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Tick, tick, tick goes the clock’s second hand.
We’ve all been there, stuck at work willing the seconds to pass until it is time to go home. Consider this your Wake Up Call from Monster.com and Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone from the Office). Check it out.
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I hope you didn’t have your speakers up too loud! Can you imagine, innocently sitting down at your desk on a normal work day and – HONK!!!! What a bunch of pranksters.
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Giveaway
Are you a prankster? Do you have any good ideas for a funny Wake Up Call prank? Monster.com would love to hear and see your ideas. In partnership with Monster.com, I am giving away a $50 VISA gift card and prize pack filled with cool Monster.com Swag. Those who are creative enough to make a video of their prank will get bonus entries. Plus Monster.com will be sharing the funniest videos on Facebook and Twitter. (Make sure you use the hashtag #WakeUpCall.)
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I would prank my husband and tell him we where expecting 🙂
I would prank my husband.
I would put my husband’s computer on full volume to scare him when he turned it on.
I would probably prank my hubby and I would rig the computer chair to collapse under his weight
I’d put vinegar in his water bottle that he always takes with him.
My husband’s water bottle!
I would prank my son – put a plastic bug in the shower maybe and then when he goes in there he would find it
I would prank my daughter by putting a fake spider under her pillow!
Hmmm, so many pranks and so little time. I’d probably prank my hubby about being preggers (we do NOT want another kid). He’d DIE!
I would prank my best friend and say her kooky (but harmless) ex wants to get back together.
I think I would prank my Husband by telling him ours sons have been playing with his beloved collectibles
I would prank my parents by taking them to a nice seafood restaurant the next time we get together for dinner, they both HATE seafood more than anything. Once there, I’d take them in the bar so they can have a glass of wine and laugh it off, then I’d take them to their favorite Mexican place.
I would prank my brother by secretly unplugging his xbox wires!
I would prank my husband! I would I would put a rubber band around the sprayer on the kitchen sink so when he turns it on he gets it!
I would prank my brother and tell him I had to move in with him because I couldnt afford my rent
I would prank my GF and tell her I got a dog because she hates dogs.
I would prank my son and put set his alarm for an hour early with music blaring at him
i would april fools those who worked with me that i was being fired due to a myriad of reasons and do it in march so they didnt expect it
we actually did this prank my senior year in high school..
you get 2 pigs.. spray paint the numbers 1 on one and 3 on the other and let them run loose in the high school..
whoever gets the first 2 (and only pigs) will still look for the 3rd pig that doesn’t exist… it was hilarious!!
Oh my – that’s a good one!!!!
Great Job Corps prank- super glued the door of the night-monitor’s office. It was a scream.
I would prank my husband by telling him i’m pregnant with twins!
I would prank my wife and tell her we just won powerball
I would love to prank my son! He is always pulling pranks on me!
I would tell my husband that I won a sweepstakes for $100,000
I called my mom on april fools and told her i was pregnant when i was in college. it scared her a lotttt, but she was surprisingly calm and understanding! lol
the most recent one we did was bought fake tp and put it at my in-laws before we left their house. a week later somehow it ended up in our bathroom:)
My daughter had a great prank pulled on her. Someone put a dead fish in a plastic bag and taped it under her jeep. She could not figure out for weeks what the smell was.
I would prank my kids–maybe a hide n seek water gun fight.
i’d tell my kids i won a car
I would prank my son by putting a big spider (that looks like a tarantula) right on him and then wake him up. He hates spiders and bugs.
i would prank my boyfriend and tell him one of our cats had babies
Well you can’t really see a whole lot of outside through my brother’s window. I would prank him by spraying some of that fake snow window spray and yell out that it’s snowing! Of course he would have to see for himself and may or may not fall for it.
I am terrible at pranks! But would try to come up with a good one for my friend Scott – he is such a joker, it would be funny to see him fall for something.
I do mostly grown up pranks. Like I told my Dad and sister that my brother is the one who planted all of our flowers in front of our house this year, and they believed it. They called up my brother and said thank you, and my brother said I do not know what you are talking about! Or the time I made a chicken dish and told my family while they were eating it that I tried the new squirrel meat at the store and they believed me and would not eat their food! I am always pranking my family!
I’m no prankster but I’d put a realistic toy frog in the bathroom cos my sister’s super afraid of frogs!
I would probably prank my mom and tell her I won the lottery 🙂
Thank you for the cool giveaway!
AHAHA, Fake cockroaches on my daughter’s bed, she hates them, but who doesn’t ahha
putting a fake bug in my moms water bottle lol
I would prank my sister by recording her phone ring using her singing.
I would prank my husband by telling him that his camera was broken by the kids
I’d prank my husband with a fake bug, he hates bugs
I would prank my husband telling him I accidentally ran over his golf clubs
I’d prank guys at work with a fake snake
Tell me your idea for a prank and who you would prank
switch the mens or womens room name and then walk in on them,or ask them what they were doing in there when they come out
A prank that we actually did. We have a bridge in our town that is suppose to be haunted. People supposedly hear noises, see things, and a lot of other strange activity goes on there. We decided to have a little fun, and set it up to scare my friend Sarah. Sarah’s boyfriend had already drove down to the bridge ahead of time, and hid his truck. Then hid near the bridge in the woods. It’s a very secluded area so that’s creepy itself. My boyfriend and I were parked right by the bridge, and we told my friend Sarah to meet us there we were going to hang out. Her boyfriend was suppose to meet us a little later. She pulled up and we were already walking on the bridge. She joined our walk on the bridge, and we started talking about how the bridge was haunted. About a minute went by, and she was like, “Did you guys hear that?” We were like, “No, what did you hear?” She said it sounded like a thumping sound. We played dumb haha! Her boyfriend was in the woods throwing huge rocks (behind us) where no one could see them being thrown. Then it happened again, and she was like, “Did you guys hear it that time?” Then we were like, “Yeah, oh my gosh wth was that?” She’s starting to freak out at this point, because we are acting scared with her. Then all of sudden, her boyfriend jumps out on the bridge from I don’t know where. He yells as loud as he could making this awful sound. LOL She started running as fast as I’ve *EVER* seen anyone run, and we couldn’t even catch up with her. By this time my boyfriend, her boyfriend, and I are laughing as hard as we could while chasing her down. She ran to her car jumped in as fast as she could, rolled the windows up in a split second, and locked her doors. Then starting her car up with this awful petrified look, while her face was white as a sheet of paper. Doing all this in like 30 seconds lol so, so, funny! The funniest thing of all, was that we were all outside her window knocking on it, laughing so hard, and telling her it was a joke, but she still didn’t realize that. She was in complete shock!!! Finally, after a little less than a minute had gone by. She got out, and hit her boyfriend in the arm laughing, saying we were so mean, but telling us that we got her good! I guess you just had to be there to actually experience one of the best pranks of my life! It was my idea by the way haha! I really wish we had something to record it on that day, but YouTube didn’t exist then, so I just have to remember it like this. It still makes me laugh so hard every time I think about it. I was laughing out loud writing this.
My dad deserves a good prank call! The horn sounds like a fun idea.
I’d prank my kids by telling them I won the lottery.
I’d prank my son
I would prank my co worker and put fake spiders in her office drawer
hard to chose betwwen my daughter and saying we are moving agin or husband telling him im late
I would prank my brother and rearrange everything at his office.
I would prank my husband. He’s deathly afraid of bugs. I would put a few rubber bugs under his pillow.
I love pranking strangers. Walking by & saying “sir” or “ma’am” without looking at them & they always look so confused.
I would prank my cousin and set his phone clock to MST (two hours later) and make him think he’s two hours late for work. To watch him run around to try to get dressed will be priceless.
I want to prank a friend of mine by taping the door to her house shut while she’s inside
I would put a fake rat in my moms room because she’s afraid of them.
I would prank my sister-in-law with a fake mouse – she is afraid of them. Hopefully we will both laugh about it later.
I would prank my brother with some fake bug s – he’s such a macho guy but hates insects!
I’d prank my husband that we won the lottery
i would prank my husband by having his boss call him early in the morning and telling him he did something majorly wrong
I would prank my hubby by telling him I have a lover (not true)
i would prank my parents that i quit my job
I would prank my father with a fake lottery ticket 🙂
I’d prank my cousin by putting a fake Swiss cheese slice made of rubber in a sandwich. It’s fun to watch somebody chew on fake cheese for a few seconds, before they realize it’s fake.
Icy Hot on the toilet seat…my hubby!
get a fake lottery ticket on friend
I had a job as a dispatcher/call coordinator one time. There was a really ditzy blonde there that our boss hired merely because he liked the way she looked (and her brother owned the liquor store that he frequented). A co-worker of mine and myself used to push the button for her extension and let it ring. She would pick up the phone and say, “Hello? Hello?” and never figured out that it was us. Hell, half the time she didn’t even realize that it was her own phone that was ringing.
I’d prank my husband that someone stole his precious classic car.
I would prank my parents.
An oldie but a goodie- I’d use a whoopie cushion.
An oldie but a goodie- I’d place a whoopie cushion in my coworker’s chair.
My fave prank…. I had the access to log other computers in the company off from my desk. One day, out of boredom, I logged a co- worker out of the system every 10 minutes for about an hour. Thoroughly confused her 😉
I would pull the prank on my boss and tell him I’m moving to another state. He highly depends on me.
I would prank my stepkids
I would prank my husband with putting salt (or something) in his coffee or in his dinner. He never complaints about what I cook or the coffee I make so I’d be curious to see if a nasty taste would make him speak up.
I would prank my husband and put a fake rat in his duffel bag
I would prank my brother by putting his alarm clock on the other side of his room while he’s sleeping so he has to get out of his bed to turn it off in the morning.
id prank my daughter yea that would be fun my ideal prank is to prank her and her friends with water when they come in the back door that would be so funny water hits them shed be like water moma for real
I love hiding in places and jumping out to scare them, my sister is the easiest to scare!
This is something that’s actually happened at work. One of our coworkers had a new infant daughter at home and clearly wasn’t getting enough sleep. He actually fell asleep at his desk one afternoon. Someone picked up his cell phone and changed the ringtone to a clip from a very annoying-sounding hip hop song where the rapper was yelling “Wake up! Wake up!”. Then put the volume on maximum, and placed the phone on his desk right by where he was laying his head, and then went to the clear opposite end of the office and gave him a call. He woke up so fast and almost fell backwards out of his chair! (I felt bad for him because he had said days before his daughter was very colicky. But this is what guys do to each other!)
Lesson: After your children are born, password-protect your smartphone!!
Honestly, I don’t do pranks.
Thanks for the giveaway! =)
I would prank my folks with a fake lottery ticket
I’d replaces all the icons on their desktop with a still background image so they can’t click anything 🙂 I’d prank my kids with that one 🙂
I’d like to prank my son by hiding in the pool while he walks by and jumping out!
I would prank my husband by changing his ringtone to Justin Beiber & calling him while he’s at work.
I would prank my friend that gets scared easily.
I’ve never been much of a prankster though my older brothers were. I think they got me too many times for me to enjoy doing that kind of thing to someone else.
I would prank my teenage kids, although it would be hard to think of something that I could actually pull of with them.
I would prank my Mom. She moved to Arizona and is afraid of scorpions and snakes. I would place a fake one of either on her porch.
I would prank my husband. He’s deathly afraid of bugs.
Oh gosh, my idea for a prank would be hiding somewhere and scaring my sister!
When I was in highschool, we went to camp for a week and the girls and boys spent the week pranking each other. The girls got smart, and we replaced the boys toilet bowl cleaner with yellow and red food dye. The boys could not understand why everytime they flushed the toilet, the water filled up with yellow and red 😉 It was HILARIOUS!
I’d prank my sister with a few ice cubes in her bed at around 6 am.
I’d shut off the bathroom light while my friend was in the shower and tell him the power went out, he’s done that to me a few times!
I would prank my boyfriend by putting black electrical tape around the handle of the kitchen fountain sprayer so that it isn’t able to be seen.Great way to wake up in the morning for sure.
husband I would pretend I was someone else
My husband
I would prank my husband, he’s afraid of snakes since he found one in the backyard last week. I’d get a toy/rubber snake and put it next to the toilet so when he’s sitting there doing his thing, he’d look down and notice. Lol, kind of mean but would be hilarious.
I would prank my hubby. I’m not sure what I would do but we are always doing something silly to each other. He has a great sense of humor. thank you!
I’d replace all the food in my friends fridge and cabinets with something wierd.
I really wanted to prank my husband when I was pregnant and make him think I was having triplets or something. I’m a twin, my sister has twins and I’m hoping for twins. My husband knows multiples is a possibility and it totally freaks him out.
I would love to prank my significant other by having their alarm clock trigger an airhorn to go off in the bedroom. I bet that would get them out of bead in the morning!!
I would prank my daughter in law, she hates spiders! I would love to get a fake spider and put in under her covers!
I think it would be hilarious to rig a computer or mobile device to sound an alarm every time someone touched a particular key or button.
I would prank my husband by putting a plastic black spider on his pillow
Dip them in honey and take them to a beehive
WOULD like to place a whoppee cushion at the kitchen table and prank our little boy
perfect
I’d love to put a Whoopee cushion under my sister-in-law’s rear end when we have a family get together. I really don’t like her. I might just do that.
prank my dad – chinese food restaurant order
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I am just not a prank sort of person.
Thanks for the contest.
prank my wife and steal her iphone
I think pranks are mean and I probably wouldn’t do it, so I don’t know if I really qualify for an entry…I guess I might put a fake spider on his computer chair.
I’d like to prank my hubby by recording him snoring and then playing it back to him when he’s trying to get to sleep. He sounds like a jet engine taking off!
Prank my mom since she is so serious
i pranked my sister all the time growing up. including hand in the water while she was sleeping.
Honestly, I don’t like pranks. I think they’re mean.
I would prank my sister with a fake date.
I stapled a posted no trespassing sign on my door for bothersome jehovah’s witnesses & my neighbor told me today, they came, saw the sign, got in their car & left.
I would prank my son that I won a lot of money in the lottery.
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I would like to prank my daughter at a chinese restaurant with a fake fortune cookie.
I’m not a big fan of pranks personally.
Senior Prank—Letting a couple of pigs go in the halls of the school. Number them 1-4 but skip #3, so you really have 3 pigs. Watch everyone freak out when they can’t find the pig #3.
I would prank my daughter by telling her she is late of work, on her day off
I would prank my mom by setting her alarm to go off in the middle of the night..
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My husband using the world’s loudest whistle when he is deeply engrossed in something.
Fake “winning” lottery ticket mixed in with real tickets for my friend’s birthday.
I want to put Kool Aid in my shower head so that when my husband turns the water on it comes on it sprays a different color!
I would order 22 pizzas and sent them to my brother as a prank lol
My hubby gets me by taping the button down on the sink nozzle and when i turn the water on it gets me right in the face :/
I don;t do pranks either, not since summer camp!
I’m no good at pranks lol. But one that I’ve done before is tape the water sprayer at the kitchen sink, so whenever someone goes to get water and turns it on they get sprayed lol.
Oh and I forgot to add who I would do it to lol I guess my boyfriend 🙂 he would take it well without getting upset
I would prank my mom and tell her that I am expecting triplets. I am due in Sept so it would be a funny one/
calling my boss and going “are you my mummy” it is a doctor who thing.
I have been wanting to prank my friend by switching his mom and girlfriends name around in his phone.
I would prank my husband and put baking powder on his pastry instead of powdered sugar.
Thanks for the chance to win!
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I would prank someone at work by telling them they were fired
Stuff a scarecrow with jeans and a hoodie on. Pull the hood up….lay it face down on someone’s doorstep…freaks people out every time….LOL
I would prank my boyfriend by telling him I’m pregnant.
I just used an online app to prank call my mom the other day – she was so funny to listen to on the phone
prank hubby with shaving cream trick
One April Fool’s Day I told my mom that I had gotten a huge tattoo of a skull on my back. When I offered to show it to her she nearly fell out of her chair.
I would prank my best friend with a spider..
I pranked my mom by putting a coiled up fake snake in front of the door – when she saw it she ran fast
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I would put a fake mouse in my husband’s sock drawer.
Fake lottery ticket
I would love to play a prank on my sister
Id prank my husband by going and putting a head in bed with me so he thinks something is going on, but it will turn out to be nothing.
I would definitely play a prank on my husband. .. he goes to the bathroom WAY too much and spends hours in there… I’d probably fingernail polish the end of the TP roll so he can never unroll it HAHA! 😀
I would prank my friend with a fake lottery ticket
I would prank my husband but not sure how I would get him. Maybe set up his alarm for 3am..
I would prank my niece by having people dress up as zombies and come into her backyard.
I would do the rubber band the faucet sprayer to my fiance. It would be hilarious!
I’d prank my boyfriend that the bed broke because he is always thinking it’s going to break when it creaks.
I want to saran wrap the toilet so when my husband gets up at 4 am he gets a surprise.
I coated my boyfriends bar of soap with clear nail polish so it wouldn’t later.
I’m not a prankster, but my husband sure is. You have to keep an eye on him.
I bought a realistic looking rat, sat it on my husbands chest and then jumped up on the computer desk screaming that there was a rat. I never seen him get out of bed so fast. I have also wanted to dress up as a creepy clown and crawl under my teen sons bed and reach up and grab his arm or leg but I think it would be to mean.
I’d unscrew the top off of a salt shaker.
my hub- with the old”onion” candy apple gag
No, I am not a prankster.
i would prank my mom and put the salt in the peper shacker
A really funny prank is to get people while they are sleeping. It’s the best because they are so unaware. ha ha. I have yet to get my boss. Maybe I could bake him a laxative cake and then put out of order signs on the bathrooms 😛 Some friends and I pranked a room mate and it was hilarious. And of course things are always better with an air horn. 😉
Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDjGgaXckt4
I’m not much of a prankster, but hubby is pretty good at it!
I like scaring people when they’re coming out of a room.
You can tape the sprayer attached to the sink down so when someone turns the faucet on water squirts at them. I played that prank on my dad once, and he was really angry.
I am not much at playing tricks or pranks on people, but I have a little fun on April fools day.
I would prank my kids because, it seems, they are always trying to prank me!
I’m not much of a prankster. I seem to be just annoying to my kids . 😉
i’d change my friend’s ringtone to something raunchy without him knowing.
I visited my Mom with my dog and put fake dog poop on my Mom’s new carpeting. Gosh did she freak out.
i prank my husband all the time, my favorite was when i logged onto his facebook and changed his birthday to that day, he got so mad when he saw everyone wishing him happy birthday and knew what i did:p
My Kids Love to make me jump!
I am usually the prankee. My son got me good with the fake blood once.
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My husband broke my last computer accidentally, I’d prank him by letting him think he broke the new one
A radio station used to do this in Florida. A funny one was when a boyfriend called up to have his girlfriend pranked. They had been shopping and she had been changing stickers on merchandise. The dj called her in the morning pretending to be a detective who was sending the police to arrest her. You should have heard her begging.
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I’d prank my hubby and tell him I’m pregnant again!
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tell my husband he has to work.let him drive there to get there and relize he wasnt called in 🙂
Id change all the clocks in the house a couple hours after my boyfriend went to sleep and then wake him up frantically saying we over slept and he was late for work….would take some guts though, he’s not a morning person haha
I would prank my brother with a winning lottery ticket.
I like to prank my husband by leaving him a message from mr lion at the zoo number
i think it would be funny to prank the food thief at work with some laxatives in something really tempting like ice cream or brownies
I’m not a good prankster. I remember in kindergarten we gave our teacher a HUGE chocolate bar, she was so happy, and it was just the wrapper.
I think it’d be funny to have my husband “arrested” for some strange thing he does, like his weird obsession with bacon. I don’t know, like he’s bought more than the allowable amount for the year. (* of course, this comes the day after we had a loud knock on our door yesterday and two men from the police dept with large guns showed up and told us to get out of our house as someone was being arrested and they thought they were armed next door. Hubby was so scared . heh *)
I’m not very creative so I would probably butter up the bathroom floor so when my husband gets out the shower he will slip
I would prank my grandkids with Caramel Onions ( instead of Caramel) Apples. Wouldn’t they be disaapointed…
When I worked I taped the button down on the phone at the next desk and then called them. They kept saying hello, hello.
I’d prank my father by taping the toilet seat down at night, but i’d probably have to clean it up
my mom knows I enter a lot of contests and giveaways and win things somewhat often so she would believe me if I prank told her I won one of the big lotteries like Mega Millions or something like that LOL
I saw on a webpage where you can buy a box of ladybugs. I would put them in my husbands shed and tell him to go get something. He hates bugs.
I would have to prank my hubby. I’m sure he has it coming.
I would prank my fiance, the first thing he does in the morning is go to the kitchen sink and get a drink of water. I would love to use tape or a rubber band and put it on the sink sprayer. That way when he turns on the facet it will spray him.
I would prank my BFF with mayonnaise filled “cream” donuts.
Would love to be able to come up with something.
…nothing recent, but I once substituted my college roommates laundry powder with powdered milk.
I would prank my best friend. Put powdered sugar in their air vents in their car and turn the vent on high. When they turn the car on, it blows everywhere.
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I guess I’d have to go for the snake falling of the door gag.