Practical Joke Ideas

Everyone likes to be entertained, and one such source of entertainment is to place your friends in precarious, odd circumstances, by some funny practical joke ideas, and enjoy their reaction. You don't need sophisticated planning for this, even simple prank ideas for practical jokes can help you to play a good gag on your friend. Practical jokes are played by everyone, one most common joke being scribbling something on a piece of a paper and sticking it on someone's back. Here are some more tried-and-tested effective practical joke ideas.

Cheese in Air Conditioning Vent
This is one of the simplest practical jokes to play on your friends or relatives when you are at their place. Just take a piece of cheese and plant it in their air conditioning vent (you can also plant it in the heater vent). It will take some time for the cheese to rot, but once it does, the entire room will be filled with weird smell. Your friend will keep wandering where this smell is coming from, until he launches a massive hunt for the smell source. You can keep a track of his bad times by visiting him or on the phone and have fun.

Computer Pranks and Practical Jokes
Computers have become an important component of our daily lives. There are quite a few pranks you can play on your friends with the help of this technological marvel. Though quite simple, they can be fun. If you have an old computer keyboard, you can use it as an handy prankster tool. Take a screwdriver and pop out two keys of the keyboard and interchange them. After re-arranging all the keys in the same way, just sit back and enjoy, while your friend tries his level best to spell simple words. Just make sure you use this trick on someone who is not well-versed with typing. It won't be effective when tried on a person who types without looking at the keyboard.

Soaping the Car
One of the most simple car pranks, soaping the car includes using a bar of soap to draw or write anything on your neighbors car. It is time consuming to wash it off the car, and hence very frustrating. You can slip into your neighbors porch, and scribble your 'heartfelt' messages or draw smileys on the car windshield. Next morning when your neighbor sits into the car, and checks the windshield he will be in for a big surprise. You can sit back and enjoy his reactions, while you see him try his best to wash off your artwork. Going a step further, if you find the door of the car open, sneak into the car and soap it (write on the windshield) from inside. When your neighbor sees it, he will try his best to wash off the message from outside, until he realizes that it is written from inside. It will take some time for him to realize this, and provide you some entertainment.

Answering Machine Prank
There are a few practical joke ideas involving phone answering machine, and believe me, these ideas work all the time. Here is one such simple practical joke wherein you will require to get hold of your friends answering machine. Once you lay your hands on the answering machine, record a new message and set the answering machine to answer on the very first ring. An ideal message would be "This is the FBI. All calls being made to this number are being traced and recorded". Your friend will surely wonder why no one is staying in touch with him these days? The look on his face will be worth seeing when he realizes why exactly people are staying away from him. In yet another prank, you can set the message on your own answering machine, and see how each caller reacts on hearing this message. But make sure you call them after they hang up, you wouldn't want such misunderstandings spread like wildfire.

These were some bloopers and practical jokes to play on people around you. The entertainment we derive from these funny practical jokes tends to relax our mind and makes us forget all our worries, thus giving us the much needed peace of mind. With life full of hardships, such small things can help us to achieve overall happiness, which is quite important.