What the hell is an "approved senior prank"?

dnrta, but the principal suspended them anyway and barred them from graduation, right?

soap markers, subby.... not a big deal.

the kids were made to stop partway through their school-sanctioned decorating due to some 'inappropriate" drawings.

not a big deal at all.

OtherLittleGuy: dnrta, but the principal suspended them anyway and barred them from graduation, right?

Even better. Busybody neighbors.

Is it a sign of a stoke, when all you can smell is vanilla after you read a story?

sno man: Is it a sign of a stoke, when all you can smell is vanilla after you read a story?

might be a sign of a toke

calbert: soap markers, subby.... not a big deal.

the kids were made to stop partway through their school-sanctioned decorating due to some 'inappropriate" drawings.

not a big deal at all.

lol penis

Our senior prank involved markers. And pigs. It was in no way approved.

What does that even mean?

serial_crusher: What the hell is an "approved senior prank"?

While you are sleeping, I would like to place your hand in a bowl of warm water.

But I would like to make sure that I have your permission before I do so.

I will be doing this tonight after midnight.

Please sign the consent form, and please do not suspect a thing.

Quote from the principal: "I would rather see them do it in a controlled environment where, one, they won't hurt themselves, and two, they won't do anything destructive."

WHAAAA--? Isn't that the whole point of a senior prank?

The best part of high school was a few months after graduation everyone realizes that the last 12 years of school were ALL a huge prank.

HAHA A FOR MY SENIOR PRANK WE LET 4 OILED PIGS LOOSE IN THE HALLS, WE PAINTED 1, 2, 3, AND... FIVE ON THEM

/lets all be morons, yay!

Ceiling Moran: Quote from the principal: "I would rather see them do it in a controlled environment where, one, they won't hurt themselves, and two, they won't do anything destructive."

WHAAAA--? Isn't that the whole point of a senior prank?

It's supposed to be a "senior prank," not "senior vandalism." Props to the principal for understanding that you can't make high-school seniors NOT do pranks, and that being an authority figure doesn't require chickenshiat authoritarianism.

My senior class went a bit overboard with the "senior" stuff. We had half a dozen "senior skip days," because we were all lazy. We had a senior campout in the parking lot where lots of people were idiots and got MIPs. And there were probably a dozen separate, uncoordinated senior pranks. The best was covering every toilet handle, sink knob, and paper towel dispenser lever in the school in vaseline. And lastly, of course, the end-of-the-year bonfire in the woods which was a mile from the nearest house, but still got shut down by the police because 200 people apparently make enough noise to be heard a mile a way. 50+ cars parked on the mostly untrafficked rural road nearby may have been a bit of a tip-off too.

It's not a prank if it's pre-approved by the people you're supposed to be pranking. It's an planned event.

Sounds about as exciting as the time my girlfriend asked me to sneak into her house one night wearing a hooded tracksuit and forcibly rape her. It just really wasn't a rape.

reubendaley: Sounds about as exciting as the time my girlfriend asked me to sneak into her house one night wearing a hooded tracksuit and forcibly rape her. It just really wasn't a rape.

Go on ...

I can't remember there being any senior pranks at my school. No idea why....

abhorrent1: It's not a prank if it's pre-approved by the people you're supposed to be pranking. It's an planned event.

exactly. i know none the pranks our seniors did were ever "approved" that's the whole point of it being a prank.

i like how they can't have a camp-out cause of "safety concerns" and "they won't hurt themselves" if you hurt yourself setting up a senior prank your doing it wrong. also whatever happened to the live and learn aspect of life and growing up? why are we starting to be like britain and ruining all the fun cause someone might get hurt? oh no, they might cut themselves or gasp get a bruise. i feel sorry for this generation of kids and future generations since we'll be just as bad as britain in a few more years and get extreme about "safety"

serial_crusher: What the hell is an "approved senior prank"?

It's a long held tradition here at Milquetoast Senior High.

Go Beige!

serial_crusher: What the hell is an "approved senior prank"?

Something like mandatory volunteering.

I'm not sure what I was supposed to take away from that little story, but all I came away with was disappointment that an entire graduating class failed to turn "approved senior prank" into "just the distraction we needed".

It aint a prank if no one ends up dead.


Why back in my days....

reubendaley: Sounds about as exciting as the time my girlfriend asked me to sneak into her house one night wearing a hooded tracksuit and forcibly rape her. It just really wasn't a rape.

... but was it actually with her?

/oops, wrong window

abhorrent1: It's not a prank if it's pre-approved by the people you're supposed to be pranking. It's an planned event.

I came here to say the same thing. However, I discovered that there is a second definition of prank which fits the story well:

Prank: (tr) To decorate or dress ostentatiously or gaudily.

If you're a guy, please don't streak your high school for senior prank. Thanks.

--Signed, "A Guy Who Used To Be In High School"

Why did they think vandalism would be funny? The best pranks are creative and harmless, not simply making a mess and saying, "Haha, that janitor has to clean it up!"

We did alarm clock day. About 40 wind-up alarm clocks, set to go off a few minutes apart, then stashed throughout the school in empty lockers and closets. One goes off and about the time they've found it, the next one is clanging away somewhere else. The whole school was in chaos for about 2 hours, but nothing got damaged, nobody got hurt, and ultimately, even the principal admitted it was pretty funny.

Amateurs.

Here's a prank I love to play, I can't wait til I can play it with my own: