The clever, meticulous minds at Cockeyed.com have documented more than a dozen elaborate practical jokes from conception through execution with photographs, illustrations, and maniacal glee.
Their stunts include the TGI Friday's Menu Switch, wherein fake delicacies were described on nearly identical pages, then smuggled into the restaurants across the country to face future diners. The yucky rewrites are priceless, but I especially enjoyed this block of text worked into the fine print:
- "Keep your eyes on the tall waiter. He is hot for the dark-haired bartender with the tongue piercing. She is spunky, but customers have been complaining that she is shorting them on garlic twisters. That ain't good for biz-nez, you know? Dale keeps promising he is going to fire her but her hot wings keep talking him out of it. They should make a TV show about this joint and call it TGI Horny."
• Starbucks Chairs
• Arden Mall Ashtrays
• Frozen Shaving Cream
• Buy 2 get 1 Free
• Fake Public Service Announcement
• Historical Plaque!
• McDonald's Menu Board Switcheroo!
• Chad Bikes America!
• Image-Lifting Imposter!
• A Brand New Car!
• The Lid Sign
• The First One
• The Great One
• Amazing New Printers!
Sometimes the payoffs are small in relation to the build-ups, but you've gotta love these industrious folks -- unless, of course, you're a TGI Friday's or McDonald's manager or their targeted counterparts.
See: Quit Staring at My Pranks
