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The Office of the Silver Surfer

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This is what happens when you take vacation at work.

29 comments

Sep 1, 2009. 5:53 PMragdollman says:

it that a ridding crop? lmao, You sirs have made my dad

Dec 27, 2009. 5:48 PMFather Christmas says:

hahahaha that is the best typing fail coincidence ever. "made my dad" LOL! thats a little kinky haha

Apr 5, 2012. 7:32 PMowlart101 says:

lol, hilarious typing fail

Sep 29, 2011. 5:05 PMpiperstarwixom says:

I have so many pranks planned that i have no time but i could do it before the day of april fools

May 7, 2011. 3:48 AMsergio00 says:

are you spanish,sergioh?my name is sergio and i am spanish(soy español)

Mar 28, 2011. 6:29 AMsommmen says:

kip kay once made a ticklebox, (if links are allowed, if not iam srry....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuJfOTic3o&p=638AA966782084CE

maybe make this on aaall that foil so that your victim will be shoked when her returns!

Apr 10, 2009. 6:05 AMsergioh (author) says:

Sorry, I rushed submitting this to Instructables. One of our co-workers took a week off of work, and we had been playing pranks on each other for months. Whenever someone had left on vacation, we would either cover their desk in tape, toilet paper, or whatever we could find. Right before this prank, instead of trashing his desk, we really cleaned up his desk. Well as a final and grand prank, we decided to take 5 days to cover his entire desk with aluminum foil. (and no we did not do this during work hours, what kind of employee would I be if I did that : ) The office stayed "as is" for a few days and everything was fully functional. Then he started going (mentally) crazy with all of the reflections and tore it all down. The foil ended up as huge foil balls.

Mar 22, 2010. 9:48 AMMajorRockstar7 says:

What does it say on the notepad w/ TO DO List?

Mar 22, 2010. 10:14 AMsergioh (author) says:

To Do List:
1. Foil Josh B's Desk: Return of the Silver Surfer

Apr 15, 2009. 8:17 PM

Weissensteinburg says:

You may want to edit the slideshow, and copy what you wrote here into the description above.

Sep 7, 2009. 7:21 AMmjbrownstribe says:

Thanks for the idea. I'll have 3 months to do my co-worker's desk while she is on maternity leave. I can't wait.

Jul 27, 2009. 7:37 AMwatermelonhead says:

ZOMG.

Jun 22, 2009. 12:42 PMLowney says:

How bored were you?

Jun 2, 2009. 1:51 PMWillPine4Fjord says:

makes my fillings hurt just looking at it

Apr 21, 2009. 2:38 PMMetal Crave says:

This is awesome. It must have taken many hours to complete. What did the boss/supervisor have to say? I especially like the keyboard & phone, could you type with them??

Apr 1, 2009. 1:19 PM

karossii says:

is that a riding crop on the corner of the desk?

Apr 19, 2009. 3:56 PMJKibs95 says:

Thought it was a cane.

Apr 13, 2009. 8:57 AMskidude28 says:

Yeah, it looks like a horse whip.

Apr 1, 2009. 8:27 PM

jeff-o says:

I thought it was a golf putter...

Apr 9, 2009. 6:46 PMdreamdragon228 says:

wow that better than the peep circus my friend found on his desk at work

Apr 1, 2009. 12:30 PMthepelton says:

One teacher I knew took a vacation, and while he was gone, his coworkers created hollywood type cobwebs all over his desk by diluting rubber cement with bestine, and spraying it all over his desk. It ended up looking like no one except a few hundred spiders, had touched it for five years.

Apr 1, 2009. 1:23 PM8bit says:

Wow, I would love to see the results of that! Any images? What did you use to spray it? What porportions were they in?

Apr 3, 2009. 9:50 AMthepelton says:

The rubber cement was diluted with Bestine, and shot through an airbrush. I didn't do it myself, I just heard about it after the fact. I suppose you just mix in enough Bestine to liquefy it. It's standard Horror Movie cobwebs, and relatively harmless.

Apr 1, 2009. 9:14 AM

Ninzerbean says:

Please clarify - did you take a vacation from work and your office mates did this to your desk, or did you take a vacation at work (as you state) and did this instead of going to Iceland or Disney or some other vacation spot? It's cool either way but it's unclear if you did it or not.

Apr 2, 2009. 5:20 AMme says:

or did one of your office mates take a vacation, and you did this to his workplace?

Apr 2, 2009. 2:50 AMtater killer says:

what the static charge on that thing

Apr 1, 2009. 10:12 AMrobert.a.scheffler says:

It looks like this took a long time to complete. Did you do it during work hours? If so, looks like a fun place to work & you must have a lot of free time...and do you have any openings? :-)