What's Your Most Memorable School Prank?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Hypercase
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    School
Click For Summary

Discussion Overview

The thread discusses memorable school pranks shared by participants, focusing on creative and humorous acts carried out in school or college settings. The scope includes anecdotes from various institutions, highlighting the playful and mischievous spirit of students, particularly in engineering contexts.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Conceptual clarification
  • Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • One participant recounts a prank involving war dialing in dorms, where computers sequentially called rooms in two high-rise buildings.
  • Another participant shares a prank involving a frozen lab rat thrown into a dorm room, creating a mess for the victim to clean up.
  • A different participant mentions a prank where a PA system was used to broadcast a silly song throughout their dormitory.
  • One participant expresses excitement about potentially engaging in pranks at university if accepted, indicating a desire to connect with like-minded peers.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants share various prank stories without any explicit consensus or disagreement on the merits or ethics of the pranks discussed.

Contextual Notes

Some pranks involve technical setups and may depend on specific institutional contexts or resources available at the participants' schools.

Who May Find This Useful

Readers interested in humorous anecdotes, student culture, or the playful side of engineering and college life may find this discussion engaging.

Hypercase
Messages
63
Reaction score
0
Hi y'all
The year is almost at an end, and with finals and preps around the corner,
what really cheers the mood is a good Nasty prank(MIT slang->hack). :biggrin:
So out with it, let's read of your interesting prankd in school/college.

-Cheers. :smile:
 
Physics news on Phys.org
The best that we did at MSU (bored engineers are never a good thing) we set up four computers to war dial the two largest high rise dorms. These two buildings are 11 stories tall and have identical floor layouts (about 20 rooms per floor). The computers were set up to dial each room sequently two starting on the first floors, two on the top floors. They would then go down and up until the two starting on the first floor reached the top floor first room dialed and vice-a-versa. Another feature of these computers is that they were also talking to each other so if any computer got out of sinc with the other computers it would stop until the others caught up

This is a great one from my friend at Cal tec, in some of the older buildings the dorm room dors have the vent window at the top of the door. Well the prank was to freeze a dead lab rat in liquid Nitrogen, then huck said frozen ratsickle into somebody's room and run like hell. Now the person who was "ratfinked" could either chase down the prepetrator of this prank or clean up the million of frozen rat shards before they thawed and sank into the carpet
 
Argentum, that has all the geekiness of one of my friend's pranks. Their dorm had a PA system in it that was never really used. Well, they tapped into the wires and broadcast the Smurf tape song "I'm a blue toothbrush, you're a pink toothbrush" throughout the dorms. (Okay, now who here knows what a smurf is other than the nickname of one of the members and is old enough to remember that tape? Yes, folks, that was a cassette, not a CD).
 
I personally can not wait for engineering at univerisity .I only hope i get accepted so i can set up pranks with other geeks like me. :p
 

Similar threads

  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8
Views
8K
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15
Views
3K
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Views
2K
  • · Replies 22 ·
Replies
22
Views
4K
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11
Views
2K
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15
Views
3K
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5
Views
3K
  • · Replies 63 ·
3
Replies
63
Views
10K
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9
Views
3K
  • · Replies 33 ·
2
Replies
33
Views
6K