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This can be very fun for those who are not good typists. And use caution with this one, to not ruin the keyboard. Carefully, and I mean very carefully remove a few keys off the keyboard and switch them around. Very effective for those victims that are "look at the keyboard" typers. Your victim will be very confused and easily might run-away screaming.

Howie,
San Francisco, CA

The Office is Full

This is intended for one who has an office door with a glass window. Find a box slightly bigger than the window, or a really large sheet of plastic, paper, whatever it takes to cover the window allowing for slack to fill. You'll see why.... cut off one end and tape it to the door around the window (with the open end at the top). Fill the box or paper container with empty cans, balloons, packing peanuts, or other item of your choice. When your victim looks thru the window it will look like the entire office is full of this stuff! For an extra added effect, put a chair or something heavy behind the door to make it hard to open.

Invisible Ink, or Lead

Here's a good one...
Take all the pencils and pens and put a dab of clear fingernail polish on the ends. When an unsuspecting victim goes to use the pencil, viola - nothing. you can go back and resharpen the pencils or dip the pen tip in fingernail polish remover when the gig is up, or nobody is looking.

Sue
Bellevue, WA

Lefty Mouse

I found this to be hilarious when i broke my right arm, go to the control panel, and select "Mouse". Change the pointers to an hour-glass, and reverse from right to left handed orientations, and while you are there slow the speeds. This guarantees some confusion and is easily modified

Simple fun with cell phone

Need to have access to your victim’s cell phone when they aren’t looking. Simply change the language setting to a foreign language - when they return watch and laugh as they struggle to translate the setting instructions on their phone. This trick is good on the computer as well... hint, hint.

Bob,
Boise ID

Auto-Correct

We all use and love auto-correct when typing documents, school papers, emails and alike and know how it makes us look super smart and type really fast. Well, I played a good one one of my boss at work while, knowing she had a project to finish later that day...thank goodness we are friends.

In Word, go to "Tools" and then "Auto Correct." (office 08 - word options, proofing, auto correct options) and will see the entire list of commonly mistyped words next to the correct spelling. Here, you can edit to how you want it spelled. I changed the spelling of their name from "Roberta" to "Robert" and changed the company name to one of our competitors. Then i added extra letters or reverse the spelling on other common industry specific words.

But be methodical to note all of the ones that you changed so you can change it back later! I learned the hard way - it took several days to fix it. However, it is hilarious to watch them. They'll swear that something evil has corrupted their computer.

Sally
Dallas, TX

Swap the cords

This might be considered mean, but funny none the less. If two computers are close to each other, switch the cords on the monitors. Watch your co-workers faces when they come back from lunch and see their cubie neighbor's desktop

Larry, the cable guy
NYC

Swap the coffee!

A classic that still gets folks in the tither - swap the caffeinated coffee to decaf and the decaf to caffeinated. Lets this go for about a week and once people are over their caffeine withdrawals, swap back but use super rich, high in caffeine coffee brand.

Ex-Barrista, with an attitude
Seattle, WA

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