One of my coworkers has successfully pulled this one off many times. When you call him, he picks up the phone and says his voice mail greeting followed by the beep and then he will quietly listen to the next person “record” the message.
back in time when i used to live in my village [the whole village was our ‘playground’], I and my friends used to go out in the middle of the night and through stones in two houses [whose occupants did not get along well]. the moments stones rained down on their clay-tiled roofs, they would come out of their houses and start fighting with each other…we used to hide and watch their on-going fights [not physical though]…we learned a few new gaaliyaaN every night!
oh yeah, in one of those houses, one guy had his unmarried middle aged sister who had some mental health issues, the sister would come out yelling at his brother saying:
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“tumhaariii gaaoN meN merii vajah se dushmanii baRhtii jaa rahii hai…ghar meN rishte to aate nahiiN, patthar aane lage aur hamaare ghar meN ber [plum] kaa koii peR bhii nahiiN…mujhe ab yahaN Dar lagtaa hai…merii shaadii karvaa ke mujhe yahaN se lillah ruKhsat karo”.**
I don’t know if this counts as a practical joke, but a few coworkers decided to re-enact the ‘meow’ bit from Super Troopers. The joke goes like this, instead of using ‘now’ in a sentence, you use ‘meow’ and see if the people catch it.
Example: ‘Have a good day, meow’. ‘How are you feeling, meow’.
aww that actually sounds kinda cute. So did it catch on?
Ok, I’ll post one more story. Same coworker (he is our Jim Halpert) … when one of the junior staff calls him (usually with a question), he instantly transfers the call to another random person in the office, so the caller gets confused for a second that perhaps they dialed the wrong extension. When they call again, he’ll transfer their call to a different person. hehe He is quite the joker.