Keyboard switched....cracked me up.

[John Schmidt]

Mainly because I can see myself doing something like this.

"Keyboard Switch"

For a computer programming class, I sat directly across from someone, and our computers were facing away from each other. A few minutes into the class, she got up to leave the room. I reached between our computers and switched the inputs for the keyboards. She came back and started typing and immediately got a distressed look on her face.

She called the teacher over and explained that no matter what she typed, nothing would happen. The teacher tried everything. By this time I was hiding behind my monitor quaking red-faced.

I started to type, "Leave me alone!"

They both jumped back, silenced. "What?!" exclaimed the teacher.

I typed, "I said leave me alone!"

The kid got real upset. "I didn't do anything to it, I swear!"

It was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud. This conversation between them and HAL 2000 went on for an amazing five minutes.

Me: "Don't touch me!"

Her: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hit your keys that hard."

Me: "Who do you think you are anyway?!" etc. Finally, I couldn't contain myself any longer and fell out of my chair laughing.

After they had realized what I had done, they both turned beet red.

Funny, I never got more than a C- in that class.
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Reminds me of a typing class I took in college. I sat next to this pretty little thing that was VERY buxom. She actually had a difficult time addressing the typewriter because she was small in stature, so needed the chair close to the table. At the same time, due to her endowment needed some clearance also. The chairs had a lever on the bottom that allowed you to raise/lower the chair, but you had to be careful where you put your feet. If you had the habit of tucking your feet back under the chair...as she did, you could accidentally bump the release and down would go the chair. One afternoon I was chatting with her and she very coyly tucked her feet back underneath and swoosh....down she went. But not all the way down. Seems she was stopped by the protruding section of her upper torso, which was pressing on the keyboard, which in turn was going mmmmmmmmmmmmmbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb..................

It happened so fast she couldn't prevent it, and she was stuck. In a galant move I yanked the chair back and down she went the rest of the way....pinning her feet under the chair. Now she's in pain, and suddenly that pretty little thing with the cute face and perky little smile cut loose with a vocabulary that would have embarrassed a pirate. Finally the chair tipped over and three of us were able to release the lever and lift the bottom up to free her feet. She asked the prof for a different spot, saying it was dangerous sitting next to me. He asked if I was the one that caused the problem in the first place, she agreed....saying "I guess things couldn't get any worse." I decided I would move, seemed like a wise decision.

[Sludge]

Those are pretty good.  I was a bit of a prankster when I was in the Marine Corps with our computers.  I was an instructor in the training squadron at the end of my time and we had an office with a few desks and PCs. This is when windows had just first rolled out as an operating system instead of a program. 

One of my tricks was to take the mouse on a computer and disconnect it and then connect mine to it.  I would sit at the other computer and try to mimic what ever movements they made but of course it wouldnt work right and for a few minutes I had some folks real upset. 

Another of my tricks was to take a screen shot of the windows desk top.  Then set it as the wall paper and remove all the icons on the desktop to a folder.  Because the screen shot I had taken had the icons on it... the pc appeared to be unaffected.  However, none of the icons would work when clicked on.  That drove some of em crazy for a while.

Another was to take the "blue screen of death" (I had found a picture of it) and make it the screen saver.  Folks would come back to their computer and see that and just start bitching and sometimes hit Ctrl - Alt - Del before they realized what had happened.

Oh, I could go on... but those were some of the simplest to do and were very entertaining.

[hubcapsc]

The gray kittie was sitting on Carolyn's lap today, while she was using her laptop... he scrambled
away for some cat reason, and pressed a bunch of key combinations in the process... after that, the
j,k,l,u,i and o keys generated 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, and she was up the creek... unable to type
some important stuff like, her password, and some other stuff  ...

When I got home I googled up the key combination from my laptop to put it back right and now she's
good again... I just told her about y'alls shenanigans and she got a kick out of it...



-Mike

[GreenLantern57]

We used to use the network messenger to send fake messages to the unsuspecting.

You have preformed an illegal function, please log off and restart your computer.

You have been randomly selected to have your internet activity monitored today. Please continue as you would on a normal work day.

Stuff like that. Plus taking the ball out of the mouse. Now we put a piece of tape across the light and mark it with some black marker. Red makes it read funny too!
If the guy really deserved it, we would turn up his speakers and send him an e-mail that would automatically start a sound file. Like the famous diner scene from Harry met Sally. Too bad they block that kind of stuff automatically now!