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[dreamcatchings]

I'm somehow in disbelief that this could be my list for the day, but I'm not complaining. Poke me if I missed something.

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XG:
Tarot to Ava
Tarot to Doug (and Clarice later?)

WX:
Phi to Warren
mod stuff
backstory

GA:

XR:

EU:
Paige to mall
Paige to room
Paige to Berto

Comments

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Think we could manage a prank post this coming week? When there's a little less mid-termness going on?

[magikfanfic.livejournal.com]

Probably.

Am I giving you a prankee or a pranker? And what kinda prank? Depending on the time frame, pranking Paige might just wind her up and send her into tears again but there's always Betsy, Marie-Ange and Lucy all wandering around the mansion.

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the exploding salt-shaker prank. Who'd take it the funniest?

[magikfanfic.livejournal.com]

Uhhhhh. Hmmmm. Not Marie-Ange, that's for damn sure.

What is the exploding salt shaker prank? How does it work? Paige is likely the best one to do something like that on, and if we set it mid-June or sometime in July she's less likely to be as frantic.

[just-shai.livejournal.com]

Ha! Found it.

This reminds me of a similar stunt we used to enjoy at the dining hall in my undergrad days. The food service used opaque plastic salt and pepper shakers with pop-off tops that could be pried off with a knife blade if you were persistent enough.

PREPARATION (in a restroom nearby):

Empty salt ( or pepper) from a previously 'acquired' container and fill about 1/3 full with concentrated lemon juice.
Place a thin tissue across the opening, poke it down a bit to form a depression, and fill the depression with about a teaspoon of baking soda.
Cover (from the inside) the holes of the top with tape of the appropriate color.
Replace top on container and trim visible tissue from around the top.
Carry the device to dining hall (upright and as stable as is possible... for your own sake).

After discretely placing the shaker on your table (only place it near to you... see caveat #1 below), observe the next person to use the salt (pepper). (S)He will shake lightly at first, then harder as nothing comes out. Due to the breakdown of the tissue and the pressure resulting from the classic acid/base reaction, the top will pop off (quite spectacularly) amidst a shower of foam. Your victim (as will as everyone around) should have quite a reaction, since one does not usually observe this type of behavior in a salt (pepper) shaker!

CAVEATS:

The top will come off with some force. If the holes are sealed well, this will happen on about the second or third shake. Once, though, due to poor sealing, it took about 5 seconds, during which time our victim started looking at the shaker to examine the "foamy stuff coming out" of the holes... we quickly grabbed the shaker from her to direct the top towards the ceiling before it went off. So, watch carefully!
The "foam shower" (lemon juice & soda) may ruin you victim meal... be prepared to pop for another one.

Don't do this if your victim or anyone near ground zero is dressed up (this joke will flop at board meetings and the like)

[laele75.livejournal.com]

All right, I must catch up today. So then you'll owe four more posts. ;)

[magikfanfic.livejournal.com]

Curse you. *shakes fist*

Nah, not really.