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First buy lots of paper cups (it’s important to get paper, not plastic or foam, you’ll see why in a minute).
And I mean lots. Dozens and dozens.
Arrange them over every possible inch of space on the victim’s desk.
Then staple them all together as close to the rim as you can, each cup to the ones on each side, so they are all attached. (This is why you need paper cups, foam or plastic split or disintegrate.) Wherever one cup touches another at the rim, staple.
Next, fill each cup as full as you can possible get it – surface tension full – with water.
Finally, retire to a safe distance, wait, watch and enjoy.
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@James
“I can’t believe someone would waste time posting this shit and the webspace to host it! Crap! I can’t believe I’m wasting time replying to this shit because so many assholes will just discount what I’m saying anyway. Some dipshits just NEVER learn to grow up.”
If this post was so worthless to you, why bother posting a comment? Do you actually think we collectively care what you have to say about it? You’d be better off pissing into the wind.
Your logic is infallible.
Now go back to your life and stop wasting server resources with your toothless chastisements.
It might also help if you got a life and a sense of humor while you were at it.
Geezus.
Mildly amusing at best, a loss of employment at worst.
Those of you who are jumping all over those who are down on the prank have never actually worked in an office, have you?
You can have fun at your job, and you can have fun with the people at your job. But it would be a very, very rare job where you could get away with risking company equipment and (visibly) wasting significant hours without equally significant repercussions.
The best pranks are subtle and have minimal effects beyond amusement. This fails on both counts.
On Bended knee I ask for your handy Becky, to bad they didn’t have a pouty face emotion
nice quote. And for some of the people who got worked up over this, relax! You’re going to blow an O-ring. Thank you for sharing your opinion on what you think of this awesome prank, but you know the saying, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they both stink. Quit slamming a guy for finding something and sharing it with the rest of us, if you don’t like it or if it’s to “Extreem” for you then fine don’t look. You don’t have to be the internet police. Go play in traffic. Ok I’m done. Thanks for the prank idea, I wish I worked in a place that wasn’t so uptight. We used to take off the keyboard keys and move them around for people who have to look to type cause theyd don’t really notice they’ve messed up till they’ve typed a paragraph or three 
you could buy a bean bag chair and use the tiny beads inside to fill the cups. That would avoid the possible water damage but still make it hard to clean up. I bet you would be finding beads months later,
Rather than water, how about Jello?
We did something like this when I was in high school. Only, we took all the garbage bins from around the school (the big ones outside, not the little ones they keep in class rooms), put them all in the principal’s office (on the floor mostly, but there were a couple on the desk and one on her chair) and we filled them all up with a garden hose. It took like ten hours of pumping to get all the cans emptied enough to drag them out. It was… Awesome.
Am I right or wrong. The following is the best way to deconstruct this prank. First a roll of paper towels, lay down the squares three layers thick , to wick the water below the staple line. Next a package of flexy bendable straws taped to hold a u-shape then you cut the long end of the straw cut at a slight angle so it reaches the bottom of the cup in its u-shape. Next you lowers a straw into a bucket of water so that it fills and the air is out of it. Then you place your finger over an opening to keep the air out and place this straw into two cups one end in each cup. You repeat this step until every cup has one end of a water filled u-shaped straw in it. Next you use the same type water filled straw to with the long end uncut below the level of the desk you can suck on this st aw to start the gravity drainage into a pair of large water tight containers. A pair is necessary so you can switch one out for the other. The water level should equalize for all the cups as the prank drains until air reaches the straw opening. The remaining water would best be absorbed with a paper towel pushed into each cup. Toss the whole prank into wide mouth garbage can.
Ah, some of you are taking this way too seriously. Sure, probably wouldn’t advise actually doing it, but the concept is pretty hilarious.
Nice prank if you can pull it off, but still not as funny in my mind as filling a co-workers desktop with folders called ‘Ballbag’ Or drawing a large phallus on his notebook in a white crayon so he doesn’t notice until it’s at just the right angle…
I’d just put my work on top of the cups and drink the water all day through a straw. Then after hours I’d get a mate to help me slide some thin wood under the cups and transfer it to the pranksters desk, except by the next day the cups will be starting to get soggy hahahaha
It would be harder to clean up if you only stapled together a few rows of the cups on the outside, so that if they brought in a shop vac, it would suck the cups up and spill all over the place. Unless they noticed that the center cups weren’t stapled together and just picked them up, but when they stick their fingers in the cups, water would spill anyway.
If you do that, you’ve probably performed a lot less severe “pranks” on the victim before, and I’d expect you to whine like a little bitch when you get fired for workplace bullying after you’ve been found out. In the victim’s position, call someone to clean this up, make clear to your superior that any work left unfinished is not your fault and don’t do unpaid overtime to catch up.
Why the sexism, assholes? “worried about spraining your vagina?”
Screw you.
That’s a lot of water, why not just plant a tree?
This just isn’t funny. Any prank that can cause damage (water + wooden furniture + electronics + power outlets) is not funny- it is, in fact, dangerous.
All you need to do is look at the MIT Hacks. They have a code when it comes to their pranks and this idiocy would violate it.
We’ve pulled off some pranks at my current job which were funny, took time (and thus were done on our own time), and which caused no damage.
Try:
Individually wrapping every item in the victims office like they were presents. Mouse, keyboard, pen, pencil, desk, chair, monitor, everything. Bows on certain packages is a nice touch. It takes a while, but no damage, and the end result is priceless.
Or:
Take spare VOIP phones and hide them all over the office- in the ceiling, in desk drawers, in their refrigerator if they have one, etc. Then set up an extension that dials all of them at the same time a la lawnmower man. Wait til they are on their lunch break and have fun. Or call them individually and drive them nuts for a few minutes.
Or:
Build a little box that can take a video signal and invert it on command or that recreates a vertical hold problem and causes the images to slide up and down. The effect is especially funny on an LCD and causes no damage.
Why not get a five gallon bucket and a hose to siphon all the water???
My office is so dry that I’d just let the cups sit and let the water evaporate for a natural humidifier.
Two words . . . SHOP VAC.
Office pranks are healthy, and keep things interesting provided they aren’t mean-spirited or targeted at a particular person.
As for the person earlier that mentioned that if this stunt was pulled in their office, someone would be fired; quit. That place is no place to work. That’s a job, not a career.
um, just clear away the stuff that can’t get wet, like paper and computer, and then just let the water go where it may. Wipe the desk down, return to work. Total cleanup time: like 10-15 minutes. It probably takes much longer than that to fill up all the cups and staple them.
Its kinda funny – but for school really.
When are these things actually funny??
When you’re 13 years old
Photoshopped.
If the person you are pulling the prank on is not smart enough to move the electrical equipment before trying removing over filled cups of water, then can’t say they don’t deserve it. . .
Wouldn’t the water leak through all the holes where you stapled them together. Plus, you’d have to be really stupid not to notice what you’d done.
P.S. all that water next to computer… not good.
Ya don’t want to be in a murder enquiry
I don’t think any of these solutions would work. Shop vac is impractical because of availability and too violent of suction would spill adjoining cups, jello or styrofoam pellets from bean bag chairs? adding anything at the tension line would cause a spill)
However a simple tube and bucket to syphon the cups and a mallet to beat the prankster should work.
Why is this the best?
COME ON, you did not even make it multi-level. We need to see this prank go UP!
IMHO I say you scotch tape the rims then fill to rim. I wanna see him try to separate them when they are just taped.
I saw this this morning (via Digg), and my boss just happened to be out of the office for half the day. Needless to say, we scurried out, bought the cups, and set it up. It was awesome, especially since his boss (the president of our company) was rooting us on. He’s going to put up a writeup and pictures on our website in the “company culture” section.
Thank God I don’t work with some of the commenters here — our work environment here is awesome.
I’d fire anyone who said “moronic” in my office.
You guys sound worse than my grandmother with the “please don’t do this prank” crap.
I would staple all you moronic pickle heads together and fill you up with water and fire you for being so opposed to such a magnificent office prank.
I did not read all of the comments, but did anyone mention lowering the temp of the office to >32.0 and just removing the frozen cups?
OR, heating to well over 100 and enjoy a nice steam, then afterwards, toss the empty cups.
This is where you create your own mega straw, connecting to every single cup, and sip on the master straw leisurely until all the cups are empty
In my office, pranks like this are rewarded with an immediate termination. You are here to work, not play like kindergarten. Pranksters find themselves in the unemployment line, and thus far, I’ve never lost an unemployment case; so you’re in double trouble, ie no money coming in. We’re in a recession, good luck finding a new job.
YA TO THE SHOP VAC GENIUS- A shop vac would pick up not only the water, but the cups too which, if I remember correctly were stapled to their neighbors. (domino effect?)
AND TO THE STIFFS WHO SAY “TERMINATION!” GET A LIFE, NOONE WANTS TO WORK FOR YOUR OLD STUFFY ASS ANYWAY.
The great things about pranks in an office is that more often the victim will see the funny side too, even if they’re bummed. This prank is not one of those, this is actually just borderline office bullying. It’s like the kid at school who throws rocks directly at other kids heads then claims he was just “fooling around” with them. I agree with the people who say this prank is also kind of stretching tolerance at a workplace – I work in a really cool office where all sorts of antics like this go on – but at the end of the day, it is a place of business. The guy here who said “a good manager knows to let their staff have a bit of fun to increase productivity” is obviously twelve and knows fuck squat about management. What he says is true, but a good manager also knows that there is a line – and this would cross it. Why? Because the HOURS required to clean up this prank would result in LOST productivity.
And yes, where I work you would most definitely get fired for this. You’d be out on the street within half an hour. No bullshit. If, on the other hand, you wrapped someone’s desk in tinfoil, management might have a bit of a laugh with you, they might scold you but you certainly wouldn’t get fired.
There’s a line, and “frat boy” (what this prank is) crosses it.
Ignoring the fact that the staple holes would leak, there is an easy solution to this.
Get a bucket and a knife (knife from the office kitchen and bucket from the janitors closet). Push all of the cups towards the edge of the desk until the outer layer is hanging 1/3 off the desk. Put the bucket under the cup and poke a hole in the bottom of with the knife it drain out the water, and continue to the next cup. It shouldn’t take long and would actually be a lot quicker and quieter than using a wet vacuum.
Of course the prank is impossible anyway, the water would leak out of the staple hole level and the rest of the water would corrode the paper cups through the torn staple holes.
“if someone did that at my office, they would no longer have a job. There are jokes, and the then there is going beyond jokes and potentially ruining either office equipment, documents, personal belongings. Bottomline – this one is not funny or “best” office prank. Stick to the foil or foam peanuts.
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Glad I dont work it your office. A happy fun office is a good office, any joke goes, as long as you are not hurting anyone…
this is funny, sbaldovinos is just old and unfun.
I have an easier way to deal with the prank. Most offices have incredibly dry air. Go work in an empty office for a day or two and the water will be gone from evaporation.
Speaking as someone who works in a giant cubicle city and has had the entire contents of mine wrapped in bubble wrap…any prank that doesnt kill anybody or wreck company equipment is great…plus these pranks are always pulled on someone that actually has a sense of humor…never on the stick-in-the-mud type jerkoff that never says a word to anyone…so I echo the poster who said…”Lighten up Francis”
Stop trying to find fault in the setup or suggest a cleanup…i.e. it will leak where the staples are and wreck the floorboards and gee whiz electricity and water arent friends and my boss is a dick and would fire me and wah wah wah shopvac this and paper towels that and poke a hole here or there…wow you guys are so far off base I cant imagine why anyone would want to work in the same time zone as you due to your sparkling lack of personality…(btw the staples are at the very top of the cups…you know…where the cups actually touch…so leakage is not an issue and MIT is not looking at you as a potential student or professor
Finally I would like to commend all future commenters who either agree or disagree with me…let me tell you all that I dont give a f#@k what you think and your own opinion would never sway me anyway…I only wrote this because I am in my cubicle…bored to tears…making 2.5 times my wage to work on Good Friday doing nothing and I go home in less than 5 minutes…you can all theoretically kiss my ass and go back to being the same banal, boring, useless idiots like the ones I am forced to put up with all day at my job…Buh-Bye
Carl…..Greatest Comment Ever.
I just don’t see how that’s funny.
Wait, according to several posters here, all I have to do to get fired is THIS?
Why didn’t I think of it sooner? Severance, here I come!
Practical jokes are probably the lowest form of humor, relying as they do on the aggravation, embarrassment, and/or occasional actual harm to the person “pranked”. There is a very thin line between a “joke” and harassment when undertaken in a work environment, and which side of that line this falls on likely depends on the temperament of the victim and their likelihood to sue the company.
And as for the vapid argument that people who would fire someone for this sort of behavior are “stuffy”, the last time I checked businesses exist for the purpose of making money. Dealing with personnel issues arising from juvenile behavior doesn’t make the company one thin dime, and in fact costs them money. This sort of thing leads to “termination with cause” in most any jurisdiction, which means no severance, no unemployment, and generally not a leg to stand on.
I don’t think that I, or others who are or have been in management, am “stuffy” or humorless if I fire an employee for costing the company money and productivity. Employees should be encouraged to enjoy themselves on the job, so long as their job performance, or that of others, does not suffer.
I agree with the people that think this prank isn’t funny.
1. It’s pointless
2. A point of a prank to to annoy someone, not damage their property or potentially cause them harm
3. Someone ELSE shouldn’t get in trouble due to one of your pranks, which I could see happening in this case.
Normally, I’m all for pranks…but, this one isn’t that funny.
Well, maybe “I can’t believe an idiot would do such a thing” funny, but not “Ha Ha” funny.
Can’t all y’all getting your panties in a wad at least think its amusing in CONCEPT if not in execution? Or are you so caught up in being a boring working stiff you’ve killed your sense of humor outright?
*shakes head*
I reckon a few of you hardliners aren’t exactly popular fellows at your offices for treating everyone else like crap.
@sba1dovinos
First off, why use my name and replace it with a 1? I hope you come back to read this to realize how dumb that was.
A) I’m 25, so there’s your “old” for you.
B) My office is great, full of young, innovated web designers and developers, like myself.
C) Like i mentioned before, there are pranks and then there is the potential to do the harm which you mentioned.
Though it may not be physical harm, there is potentially harmful consequences to your personal items, documents and office equipment.
@ All – if this makes me “stiff” like Rusty Time says I am, then so be it. I’ll just have to remember that the vast majority of users on the net are not mature and professional.
Haha omg I can’t believe how far this topic has gone with all these flamers over a stupid office prank xD
God I love the internet. Just sitting back and watching the flames is one of the best parts. I agree that this prank would cause damage and that it’s a.. what idiot would do this funny, but I think personal choice to be stupid is good for us. ^^ I mean.. watching some idiot get fired is funny, right? And plus the bad worker would be fired. xD So anyways, the jello thing was pretty funny, I’mma go get some now. xD
Let the flames grow! Ahaha!! xD
In fairness the joke is pure hilarity but probably best to do in a friends house when their parents are away.
An easy solution to “Damage” would be to put a note over empty cups saying: “Could you imagine if I filled these with water?”
Anyway I personaly think the prank is very funny and besides no-one is telling you to do it to anyone it’s there to make you laugh and if you can’t do that then go suck another lemon!!
My company has so little business these days that we now resort to tricks like this in the office. I guess if we had better prices or decent machinists we might have more business, but, that’s OK. I have mine.
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