GAGS I HAVE PROUDLY PULLED ON JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES :) (page 10)

Nate Merit

Hello FlyingHigh !

I think Oroborus probably didn't understand the pranks are 26 years old. That, or she/he simply wanted attention. Thank you for coming to my aid.

I'm a fairly typical old fart of my generation. Except I'm not politically conservative. Mainly I write, do housework, play on the net, cook, shop for groceries, exercise a bit.

When I retired I was a home health aide and a priest of Hongaku Jodo.

Thanks again for posting.

The Wild One,
Nathan

Nate Merit

Hi Triple A

Man, what a sight that would be! You'd have apoplectic old farts having heart attacks all over the place. Too bad a prank like that is waay beyond my scope.

Thank you for having a sense of humor. Have a great week and weekend.
Nathan

Nate Merit

Hi Rebel 8 !

Thank you for a well thought-out response. I agree with you. It's difficult to understand certain reactions in light of what the WTBTS put us through. I don't think Oroborus read the post carefully enough to realize just how long ago the pranks were. Though I still occasionally play small pranks, and have them played on me.

Here's a URL to one of my favorite prank tools: http://www.mischiefmail.com/

During the election I sent insane emails from President Bush out to hundreds of people. They circulated quite a bit. I even had a couple of them forwarded to me from folks who had no idea I was the one who started them circulating in the first place.

Thank you for enjoying the post, and having a good perspective on some old pranks. You're very welcome for the laughs. Most of the respondents, such as yourself, brought a big smile to my face.

As for the actions being immoral, as some insisted, here again are some anagrams of Tao Te Ching:

Get to China
Go anti tech
NO ETHIC TAG
Nate Got Chi

I think I'd be afraid to pull such pranks today, even if I was 26. USA has become very hysterical. We're one terrorist attack away from full scale martial law and a full-blown police state.

Have a great week "Rebel 8"
Nate

reagan_oconnor

I think my favorite was the blood donation sign, with the newspaper submission a close second.

I wouldn't do it, but I'd laugh like hell if I saw it. Even when I was still in, I'd have laughed.

LAD to this...

Nate Merit

Hi Golf

Thanks for enjoying the pranks. I was completely and utterly "freaked" at being arrested for arson. Larry (the cop) is a mellow dude for a cop.

I was always a hellion growing up. Starting at age sixteen I hung around with teens who were as nuts as I was. I wasn't able to stay involved in the Witnesses for very long at a stretch before I was gone and back with my pals raising hell. It got way out of hand when I was 19 and the WTBTS finally DFed me. I literally lost my mind for about 8 months or so. Went beyond raising hell to actual crime.

I've been friends with members of the Outlaws, Hell's Angels, and Fly N Wheels in my 19th year. No way I would have played pranks on anyone who carried a gun like I did. (A snub nosed 22 with hollow points my dad gave me when I was 16)

When I pulled these pranks I was still young enough to not really give a damn. I was only 26. My age has doubled since then. Plus, yes, Mark and I were both lucky.

I'm nearing completion on my next book which is about how I became involved with the JW's, what my life as a JW was like, and what my life became when they DFed me.

Nate

Nate Merit

Hi Reagan Oconnor

Yeah, the blood donor sign transplant actually was some hard work! Thank you for having a sense of humor about these things.

Nate

Nate Merit

Hi JeannieBeanz

I got a kick out of your reponse to Ouroboros. When I first read his email I didn't finish it. It was just too negative a note to start the day with. So I had to go back and see that he had indeed signed it as if he is a lawyer.

As for your icon...Betty Boop was my first onscreen heartthrob! I was five or six when she made me feel very strange (in a pleasnt way) and I remember wondering if it was weird to enjoy looking at a cartoon so much!

Thanks again Jeannie!
Nate

Golf

Nate, you said 'your next book.' Can you elaborate? The next one deals on what?

You must admit being a prankster is exciting. I grew up in the South-end of Boston in my younger days. It was a rough neighborhood and when your hanging around with the toughies your considered one of the boys.

Pranksters get see the other side of the coin, risky but exciting.

Golf

TD

So I had to go back and see that he had indeed signed it as if he is a lawyer.

He really is......and it's good that Ed respects the law, although I think it's unfair to characterize practical jokes as a stepping stone to bombs and arson.

(Ed needs to spend a week in a volunteer fire department )

I still think your experiences are uproariously funny.

mustang

Thanks for the comic relief!!!!

I have a few observations:

The length of time ago tells me that you were younger; it looks like you have outgrown this and it seems to have been therapeutic.

This is likely one of the reasons that I left: I had too much of a "similar bent" in my "soul". I figured that I had a "soul" in the meaning of having a mind and being able to think for myself. NOW, YOU KNOW THAT IS HEADING FOR TROUBLE IN DUB-DOM!!!

After being a Snervant and pIONEER, I had had enough of their straight-laced nonsense. It was likely that I would have pulled such shenanigans if I hadn't bailed when I did. I would have gone stir-crazy if I had had to stick around much longer. I was to the point of laughing in the faces.

In line with the previous paragraph, I figured that I would soon have to speak up and would have really been trashed by them if I did that. I was a "privileged character", being related to the founder of the congo and related to/or close family friends with some of the local "heavies". But I figured that would burn itself out if I really said what I was thinking.

[Funny thing is, most of what I was thinking was "just leave me alone" & "I don't have to do what you say". I probably would not have picked any doctrinal disagreement type of discussions with anybody.]

So, I left and went cross-country. But I did drop in on the local Dub-hive after my 2000+ mile sojourn.

[I nearly puked when a pIONEER that I was doing janitorial work for droned on and on about how much he enjoyed buffing floors. Talk about spouting the party line!!!

The next day I went to an agency and took a job loading freight in a warehouse w/ no pIONEER in sight.]

Frankly, these JW's take themselves too seriously and are too much of the old classical stuffed shirts to put up with. If they can't take a few jokes such as you pulled, they are hopeless.

I believe in balance and feel that such things as this sort of "concentration camp humor" will happen, especially in such straight-laced environments as Brooklyn cultivates.

Personally, I just "got outta Dodge" and let them have their own little fief-dom and craphole.

[My father trying for 20+ years to drag me back to the KH kicking and screaming is another story.]

I do think that you wore out your welcome and rubbed them raw, however

Mustang

Illegitamus non-Carborundum (don't let the bastards grind you down)

PS I have thought about what it would have been like to "take up with" and marry one of those driven JW women that they were pushing at me:

[Me a Snervant? Again? Been there, done that. And all for NO PAY!!! Give me a break, honey!!!]

[I've got to get up for Saturday morning FS?? No way, Jose-fina!!! And I'm sleeping in tomorrow morning, if I don't go fishing!!!]

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