
dorms were arranged in such a way that a sound mof reasonable volume
made from any window inside the square of four dorms appeared to be
coming from every direction.

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" (the SK had a short sample time).
We'd play it back at a variety of pitches, and a couple of times the
pizza dude actually turned around and ran away.

The only drawback was that the SK made a "dink" when you sampled.  We
didn't know it was that noticeable, but a few years later, when I told
people about this stuff, they were like, "Oh, that was you?  Oh,
whenever we heard the 'dink' we'd all go and see what you were going
to do next...."

Rob
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: scotts@emperor.scs.com (Scott G. Stewart)
Subject: Re: more numbers games
Date: 13 Nov 1992 18:14:22 -0800
Reply-To: scotts@emperor.scs.com (Scott G. Stewart)
Organization: Mentor Graphics


In article <1992Nov10.224115.3194@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, cms2839@ultb.isc.rit.edu (a.stranger) writes:
>  
>  				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 .

The father of my best friend in mid-school (Hi Jeff McPherson!) once had to do
some big multi-page equation for a final for a physics class (he was a business
major, I belive).  The professor apparently was some anal-retentive
stick-in-the-mud, and my friend's father wanted to get in a last lick.  So he
computed the formula in weird units, and turned in the resulting answer
(velocity) in "furlongs per fortnight"!

-- Scott
-- 

		XUXA - Hands off, she's mine.

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