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Office prank! Or lack thereof

As you may know, I quite enjoy the nice office prank now and then.  Well, you may not know, since I just quickly took a gander in my archives and it looks like I never wrote about any of the office pranks that I’ve done.  Oh well.  They mostly involved FSB and his coffee mug.  I was a big fan of his coffee mug.  It looked like this:

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It’s big, heavy, holds a great deal of coffee, and I just really liked his mug.  It was the perfect target for pranks.

But…that was then, when I still worked at Company.  I work with THEM now and I really don’t see too many of my fellow THEM employees or know them well enough to play pranks on them.  If I were to do a prank though, I think I’d really like to do something like this:

airhornI would, of course, have to find the perfect target for a prank of such caliber…but it would be SO. FUNNY.  And annoying.  And may cause me harm as the prankee becomes so incredibly angry with me.  But it would still be SO. FUNNY.

Btw, I found this prank via this list of pranks.  The one with the cups would be so mean…

On planking

Recently, for some reason, I was looking up images and stories on planking.  You know, that strange fad that people participate in.  Where you lie face down with your arms by your side.

In strange public places.  The weirder the better.  Even to the point where parts of your body are suspended.

You know.  Planking.

Anyway, of course I decided to read up on what wikipedia had to say about planking and I found out that planking isn’t known as “planking” everywhere.  Now, “planking” isn’t the most elegant name ever, but it works.  It’s fairly descriptive.  I guess it could be mistaken for the exercise.

But you kind of get a mental image of a plank, right?

Well apparently, in parts of the US, planking is known as “facedowns”?  I don’t think that’s as good of a name.  Or how about in South Korea, where it’s known as “playing dead.”  Well, I guess.  But you can die in all sorts of other ways than in plank form.  Actually, the likelihood of you dying and landing in plank form is pretty slim.  How about in Australia, where planking is known as “extreme lying down.”  That has got to the be the funniest name I’ve heard for planking.

Excuse me.  I’m going lie down…extremely…over there.

Hahahahaha.

Also, did you know that planking is also apparently known as the “lying down game”?  That’s the weakest name ever.

Hahahaha…extreme lying down.  Hahahahaha.

Yes, I find it very funny.