Comments on: 6 College Pranks (We Wish We Had Thought of)

By: Galvo

Galvo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:30:36 +0000

Greasing the rails. Why didn’t Snidley Whiplash think of that!

(Seriously, there are so many ways that could have ended tragically!)

By: Dick Kimball

Dick Kimball — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:12:02 +0000

You missed a great one where MIT students planted a weather balloon under the turf at Harvard Stadium. It inflated with helium by remote control during “The Game” (Harvard vs. Yale, played at Harvard in odd-numbered years) rising from the field to display a large banner lettered “MIT.” This was at least 20 years ago, I don’t have the specific year.

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:42:17 +0000

A note on the Statue of Liberty prank: the statue was recreated this past winter on the Madison campus. I’m not sure who did it, but it puzzled a lot of people.

By: That Jeff

That Jeff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:57:49 +0000

John Green’s prank might have been funny had someone else tell it. Wow, he couldn’t tell a funny a story if he tried. I basically half listened to his ramblings while I read the rest.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:29:27 +0000

I went to conservative college that had men’s dorms on one side of campus, and women’s on the other. The men had to walk up a hill past a tennis court to get to the cafeteria.

We girls found a dead raccoon on the side of the road, collected it, took it back to school, stored it for a few days, then when it was particularly rank smelling we got it out, dressed it up, and set it up in a beach scene on the side of the tennis court.

We got up extra early the next morning and watched all the guys have to walk past it on the way to breakfast.
Needless to say, they weren’t happy about it. It smelled awful, and the Dean was pissed. No one ever found out it was us though. My good friends still talks about how mad he was, and he had to clean it up. I didn’t have the heart to tell him I was involved.

Good times, smelly, but good..

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:20:01 +0000

I remember Bonsaikitten from the beginning and loved it from the moment I saw it. Genius, and pooh pooh on those who are still mad 9 years after they’ve known it was a hoax. As a cat owner, I admit squishing my cat’s face in my hands, piling stuff on top of him (stuffonmycat.com, anyone?), flattening his ears, etc, all for a giggle, and all whilst he happily and obliviously purrs.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:12:09 +0000

That wasn’t a broadcast about invaders from mars. It was a radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. People didn’t realize it was an oral reading of the book, thought it was real, and totally freaked out. Not a prank – just a stupid move.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:24:36 +0000

the greatest prank of all time in my opinion was this broadcast about invaders from mars. Apparently back in the day people were very gullible and the report scared practically almost every citizens of the united states. The report just happened to a play on the radio and yet it freaked out so many gullible people.The time of when this prank happened, I don’t know.

By: Jesi

Jesi — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:57:12 +0000

there are more collage hoaxes and in greater detail on the museum of hoaxes webesite

By: David McPheeters

David McPheeters — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:34:03 +0000

I joined a fraternity at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1978. During our initiation, pledges were each required to carry a certain number of condoms with them and produce them on demand if asked.

A buddy and I went to a local pharmacy to get them for all of the pledges (they were kept behind the counter back then). When I asked the pharmacist for six dozen condoms, his first response was to ask “can I come with” ?