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Monday, July 30, 2012

Crime / Etiquette / Two-Block Radius / Comedy / Visual Art / Housekeeping Happy Birthday, Erin! (Or, This Is How You Start a Prank War...)

Posted by Anna Minard on Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:51 PM

Our lovely tech wizard Erin, who celebrated a birthday this weekend, was greeted by the most wonderful Monday-morning post-birthday sight:

ERIN RESSO
Happy Birthday!

Every postcard, every pen, even the computer cords, even the curtains. Erin spent the morning with a recycling bin. Now THAT is how you ~~celebrate a birthday~~ start a prank war! No word yet on how dear Erin plans to retaliate. Suggestions encouraged. The hooligans responsible are known to all (they left a signed card). More pictures are after the jump.

TRACEY CATALDO
EVERY PEN!

TRACEY CATALDO
Before.

TRACEY CATALDO
Close up.

TRACEY CATALDO
THE HOOLIGANS!!!

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This was awesome.

Posted by Dominic Holden on July 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM

SO MANY PRESENTS! Happy birthday!!! XOXOX

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on July 30, 2012 at 3:59 PM

Here's an old favorite showing folks doing it to their boss's office while he was away - they rigged his office to play the Star Wars Imperial Theme when he walked in. I love these kinds of thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpFVCI3TY…

Posted by gloomy gus on July 30, 2012 at 4:01 PM

the ball is my favorite part

(TWSS)

Posted by alithea on July 30, 2012 at 4:07 PM

Working at The Stranger must be like entering an alternative dimension in time and space. The Twilight Zone.

Posted by SeattleKim on July 30, 2012 at 4:39 PM

Finally, a non-disgusting looking desk in the Stranger office! (in the before picture, at least)

Posted by Hernandez

on July 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM

@6 That was EXACTLY what I was thinking!

Posted by TheMisanthrope on July 30, 2012 at 4:43 PM

I like the curtains.

Posted by Simone on July 30, 2012 at 4:48 PM

Nice one.

Cruelest office prank was when somebody told our IT person that we were having a what they called a Roadhouse White-Trash '80's Party at the office one Friday. They even meticulously dummied up a cool flyer and everything for this person.

So she showed up early Friday AM decked out in neon hyper-color off-the-shoulder-half-shirt, glitter bra, ripped acid wash jeans, teased hair. The works. And of course there was no party and she was the only person dressed up. And we had all sorts of client meetings.

This was repeated another time. They told somebody it was a Toga party. In February. And the poor bastard rode the bus.

Posted by tkc on July 30, 2012 at 5:11 PM

It is either very brave or very foolish to start a prank war with a tech wizard. She can mess with you in ways that a technopeasant like you has never even dreamed of. Good luck (and don't ask to borrow my laptop or my iPhone for a long, long while). But please do post screenshots.

Posted by marymc on July 30, 2012 at 5:50 PM