One time, I took this video about 50 seconds of my enemy fighting with another girl. XD Well I posted on YouTube and got my 5 days of fame. But soon I deleted it. Then a parents complained to my teacher months and months later and it got out of hand.

Seriously she got the worst ever parents. They made a big fuss out of it and she claims she's a Christian. Aren't Christians suppose to be forgiving? Seriously. That's my prank!

I want to prank my friends by pulling their chair backwards when they fall down, but that's too mean so I can't bear to do it.

Posted by Regina | April 9, 2008 12:06 PM

I'm not a prankster.

My favorite prank occured at Rice University.
http://www.staff.rice.edu/staff/Pranks.asp

Scroll down to "The Best." The tour guides always tell you about this prank - it's even more impressive when you're staring at the statue.

Posted by Liviania | April 9, 2008 2:10 PM

i have wanted to use the shaving cream and feather prank but i never have
but sometimes i will sneak around corners and scare the s--- out of this guy i know
its realy funny because he jumps a mile high off the ground
Luv ya
Katie

Posted by Katie | April 9, 2008 2:34 PM

my favorite pranks:

Take a handful of cotton and stuff them deep inside your roommates shoes. When he or she goes to put them on, they will think their shoes are getting smaller or feet have grown.

Go out and buy some new boxers or underwear. Buy the same kind and brand that your roommate wears. Only be sure to buy them a couple sizes too small. Wash them a few times so they don't look brand new. Then replace them with his old ones in his drawer. When he tries them on and realizes they are smaller than usual, he may think he put on a few pounds and is heavier.

Fill about 20 or more paper cups up with water, place them next to each other on your victims desk. Then staple them all together, stand back and watch as he/she arrives at work and is clueeless about how to go about removing the cups off the desk.

Take all of your co-wrokers pens and replace them with your pens that your glued caps on to the night before. He will not be able to take the caps off to use the pens.

Posted by Marjolein | April 9, 2008 4:08 PM

my favorite pranks:

Take a handful of cotton and stuff them deep inside your roommates shoes. When he or she goes to put them on, they will think their shoes are getting smaller or feet have grown.

Go out and buy some new boxers or underwear. Buy the same kind and brand that your roommate wears. Only be sure to buy them a couple sizes too small. Wash them a few times so they don't look brand new. Then replace them with his old ones in his drawer. When he tries them on and realizes they are smaller than usual, he may think he put on a few pounds and is heavier.

Fill about 20 or more paper cups up with water, place them next to each other on your victims desk. Then staple them all together, stand back and watch as he/she arrives at work and is clueeless about how to go about removing the cups off the desk.

Take all of your co-wrokers pens and replace them with your pens that your glued caps on to the night before. He will not be able to take the caps off to use the pens.

Posted by Marjolein | April 9, 2008 4:09 PM

Pranks!

My favorite has to be the first one I pulled. There's a LONG list after that, but this one was the one that made me get into the cult of scaring the living hell out of people. It was a prank call, but me and a couple of my friends called the bowling alley by my house, the number on the bottom of the fry carton from BK and used the Hannibal Lecter soundboard mixed with Arnold Schwarzenegger's.

There's no better combination to induce heart-attack like laughter.

Posted by Maria Almeida | April 9, 2008 4:13 PM

Can I just say that I discovered E. about a month ago and fell in love???? I'm so psyched for her new books as well, and I just got a hold of Dramarama and cannot wait to start it!

I'm not really a prankster. If I really think about it, I know after pulling the prank I would totally feel horrible about it and outright apologize for it (apparently, I have no backbone).

So, my dream prank (which I will probably never put into affect) would of course involve my sister. I'd probably do something like 'delete' her entire iTunes library or something (my sister is so attached to music, it's SCARY). I'd have it saved on an external drive of course . . .

Hmm, I'm not that imaginative.

Posted by Sherry | April 9, 2008 4:30 PM

Pranks are awesome.

This guy who has the locker next to mine at school always closes my locker door when I'm getting my books out. I get really mad and he does it so often that I decided to get some revenge. A few days ago, I got a fake spider that looked very real. I taped it to his locker door so it was right next to his lock. When he tried to do the combination he saw the spider and screamed really loud. Everyone was laughing at him and it was soooo funny! He actually thought it was real. I wonder if he'll ever close my locker door again....

Posted by Hillary | April 9, 2008 4:40 PM

I've had this idea for a great senior prank for awhile:

Get some chickens, and label each of them with the numbers 1-9 (but skip number 5). Then, let them loose around the school. They'll spend the rest of the day looking for the chicken that never existed because they'll automatically assume that there is a number five chicken since they have found 1,2,3,4,6,7,8, and 9.

Posted by Megan | April 9, 2008 5:03 PM

Okay, so I go to a school that has a theatre magnet, (which is like a specialty program,) and each year has a specific thing that we learn: freshman is stage movement/dance/combat, sophomore is auditioning and theatre basics, and junior year is directing. Each kid in the class (junior year) picks a short, one-act play, casts it with the other kids in the class, and then directs it. Every two months or so we would put about five or six of these plays on in what we call 'waves.'
For the third wave, I was in the play "Boiling People in My Coffee" with one kid, Caleb, and our director was Trey. It's a very intense play and it's very hard to do without laughing, so it took us a very long time to learn our lines. When it came down to the actual performance night, Trey couldn't be there, because he had an all-state choir performance and would be gone all weekend (He's an amazing singer!!...I digress...)
On wave night, Caleb and I perform the play and it goes pretty well with only a few mishaps (I might have skipped a couple pages of lines on accident.) We're pretty proud of ourselves, but nobody lets Trey know how we did because we video-tape our performances to watch later.
The next day, which was a Friday, we get to theatre and my theatre teacher, Mac, starts joking about how we should try to freak Trey out and make him think we did a really bad job. We're all cracking up about this when someone pops up with the idea to re-film the performance and mess everything up.
WE'RE ALL FOR IT!
So we spend all lunch re-filming the play, skipping lines and messing things up and knocking over props and making it look really bad.
The next week, Trey is back and we all gather round to watch the videos of our performances. When it gets to "Boiling People in my Coffee," Caleb and I start acting very uncomfortable and everyone else starts looking at us piteously. Mac glares at us as he gets up and puts in the video.
As it plays out, Trey is positively HORRIFIED! The whole class does an incredible job of acting like this really happened.
The video finally shuts off, in a place that would have only been about half-way through the play, and Mac, (totally serious,) turns back to Trey and says, "I stopped it there. I couldn't stand it any longer."

Trey, looking almost to the point of tears, gets up and goes to the bathroom. We all crack up, but then re-assume our somber faces before Trey comes back into the room, tears definitely filling his eyes.
He turns to Mac and asks if this will reflect on his grade and Mac only gives him A Look. Trey is so terribly upset, we finally break it and start laughing really hard.
Trey is like...What...???
We finally informed him of the prank that had just occurred and he was really mad at first, but then started laughing as well.

THAT is the best joke I've ever pulled!!!!

(Long story, yeah yeah, I know.)

=)

Posted by Stephanie Wade | April 9, 2008 7:51 PM

After my friend left his room, I moved things around just a little, and as I was leaving, I told him that something of his was hidden somewhere in his house. He was begging me for weeks to tell him what he was missing and where it was hidden! I finally told him that I didn't hide anything about 2 weeks after the incident...

Posted by Ink | April 9, 2008 11:28 PM

My city recently built a huge, expensive overpass from the school to the church across the street and I've always wanted to fill it with balloons because no one uses it.

I also think it would be pretty cool to get a bunch of people to link arms across the school hallways so no one could get past...kind of like a huge game of red rover. :)

Posted by Melissa N | April 9, 2008 11:56 PM

Okay, so, I'm not much of a prankster, but I did do a few back when I was a freshman. That was my "rebellious" year. First of all, though, I'm posting a link to John Green telling about a prank he helped pull. He's such a rebel!! And an amazing writer. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lht_JH2xi6w

Back when I was younger, though, my best friend at the time, Lori and her older sister Christi and I went at like 12am to a local grocery stone. We went in and bought a whole bunch of the really ripe bananas that they had (because those are cheaper, apparently) as well as saran wrap. We went to my uncle's house (because most of my mom's side of the family lives in the same town as I do) and we covered his yard and driveway and doorstep with bananas as well as saran wrapped his car doors shut. He thought it was pretty hilarious, and even found one of the bananas in his gutter months later. hehe. It was fun. :)

P.s. E. Lockhart is amazing!! :D

Posted by Dawn | April 10, 2008 12:09 AM

first of all, i'd just like to say great interview! and thanks for the contest!!!

And i have so many good pranks that i, or my friends and i, or just people i've heard of pulled. but the two best would have to be that once i went bageling with asb, which is basically putting bagels and toilet paper all over the persons house and lawn and car, etc. but its all in good humor cause its a asb tradition: bageling a previous member's house as a sorta farewell-we'll-miss-u type of thing and it was actually really pretty, when we finished bageling her house i mean. like we wrote out We Love You Brit (that was her name) on her driveway with old bagels we "borrowed for keeps" from the Dumpsters behind this one bagel place we went to. but it was what happened before we went to brittney's house that was really funny. ok, we were originally going to go bagel this girl named stephanie's house but then, while we were doing it we suddenly heard a noise and it was a dog barking and we all froze up and then we SPRINTED to our cars. we were so scared we were going to get caught but then the people i was with stayed a little after in the car to see what kind of dog it was. And it turned to to be this teeny tiny dog and it was running around in circles. It was so funny, not just seeing the dog running around in circles, but also about the fact that we were so scared because of a dog that was so small. but that a very good and fun memory for me. The second prank didn't really go as planned. I was in 6th grade and my math class was planning to pull a april fools prank on our teacher. Everyday Dr Landes (the teacher) would ask the class like "how many people did their homework" and he would ask everyone who did to raise their hand. Ok, the joke was, on that day, when he asked that question, no one would raise their hand. and it would only be when he was about to lecture us on the importance on homework that we would say April Fools! it was so awesome-we had our whole class involved and everything...and then someone in the class ratted us out to someone in a previous math class and so they did it and we couldn't do it. We were all so sad :[. so yeah those are my 2 favorite memories of pranks i was a part of...

Posted by Grace L | April 10, 2008 2:56 AM

ooh, please enter me :D

Posted by Samantha | April 10, 2008 9:44 AM

so, i totally have never pulled a major prank...or one at all. but if i did, i would flood this place at our school called the Bowl (which is just like a giant outdoor thing of benches that is like a depression in the ground). and then we could put boats on it and sail across :D

Posted by The Book Muncher | April 10, 2008 9:48 AM

I haven't ever pulled a major prank, but I remember when The Parent Trap came out, there was the scene where they put honey and shaving cream all over the girls when they go bunkhopping. Me and my friend once tried that when we were really little, and not at camp. Needless to say we didn't get far.

My best (and albeit wimpy prank) is taking a cup of water and dipping my bro's pinky in it while he's asleep to get him to pee in his bed. It hasn't worked yet, but maybe someday!

Posted by Tali | April 11, 2008 10:25 AM

I read that book, but hey - it a signed copy!
You would siriously LOVE Twilight. Read it!

Posted by Irene | April 11, 2008 1:48 PM

My favorite prank? Well, that's tough, because I don't do pranks that often. Just last week for April Fools I put a piece of scotch tape on the ball for the mouse, so when my mom went to go move the mouse to the computer, it wouldn't move =D I wasn't around when it happened, but when I came home from school she told me about it.

Other than that... no pranks. =(

Posted by Chelsie | April 11, 2008 8:05 PM

Melissa, here is my very long story which you might not want to read. LOL.

Kelly

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Every year I go on a trip with my youth group. If I told you the crazy pranks everyone pulled it would be novel length. =p

But this year was the best ever! We all are divvied up into different hotel rooms ahead of time. We all plot and scheme about what were going to do to our "enemies" rooms. Some people go beyond pranking and TRASH the hotel rooms.

I'll focus on this year's pranks that I was an accomplice of or on the receiving end. I ended up being stuck in a room with girls who had done major pranking to a group of boys the year before. I begged the boys to be exempted from the shenanigans but I was mercilessly denied. =(

So I decided to fight fire with fire. And my group was first to strike. We basically coated everything in their hotel room(door knobs and what not) with Vaseline, put glitter in their shampoo, and stuck sanitary napkins(with ketchup in them =p) on the walls and in the beds. When they saw their room they screamed and hollered, and figured out that it was my group who did it.

Later the next day we entered our hotel room and it had been really messed up. Some unidentifiable powdery substance was EVERYWHERE, tooth paste(that was our own!) was on all the handles and there were hot dogs in the beds(EEEK!!). BUT, BUT, BUT!!, when all the other girls were in the hall way eating lunch I went to use the bathroom. I sat down on the toilet seat without looking at the toilet. And immediately I felt something squishy. My first though was "Oh no! Please tell me I didn't sit in someone else's poo that they left all over the seat!!" I turned around and thanked my lucky stars that it was only cream of corn.... Wait! Cream of corn?!
The whole toilet was full of cream of corn. I tried to flush it down but it was major clogged(The room maintenance couldn't even unclog it!).

Later that night our group leader Kristin told her husband Josh about it and he said "No one messes with my wife or her friends!!". He said he would prank their room again for us, and he did.

I swear, Josh must have had experience because he totally pranked that whole hotel room!! A bucket of water was over each door, soaking the boys. There shoes and clothes were soaking wet in the toilet and tub. He put sardines in their sneakers(the whole floor smelt like rotten fish for hours!). He did many other things to the room, but the icing on top of the cake was what he wrote in shaving cream on their mirror: "You roll on my road, you pay my toll".

Later the boys let everyone in their room to check out the damage. The numskulls couldn't even read the writing in the mirror. So, acting like a sympathetic bystander, I went in and told them what it said and called them a bunch of idiots.

Several other rooms were pranked/trashed(some almost caught on fire!) by other groups. But everyone figured out it was Josh. One boy said, quote: "Josh had to do it. No one else is smart enough to". We laughed our butts off for hours. Poor Josh had to hide his car and hide in his room, their were mobs after him. But in the end my group won the pranking war because of Josh!!

Posted by Kelly | April 11, 2008 11:45 PM

I'm not a prankster at all! But I love hearing about other people's pranks. But here's a good prank to pull off in a supermarket or clock store - set all the alarm clocks in to go off at 5-minute intervals. LOL

Posted by Bunny | April 12, 2008 7:59 AM

I never used to be a prankster but when I got married I totally changed. I love seeing my husband smile or get mad and then smile. Ha, ha. The first prank I pulled after we got married is probably really well known but it was hilarious

Every morning before my husband leaves for work he takes a shower and if I'm awake enough, i'll go into the bathroom and talk to him as he takes his shower. So one morning I brought a bucket with me into the bathroom filled with cold water. He's a video game nerd, so in the middle of his shower while telling an "exciting" story of how he got his latest achievement, I poured the cold water on top of him. So into his own story he didn't move for a second just kept talking. All of sudden he threw himself against the wall of the shower thinking the coldness was coming from the shower head. My laughing gave me away though. He doesn't turn his back towards me in the shower any more, since I pulled this a couple of times.

A recent prank I pulled, I usually stay up longer than my husband so I wrote Loser across his forehead and made little girly symbols on his cheeks (hearts, flowers, bows, etc.)....with permanent marker. The next morning he only got to lighten them a little, so he had to go like work like that. He's a laborer and there's no dress code so he was fine but since he works with really beefy, manly guys he was made fun of all day. When he came home he was pretty mad, he had a bad day....hee hee. I personally think he liked the attention. ;)

Posted by Book~Adorer | April 15, 2008 6:08 AM

I never used to be a prankster but when I got married I totally changed. I love seeing my husband smile or get mad and then smile. Ha, ha. The first prank I pulled after we got married is probably really well known but it was hilarious

Every morning before my husband leaves for work he takes a shower and if I'm awake enough, i'll go into the bathroom and talk to him as he takes his shower. So one morning I brought a bucket with me into the bathroom filled with cold water. He's a video game nerd, so in the middle of his shower while telling an "exciting" story of how he got his latest achievement, I poured the cold water on top of him. So into his own story he didn't move for a second just kept talking. All of sudden he threw himself against the wall of the shower thinking the coldness was coming from the shower head. My laughing gave me away though. He doesn't turn his back towards me in the shower any more, since I pulled this a couple of times.

A recent prank I pulled, I usually stay up longer than my husband so I wrote Loser across his forehead and made little girly symbols on his cheeks (hearts, flowers, bows, etc.)....with permanent marker. The next morning he only got to lighten them a little, so he had to go like work like that. He's a laborer and there's no dress code so he was fine but since he works with really beefy, manly guys he was made fun of all day. When he came home he was pretty mad, he had a bad day....hee hee. I personally think he liked the attention. ;)

Posted by Book~Adorer | April 15, 2008 6:08 AM

Hmm...I haven't played a lot of pranks but I've had the old pulling chair out so the person falls down many times played on me....And the saddest thing is that I fell for it multiple times in a row. :(

I have played several pranks on my friend. I almost tricked my friend into believing that a prank I played was played by one of my other friends but then I felt really bad.

Posted by NC | April 15, 2008 10:25 PM

Wow, there are some long posts in here! I'm not much of a prankster either. I guess I just don't have the heart to. =) But I did see a video on youtube recently! It's a total mind-freaking prank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYXj2ZICmKw

I guess those poor German people thought they were experiencing a supernatural phenomenon, lol! Or maybe they'd think they were crazy. I would too! I love their accents! That first lady with the pink shirt is so funny! And the one that takes off her glasses! I wish I'd thought of this prank! =)

Posted by Lucy D =) | April 16, 2008 7:54 AM

I have only read the Boy Book but I love it. I agree with every thing in it. I live the same type of life as Ruby does. I m 14 and going to be in 10th grade! I really love the book and can't wait to read more of them. so yeah! *

Posted by Theresa | May 23, 2008 12:48 PM