Kick Me! notes and other practical jokes

[Cyberus]

Not really an imaginative practical joke, but when I was an undergraduate, we in the physics dept had our own computer rooms. Unreal tournament became very popular, and so you'd be sitting in the computer room working or whatever after lectures , with a few people around you playing it online, getting quite into it.

One of the things that I used to do was net send their machine/username with a message, like 'unreal is pants' - it would switch screens and give them a dos requester, while they were getting shot in the game :-D

The people who were less computer savvy (and physicists on the whole are very good with computers) were completely dumbfounded by it - those who did know were damn annoyed. As I recall, you can change your network user name for the session, and so some people would do this to stop people net  sending them. So you'd just think up a pointless question to ask so you could walk over to their machine, since their machine id was stencilled on the case :-)

Mwahahahaha!

[Cyberus]

Heh, good stories guys.

They remind me of a chemistry lab practical joke I used to play when I was at school. In the lab, there were three benches. On each bench, there were three sinks. (The lab is where we had normal blackboard and chalk lessons, as well as doing experiments.)
Now, this doesn't involve any chemistry as such, but is funny nonetheless...

At the end of each bench, there was a tap which would turn off the water supply to all three sinks on the bench. If you were the first one into the class, you'd go and make sure all the 'mains' taps at the end of each bench were OFF, and then go and turn the sink taps ON. Now, people would drift in before the lesson, and sit or lean on the benches chatting with their mates before the teacher came into the class. All you had to do, is wait for someone to get near one of the sinks, and then discreetly turn on the appropriate 'mains' tap to administer a soaking :-D

This could also be done during the lesson as well, depending on how tolerant the teacher was.