<p>I missed it all. Who’ve thunk my school was sedate? No pranks. I think everyone was too, ahem, it was the late sixties.</p>
<p>I broke my leg the beginnibg of freshmab year. Good thing I weighed 105 then, LOL, because I got carried everywhere by a guy who has since chaired NYS Green Party. For Halloween I dressed in granny, flannel nightgown, put waist length hair in long braids (I was just 17 and looked young) and got someone to push my wheel chair so I could go trick-or-treating in the boys’ dorms. Probably not a good idea to mention what I got, but I did get to meet many cute upperclassmen.</p>
<p>Thanks, these are great, and the first CC postings that my son has read all the way through. </p>
<p>We did the ‘fill the office with balloons’ for our coach. One year we tied all her furniture together with string. Our way of making her birthdays special.</p>
<p>dmd-
No need to “confess” to having participated in a prank. We just want to hear what they were. I know there were some classics. They can be presented in the form of a “hypothetical” example ;)</p>
<p>Ok, I posted this once a few years ago, but I will repeat…</p>
<p>Step 1 - get a fraternity brother intoxicated. (Not too difficult.)
Step 2 - take all his money and his wallet.
Step 3 - buy a train ticket to Chicago and load him on the train.
Step 4 - wait for the call from the extremely POed fraternity brother. (Kalamazoo).
Step 5 - buy the return ticket over the phone with someone’s credit card.
Step 6 - get out of town ASAP!</p>
<p>Back in the days before cable TV in every dorm room was standard, we had a TV lounge where students tended to gather in the evenings to watch their favorite shows while doing homework. The particular television in the lounge had a large rabbit-ears type antenna for standard over-the-air broadcast reception.</p>
<p>Some electrical engineering student who shall go unnamed put together a small, easily concealed, battery-powered box capable of transmitting a signal that would interfere with television reception in a radius of twenty feet or so. The idea was to wait for a crowd to gather, then slowly turn up the signal on the box until someone decided to start fooling with the antenna to improve the picture. Then the real fun began. They would turn the interference up and down in such a way as to get the person adjusting the antenna into as awkward a position as possible. Then as soon as he let go, they would turn up the interference again.</p>
<p>During my Ohio State days I was involved in a few. We totally filled up a grad student’s single with wadded up Lanterns(the student daily paper-he merely stuffed them into one of the elevators and pushed the down button). Very funny and the best one we pulled off.</p>
<p>In the early days of microwave ovens, MIT installed one next to the vending machines outside the primary physics lecture hall, which sat over 900 students (the enrollment in 8.01, the intro physics course). Then, students added quite a lot of unpopped popcorn and pressed start… the resulting popped popcorn filled the microwave. Hey, it was 1972 and we thought it was funny.</p>
<p>It was also the days of chalk and blackboards, and blackboards that raised to reveal a second blackboard underneath. It was quite common to write mathematical/scientific jokes on the underneath board.</p>