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[Dave Crevie]

Since there is no official "day" for the Scots to celebrate, ( St. Patrick's has nothing to do with the Scottish people ), I claim April first as the day I best fit in. April Fool's Day. I always used the day as an excuse to prank people I knew or worked with. I inherited this from my mother, who could prank with the best of them. On this day I would usually find a slice of waxed paper in my sandwich that was packed with my school lunch. My thermos, which was normally filled with milk, would be filled with Kaopectate.  Dad wasn't protected from Ma's pranks. He had one of those short, fat thermos bottles, that Ma usually filled with soup or stew. Dad was not a big fan of fish, though he was an avid angler. On this day, Ma would fill that thermos with sardines. Dad hated sardines. I got her a couple of times. The only living thing Ma was afraid of was cockroaches. I bought a bag full of rubber cockroaches, and scattered them around the kitchen at night. Ma was always first up in the morning, so when she turned the light on in the kitchen, she saw all the cockroaches and lost it.

 

At work I used all the classic pranks. Bluing on the machine handles and earpieces of the telephones. A firecracker thrown into the break room when everyone was in there on break.

 

I'm sure some of you readers have some duzies.  I'd like to hear them. 

 

 

P.S. I think the city of Chicago has one. Today they announced a program of trapping all the rats in the city, neutering them, then releasing them back into the neighborhoods. Got to be a joke. 

[John Luongo]

years ago, sometimes we would get called in to work on a sat after a late friday night. one time a guy placed 4 pairs of old work pants on the toilets with work boots. it looked like all the toilets were occupied. not good when nature calls early in the morning after carousing all night.

 

we wore hd rubber gloves when cleaning blowers and aluminum parts in a hot tank. one time someone put vaseline inside the gloves.

[Dave Crevie]

That guy will stop that prank the first time someone vomits in his lunchbox. 

 

My trick with gloves was to put in some grindings from the fiberglass shop. When you put your hands in, it was like there were a million fire ants inside. When I was doing the body on the Elva, my buddy and I would put our plastic jump suits in the washer when we were done grinding for the night. One night his daughter threw a bunch of her undies in the washer, thinking to get a free laundering. Her dainties came out filled with the fiberglass needles, and she was in agony the next day when she put them on. 

[Larry Horner]

So Dave, you don't wash down a bite of haggis with a dram of single malt on Robert Burns day? 

[Dave Crevie]

The haggis I do, the single malt I can't. Heart medication. But I start the meal with finnan haddie, then the haggis with neeps and tatties. Sometimes I start with cullen skink. For high tea, its Arbroath smokies on true Scottish scones. For breakfast, it's bangers and mash, with three quail eggs, fried.

 

For finnan haddie;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For neeps and tatties;

 

 

 

I preferr to buy my haggis. It's not as 'rough' as the true traditional haggis. They no longer use goat intestine as a casing, and the meat is lamb, not mutton. And no cows lungs. It is still mostly barley. I don't do the ode to Robert Burns, but I do slit the haggis with a real Scottish dierk.