Thread: For the Man on the Moon

Has anyone else here performed a public practical joke a la Andy Kaufman? I'm talking not one victim, but rather a whole group of people. This is a part-time hobby of mine. I say part-time because even an attempt at mastering this art requires full-time efforts. My brother once told my professor " you never know when he is lying; he is smart enough to know and smart enough to fool everyone that really knows." Please share your experiences whether you performed or were victimized.

Well, everyone here believes I shave with a straight, and have been for more than 15 years, and not one of those mach5's. They also believe when I offer advice that I know of what I am speaking about...note the "mentor" badge. Does anyone here really know the truth about this? This is only a computer that you see before you and not the actual man.

I don't know if this really counts, but I could see Andy doing something like this... where he would be laughing inside without breaking in front of anyone.

Please forgive me in advance... I was younger and got a kick out of cheap laughs...

While I lived in Brazil, I would occasionally act as if I didn't understand portuguese very well. One treat that I liked on a hot day (in other words every day in Brazil) was a nice chilled green coconut with a straw. They call it "coconut water."

Now in portuguese, the difference between "coconut" and the rough equivalent of "doo doo" (as in what a 2 year old might say to describe the contents of his diaper) depends on where you accent the vowels.... if you say it like cocoa, it means coconut... if you say it like co-coh (accent on the last o) it means "doo doo".

So when I wanted a cheap laugh, I'd walk up to a street vendor, or a corner market and throw on my best gringo accent and ask for a doo doo water with a straight face... then as they started laughing, I'd act confused and ask again... It gets really funny if you can keep your poker face on and act like a confused foreigner.

Oh well... hope that was worth the read. It always brings a smile to my face when I remember those days.

I like that story Dave!

It reminds me of a friend of mines dad, who went to South America on a business trip. He's South African and doesnt speak Spanish, so he asked a workmate for a few phrases. This mate told him that the best way to greet people was "Hola guapo", which means "Hello gorgeous".

So my mates dad gets into this taxi at the airport, and the taxi driver is one of those huge blokes with no neck, and he says "hola guapo" to this guy. Apparently the cabbie wasnt sure whether to laugh or punch him..! Fortunately he laughed!

In highschool my favorite small time prank was to get a quarter, cup of water and a funnel. Then I'd sick the funnel in the front of my pants, put the quarter on my nose, then try to drop the quarter into the funnel. (while holding the cup of water) then I'd challenge the victim to do the same. While they were looking up trying to place the quarter on their nose, I'd pour the cup up water, into the funnel soaking their pants.

When my kids were young and had cabbage patch dolls, I'd occasionally bundle up one of the dolls in a car seat which I would then mount on the luggage rack of my motorcycle. This tended to get a rise out of others on the road. I knew this was stupid and immature but I still thought their reactions were funny.

Hi,

Once a women called the house asking for Frank. No Frank lived here and we often received calls for him, who ever he was. So this time I said, "No he is not here ... he left with his girl friend.", Ouch!

That started fire storm. She must have been his wife or girl friend. She kept calling back thinking I was screening calls for Frank. I told her I was just screwing around, but she did not believe me. So I received many hang up calls that night.

I'll bet Frank received a surprise the net time he saw her. I hope she was no where near a frying pan. Sorry Frank.

The name was change to protect people involved, namely me.

- Mike

Those are good. I'm waiting for something really big. Something where the only one laughing is you. Something that would even anger those observing. I know there are some borderline evil people on this forum.
Don't worry I won't do anything to you guys as my conscience peruses this forum attempting to keep me in line.

A long time ago, on the job we were as a group doing some firearms training and I was one of the trainers and we were working with an AR-15 and we had one we used to use for demos. It was designed to be totally broken down. We had a wiseass in the class and we gave him that weapon. It looked totally normal and as he told everyone about his expert knowledge of the weapon as he started field disassembly the complete thing fell apart into many many pieces. Oh the look on his face and the class too.

He is not lying! He still gets me after 10 years. His favorite is to act like he is upset with me and not talk much it drives me crazy especially when I don't know what I did. He gets a kick out of it and eventually can't hold the straight face any longer.