Practical Jokes

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These are computer-related practical jokes played by an old acquaintence years ago at a nameless university in Northern California.
He wisened up and stopped playing them when the various admini...
Propose to the victim a co-ordination test, and tell him that it has been taken by the brightest people around you (quote some scores!
). You sit in front of the victim and put your palm...
1. This one happened impromptu. A group of us were novice UNIX hacks working for our department of computer science, all on similar terminals.
I had written a small program that would tra...
on the subject of practical jokes on the computer, i pulled the following one.
when i was in college at new mexico tech (located in socorro, which is spanish for help!...
Another practical joke under the guise of a co-ordination test is the following.
Ask your victim to take a quarter and place it on a piece of paper....
This is true. It seems that a colleague and myself are scheduled to present a paper next month at an AI conference.
We've never heard of the conference nor did we write a paper. Also, just toda...
A computer related practical joke a played in my younger days (2 years ago.
..) was to write an unstoppable program (disabled break, ^C, etc....
Back in the good old college days, when pulling all-nighters (sure, you must have done some of those before!
), at about 2 or 3am, try calling someone to "remind" them to go to the bathroom (or do so...
When I was out at Union College in Schenectady N.Y, we had a great college radio station that would give away pizzas, movie passes, clothes, etc.
for answering trivia questions throughout the day....
DEC 20 practical jokes were rampant at an undergraduate computer center I once frequented.

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