Had they just rented The Office?

This was back in the mid-80s.

plus, they believed in cutting pay if you didn't meet production goals, and a big pay increase was a dime. Still, it was a press clipping agency and I got to wallow in as much information as I could ever want. I haven't been so well-informed since.

Had they just rented The Office?

I was just about to say....

(I was going to say something like "Hey, it was funny when David Brent did it," except it wasn't, really. I mean, it was, but not because it was a funny thing for him to do. Which is true of most of the show.)

(and yes, my hair does look basically like that right now):

Purrrrrrrrrrr

I've pranked many people over the years. Emmett comes by his mischief naturally. But I didn't go for cruel pranks that made anybody anxious. Okay, except for that one time I sent my college roommate a letter from the Academic Committee accusing him of plagiarism. But I made sure I was with him when he got the letter and made sure the whole thing didn't last more than 15 minutes. His girlfriend was watching from her dorm room across the street and laughed hysterically when she saw us come out of the P.O. and my roommate stopped dead in his tracks, then race off to confront his professor. Mostly I opted for slightly surreal pranking in the Cacophony Society mode. Or occasionally enjoyed duping Emmett's godmother as she's very smart, but very credulous and easy to play.

I'm sorry man, the look on her face when we lured her into a card game with no rules where everybody figured out it was a prank within seconds except her and had her playing along for half an hour was priceless. She'd oh-so-tentatively play a card, and three of us would slam down our cards and yell "CREEP!" and she'd look utterly perplexed.

I'm sorry man, the look on her face when we lured her into a card game with no rules where everybody figured out it was a prank within seconds except her and had her playing along for half an hour was priceless. She'd oh-so-tentatively play a card, and three of us would slam down our cards and yell "CREEP!" and she'd look utterly perplexed.

Ah, yes, that game. I forget what we called it in middle school, but watching everyone figure it out except for one person (who makes it even funnier by occassionally saying "Oh, I think I see the pattern!") was priceless fun.

(Okay, one cruel one I liked (not perpetrated by me) (nor actually in April, for that matter) was the search-and-replace job on someone's law school applications to replace all instances of "law" with "pederasty") (And yes, he noticed in time)

You could get me to do that, Hec. I hate to say. I think my prank test is "Will the pranked person laugh?"

Ah, yes, that game. I forget what we called it in middle school, but watching everyone figure it out except for one person (who makes it even funnier by occassionally saying "Oh, I think I see the pattern!") was priceless fun.

We called it Mao.

I don't like practical jokes, but little things like messing with a coworker's cube just a bit doesn't bother me too much.

the search-and-replace job on someone's law school applications to replace all instances of "law" with "pederasty"

Bwahahahaha!!

We just had a baby shower at work, and it didn't suck. It's possible I'm biased by the lunch they provided and the lunch I won unscrambling words.

Reason ita's no longer a programmer:

I didn't catch the fact that "aieficp" doesn't unscramble to "pacifier." One of the developers might have beaten me to unscrambling them all if he'd just let go of his error-checking routines.