We were trashed and under the influence of some, um, recreational pharmaceuticals, and we grabbed up four empty gallon jugs and set out on a trek of about 3/4 mile each way to the nearest place we could fill them up. So, one night I was having this party and we ran out of water. If I make it into tea or something, okay but I much prefer to use real water. For instance.įirst, you have to understand that the water that comes out of the tap in my town (Davis, CA) is HORRIFYINGLY BAD. I've more than once made them myself, but the best ones are the ones where someone 'deserves' it (at least in your then-likely-plastered mind). Well, I find crank calls funny but wrong. But calls on everything from false offers of work, to misrepresentation of identity, takes on some very nasty undertones that fall into that shady area between "illegal" and "legal."Įventually, someone is going to crank call someone to tell them something as dramatic as a loved one is dead, or that a dead loved one is actually alive, and then some very nasty repercussions are in store. Mind you, on crank yankers, the calls are usually exceptionally stupid, and it takes a real loss of cohesion to fall for some of these (the one about the conservationist trying to get people to defecate less often is a good example). To each his own, but crank phone calling crosses the line to "not hurting anyone," in my opinion.
The idea of adding that much annoyance to someone's life, when we all have enough annoyance in our lives to begin with, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Sorry, King S, but I gotta come down in disgust and loathing over cark phone calls, and crank yankers in general. We'd click off around this point since it was hard to stop laughing (especially when pickled). ROSS: "Can you drop it by the office tommorow? I NEED IT!" HA HA HA, I'll get them!! I NEED THAT TAPE!" ROSS:"YOU HAVE A TAPE!! Good, some jerk has been harassing be and I need to get a tape to campus security. US(sheepishly):"Uh yes, someone called, but I don't think it was my TA, I mean your not my TA, I'm not sure what's " ROSS"Hello- you have a message on your machine!" This was to a machine since by the time we were checking Ross didn't directly answer calls US:"Hello, I'm trying to get a hold of Ross, he left a massage on my machine saying he was my physics TA" These conversations would be rather like: Periodically we would call Ross himself to gauge our progress. Pretty much any time a bunch of our coterie was together drinking such calls would be made. This must have been done several dozen if not hundreds of time. " We would sometimes change the class in question, but you get the picture. I'm busy most of the time so please call after 10 PM. I'm your physics TA, and it is URGENT that you call be back. If we got one we would leave a message "Hello this is Ross. We would call the freshlings and hope for an answering machine.
Given that freshlings are usually damned naive, they were the perfect tools. what we did was use the campus directory and call random freshlings. We were a more sly bunch of drunks than that. Campus police would go after that, especially if it were a repeat job. You see we did not prank call our new friend Ross. He called the organization back and they, stupidly, gave my buddy Ross' phone number. Well he and I went trekking out to find this picnic.
This being college, you would swoop down on stuff like that like a vulture.
Crank yankers its my birthday free#
You see a buddy of mine back in the college days saw a poster that advertised a free picnic, he then called the organization in question to get details. What about you? Do you like Crank Yankers? Do you have any crank phone calls you ever did that you want to brag about?īest prank call I know of was actually a series, or rather a dedicated plot to drive a man insane. In fact I seem to remember a summer between 8th and 9th grade of doing calls almost weekly. Though I doubt he ever did, I used to chuckle at thoughts of some old-timer ripping up his basement floor looking for hidden nazi gold. I told this guy he had the loot in his basement, under his floor. When he answered I pretended I was a german named Ernst Zell (Marathon Man) and that I was awaiting a huge delivery of nazi gold. One of my favorites was calling up a guy named Frank Abel. Were any of you crankers? Me and my friends were, big time. The result is, in my opinion, comedy gold. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, Crank Yankers is a show where they get comedians to make real prank calls to people and they then reenact those calls with puppets. Incidentally, my favorite “Yankers” are Bobby Fletcher and Tony Deloge (Super Dave Osborne). Being a fan of the prank phone call from wayyy back in my childhood, I think it was a fantastic idea for a show. I am really enjoying that Comedy Central Show “Crank Yankers”.
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