One just hit me while using the computer and having a Best Buy popup jump right in front of what I was fucking doing, requiring me to stop and close it to continue on;
The first version of this idea was to take say a bicycle box and copy the best buy popup onto it, put a red X up in the top right corner and walk into best buy and just start ranting about something or other, disrupting business just like they so rudely interrupted mine.
Unfortunately, that would likely result in the cops being called in fairly short order... besides, I just moved and don't know offhand where my bullhorn is.
Fortunately, a second version of the same practical joke/performance art/poetic justice might be even more effective;
No costume is required, just go and stick your face between best buy employees and whatever they're doing and say very loudly and rudely;
"HEY CAN YOU GUESS WHAT I AM? I'M A FUCKING POPUP! I'M HERE TO DEMAND THAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO ME NO MATTER WHAT ELSE YOU'D RATHER BE DOING!"
Unless you take this behavior to extremes (something that BM folk rarely do, right? heh heh...) , police intervention probably won't occur.
Maybe stick a red X on your head so you can keep what you're doing on a somewhat humorous level.
I can't wait for this bit of social engineering to catch on... the driest tinder would probably be in the kids' videogame section- now if only we could figure out how to do this to the executive fucktards who are the ones mainly responsible for this kind of crap...
Perhaps a class-action lawsuit against popup advertisers for stealing processing power, invading our computers, impeding our ability to do business, etc?
As I write this, popunders have stolen the focus from this window 5 (really irritating) times, requiring me to stop and click in this window again to continue.
This sort of thing is really fucking annoying, especially for someone like me that has a serious problem with distraction.
There's gotta be something illegal about that.
Back to the thread topic- what practical jokes have you thought of?
Joke ideas that will make people laugh, smile, or think...
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It wasn't really all that nice, but a guy I used to hang out with was an incessant talker about money. He lived with and took care of his wealthy grandmother and felt like the rest of the good-for-nothing family owed him something. He was a good guy, but all the carping about money got pretty tedious, and I decided that it was time to teach him a lesson.
So as I was working at the time as a temporary employee of a major pharmaceutical company, I had access to a lot of letterhead, and here's what I did: I wrote a fake letter to my friend asking that he get in touch with some division or other because it needed to know which class of shares he would like to have after an upcoming stock split. I think I wrote that he would have something on the order of 1,200 shares after the split -- worth a lot of money. I signed it Hugh G. Rection, I believe. Yeah, I know, juvenille.
Things got better. It was after business hours when my friend received the letter, but, excited by the substantial windfall it represented, went rummaging through his grandmother's papers and found a brokerage statement that she owned shares in this company. Figuring that she had transfered a portion to him and forgot to tell him, my friend was overjoyed.
In the morning, he called the phone number in the letter to ask for Mr. Rection. Instead, he got an employee of a Chinatown restaturant where they barely spoke English. I would have loved to see his face.
Eventually someone told him that I had been the one who wrote the letter. He did not think it was amusing in the least. Shut him up about money for a while, though.
I tried some other letterhead tricks, including one with a free K-Y Jelly offer, but the stock split gag was the best.
So as I was working at the time as a temporary employee of a major pharmaceutical company, I had access to a lot of letterhead, and here's what I did: I wrote a fake letter to my friend asking that he get in touch with some division or other because it needed to know which class of shares he would like to have after an upcoming stock split. I think I wrote that he would have something on the order of 1,200 shares after the split -- worth a lot of money. I signed it Hugh G. Rection, I believe. Yeah, I know, juvenille.
Things got better. It was after business hours when my friend received the letter, but, excited by the substantial windfall it represented, went rummaging through his grandmother's papers and found a brokerage statement that she owned shares in this company. Figuring that she had transfered a portion to him and forgot to tell him, my friend was overjoyed.
In the morning, he called the phone number in the letter to ask for Mr. Rection. Instead, he got an employee of a Chinatown restaturant where they barely spoke English. I would have loved to see his face.
Eventually someone told him that I had been the one who wrote the letter. He did not think it was amusing in the least. Shut him up about money for a while, though.
I tried some other letterhead tricks, including one with a free K-Y Jelly offer, but the stock split gag was the best.
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Great stuff
Great stuff, both of you. Here in Nevada there are legal brothels that I am sure the executives you are talking about have visited. Perhaps we can get Kristy Kreme to work it out with the janitor or there to arrange for a coitus interruptus pop-up ad in the middle of a sexual transaction with any of her guests that tell her they work for Best Buy.
P.S. Here is a link to Adaware, shareware program I use to keep the pop up and spyware reduced on my computer:
http://www.lavasoft.com/
P.S. Here is a link to Adaware, shareware program I use to keep the pop up and spyware reduced on my computer:
http://www.lavasoft.com/
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It's called Spyware...... I work in a computer repair shop, and we use two free programs to delete all the nasty stuff off your computer..... and it will definitely help with the pop-ups and everything else.
To get them, go to www.download.com The programs are Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware. Great programs to battle this nasty advertising stuff. I highly recommend them.
If you have any questions..... feel free to ask.
By the way.... I like you human pop-up idea.
To get them, go to www.download.com The programs are Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware. Great programs to battle this nasty advertising stuff. I highly recommend them.
If you have any questions..... feel free to ask.
By the way.... I like you human pop-up idea.
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I dig the Krispy Kreme idea, it kind of reminds me of the scene from the Cowboy Bebop movie where they're talking about a microbiologist who cooked up a nasty virus that could wipe out the planet if it got out of control-
Spike asks his friend to give "this" to the microbiologist if he sees him before Spike does, and then punches his friend, who is stunned at first, then smiles, understanding.
Or when Homer Simpson is talking to the advertising guy who proudly proclaims he's the inventor of the radio commercial with the two really annoying voices arguing, whereupon Homer immediately stands up and without missing a beat and without saying a word just cracks the guy square in the jaw. Who then calmly says; "Yeah, I get that a lot." (Thank you, Hank Azaria, for this and many more funny moments)
I think that if this were to happen in real life more often, we might live in a better world.
Why in the hell we tolerate the childishly stupid and immoral behavior that we do instead of just smacking the people who try and get us involved in multi-level marketing schemes, sell us useless crap, etc., etc., etc., baffles me.
Can you imagine an auditorium full of prospective multi-level marketer victims upon realizing the "incredible financial opportunity" they've been invited to learn about is MLM getting out of their seats and descending on the speaker to slap the crap out of him?
It makes me smile to think about it.
I actually had the opportunity to do this, I had called after seeing an ad in the paper, and GRILLED the guy I talked to for 45 minutes because it sounded suspiciously like MLM, and he ASSURED me, no, this is not MLM, it's a real sales position.
I even brought a resume with me, that's how misleading this frigging clown was.
As they launched into their shpiel, which practically word for word echoed many of the MLM presentations I'd heard before (my aunt gets sucked into them on a pretty regular basis and tries to drag me in too...);
"I didn't have enough time to spend with my family..."
"I was downsized after X-ty years with my company..."
"I wanted to do something to help people which also had great earning potential..."
I got madder and madder, these fucktards had burned hours out of my life, caused me to drive into and find parking in helLA,
(more than sufficient justification in my eyes to whip out my ding-dong and just start pissing on their nice big conference table)
so as I saw that the time I had on my parking meter was expiring, I interrupted the speaker and basically told them that I've been to a bunch of these MLM presentations, and couldn't really see that this one was any different, so could I please have my free sample
(their brilliant marketing plan was to give away a $35 pack of vitamins and diet supplements which were so fucking fabulous and would impress people so much that they would immediately fork over ten times what they would have to pay in a vitamin store for the same products)
so that I could make up my mind later.
(since they stated that this was all that was necessary to get people to order from you, so how could they not give me one, right?)
The speaker's beady little pig eyes clouded as he ransacked his brain to think of a reason they couldn't or wouldn't give me one, but he was trapped, cornered and he knew it.
He tried to continue on with his presentation, but I went up to the front of the room and stood next to him so he couldn't, and continued to verbally smack him in the face with my dick by reiterating that my parking meter was expiring and so I had to go, so could I please have my free sample?
The guy whose cousin dragged him to this stupid meeting (he'd been to MLM pitches before) had a big wide shit-eating grin on his face, and was now jumping in with his own pointed and sarcastic questions like why their products cost so much and why the initial buy-in was $5000 (!!! - yes, really. And the guy that I fucking grilled had of course assured me that this was a real job, and required NO outlay of cash on my part) , etc.
They finally gave me the sample to get me the hell out of there. I had to feel sorry for the guy who had already bought their stuff and was sitting there with the truth of his situation slowly dawning on him that he'd been had.
I know your initial reaction to my suggestion that punching people was probably to think that it's not a rational action, but I don't know- I think there's potential in this non-verbal negative reinforcement to improve the world...
Spike asks his friend to give "this" to the microbiologist if he sees him before Spike does, and then punches his friend, who is stunned at first, then smiles, understanding.
Or when Homer Simpson is talking to the advertising guy who proudly proclaims he's the inventor of the radio commercial with the two really annoying voices arguing, whereupon Homer immediately stands up and without missing a beat and without saying a word just cracks the guy square in the jaw. Who then calmly says; "Yeah, I get that a lot." (Thank you, Hank Azaria, for this and many more funny moments)
I think that if this were to happen in real life more often, we might live in a better world.
Why in the hell we tolerate the childishly stupid and immoral behavior that we do instead of just smacking the people who try and get us involved in multi-level marketing schemes, sell us useless crap, etc., etc., etc., baffles me.
Can you imagine an auditorium full of prospective multi-level marketer victims upon realizing the "incredible financial opportunity" they've been invited to learn about is MLM getting out of their seats and descending on the speaker to slap the crap out of him?
It makes me smile to think about it.
I actually had the opportunity to do this, I had called after seeing an ad in the paper, and GRILLED the guy I talked to for 45 minutes because it sounded suspiciously like MLM, and he ASSURED me, no, this is not MLM, it's a real sales position.
I even brought a resume with me, that's how misleading this frigging clown was.
As they launched into their shpiel, which practically word for word echoed many of the MLM presentations I'd heard before (my aunt gets sucked into them on a pretty regular basis and tries to drag me in too...);
"I didn't have enough time to spend with my family..."
"I was downsized after X-ty years with my company..."
"I wanted to do something to help people which also had great earning potential..."
I got madder and madder, these fucktards had burned hours out of my life, caused me to drive into and find parking in helLA,
(more than sufficient justification in my eyes to whip out my ding-dong and just start pissing on their nice big conference table)
so as I saw that the time I had on my parking meter was expiring, I interrupted the speaker and basically told them that I've been to a bunch of these MLM presentations, and couldn't really see that this one was any different, so could I please have my free sample
(their brilliant marketing plan was to give away a $35 pack of vitamins and diet supplements which were so fucking fabulous and would impress people so much that they would immediately fork over ten times what they would have to pay in a vitamin store for the same products)
so that I could make up my mind later.
(since they stated that this was all that was necessary to get people to order from you, so how could they not give me one, right?)
The speaker's beady little pig eyes clouded as he ransacked his brain to think of a reason they couldn't or wouldn't give me one, but he was trapped, cornered and he knew it.
He tried to continue on with his presentation, but I went up to the front of the room and stood next to him so he couldn't, and continued to verbally smack him in the face with my dick by reiterating that my parking meter was expiring and so I had to go, so could I please have my free sample?
The guy whose cousin dragged him to this stupid meeting (he'd been to MLM pitches before) had a big wide shit-eating grin on his face, and was now jumping in with his own pointed and sarcastic questions like why their products cost so much and why the initial buy-in was $5000 (!!! - yes, really. And the guy that I fucking grilled had of course assured me that this was a real job, and required NO outlay of cash on my part) , etc.
They finally gave me the sample to get me the hell out of there. I had to feel sorry for the guy who had already bought their stuff and was sitting there with the truth of his situation slowly dawning on him that he'd been had.
I know your initial reaction to my suggestion that punching people was probably to think that it's not a rational action, but I don't know- I think there's potential in this non-verbal negative reinforcement to improve the world...
Re: Joke ideas that will make people laugh, smile, or think.
Another drawback of dressing in a pop-up costume occurred to me- you might get the crap kicked out of you pretty much wherever you went, like those 3 kids who pummelled the dude dressed in a Barney costume...Force wrote:The first version of this idea was to take say a bicycle box and copy the best buy popup onto it, put a red X up in the top right corner and walk into best buy and just start ranting about something or other, disrupting business just like they so rudely interrupted mine.
And who can blame them really?
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Re: Great stuff
Now That's funny!!!Mister Jellyfish Mister wrote:Great stuff, both of you. Here in Nevada there are legal brothels that I am sure the executives you are talking about have visited. Perhaps we can get Kristy Kreme to work it out with the janitor or there to arrange for a coitus interruptus pop-up ad in the middle of a sexual transaction with any of her guests that tell her they work for Best Buy.
P.S. Here is a link to Adaware, shareware program I use to keep the pop up and spyware reduced on my computer:
http://www.lavasoft.com/
Hey I'm coming to Reno for 5 days starting Sunday December 12 maybe we can meet for lunch or something.
Kisses, Kristy Kreme
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Thanks, Kristy. Just got to your post today so I'm sorry I missed you for lunch. How was the powder up on the hill?
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I once played a joke on my fiancee Gerry when we lived in Utah. It was April Fool's Day. I was working in Youth Corrections. One of the gals who I worked there with was pregnant, so I bought an pregnancy test kit and had her pee on the stick. Obviously it came out positive. When I got home I placed it on the back of the toilet.
The look on Gerry's face when he discovered it was fucking priceless.
The look on Gerry's face when he discovered it was fucking priceless.
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Let's see how many get this one...
Naked woman walks into a bar with a parrot on her shoulder.
Parrot says, "You didn't see it either, huh?"
Parrot says, "You didn't see it either, huh?"
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