Showing posts with label prank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prank. Show all posts
I do not endorse this behavior....
But well, I might have laughed once or twice, especially when he set the guy's newspaper on fire...
Link roundup
1. 20% off toys, 40% off comics at the BBTS.
2. Scott Campbell's Cult Tree poster is $16 at Gallery1988.
3. "In what was apparently a phone prank, a motel guest said someone called his room and told him to smash the things inside in order to free a "midget" trapped next door."
2. Scott Campbell's Cult Tree poster is $16 at Gallery1988.
3. "In what was apparently a phone prank, a motel guest said someone called his room and told him to smash the things inside in order to free a "midget" trapped next door."
Link roundup
1. Photos of new Clone Wars action figures (Clone in training armor, new Cad Bane with robot assistant, etc.).
2. A crocodile smuggled onto a plane got loose and caused a crash (killing everyone on board, except for the croc). Via.
3. An ESPN reporter fell for a prank and smashed up her hotel room. Via.
*Buy Star Wars Happy Meal toys at eBay.
2. A crocodile smuggled onto a plane got loose and caused a crash (killing everyone on board, except for the croc). Via.
3. An ESPN reporter fell for a prank and smashed up her hotel room. Via.
*Buy Star Wars Happy Meal toys at eBay.
ADT invaded homes to try to sell alarms
How to convince apartment dwellers that their homes weren't safe and that they needed to pay for security systems? Why not slide a spring-loaded box under their door so they'd think their home had been invaded? Via these fine sites.
Office cubicle turned into a Sonic the Hedgehog video game level
Office cubicle turned into a Sonic the Hedgehog video game level as a prank.
*Previously: A Big Daddy from Bioshock trashes several cubicles.
*Buy practical joke collections at Amazon.
Watch a young boy frighten Donovan McNabb
Chris Cooley arranged for a boy to hide in Donovan McNabb's locker and jump out and frighten him. Via.
*Buy practical jokes at Amazon.
Copier voice command upgrade prank (link roundup)
Nice harmless prank for April Fool's Day. Via.
And a few more links:
1. Disturbing bottles of alcohol.
2. Lindsay Mays has a wonderful new crop of plush monsters in her Etsy shop, including the Invisible Man, Mr. Hyde, and Zombie Poe.
3. J.D. Shapiro describes how he came to write the script for Battlefield Earth. Via.
*Previously: Elaborate prank leaves Oregon officers in custody of gnomes.
*Buy practical joke collections at Amazon.
Journey through space (video roundup)
"The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang." Via.
Intel engineers launched out of cannons at giant wind chimes.
Car hit by a wrecking ball, presumably to advertise something (maybe how rugged the car is). Via.
Space Shuttle launch seen from an airplane. Via.
Fake iPhone glued to the ground in front on Apple store. Via.
*Buy NASA patches at eBay.
Kitesurfers jump a pier (link roundup)
Video Lewis Crathern and Jake Scrace kitesurfing over a pier. They waited three years for the right conditions. Via.
And a few more links:
1. When you put in the Fight Club Blu-Ray disc, the initial title screen is for Never Been Kissed. A prank cooked up by David Fincher and approved of by Drew Barrymore. Via.
2. When your son wants to know the worst swear word in the world.
3. Twilight's screenwriter got her first agent because they mistakenly thought she was Joan Rivers' daughter. Via.
*Previously: "You're on my sh*t list" stationery.
*Check out Amazon's Black Friday Blu-Ray deals.
The Aliens bow to their master (link roundup)
Snoop Dogg and Aliens by Yellow Duck.
And a few more links:
1. Papercraft turkey.
2. USC students draw first blood, splash UCLA's Bruin mascot statue with cardinal and gold paint.
3. A parent unhappy with his son's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team hired a private investigator to follow the coach. The PI watched the coach drink at a bar, and then reported him to the police when he proceeded to drive away. Via.
*Previously: Xenomporph stapler.
*Buy Alien toys at eBay.
Indiana Jones diorama
Indiana Jones diorama by Maxime Pecourt. See also: Portable coffee spills.
*Previously: Indiana Jones cookies.
*Buy Indiana Jones lunch boxes at eBay.
Sticky Coca-Cola bus shelter ads (link roundup)
Marcel Paris placed velcro on bus shelters to irritate people into noticing that Coca-Cola had a new grip bottle.
And a few more links:
1. Lego ARG. Via.
2. The Great Grunge Hoax of 1992. Via.
3. Chubby Twitter icon.
4. Adam Koford's Twitter icon gallery.
*Previously: Finance site creates hoax news story to generate links to improve it's Google rank.
*Buy Star Wars Lego minifigs at eBay.
Trash can modified to seem like it's bottomless (link roundup)
Garbage can modified to emit a sound like an object dropping into a very deep hole. Somehow it's an ad for Volkswagen. Because what car maker doesn't want their product associated with garbage? Via these sites.
And a few more links:
1. Information about David Letterman's alleged extortionist, and the woman at the center of the blackmail scheme.
2. If you're reading this, then you probably hit the lottery at least a little in terms of where you were born. Life in Guinea:
Most shocking to the wearied citizens in this predominantly Muslim nation, Captain Camara’s men raped scores of women in broad daylight, sexually assaulting many with rifles. For five days this week Conakry has seethed in sullen, silent anger, as many people remained missing following Monday’s demonstration, heavily armed soldiers patrolled, rumors flew about secret midnight burials by government security forces, and text-message and much cellphone traffic was blocked. Shops have remained shuttered and streets that are normally clogged have been empty.There's more. Via.
3. Gallery of book covers for books written by Ed Wood. (NSFW.) Via.
*Previously: Trash truck of the future.
*Buy Plan 9 From Outer Space posters at eBay.
Vintage phone (link roundup)
Rotary phone spotted here. I've never seen that design before. You can see a more traditional rotary phone here.
UPDATE: Twee points out that it's an Ericofon, and there are several on sale at eBay.
And a few more links:
1. MIT's Great Dome was modified to look like sheet music displaying the first seven notes of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up."
2. Pirate octopus with eye patch and peg leg.
3. Best photo of the Geek Squad, ever.
*Previously: This phone is tapped.
*Buy vintage phones at eBay.
Cool treehouse (link roundup)
Impressive treehouse via these links.
And a few more links:
1. A couple managed to publicize their website by leaving a handwritten note at TechCrunch's office. And speaking of TechCrunch, Facebook tricked at least one of its writers into believing there was a new "Fax this photo" feature at Facebook.
2. The upcoming video game SpyParty sounds great.
3. The Washington Post marketing executive who spearheaded the effort to sell access to the paper's writers has resigned. Via.
*Previously: Spy plane to recharge itself by hanging on a power line?
*Buy vintage James Bond novels at eBay.
Young Joker with his favorite toys (link roundup)
A young Joker plays with Alex DeLarge and Jason Voorhees toys. Design by Alisson Bertelli for this week's MojiZu battle.
And a few more links:
1. Mythic's Gabe Amatangelo's office was turned into a very sandy land of the dead as a prank.
2. More promo images for Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Via.
3. Skeletor robot.
4. Little Red Riding Hood picks the wolf out of a lineup.
*Previously: ET, Skeletor, He-Man, and a water slide.
*Buy Batman posters at eBay.
Funny Budweiser ad (link roundup)
Beer and pornography star in this extended Budweiser commercial.
And a few more links:
1. "Aether Kraken over Innsmouth Harbor." Via.
2. The griffon vs. dragon vs. squid vs. ship t-shirt I mentioned last month is now on sale at Threadless.
3. How to use ice cubes and Mentos to make an exploding cocktail.
4. By comparison, practical joke involving an axe.
*Previously: Prosecutor tries to argue Star Wars is pornography.
*Buy vintage pin-ups at eBay (link includes nudity).
Windows 7 desktop wallpaper (link roundup)
Anyone know who designed the colorful background being used in all the Windows 7 articles? You can download it and several more Windows 7 desktop wallpapers here. (Neither Bing, nor Google were particularly helpful helping me find the image or information, although a Google result started me on the path to finding the large-sized image.)
And a few more links:
1. Photos of funny and harmless office pranks.
2. "More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes." Photo link. Via.
3. Photos of people with mouths for eyes. Don't click through, they're pretty horrifying.
4. Funny t-shirt currently up for vote at Threadless - - Cannibal Tease.
*Previously: Office stuffed with plush rats.
*Buy shrunken heads at eBay.
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