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Soldier · 02-03-2004, 05:46 PM

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Originally posted by pacer
Antics like this used to be done at CalTech each year - maybe they still are. some I heard of - lining the entire room (in this case just her half) with a plastic liner or dropcloth and filling it with water and fish - a room size variant on the aquarium room. Others involved relocating the room to a different location - how about to the fencing salle? or relocating a vehicle into the room. The gimmick used to be that if the senior left the room unlocked it was off limits to any pranks, but if the locking mechanism the senior devised was somehow defeated - the room was fair game.

Knew someone who covered a classmate's entire floorwith paper dixie cups each half filled with water.... the trick was all the cups had been stapled together.

Yep, the dixie cup one's been done. One I'm considering is like your aquarium idea, but with concrete.

Soldier · 02-03-2004, 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by Lady Cristina
Decorate her room in Army or Navy paraphernalia. Also you could turn it into a very girly room with lots of pink and flowers. Just a thought.

We're probably doing that to a male in the squadron, since we can't ask, and he can't tell, but we can be strongly suspicious...

npkeith · 02-03-2004, 08:13 PM

Fill the room waist deep with the little polystyrene beads that come in beanbag chairs. They blow into the hall as soon as you open the door, and pick up a static charge so they stick to every thing even after several hours work with a shop vac, they will still keep finding them. (not mention that the shop vac output will blow them around even more....)

Styrofoam packing peanuts also work, but they are a little easier to clean up (maybe crush them a bit first) - by them at the local shipping center.
-Keith

Army Fencer · 02-04-2004, 12:12 PM

Apphia??

Hehehehe.

It's interesting that both the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy has plebe vandalism traditions tied to 100th Night... not so with West Point. Hmmm.

Soldier · 02-04-2004, 12:19 PM

Yep, that's her. She was our HR officer last semester, and in my element; not only was she the worst HR officer I've ever seen, but I swear she's bipolar. I take it you know her?

MyraTrue · 02-04-2004, 12:49 PM

speaking of powdered sugar... nothing more evil in a bed than powdered sugar. I mean, you don't notice it at all... until you sleep on it a while, and it melts. All over. UGH.

I'm afraid I'm at a loss for other ideas.

Louweasel · 02-04-2004, 04:17 PM

This is an oldie but just in case you haven't tried it:
Get some kippers, or other strong smelling fish, then unpick the hem of her curtains, put in small pieces of the fish, and sew back up. Nice and subtly, so it doesn't show. If you can arrange it so the room is heated more than usual, so much the better. In a short while, there will be an all-pervading horrible smell that she will be at a loss to find the source of... If no curtains but there is a suspended ceiling with removable panels, up behind one of those panels is a good place too.

Or if she will be away a day or two and there is carpet or matting in her room (or even just a rug or mat), water it liberally and sow mustard and cress. Grows beautifully and the carpet is completely buggered.

Soldier · 02-04-2004, 04:47 PM

Restating: We've got a few hours one night, and the idea is to not be subtle at all. We also need to leave the opposite half of the room untouched.

mifencer · 02-04-2004, 07:42 PM

She's coming back drunk, right? How about blowing out the lights and hanging some fly paper. The more she touches the more she'll get stuck.

MikeHarm · 02-05-2004, 10:13 AM

As long as the lights are out and she's stumbling around in the dark grabbing fly paper trying to turn the lights on it might be fun to buy a batch of whoopie cushions and strew them about on the floor for her to step on for that extra touch.

a517dogg · 02-05-2004, 10:28 AM

If there is carpeting, pull it up and put those caps that explode when you throw them on the ground under it. That way when she walks into the room, the floor will explode.

npkeith · 02-05-2004, 01:48 PM

I like the fly paper one - while you're at it, buy a case of those mouse traps called "glue traps" (basically a big postcard with really thick, sticky glue on one side) and put them on every other level surface (double stick tape one over the light switch, put one on the pillow....) Coupled with the fly paper, they'll be peeling bits off for days.

Here's another one - place a web of thread (the really fine monofilament that you buy in fabric stores for sewing with would work well) over the open door - just start at one side and go back and forth across the door, taping it to each side (don't forget top to bottom too)as you go. Try to rig it so that it a drunk will blunder right through it and get coated (feels like a giant spider web). If you can then coat them with flypaper and glue traps, even better.

Maybe a flour bomb after they are good and sticky....

MyraTrue · 02-05-2004, 02:01 PM

a517dogg's got one there! You can actually BUY sticky stuff... its NASTY! (I worked with it for the last 3 years) You can get it in various sizes of cans, but it DOES NOT wash off. You have to use mineral spirits to get it off, and it doesn't even come off then. We used to try EVERYTHING to get it off. The more you touch it, the worse it gets, and spreads. Everywhere. And sticks everything to you too.

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER get it in your hair.

Tanglefoot is a trade name for it, but I KNOW there are other names for it as well.

Louweasel · 02-05-2004, 03:07 PM

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Originally posted by Soldier
Restating: We've got a few hours one night, and the idea is to not be subtle at all. We also need to leave the opposite half of the room untouched.

Oh, bog off then. Sorry to waste your time. Just trying to contribute. So sue me for not concentrating. Actually, shouldn't say that, you're American, there's probably a legal precedent for that. My soft and fluffy side says you didn't mean that post to be quite so impatient-sounding verging on the rude, but now I am just thinking "sod you, if you can't even be nice I'm not replying to your threads again"
*louweasel stalks off in a huff*

Louweasel · 02-05-2004, 03:09 PM

PS I think what you are planning to do to that don't ask don't tell guy is mean.

firebrand · 02-05-2004, 03:13 PM

You could try the old bucket on the partly opened door trick or something more original like condensed milk.

firebrand

Soldier · 02-05-2004, 05:34 PM

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Originally posted by Louweasel
Oh, bog off then. Sorry to waste your time. Just trying to contribute. So sue me for not concentrating. Actually, shouldn't say that, you're American, there's probably a legal precedent for that. My soft and fluffy side says you didn't mean that post to be quite so impatient-sounding verging on the rude, but now I am just thinking "sod you, if you can't even be nice I'm not replying to your threads again"
*louweasel stalks off in a huff*

I've run into this problem before - asking for ideas, then sounding quite rude when I point out problems with those ideas that others present. You're not the first to say it. If I say I'm sorry (which I am) and that I've already been trying to work on that for quite some time (which I have been, and still am), does that make a difference to you?

And please don't lump me with most Americans; most Americans suck.

P.S. He deserves it.

npkeith · 02-05-2004, 07:53 PM

Any chance you can post pictures of the finished product (whatever you choose to go with)?

Especially if you can catch them after they get back (but you probably have to be back in barracks (or whatever) before then.)

Soldier · 02-05-2004, 10:32 PM

We've got twenty-some seniors here; I'll get pictures of as many rooms as possible, if somebody's got a place to host them. We've got to be in rooms by taps, but we're all in the same three hallways, and nobody really cares if you're out of the room, so long as you're signed back into the squadron - and the seniors all have to be signed back in by taps, too.

Louweasel · 02-08-2004, 11:15 AM

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Originally posted by Soldier
I've run into this problem before - asking for ideas, then sounding quite rude when I point out problems with those ideas that others present. You're not the first to say it. If I say I'm sorry (which I am) and that I've already been trying to work on that for quite some time (which I have been, and still am), does that make a difference to you?

And please don't lump me with most Americans; most Americans suck.

P.S. He deserves it.

I'm sorry too - think I was being a bit touchy to be honest! I am a bit of a moody cow sometimes. To use that phrase you liked from the other thread, feel free to tell me to shut my gob!