Practical Jokes

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Gather a bunch of freshmen together at a party, telling them the punch is spiked.
Observe for about half an hour while some of them get high on the sugar....
Way back when, like before electric lights were invented, I worked in an engineering department where the general-use computer was an IBM 1130.
This was a standalone computer of roughly PDP-11/34 po...
All this talk about practical jokes reminds me of one I heard about in high school.
At my high school (many years ago) over a dozen Polymorphic 88 S-100 computers were used to teach computer lit in the math department.
Now I was the curious type and I took to reading the suppleme...
One that's good for a few chuckles with a new user is, while they're away >from the terminal put a few cute aliases in their .
profile, .login, whatever, for example: alias ls echo 'ls: comma...
A simpler variation was played on me when I was but a mere first-year at U of Toronto.
One day, I was logged in at a terminal and I left for a few minutes to go collect output from the printer....
This is one that a friend of a friend of mine did to his mom.
This kid was going somewhere with his mom in the car....
Put a couple of cc's of methylene blue in a coke/coffee/dark colored drink.
The next time the person has to use the restroom, surprise!!! blue urine....
A friend of mine, "BUX", recounts a tale of mirth caused to by two bored hackers on a PDP/11 running RSTS/E.
They wrote a program which wandered around the system looking for people in the editor....

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