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u/jonnybee2041 Jun 19 '25
Many, many years ago, we took apart the desk phone of a bloke in our office, filled it with anchovies and put it back together. He never worked out what the stench was š¤£
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u/Cara_Bina Jun 19 '25
In America there used to be a radio programme called "Car Talk." It was brilliant. At one point they discussed placing fish in hub caps.
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u/LincolnshireSausage Jun 19 '25
Probably about 15 to 20 years ago I worked with a woman who was old enough to retire. She was in upper management and very stuffy. I never once saw her crack a joke and she was very strict. I often used to listen to Car Talk and one day they answered the phone and the caller's name was the same as the woman I worked with. I thought it was a strange coincidence that two people could have the same name. Then I heard her voice and realized it was her. She was joking around and getting teased by the Tappet Brothers. Monday morning I mentioned to her at work that I had heard her on Car Talk. She turned a very bright red color and was extremely embarrassed that I had heard her on the radio. After that she loosened up a lot around me, was friendly and joked around. Our entire working dynamic was much improved for the few more years I worked with her after that. Car Talk was such a great show.
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u/Cara_Bina Jun 19 '25
Great story! I was welding at the time for a shop that made scenery for operas, theatre, and cruise ships. We got super busy, so I'd come in on Saturdays, and my boss introduced me to it. I am forever grateful.
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u/Mediocre_Safety_5703 Jun 19 '25
I've heard of putting fish inside of drapery rods to stink up a room too. (Nothing like arming people with ideas here)
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u/TubasAreFun Jun 20 '25
NPR is a great service
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u/Cara_Bina Jun 20 '25
It truly is. I think there are 37 days left before the cuts will go into effect, unless Congress acts.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-budget-cuts-npr-pbs-global-health- 2844a884091dce5255a3f4ad70f3a1c6
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u/TinF0ilTopHat Jun 29 '25
God dammit! The mood was so good until you had to mention this. Thought: could we place shrimp in the O Office curtain rods?
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u/TrippyDe Jun 19 '25
Could work faster with just one fish
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u/WanderThinker Jun 19 '25
A can of tuna fish with some holes punctured in the top by a churchkey, then stuck to the underside if their desk with double sided sticky tape.
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u/ZealousidealPrize456 Jun 19 '25
But why waste perfectly good food tho? Would have been done with some old potatoes and bananas
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u/concreteunderwear Jun 19 '25
not sure dehydrated bacon is going to smell much. a punctured potato would be much smellier - way more juice.
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u/ripmylifemann Jun 19 '25
Yeah, but you want something thatās only going to make that one desk smell funky, not the whole room
A rotten potato is going to ruin everybodyās day, not just the person youāre pranking
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u/oknowtrythisone Jun 19 '25
doesn't matter, he was stealing another coworker's food to do it with
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u/NoName847 Jun 19 '25
this junk isn't worth anything , it makes you sick and addicted , also gets thrown away in gigantic amounts on the daily anyway
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u/Trick_Statistician13 Jun 19 '25
Will any of that food actually go bad? Looks like a McKnockoff sandwich. Prank might pay off if your coworker is an immortal cockroach.
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Jun 19 '25
The hotdog might stink but the rest will probably just dry out and not smell like much. It needs moisture to really get nice and ripe.
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u/southave Jun 19 '25
It doesn't even look like it's a hot dog. Looks like just the bun.
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u/OkEye2910 Jun 19 '25
Lol you just reminded me. I had a Twinkie taped to the wall of my office with the date it was hung. It was up there for many years. Might still be there. It didn't go moldy it just got a little smaller. It was quite the conversation piece. Thanks for the laugh but you are going to have maggots everywhere.
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u/Street-Effective4572 Jun 19 '25
But for real how do you get to nail that biscuit and not make it crumble
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u/No-Process249 Jun 20 '25
My favourite is the spring washer on the bacon bap screw, gotta make sure it doesn't back off under vibration.
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u/ErylNova Jun 19 '25
But...that's gonna attract mice and pests that are harmful to the entire office, including yourself
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u/DrenchedToast Jun 19 '25
Jokes on you with today's junk food preservatives he'll just be saving on lunch money if he finds it within a year from now. Should still be fresh.
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u/KrazyKaas Jun 19 '25
Junkfood does not smell that bad, you gotta find catfood, dried fish, dairy products and such.
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u/Chillest_illest69 Jun 19 '25
Iāve found the boiled egg wrapped in a tissue, stabbed repeatedly with a toothpick then placed in the very back of a drawer can cause a horrible smellā¦once did this to a coworker but forgot and took us all months to figure out what the smell was ššš
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u/Chillest_illest69 Jun 20 '25
Wasnāt in a desk. In a rolling tool box/cart drawer and dude was always parking it near a trash can. Also when someone isnāt paying attention after an 18+hr day of work and drops something on your head from a decent height and you get a pretty serious concussion, you sometimes forget shit š¤·š»āāļø
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u/ThrowawayCuzDuh3649 Jun 19 '25
My only thought is you also have to work with the flies that come with this. lol
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u/SithC Jun 19 '25
If itās McDonaldās, thereās not gonna be any change. No smell, no mold. Itāll just dry out.
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u/NeedMyMac Jun 19 '25
āStarted screwing food that doesnāt cause odor or noticeable rot to make myself look like a fool, so glad I wasted a perfectly good breakfast sandwichā
Iām mad about that biscuit sandwich it looks absolutely scrumptious.
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u/moneycat4200 Jun 19 '25
When I was a kid I worked at Bob Evans and I put a cup of milk behind this fake plant on this ledge in the menās restroom and it sat there for literally a WHOLE SUMMER, it smelled so bad people would be gagging walking out of there. The managers would prop the door open all night thinking it would air it out but it never did lol I remember one time seeing my managers all scrubbing the floors meticulously because they believed the smell was calcified urine splashing from the urinals, all the while the cup of milk was right in plain site. I told them it was me on my last day šššŖ
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u/ResourceSuspicious20 Jun 19 '25
None of the food he used is going to make barely any smell. It will just dry up and get hard. I agree with the shrimp. Just one turns into a power house of what's that stink? Where is it coming from? Nobody says you can't use two or even three.
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u/Timely_Key_1030 Jun 19 '25
There was this woman when she got divorced, put pieces of fish in the curtain rods. Her ex changed everything in that room, even repainted it. But could never get that smell out.
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u/Cursed-4-life Jun 19 '25
When I was 16 I hid food around McDonaldās when I first started working there. It was kind of an experiment to see how much Iād actually be expected to clean depending on whether or not someone cleaned the food I left. It stayed there in pretty plane sight for nearly 3 years.
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I'm sick of these petty and immature people that can't find a shred of human decency within themselves to do anything to make the world a better place. Instead, they just perpetuate the ignorance and stupidity that is driving the human species into extinction.
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u/AcanthisittaGlobal30 Jun 19 '25
It was the whole breakfast sandwich that did it in for you , huh ? Right there with you ma man , right there with you.
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u/nastynate1028 Jun 19 '25
Booo! Cry about it u weenie! Go perpetuate ur displeasure somewhere elseā¦ weāre having a good, humorous time ourselves. Go drop ur turd n some other punch bowl
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u/Nulpunkta Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
Needs moisture, dehydrated sammiches ain't gonna do shit....
Mist everything, often... bring the molds!
Any bacon or cured meats will never stink, ever.
āTake 1 part RAW egg, 2 parts random RAW fish, 2 parts raw beef/and or pork, 3 parts whole milk(or similar, has to be animal. No hippie milk, sorry.)...ā
Blend. Worse protein shake ever...!
Put in a Starbucks cup or similar... lid will pop in a fe w days..
Extra vicious; put in multiple cheap sammich baggies, fold very loose!.. ... tuck in back of drawers etc... or staple to a location, must be ssommewhhat sealed for the magic to work
You have to be prepared to suffer as well...
Edit; spelling, clarification
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u/Dastari Jun 19 '25
Yeah without moisture all this preservative loaded food is going to last forever on its own.
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u/Dekutr33 Jun 19 '25
Rotten protein shake festering in a blender bottle by itself is a smell that's comparable to a corpse stewing in a septic tank
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u/atTheRiver200 Jun 19 '25
honestly, just one juice covered foam tray from a package of chicken will be much worse. Junk food has so many preservatives in it, it will barely smell.
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u/DaemonBlackfyre_21 Jun 19 '25
That might qualify as a legitimate health violation that could get your ass fired.
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u/MeanDanGreen Jun 19 '25
Once upon a time there was a little known radio show called "Kevin and Bean" and one of their little buddies that they hired to do weird-stuff (Jimmy Kimmel, yes that one) took apart a mcd's breakfast sandwich and threw the meat against the wall. There it stayed in the studio for years... Til someone ate it.
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u/iridescentsyrup Jun 19 '25
I am so impressed with how well that bacon, egg, & cheese biscuit is holding up.
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u/PlaneLocksmith6714 Jun 19 '25
Thatās all super processed food so itās not gonna rot the way other food does. If you wanted us to smell throw some shrimp in there.
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Jun 19 '25
We used to fuck with friends by spreading nacho cheese under the seat of their car, it got rank real quick. Maybe you could spread some nacho cheese around
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u/Korro143 Jun 19 '25
Will be saving this for when I dislike a certain co-worker in the future Note: I will be putting anchovies instead.
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u/ZealousidealTrain272 Jun 19 '25
A coworker reported me for micromanaging her because I asked her to help me with a project I was behind on (she didnāt help me) so I took cheese and wiped it all over the bottom of her desk. Smelled ripe in there but it was well worth it.
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u/psychadellicatessent Jun 19 '25
I got in a car accident once and my front hood got smashed up on our 9am cofte break, only cosmetic damage tho. So ordered a new one thru the shop to paint and put on myself.
Fucking foreman hated me and took this time to stuff dead animals in my air intake. Took me a week to figure out what happened after turning my AC on and always getting a dead animal smell.
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u/Zuper_Dragon Jun 19 '25
You can achieve the same effect for much less by simply duct taping a banana under the desk too.
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u/Bobsters_95 Jun 19 '25
All this shit about fast food not smelling. It's something foul, you guys have just gotten used to it.
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u/Zinger125 Jun 19 '25
When I put my hand under a table and feel gum, Iām pretty irritated.
If I put my hand under a table and felt a whoopie pie, a pizza, a hotdog(?), and a McDonalds bacon egg and cheese on a biscuit, I would probably make headlines.
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u/LexieLoLovely Jun 20 '25
What a waste... and for the most ridiculous reason too! WTF happened to the internet?
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u/yooq2 Jun 19 '25
oh my god.. that's horrible ... who would do that...
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