Need Help w/Practical Joke

[JawjaBoy]

Practical jokes [harmless ones] are one of the most fun things about being a human bean ! Long live the "whoopee cushion!"

[doug hodder]

Here ya go Ira...use a large paperclip and you'll have to play around with it to see just much it can be wound so that it doesn't go off on it's own...slip it into an envelope...you might want to put a return address on the back that says something like Joes Rattlesnake Farm.....and write free samples inside...put it in so that the paperclip is on the most open side of the envelope...you're going to have to experiment with it...and remember, a lot of the joke is in presentation..it's stupid, immature, but that's me....Doug

[Micro469]

My daughter is 20 and still doesn't know how I sliced bananas befor they were peeled. And I won't tell her ever.

Let me guess.... stick a pin in the skin and wiggle it back and forth... Am I right? Huh? Huh?

[sjptak]

Stan, all I see are places to buy it.

Sorry. I think I'll buy a couple and send ya one. Doug's instructions are good and should work well. It's just that I kind of the envelope with the nice printing and the picure of the snake and.....

OK, I'll shut up now....

[Chip]

I do like the bird seed joke,,lmao,,,, that one will be used I am sure,,,,,,,, another I have heard of to keep folks up at night is to smear a spoon full of peanut butter on the underside of the trailer floor,,, it seems racoons love peanut butter and will eat it right off the bottom of a trailer,, plus making a lot of noise scraping off the last little bit,,,

All of this has me thinking about stuff we did way back when ,,, hmmmm I better get busy,,,,,,,,,

chipper

[halfdome, Danny]

I have been known to staple a cantaloupe rind under someones bench and then just wait a day or two for my mark to start swinging his arms at the gnat's. The only give away is my laughter . A yogurt cup works too. Danny

[rbeemer]

I can see it now......
At the next teardrop gathering nobody will be sleeping, everybody will be guarding their trailer to keep folks from bird-seeding it or using peanut butter

New rules at gatherings will be no peanut butter or birdseed allowed

[John6012]

I figured it out after reading your replies and Mad Jacks reference to a web site that sells these things for "gasp" $59.00! Build the box no problem but I couldn't figure out how the door pops open. Answer, go to HD and buy a couple of those old screen door hinges with the internal spring. Then mount it inside vs the outisde of the box. Use a scrren door hook or whatever to hold the door down. Unhook the door and it pops up and open and scares the bejeebers out of whoever is close. Neat! I'm bujilding two of these fince toys for the grandkids. Their parents will love me even more!

[doug hodder]

John....if you really want to get in good with the parents...give the kids a toy trumpet and a drum...they'll love ya!!!! Doug

[asianflava]

John....if you really want to get in good with the parents...give the kids a toy trumpet and a drum...they'll love ya!!!! Doug

For small kids I prefer the push along popcorn popper on a stick (pops wooden balls inside a plastic dome when rolled).

[John6012]

Harbor Freight has the Indian taxi horns -boy are they a blast! and they also have the megaphones that the kids can call our for P&B sandwiches! Pity the poor parents!

[dmb90260]

When I was in the military, someone came to my office with a box and as they slid the lid off the box "a furry animal jumped out" -actually, it was on a string and as I remember, there was some type of spring that flipped the animal out. Scared the whey out of everyone. This was a homemade box. I want to recreate this for my grandson and have him laugh. Does anyone out there have any idea whatsoever on how to rig this up? Thanks

Bob Ross who renovates old trailers in Romoland, CA has one and brings it to the trailer rallies he attends. He might send you some info if you ask.
His is a "Mongoose" box and still works well.
You can contact him using his wife's e-mail:
"Cindy Ross" <[email protected]>

(Bob has 15-30 trailers on or near his property with one or two in progress at all times.)

[John6012]

Thanks, I'll see if he'll send me some info. I did build two this AM, someone that replied to my original quiry said something about using a rat trap. I couldn't fiigure out how to do it but as I stayed awake last night thinking about it figured out that if you cut the rat trap in half it'd work. Tied part of a black sock to a string and it flips out as it should. I'll try it out on the grandson today and he can try it out on his mommy. Heh heh

[gyroguy]

A long time ago I remember reading research about how people expect their foods to be particular colors.

So I got blue food color and put just a couple drops in the bottom of my mother's coffee cup.

When she added the coffee, it looked okay until she put cream in it.

Hint: Do NOT use ink!