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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 23:44:42 UTC
Subject: Prank Primer for Dorm doors
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Hi all
 
It's late, and I should be sleeping. Will I? No way. So, I'll tell you a 
few pranks and apocryphal tales about life in my undergrad school, a small 
and highly repressed place called Abilene Christian University. Where I 
spent five years, 1974-79. Many of these were too mean for even my black 
heart. 
 
Since most activites that were any fun were highly frowned upon, it being a 
Christiaon school and all, we had to find other oddball ways to have fun. 
First I'll detail a few of the dorm warfare tactics that were in common 
use, and then perhpas I'll follow up in a later post with a few tales of 
pranks I orchestrated personally, ahem, is anyone "offical" out there? 
 
And remember, none of this ever really happened, after all, this is 
alt.FOLKLORE.college, right? And for Shenanigans readers, my standard 
disclaimer applies, "for edification and entertainment purposes only"
NONE OF THIS EVER HAPPENED
 
 
OLD TRIED AND TRUE DORM WARFARE TRICKS
 
Disclaimer1- many of these will be old news to most of you
 
Disclamier2- Yah, sure, you bet- this list is for educational purposes 
only. 
 
Under the Door: 
 
-Shaving cream in album cover or garbage bag, then tuck the 
open end under a door stomp on it for a nice distrubution into the room 
 
-take a colored or noxious liquid and freeze it in a shallow plate, and 
then zing it under the door, be sure to do when the room will be unoccupied 
for several hours. When it melts it will produce a puddle that will confuse 
and confound.  Recipe for fake urine: yellow dye (very little), salt, a 
touch of vinegar, garlic powder, a few drops of detergent (for bubbles). If 
you are especailly nasty; mix cambells' chicken noodle soup with vegetable 
soup, mash and mix the contents a bit, and a hefty splash of vinegar, and 
freeze and slide that mess under a door. Even meaner, take a small amount 
of corn, mash it with a fork, mix with chocolate pudding and milk, let 
stand at room temperature a few days, freeze and diskify it, voila instant 
diarrhea. And for the truly black hearted son of a bitch out there, there 
is alwayus the real thing- it will also freeze. 
 
-a bit more expensive, but very nasty: expanding foam, 
available at most lumberyards, home depot stores. expands 
to fill cracks and then hardens. very sticky when wet.
 
-also very nasty: a bag full of roaches. yuck. easy to 
collect though, just leave food out in a bag, and then 
when you know some are inside, quick close it, place free 
end under door of victim, shake bag.
 
-general advice if you are going to throw water or shaving cream under the 
door of an occupied room, it is fun to cover the door opening with 
newspaper before hand, it makes the inevitable chase scene a bit funnier. 
If you're mean, place a booby trap on the other side of the paper; ie, a 
chair, or pile of chairs, but be very quiet. 
 
-bottle rockets, firecrakers  Kinda hack, but always fun. NOT RECOMMENDED 
Beware of fires! 
 
Other Door Pranks
 
-the oldest one in the book: But just in case: pennying some one in; get a 
friend(s) to push against the door of an occupied room, forcing the door 
inward, firmly against the lock pin bolt (either dead bolt or regular door 
knob) then wedge a stack of pennies between the door itself and the frame 
of the door. The pennies should lie flat, parallel to the plane of the 
door, and slip into the crack between the door itself and the lip that goes 
around the door on the door frame (the lip that would prevent the door from 
going through the frame and opening outward) 
 
- Since most doors open inward, pennying someone in works nicely to trap 
someone inside. Also, a water ballon hung from the ceiling, and attached to 
the door knob with a string, such that the string pulls the balloon and 
makes it fall, is a pretty decent trick. Our Hallway ceilings were some 
kind of acoustical tile, and if you bent a coat hanger, you could slip one 
end of the hanger between the ceiling tile and the concrete, and hang great 
weights from it. It was stable, as long as you didn't apply any sideways 
pressure, which would cause the whole thing to slide out of the tile, and 
drop to the floor. Perfect for delayed action ballooning! Remember to use 
cheap balloons and fill them to near bursting. 
 
-Covering the door opening with newspaper, or trash bags is especially 
gratifying if the space between the newspaper wall and the door is filled 
with something as well. Stryo-popcorn is an excellent choice. Also booby 
trapping the hall side of the newspaper wall is fun too. 
 
-Someone on the net mentioned bricks with real mortar, which is an 
excellent touch, but alas, I never had the resources for that, However, 
stealing someone's room is a little less materials intensive. Just some 
sheetrock and paint, and perhaps a little wood to back up the sheetrock. 
Our room stealing efforts didn't look quite as good as we hoped, but it was 
adequate to cause seom confusion. 
 
-The night before freshman orientation, I stole *all* the room numbers, by 
painting over the stenciled numbers, directions, and floor numbers. I found 
out the exact shade and brand that our building was painted in, and voila, 
Room numbers painted over. It was amusing watching the confusion the next 
day. "Uh, do you know where 331 is?, Duh, which wing is this?" Most folks 
relied on the brute force method of trying every door. Surprisingly, some 
long time residents had trouble findint their room as well. 
 
-Door stealing, obvious, but fun. Try these variations: door swapping; swap 
the narrower closet door with the front door. Leave the door opened, so 
that when the person enters nothing is immediatly noticed. We did this to 
our RA at night, after creating a quickie disturbance. When he got back to 
his room, he just grabbed the door and swung it shut, and because it was 
narrower and lighter, it slammed with good force. Because he was sleepy, 
and it was darkened, he didn't notice until it was too late. The look on his 
face as his sleep deprived brain tried to figure out what happened to the 
right half of the door, was worth the effort. Also, keep in mind it is 
often faster to swap the entire door than the doorknobs. Of course, you can 
always save time by just propping the door in the frame and not replacing 
the pins. This is likely to casue injury though, be careful.
 
 
 
 
Hmm. I was going to go on to bed pranks, but perhaps I'll break here and do 
it another post. Remember the best bed pranks involve Turkey Guts.
 
 
 


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