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How to Use Dixie Cups to Pull the Ultimate Prank
While sifting through some of the old photographs saved on my computer, I found something that I thought was worth sharing. You see, back when I was an obnoxious high school student, I partook in an amazing prank orchestrated by one of my teachers. It is amazing what you can do with free labor, (what student wouldn’t want to help teachers prank eachother?) and 10,000 dixie cups.
Every single one of those 10,000 dixie cups was full of water. It took 10 people 3 hours to painstakingly set those things up and fill them. Every single horizontal surface we could get to was covered. There were even dixie cups in the desk drawers.
If you do decide that harassing your friends with thousands of tiny paper cups is a great way to spend your time and money, you should know that this was terrible to clean up. The Daily Interweb takes no responsibility for property you destroy.
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its a lot easier to do it at night and use ice cubes. that way when your doing it, you don’t accidently spill
Oh my god.
That is just awesome.
whats the point
My friends and I did this in college to a certain office (bigger than your example, but we had many more people helping out so it wasn’t as big of task). All the wax lining the cups came off, and the cups all burst. Since this was a cubical type situation, there was nothing stopping the flow of water. The entire floor of the building was 1/2 inch deep in water.
@NJ bullshit. “The entire floor of the building was 1/2 inch deep in water.”
If you figure 5oz of water per cup and 128oz in a gallon. 3000 cups holds roughly 117 gallons of water. That is approx. 2 bathtubs of water
If NJ’s “project” was bigger, his claim is highly likely.
We did this to a coworker. We went the extra mile and stapled every cup together.
Unfortunately, this was lame because it made cleanup much easier as you could pick up 20+ cups at a time.
Best part was that we emptied Walmart of all their paper cups. This included the little kid party packs of Barney and the Lion King. I’m sure some poor kid was crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow.
Yeah, this was a great band-camp prank in the dining hall a year back…
Concerning the temperature of H2O, which we’ll assume was room temp @ 72 degrees, the volume of H2O can be calculated thusly:
V = lwh
Surface = 2lw + 2lh + 2wh
So NJ would be correct. There would be 1/2 inch of H2O covering the floor.
Missed the teachers chair.
just wondering what school this is, looks mysteriously like my high school physics room mind sharing city/school name?
I think it’s a fantastic prank. As the prankee, it would break your brain walking into, it’d frustrate the hell out of you at the time, but afterwards it’d be hilarious and the worst possible damage or harm it could cause is some watermarked furniture. What more could one ask for in a prank?
@Curt: Excellent “So I Married an Axe Murderer” quote!
Why is the bottle of lube halfway in the room lonely? what is the story behind this poor bottle? please inform
@Sam If you used ice, the water level would go down and the cups would have less water in them.
@Sam:
Point me to the nearest faucet that pours enough free ICE CUBES to fill 10,000 cups.
We did this to my RA freshman year. We also drywalled the entrance to his room and tin foiled everything in the room.
Thats awesome, good job.
We did this in our school and added some sugar to the water for extra fun
Happy desks are happy.
I can’t produce this much urine all at once, I’d have to save it up for a few days.
tom mandory: what’s NOT the point?
Looks like the chairs got the joke…
You could always staple them together in ten foot long, single rows!
Head, Pants, NOW!!!!
That is awesome.
This looks more like you’re pranking the janitor.
This is Mr. Sarcona’s room, isn’t it?
is that….
is that a bottle of hand sanitizer in the middle-ish desk seat?
Great Article. That room looks unusually familiar. Can you tell me what school that is, or in which state?
what’s fun is to put all the dixie cups right next to each other and then staple them together before filling them with water. the only way to really clean it up without making a mess is to use a straw to get the water out.
this usually works better for just a desk or table, not a whole room.
I would just push it all onto the floor and demand whoever did it clean it up.
@Arc A’Mediees: Your calculation is full of holes…
@NJ I second that B.S. You made that whole thing up hah.
@Jac lol… full of holes…
@this_article
That is not 10000 paper cups.
What you should of did was fill the cups up with is Simple Syrup basically sugar water. We make it a my work. It takes 85 lbs of sugar for every 8 gallons of Hot water. When it hits the floor it is slippery as HELL. So if you spill just one cup someone is sure to fall. But that is a nice prank.
That’s a lot of effort to get
all those Dixie cups placed.
Who put them away?
thanks from tony
awesome prank!
i’m assuming there were some spills during the setup?
Stop nay-saying this prank
It could 10000 cups
Who cares any way, still a cool prank.
This whole article was fun.
@Binks that made my day.
@Cyclonus:
That would require half a ton of sugar.
3000cups * 5oz/cup / 128oz/gallon * 85lbs/8gal = 1245lb of sugar.
That could get expensive.
It would only take 4,820 cups to cost you a ton of sugar. That picture could easily have anywhere from 3000-5000.
raw sugar costs 11cents a pound, or $220 a ton. That’s a fairly heavy investment for a silly prank.
Oh, and @Arc A’Mediees: Do you even know what you’re talking about? That reads like the envelope-calculation equivalent of “how is babby formed”. Numbers, please!
Walks into room.
“Janitor!”
Walks out of room.
I love google conversions:
50000 oz = 69.6252894 (sq yd) in
i.e. 69 square yards, one inch deep
or 168 square yards, 1/2 inch deep
2 girls and 10000 cups ?
Kudos to bub lol
Dont rlly get binks though
friends of mine did the same prank in the senior hallway of their high school. They blocked off all entrances except the adjoining hallway. At the opposite end of the hall put a boom box blasting really loud terrible techno music. The first 2 feet of cups were empty so the teachers just started kicking them over to get to the end of the hallway. Then they hit the water!
brilliant!
My school did this down a hall at our school, it took then about six hours and maintenance just knocked over all the cups and mopped/shop vac’d all the water up in thirty minutes. It was clean by the time everyone got to school.
you have to staple them together!!
A school near mine did this to the administration wing
we did something similar in camp involving an overturned cup and a playing card.
fill the cup, put the card on top. hold secure and turn over the cup. with card now on bottom, place on flat table. slide card out slowly while on table. almost all water will stay in cup. it now cant be removed without spillage and/or very careful replacement of the card.
set up a lot of these for the real fun.
d0h
you could clean that all up with a shop vac in no time
theres lotion on one of the students chairs haha
looks like physics class at Mt Brook High School.
Is that Pennsbury High School? Looks just liked one of the biology classrooms before the big renovation.
It looks like ANY high school science classroom…
And to think… back when I was young we only used to hide an M80 in the teacher’s drawer with a percussion fuse.
Whoa! that frikkin looks like my freshman science classroom!
Mr. Bryan was totally the one to prank… Bratface.
At a summer camp I worked at, counselors would go into others’ cabins and put a dixie cup of ice water on their sleeping victim’s back so when they roll over…
psssh, someone did this to my dorm room, but stapled ALL of the cups together and filled them with ammonia! Yuck.
hahahaha! dixie cups!!!!! i wonder how many cups there r?!!! lol
Even better..just one cup..brim full of piss
Lol … we would never have the guts to do that in my school !
i donno y u’d want 2 get the chair the poor teacha would have a wet butt.
thats not 10,000 cups, BS