Do you like practical jokes?

[joxville]

I've been doing a bit of research for the org quiz and found some info about bamboo by accident. Apparently some species of it can grow about 24 inches per day, to a height of 6 feet, but what I'm wondering is how quick it takes the first shoots to show? I've had the wicked idea of getting some seeds and scattering them in a colleagues garden when he's off on holiday, he'll return to a mini forest!

Some of you will know it's just the sort of thing I would do but what is the best/worst practical joke you know of?

[lazytown]

I think that would be quite funny so I googled for it as well

http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Bamboo-from-Seed

[Rie]

Why would something like that NOT suprise me of you two lol

[Dadie]

Be warned the recipient may not find it funny.
You would have a lot of digging to do to get the garden back and your friendship back on track!

[honey]

i like practical jokes... if they arent being played on me.. but that DOES sound funny!

[anneoctober]

I've been doing a bit of research for the org quiz and found some info about bamboo by accident. Apparently some species of it can grow about 24 inches per day, to a height of 6 feet, but what I'm wondering is how quick it takes the first shoots to show? I've had the wicked idea of getting some seeds and scattering them in a colleagues garden when he's off on holiday, he'll return to a mini forest!

Some of you will know it's just the sort of thing I would do but what is the best/worst practical joke you know of?

Tee hee - DOUBLE dare you

[Bazeye]

[quote=lazytown;537528]I think that would be quite funny so I googled for it as well

http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Bamboo-from-Seed[/quote

Sounds to me like too much hard work, but I like your thinking fella.

[bekisman]

Having served in the Far East and many jungle excursions, I had a fair idea of the speed Bamboo grows.
Back in 1984 I took my wife out to Thailand on an expedition to kayak the Kwai from source to sea, the first night in primary jungle I warned her that at night that most noise comes from the bamboo as it grows. She did not believe me.

Having set up the basher, we settled down and she was soon aware of what sounded like a heard of elephants crashing around us; no, it was simply the bamboo growing!

[Errogie]

I think there would have to be a huge acceleration in global warming for this to work, but I once threw a handful of swede seeds into a favourite teacher's garden!

[The Angel Of Death]

go for the cress seeds through the letter box

[tonkatojo]

I think there would have to be a huge acceleration in global warming for this to work, but I once threw a handful of swede seeds into a favourite teacher's garden!

I suppose that's better than the docken seeds some people have used http://forum.caithness.org/images/smilies/wink2.gif

[Gene Hunt]

My son got me when on holiday a few years back when I fell asleep in the sun. I was a bit overweight then and he decided to spell F-A-T G-I-T on my back with sun tan lotion, When I woke up there it was branded on my back slightly lighter than the rest of the surrounding skin, I only found out when I woke up and went to the bar for a drink and wondered why everyone was giggling and pointing at me.

[joxville]

I think there would have to be a huge acceleration in global warming for this to work, but I once threw a handful of swede seeds into a favourite teacher's garden!

I like this idea....it has to be something fast growing, within a fortnight ideally.

Be warned the recipient may not find it funny.
You would have a lot of digging to do to get the garden back and your friendship back on track!

He would find it funny........dunno about his wife though!! I would be a suspect but there are also another couple of guys that would be suspected too.

[Dadie]

You have posted your intent on the org!
That will put you as no1 suspect though
If you do.... just think of the retaliation..
You have been warned so no running to me complaining as I told you so!

[Cedric Farthsbottom III]

Jox,the bamboo will workAnother one to try,the old fashioned cellophane over the bog at a house party.The expression on the faces as a tinkle becomes the sound effects of Singing in the rain.Don't worry about the jobby part,folk just think their magicians and have mastered floating.

[joxville]

You have posted your intent on the org!
That will put you as no1 suspect though
If you do.... just think of the retaliation..
You have been warned so no running to me complaining as I told you so!

I'm a Scotsman living in Hampshire and he is English. He's never heard of the org so it's highly unlikely that he'll know my intentions.

[Dadie]

Ahh the 6 degrees of separation though .....someone you know and blab to will tell someone who will tell someone who knows his wife ..
Either that or you will tell...

[Gene Hunt]

Get some Grass Killer and just spell out a rude word or phrase on his lawn, do it a couple of days before he comes back. You can then savour his reaction as the words/symbol slowly appear.

I did this years ago to a Supervisor I worked with who I couldn't stand. He had a 6 foot cartoon of male genitals on his lawn for ages.

Cheap to do and highly effective.

[Cedric Farthsbottom III]

Get some Grass Killer and just spell out a rude word or phrase on his lawn, do it a couple of days before he comes back. You can then savour his reaction as the words/symbol slowly appear.

I did this years ago to a Supervisor I worked with who I couldn't stand. He had a 6 foot cartoon of male genitals on his lawn for ages.

Cheap to do and highly effective.

I hope his name wisnae Dick(Richard).

[joxville]

Get some Grass Killer and just spell out a rude word or phrase on his lawn, do it a couple of days before he comes back. You can then savour his reaction as the words/symbol slowly appear.

I did this years ago to a Supervisor I worked with who I couldn't stand. He had a 6 foot cartoon of male genitals on his lawn for ages.

Cheap to do and highly effective.

I'll need to remember this one for someone else.