Prank much?

[Demosthenes]

After spending an hour or so pranking folks with a few friends, I'm curious about other poopshooters experiences with prank phone calls. Whether you were calling or being called, I'm wondering what kind of crazy stuff people here have been through. If you don't let me know, I may just cry. I don't want to, but I might.

[Thom_Fowler]

Not recently. When I was 18, (15 years ago), my roomate and I had one of those Charlie's Angels style speakerphones, the kind that Charlie would always talk to the Angels through, and we'd sit around with our friends and prank call random people and pretend like we were someone they knew.

You'd be surprised how often people would think they were talking to someone they know.

We'd say things like, "how could you do that to me?"

They'd say, "Do what? Who is this?"

"You know damn well who this is..."

or "Hey, did you remember to go the store?"

"Oh [censored], I'm sorry."

"[censored] A, man, you KNOW how important that was to me."

etc, etc.

One time, we got this guy and i was the talker and I was all, "hey, I was hoping you'd be home. I was hoping we could meet tonight."

I guess he thought I was answering some kind of sex personals ad because that's where the conversation went while my friends were desperately trying to not laugh out loud. We arranged to meet in the parking lot of a local fast-food restaurant. So all five of us who were there doing it that night (we did this night after night for months. We got REALLY good at it.) piled into the car and when we found the guy we started driving around his car, laughing hysterically. The poor guy was so shocked that he drove off real fast.

For a minute or two we considered chasing him.

That was classic. Most people it seems, have skeletons in their closets, unresolved guilt and respond well to sexual suggestions. Most people have remarkably similar lives, think remarkably similar thoughts, do the same [censored]-up [censored] to each other.

We started getting extra sinister and used the phone book to call people in areas we knew were full of crack-heads until we got someone on the edge on the phone.

[Razorback]

For someone reason I first read that as "spanking folks" and that really peaked my interest.

But now I'm just bored.

RB

[DarthMaulRat]

My cousin and I used to always attach a computer microphone to a phone on the same line to record our pranks. Then we'd burn the recordings of pranks on CD's and sometimes give them to friends. On a rainy day, I could listen to those CD's and laugh my ass off. It's just so damn funny listening to your own work.

Anyway, some of our favorite places to call were:

GNC: we'd always ask about the instructions of some genital creme of some sort and then pretend to relay the information to our 5-year old daughter. "C'mon Suzie, get the sponge and start scrubbing daddy down."

Elderly Neighborhoods: After finding out which people were 'window sitters', we'd call them and ask if they've seen our dog, which always had odd descriptions. "Of course it only has 2 legs!", "No, Buddy always wears women's clothes, much to our dissapointment". "Spot has nipple rings, much like that punk grandson of yours".
To get funnier responses, we'd often have a friend walk their dog in front of the house during the conversation.

Sex toy stores: Yeah, those were too easy. We'd usually ask if they held birthday parties or try to get them to sponsor a church mission trip.

Domino's Pizza: Besides their extra stupid employees, we'd often call just to say, "So, how bad is Bad Andy?"

Blockbuster: Ask for a ridiculous made up game for Playstation. "Do you have Super Kangaroo Mech Kart Racing?" After they comeback from searching the shelves and inventory, ask "Well, do you have Super Kangaroo Mech Kart Racing 2?" Rinse, lather, repeat. I think our record was 4, which is pretty long considering this employee spent a minute and a half each time searching the shelves.

[DangerSeeker]

For the most part never got into the crank thing, but the one movie theater I worked in was in a mall, and there was a payphone about thirty feet down from the box office. We had many a slow day, so we used to call it all the time. Sometimes we'd just see who'd come along and pick up and run with it, but sometimes it got a little scarier.

One guy went to the food court and saw a group of middle schoolers hanging out. The one guy clearly liked the one girl who didn't seem to be giving him the time of day. We saw them approach, and the one girl answered. We had her hand of to the admired girl, then told her all about the crush. Her curiosity kept her on the line, so we had her ask the guy a bunch of questions and guage the answers. "Do you like my shirt?" "Did you notice my new bra?" Then an immediate follow up of "Eye contact!" Totally blew the guy's cover.

[Demosthenes]

The best I ever did was I had a few friends call someone we didn't know from a few different phones. Each time we'd ask for Eugene, and when they said we had the wrong number, we'd yell at them, saying to get Eugene now. Invariably they'd hang up. We did this like six times in an hour or so. Then I called and asked in a polite clipped British accent inf anyone had called for a Eugene. The person said yes, several people, what was going on? I explained to her that I ran an establishment caled the "Dollhouse" where men could come and meet young, sexy, head cheerleaders who would do anything they asked. I told them we made up business cards and put his number on by mistake. The person on the phone, a middle-aged sounding man, asked me how he could make an appointment. I was about to answer when half the people I was with, who were listening in on another phone, began laughing hysterically. I was really pissed becasue I'm sure I could have convinced the guy I was for real and that he could get a complimentary appointment. Either way, I thouroughly enjoyed myself.

[DarthMaulRat]

Has anyone ever done a soundboard prank phone call? You reminded me of that because a bunch of us mature college people used to do them all the time and start rolling on the floor laughing.

If you don't know what I'm talking about then go to ebaumsworld (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/soundboards.shtml)

It takes some practice, talking with a soundboard is kinda like DJing, but after awhile you can get people to think they're really talking to someone, and that's where it gets [censored]' hilarious.

[Demosthenes]

A friend of mine showed me those things months ago, but I never really tried them. He had the Schwarzenegger one down when he showed ti to me, and got this friend of yours for a minute or so. It was definitely hysterical.

[JIM]

Oh man... You guys are funny! Reminds me of the good 'ol times I had. /forums/images/icons/grin.gif
Have'nt done it for some time.
I used to like to play old school pranks on friends too.
Saran wrap on the toilet, marker on a sleeping chum's face, salt in a friend's soda, etc. Jackassy type things, just not as mean. Well, most of them...

[Zens_7s]

LOL - EBaums world is way too fun. I haven't been there in a while, but the boards with the celebrity voices were a should-be-working-instead-are-wasting-time classic.

I have been dying to play the Jack Nicholson "Col. Nathan R. Jessup" prank on somebody.
Need to go find phone book and guinea pig now....

[acid_soda]

Since it looks like the MPS is done for...I officially declare May, 3, 2006
BRING BACK RANDOM DEAD THREAD DAY!

[Dave]

Look there's Jim, what the hell ever happened to him, i wonder? The great thing about these old threads popping back up, is that you can see posters that have drifted off into the ether.

[FanGirl]

I've PMed him a couple of times with no response. He's one of the few i don't have an outside contact for. Hope he reappears again.

[acid_soda]

he seemed like a nice guy...

[Psyche]

am i missing something? what is with all these long dead threads coming back to life o.0

[jjcourtright]

Nostalgia.

[Psyche]

oh i thought it was just torture. my mistake