The Sandspur

Issue date: 9/11/06 Section: Life & Times

Media Credit: Nicholas Horton WATCH OUT! Be wary of your new roommate. He might have some tricks up his sleeve!

Now that you have moved into your dorms and have gotten to know your roommates better, it is time to expose those horns and pitchforks that I know you have all been hiding under fake halos. I am talking about pranks. There are the classics: shaving cream on the hand, a bowl of warm water, salt shaker and sugar swap, saran wrap on the toilet seat, tying your roommate to the bed, etcetera.

While these can be amusing, there are some even more creative, but still extremely hilarious ideas out there to try. One of the best involves a toilet. You need dry ice, bubble bath, and the inside of a glow stick. Combine all of this in the toilet, and then unscrew the bathroom light bulb. Imagine the surprise of the target individual who, coming into the darkened bathroom late at night (slightly tipsy, perhaps?), finds a horrible, green, glowing, frothing mass pouring from the john. Yum!

There is also the prank where you tie a rope across the hall of two dorm rooms facing one another, leaving just enough slack that each person can open their door just a little. Then, knock on both doors at the same time.

This one is pretty harmless, but it is a good place for beginners to start. Shred a newspaper or any kind of paper like confetti and tuck it into a closed umbrella so that you cannot see it. When your roommate goes out on a rainy day it is a one-man-ticker-tape-parade.

One does not have to leave campus to find endless reams of tales about pranks in the freshmen dorms. People who pass out at parties often end up with messages and pictures written on different parts of their bodies, or have even had all their hair shaved off! Strangely, upperclassmen wishing to remain anonymous have shared a few prank stories of their own and most of them have involved urine in some way or another!

One student reports that their roommate urinated on their neighbor's bed on night. The next night the neighbor retaliated by urinating on the instigators bed and then went a step further by urinating in the guy's giant bag of jelly beans. Gross!

So, all one needs is a little imagination to become a truly skilled trickster.

The Sandspur does not promote following through on any of the above mentioned pranks.

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