A hollow cylinder of rubber or plastic with a thin cardboard roll in the middle and structured sides, it looks and feels exactly like a partially used roll of {Duct/Scotch/Electrical/Packaging} tape, except for one difference - there is no actual tape, just one smooth tape-like surface going all around.
Hand it casually to your fellow engineer/spouse/nosy bystander, asking them to tear you off a strip, and snicker as they struggle to find the elusive nonexistent gap between nonexistent layers.-- jutta, Dec 05 2008 Pranks! - Re/Search 11 http://www.amazon.c...-Vale/dp/0965046982Pranks a-go-go. Much history of pranks as both political statements and performance art. Some are just silly though. [wagster, Dec 06 2008] Mike D pulls a prank on his lady http://www.youtube....watch?v=frA8FjZrOHMA bit on the mean side, but uber-funny. [wagster, Dec 06 2008] Art Of The Prank http://pranks.com/worth subscribing for all those who like pranks, with strong connections to the excellent Re Search series [xenzag, Dec 06 2008] How this post came about http://www.flickr.c...s/jutta/3086537871/The door and window of this little play-house are taped up with very thin transparent packing tape. After turning the roll over about 200 times, I just took a knife and cut the outer layer and started unrolling at the new cut - the roll must have had some other natural start, but I couldn't for the life of me find it. [jutta, Dec 06 2008] ...and in the distance a hand-drier activates...-- 4whom, Dec 05 2008 I think someone left the toilet roll version of this where I work the other day. +-- xenzag, Dec 05 2008 This would be funny to leave around the office.-- Jscotty, Dec 05 2008 I love it. Kin to the quarter crazy glued to the floor and the "door close" button in elevators.-- bungston, Dec 05 2008 Many times we have desired this particular item...... [+]-- 8th of 7, Dec 05 2008 Yes, but it's these kinds of pranks that give my girlfriend second thoughts as to her choice of lovers...-- MikeD, Dec 05 2008 To make it more infuriating, there could be an actual layer-like texture (which does nothing, however) somewhere on the roll.-- phundug, Dec 05 2008 This is sick ... I want it-- Hog, Dec 05 2008 Cruel but good. Perhaps have a short piece around it that they could see you tear off before you hand it to them.-- normzone, Dec 06 2008 I have a roll of packaging tape and a bun in the oven [+]-- Spacecoyote, Dec 06 2008 Prank scissors: basically dull scissors, not fun. Prank erasers: Bleed ink all over the page, too costly Prank watercooler: water is in there, and you can see it, but all that comes out is snakes. This isn't bad. Prank printer paper: It looks like a stack of paper, but really its not. Too easy to figure out.
Basically, I think you found the winner.-- daseva, Dec 06 2008 Even better, a roll of tape that instantly begins to tear in the long direction, with the tear spiralling toward one edge, making the rest of the roll useless. I have a drawer full of those.-- ldischler, Dec 06 2008 Some one please get some tape off this roll. I am trying to Gift wrap this bun for jutta. [+]-- kamathln, Dec 06 2008 Nice. Few things are as pleasing as a simple prank. [jutta] - you might like this book (link)
[MikeD] - I think I saw one of your videos yesterday (link)-- wagster, Dec 06 2008 Way funnier than those gag condoms that don't unroll.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 06 2008 That's not funny at all. There are very few moments when humour is inappropriate, but just before sex is right up there with lowering a coffin into the ground.-- wagster, Dec 06 2008 I have never dared traverse the symbolic synesthesia as has just occured. <cold earthy wet damp shudder>-- daseva, Dec 06 2008 Ouch! Where is the Product:tape:evil category when you want it? +-- gnomethang, Dec 06 2008 Yeah wags, things just didn't work out with her. She had absolutely no sense of humor.-- MikeD, Dec 06 2008 Aw c'mon wagster. Coitus interruptus gags are like the bread and butter of the sit-com world. It's only not funny if it's you, and it's not as if they actually exist or anything.
...give it a few months.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 06 2008 my family and friends seem to pass me these all the time [+]-- up_on_cloud_nine, Dec 07 2008 I'll take a dozen.-- UnaBubba, Dec 07 2008 This reminds me of the Candid Camera prank: Grand Opening of a new store. Customers arrive and can see people (customers & employees) inside the store, but no doors. Round and round they go.-- BaldSpot, Dec 07 2008 + I work in a health center and I would like to put in a request for an adheshive tape version!! hehe-- xandram, Dec 08 2008 Prank tape rolls such as this sometimes spontaneously come into being. I have addressed such that I have encountered with the Alexander the Great / Gordian knot method. Or did until my sword got confiscated in the airport.-- bungston, Dec 08 2008 Nice link [xenzag] - glad to see Joey Skaggs is still alive and kicking.-- wagster, Dec 08 2008 If I was in anyway musically inclined, I would now have to name my band "Prank Tape", even if I released it on MP3.-- 4whom, Dec 08 2008 halfbakery