I still have one of these from when I was a kid pranking my parents. Except it looks like such a dumb old can no one could possibly fall for it now unless then were a toddler.
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open an antique store just for the joke.
problem solved.
I don't remember, besides the atmosphere being far more enjoyable, and xmas not feeling fake.
I also got to see Michael Jackson die, and the world go to hell far before I was an adult.
Sometimes you'd eat your morning cereal and there was a peanut inside of the cereal.
Pretty sure those prank items still exist.
Prank?
Those were real vipers dude.
Back when pranks were funny.
ummm that was the 50s yo
Goatse
No way that was in the 90s. Was it??
I first saw it on Usenet which I stopped using about 99, so yah, sometime before that. Probably mid 90s or a little later.
Yeah it's pre-9/11
Holy crap, I had no idea. I remember learning about it during the fark.com fazed.net days so I thought it was at least 2003 ish.
Kids wanted to get up early on a Saturday, because that's when the best cartoons came on.
I used to get up so early on Saturdays that the test pattern was still on, and that's a whole topic of conversation unto itself.
Was it the one with just colored bars or was it the one with the Native American?
Colored bars!
Every morning the sky would blink and it was our one rule that we would look up and ululate until our throats grew sharp, but it's not really fashionable to bring up since the split
The internet used to scream in agony every time you woke it.
We should have listened
And there was a creepy 3D dancing baby
Did that originate on Ally McBiel or was that a thing prior that was adopted by the show?
No, it was from 3DS max studio.
It was one of the first viral videos, I remember getting it via email from my father's friend (on the family's email account before Hotmail)
Since it was a max file people started modifying the dancing steps so there were many variations and it became very popular to the point that it appeared in Ally Mcbeal
Sometimes it was busy and you'd have to phone back.
Eventually it gave in to the horror and now suffers in silence.
Yeah it was all Mechanicus style.
Phones didn't have cords but they couldn't leave the house
Range extenders = very long cord.
It was actually a peak fidget accessory
They make guitar cables that are wound like this and they're low key the best imo because they basically never get tangled
These ones used to get tangled all the time though. Then they’d get a weird U shaped kink when you tried to fix it.
Here's an old memory of mine relating to this.
Lil bubby child is the best. Channel is here https://youtube.com/@lilbubbychild
When I saw this I instantly started doing southern accents because of that account xD Hilarious videos indeed.
So, I was thinking that the original joke was in a peanut brittle can, which got me to look it up. This prank has a Wikipedia page! Apparently, the original prank was in a jam jar.
the snake nut can is one of the only practical jokes ive ever successfully deployed
Lol nobody could come up with a better name than "snake nut can"?
That's how they used to spice it up until the market fell out of the snakes-in-cans business.
How’s the chewing gum/mouse trap game? I assume the click-pen/grill starter gag ate into sale of those too.
Man that is a Wikipedia page desperately in need of a video, or at least some images.
I don't remember who had one, my grandma probably, that thing can go in so many places...
Bzoiiing!!!
Human Squidbillies
Squidbillies was so good. Sucks that Unknown Hinson wasn’t acting when he played Early, he was just an actual piece of shit.
Yep it turned out he was really too well suited for the role, but too stupid to keep his racism quiet.