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I am bored. Help me prank my friend.

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ApocalypseNowt · 29/08/2014 14:49

No i don't have anything better to do. Yes I am childish.

That said me and my best friend have a long running game where we like to prank each other. Very small scale stuff. Most recently this has taken the form of sending each other postcards from wherever we are with daft messages on them.

It started when i went on holiday and sent her a postcard as promised. Then she went away and forgot to send me one. So the next time i was away (not anywhere vaguely exciting) i sent her a narky one bemoaning my lack of postcards. Then she bombarded me with daft cards saying how much she loved me and was my bestest ever friend.

Now I'm stuck. What can I do or send her.....

I know mn is full of evil geniuses (genii?)...please help me Grin

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AppleAndMelon · 29/08/2014 21:19

Can we have more Janet and Roy stories pls? [Grin]

AlpacaPicnic · 29/08/2014 21:13

If you like... (Several steps so be patient...)
I will send you my address.
You send me a piece of paper (so definitely in your handwriting) the size of a postcard - with her address written out and a message from you.
I will go and buy a cheesy postcard of my home town in Devon. I will stick your message to the postcard and post it to her.

If you get really organised, you could do this with several MNers all over the country. We could do a coordinated post-on-the-same-day thing... Like a postal flash mob. She will be right confused and her postie will have a giggle!

CatThiefKeith · 29/08/2014 21:04

Do you have access to her Hoover?

Take the fuse out, then send her a card full of glitter!Wink

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ApocalypseNowt · 29/08/2014 17:52

Or a blancmange.... Grin

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ApocalypseNowt · 29/08/2014 17:51

Oooh Teddy those are really evil ones. I prefer low level pranking personally cos im a wimp and i do actually like my friend really.

I may send her a card full of hole punches though elQuinto!

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Teddybeau1988 · 29/08/2014 17:02

Poor DH once had prawns hidden in his car. It smelt absolutely vile for ages.

elQuintoConyo · 29/08/2014 16:59

Oh, you evil bunch - I shall steal all of these!

I set up a fake facebook of a person from our primary school and punked my sister one April Fool's Day
Grin

Teddybeau1988 · 29/08/2014 16:51

My friend set up an ad on gumtree for an ice cream van for sale. Added all the info, and a very reasonable asking price plus our friends mobile number. In a week he had 200+ phone calls enquiring about it. As it wasn't his gumtree account he couldn't remove the advert

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ApocalypseNowt · 29/08/2014 15:58

Love it jopickles. I'll get a few done so i can do some group shots.

Is it bad that if someone asked what my hobby was i'd have to direct them to this thread...? Wink

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cleanasawhistle · 29/08/2014 15:56

love this thread

jopickles · 29/08/2014 15:54

get one of those masks made of her face and take it with you everywhere you go and get random people to wear it or put it on statues etc and turn the pics into postcards

Mrsmorton · 29/08/2014 15:51

I'm going to Janet and Roy my parents this year, definitely with a round robin. I'll never come clean! I can imagine my dad reading the letter out at the dining table. Smile can't wait.

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ApocalypseNowt · 29/08/2014 15:39

OK photo card ordered!

Yes, it is an actual cat.

I like the postcards with a letter on them. It will definitely be an insult.

CatThiefKeith I may well take you up on that.

Apple great idea. Am on it.

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ThisFenceIsComfy · 29/08/2014 15:33

Amelie not American!!!

ThisFenceIsComfy · 29/08/2014 15:32

For my friends birthday I sent him a post card a day, each with a single letter on, that spelt out an insult. Obviously you can put a nicer message on yours. I found really drab postcards too from my home town.

The gnome thing was also done in the film, American. She took her father's gnome.

Dwerf · 29/08/2014 15:29

Acquire photo of her cat
Set up facebook page for Tiddles
Have Tiddles friend your friend
Post hilarious status updates from the cat

GroupieGirl · 29/08/2014 15:29

Best prank I ever heard was between two friends of mine. Friend A had a dvd delivered, but friend B got to it first, steamed it open, and replaced the ordered dvd with a porn film. Unfortunately friend B had to go out, was not there to point & laugh, thus friend A had already complained at great length to the seller!!

CatThiefKeith · 29/08/2014 15:29

I ran the thread last year, everyone got another MNer to send their Janet and Roy cards, to add extra confusion.

The perfect Janet and Roy card has a Round Robin inside, mine last year saw Janet being made captain of the ladies golf team, Roy having prostrate trouble (not related to that other business fortunately) and their daughter Natalie being abroad working for a charity.

Nations one to my parents was inspired. Poor old Bunty McKinley had died, and my DF was convinced he "knew the name, but couldn't place him"

They were on the phone to people and all sorts. It was genius! Grin

AppleAndMelon · 29/08/2014 15:25

How about signing her up for a few brochures from companies supplying comodes/dreadful clothes/Damart underwear? (sorry trees).

Nohootingchickenssleeping · 29/08/2014 15:21

What's the Janet and Roy thingy?

TessTackle · 29/08/2014 15:19

You can't steal her cat!
ShockGrin

cleanasawhistle · 29/08/2014 15:15

I am going to do the Xmas cards from random people,brilliant

CatThiefKeith · 29/08/2014 15:12

Apocalypse I can send your intended victim one from Kent if you like? Remind me nearer the time. My DM was completely mystified by hers, I was howling when I left, so so funny.

cleanasawhistle · 29/08/2014 15:09

I hope you don't mean a real cat lol ?

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ApocalypseNowt · 29/08/2014 15:03

I can't believe Janet and Roy passed me by.

AND they didn't send me a christmas card. Wankers.

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