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Practical jokes do not always go well. Sometimes the most innocent jokes have the most tragic consequences. 8 Innocent Office Pranks That Went Horribly Wrong web page shows you eight videos of office pranks that did not work as expected.

The Creepiest Thing You Can Do To a Building web page shows you very many pictures how adding a little bit of graffiti or other props to building air ducts can make them look very creepy. This page will give very good ideas for practical jokes.

Pac-Man is universally considered as one of the biggest classics of video game industry. Pac-Man is an icon of 1980s popular culture. Pac-Man is often credited with being a landmark in video game history, and is among the most famous arcade games of all time. PacMan In Real Life is a funny video of Pac-Man game emulated with people wearing game character costumes.

Cracked LCD Screen Prank is a funny video on one funny practical joke. This guy installs a desktop background of a cracked LCD screen and detaches the mouse and keyboard. When his roommate gets home he thinks his computer monitor is busted and flips out. The video can be found in Internet in several locations including Youtube, Break and Leenks.

If you want to do this yourself, the video includes the needed instructions how to do that.  To do the trick you can find the needed image using Google search or download it directly from fontblog. All you have to do is open the cracked screen image in Microsoft Picture and Fax Viewer then hit F11 and the cracked LCD screen image will appear in full screen mode looking like your friend’s LCD screen is cracked.

Time magazine on-line pages are running a series of photographs on funny office practical jokes inspired by The Office TV series. NBC has invited its viewers to submit photos of their own workplaces to the show’s website.
Viewers Having Fun at The Office on-line article contains 18 best pictures.

Today everybody has a network connection in the office. And the majority of people are quite heavily dependent on their connections during the day. In other words if their connection is down they get quite frustrated quite fast.

My colleague was one of these people and he got very upset very fast. I always dreamt of situation were my network connection was working and his was not. So… One day when he had already left the office I took the cable from his docking station and gently cut the cable vertically with a razor and chopped the green wire. Be sure to cut the cable from a spot that is under the table or otherwise out of sight. Then I put just two drops of instant clue to the inside of the covering and gently closed the covering.

The next day he spent half a day cursing his connection and calling to the help-desk. One might automatically thought that the rational thing is to check the cable, but who would assume that the cable just breaks down by itself one day… Well I had quite an amusing morning listening his cursing and swearing the it-department… After a couple hours he finally checked the cable in enough detail to discover the cut =)

I was recently subjected to a practical joke that nearly made me lose my nerves. Me and my dear colleague shared a common workroom in which we worked. One day he had a nice idea and he brought a remotely controllable socket and connected my display to it.

When ever he was in the room he cut off the power once in every hour. Then when he left for a couple of days’ trip, he gave remote control to our assistant, who was in the next room, and told her to do the same. This continued for two weeks, before I found the remotely controllable socket under my table…

I have to say that before the joke was unravelled, I nearly lost my nerves a couple of times. One day I even left work at 1200 because I was so furious because my display kept on shutting down every 15 minutes. If you have a colleague that will appreciate the joke it’s worthwhile to test it =)

In many offices they have some PC- and IT-magazines delivered to the coffee room. If you know that your colleague is interested in some specific magazine, wait for the next issue, and do the following…

Use the stapler to staple all the sheets of the magazine together and then write a post-it as follows: “John, really interested article in page 6. Reg Mike” and place it on the cover page on the top of the rivet and leave the magazine to your colleagues chair…