Category Archives: Pranks

Of Teddy Bears and Farting Dogs

My friend Amy Boyd has, over the time that she has worked at Texas State University, acquired a fairly impressive collection of stuffed animals. This was not because she bought them herself, or even because she’s particularly fond of them, but because someone gave her the first one as a joke. Other people got it [...]

Cuckoo Clock

Our department has an annual white elephant gift exchange. If you’ve never participated in one, they go something like this:

Player A chooses a wrapped gift from a pile and unwraps it.
Player B then can select another wrapped gift, or steal Player A’s. Player A then selects a new wrapped gift.
Player C selects a wrapped gift [...]