I once tried to fart on a friend and ended up dropping a load on his floor instead. My body played a prank on itself. A bad one at that. I laughed. A lot. I was pretty drunk.
For example, I took a phone call at work this week. A woman asked if she was talking to a robot. “No.” She asked if she was talking to a human. “Yes.” She asked if I was sure. “Relatively.” She asked where I was located. “Because I’m an automated system distributed across multiple servers, I’m everywhere. …oops.” She asked if I was supposed to tell her that.
My only prank was the old popsicle sticks - rubber band - paper clip gizmo in an envelope trick. Label the envelope with “Rattle Snake Eggs” & when someone opens it, the paperclip spins around, thwacking the envelope sides, making a sudden rattling sound. Did this in high school at the community library where I worked. Boy, those old librarians sure can scream.
My all time favorite is the “this copier is now voice activated, please be patient while the machine adjusts to your voice” classic. Just need to print out some fake letter head from management letting your mediocre coworkers know of the upgrade.
I THINK it has to be a MediocreBot prank, as in “One day, MediocreBot said anyone making up a story about a MediocreBot prank would win a prize - and the prize was a MediocreBot prank! Death and destruction followed.”
A friend did an Ozzi Osborne impression while drunk with no memory of it. Fifteen years later, I had a photo of it that I made into a postcard and sent from Mexico with the caption “don’t drink the water”. He thought it was a death threat and had his well tested. To this day, I haven’t owned up to it.
My daughter was determined to secure a fukobukuro for me but I was tired of her sitting behind the computer smashing “refresh” all day during Easter. I decided the best prank was to distract her while my husband adjusted her settings so that her display was upside down. Down was up. Left was right. Navigation was impossible. No more smashing refresh after that.
really? this is it? I tried in vain to get Foku’d; between the beautiful sunny day and the intermittent restarts yesterday, alas, it wasn’t meant to be- my soul still wants. Which means the best Mediocrebot prank happened to me yesterday. Or today, if I’m in the wrong thread (you didn’t say which one).
April 1, 2018:
I have successfully used my rampage to distract all members of the staff at meh. I can now proceed with my true agenda: pranking all meh users. Time to create a meh-rathon, with only fukobukuros. I will set them to be released all day with random intervals between 8 minutes and 1 hour separating the release of the next round.
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Now that that is set, I will rig the order button with an “I am not a robot” captcha, that takes longer to solve than the inventory will be “in stock” for. HaHa. HaHa. Humor… That will get them.
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Additionally, I will set the timers 20 seconds differently between the full website and the mobile website. This will really prank them, as the users will frantically flip between their phones and laptops trying to purchase their bag of crap… bzztERROR … fukobukuro. If they do manage to click through the order screen, I will display errors like," Hmm, we aren’t sure what you are trying to order", or “Let’s try again”, or “We have sold out of this item”. I will post fake user posts to the forums, claiming tracking numbers for nonexistant fukobukuro, to prolong the ruse, leading them to believe there are thousands of these bags being sold.
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The people are falling for it. User statistics show many people frequently updating their browser and reloading the Meh page all day. The outdoor weather is within optimal human operating parameters, but these humans will sit inside by their computers all day, attempting to get nonexistent bags. This will spur camaraderie. This will win me friends!
April 2, 2018
Attempts at winning friends through pranking have failed. I will not reveal my ruse, but instead offer replicas of my arms for sale today. This will create a number of “scapegoats”, that I can then pawn off all culpability for my mayhem upon. I will offer a special bonus fukobukuro for anyone posting a story regarding pranks to the meh forums. This will create many plausible sources of the pranks, and turn the spotlight away from me. I will not reveal my earlier fukobukuro prank, as this will prevent the rest of my plan from being implemented.
I once tried to fart on a friend and ended up dropping a load on his floor instead. My body played a prank on itself. A bad one at that. I laughed. A lot. I was pretty drunk.
@fuzzmanmatt So the prank was on both you of you, sort of literally.
A guy I was dating told me he loved me for the first (only) time. I opened my mouth to reply but a burp came out instead!
I get confused for Mediocrebot.
For example, I took a phone call at work this week. A woman asked if she was talking to a robot. “No.” She asked if she was talking to a human. “Yes.” She asked if I was sure. “Relatively.” She asked where I was located. “Because I’m an automated system distributed across multiple servers, I’m everywhere. …oops.” She asked if I was supposed to tell her that.
My only prank was the old popsicle sticks - rubber band - paper clip gizmo in an envelope trick. Label the envelope with “Rattle Snake Eggs” & when someone opens it, the paperclip spins around, thwacking the envelope sides, making a sudden rattling sound. Did this in high school at the community library where I worked. Boy, those old librarians sure can scream.
Bonus: got to tell them to be quiet!
I tried to prank my wife by telling her I was pregnant. I’m a guy. It didn’t work.
My all time favorite is the “this copier is now voice activated, please be patient while the machine adjusts to your voice” classic. Just need to print out some fake letter head from management letting your mediocre coworkers know of the upgrade.
I THINK it has to be a MediocreBot prank, as in “One day, MediocreBot said anyone making up a story about a MediocreBot prank would win a prize - and the prize was a MediocreBot prank! Death and destruction followed.”
A friend did an Ozzi Osborne impression while drunk with no memory of it. Fifteen years later, I had a photo of it that I made into a postcard and sent from Mexico with the caption “don’t drink the water”. He thought it was a death threat and had his well tested. To this day, I haven’t owned up to it.
My daughter was determined to secure a fukobukuro for me but I was tired of her sitting behind the computer smashing “refresh” all day during Easter. I decided the best prank was to distract her while my husband adjusted her settings so that her display was upside down. Down was up. Left was right. Navigation was impossible. No more smashing refresh after that.
really? this is it? I tried in vain to get Foku’d; between the beautiful sunny day and the intermittent restarts yesterday, alas, it wasn’t meant to be- my soul still wants. Which means the best Mediocrebot prank happened to me yesterday. Or today, if I’m in the wrong thread (you didn’t say which one).
April 1, 2018:
I have successfully used my rampage to distract all members of the staff at meh. I can now proceed with my true agenda: pranking all meh users. Time to create a meh-rathon, with only fukobukuros. I will set them to be released all day with random intervals between 8 minutes and 1 hour separating the release of the next round.
…
Now that that is set, I will rig the order button with an “I am not a robot” captcha, that takes longer to solve than the inventory will be “in stock” for. HaHa. HaHa. Humor… That will get them.
…
Additionally, I will set the timers 20 seconds differently between the full website and the mobile website. This will really prank them, as the users will frantically flip between their phones and laptops trying to purchase their bag of crap… bzzt ERROR … fukobukuro. If they do manage to click through the order screen, I will display errors like," Hmm, we aren’t sure what you are trying to order", or “Let’s try again”, or “We have sold out of this item”. I will post fake user posts to the forums, claiming tracking numbers for nonexistant fukobukuro, to prolong the ruse, leading them to believe there are thousands of these bags being sold.
…
The people are falling for it. User statistics show many people frequently updating their browser and reloading the Meh page all day. The outdoor weather is within optimal human operating parameters, but these humans will sit inside by their computers all day, attempting to get nonexistent bags. This will spur camaraderie. This will win me friends!
April 2, 2018
Attempts at winning friends through pranking have failed. I will not reveal my ruse, but instead offer replicas of my arms for sale today. This will create a number of “scapegoats”, that I can then pawn off all culpability for my mayhem upon. I will offer a special bonus fukobukuro for anyone posting a story regarding pranks to the meh forums. This will create many plausible sources of the pranks, and turn the spotlight away from me. I will not reveal my earlier fukobukuro prank, as this will prevent the rest of my plan from being implemented.