What I hear you saying is...

It started in 6th grade, when I doused Kimmy Yandell and Lise Christensen with itching powder. That led to a well-deserved 2-day suspension from school.

In high school a friend and I built a golf course in my neighbor's front yard, including ball-washer, bench, sand-trap, and pin. Then we drove around spray-painting the word "not" on every stop sign we could find. (it seemed funny at the time). Some of those are still up today.

In college, my first roommate was from an East Coast boarding school, so I learned an entirely new set of tricks like how to "penny" a door, shaving cream in the LP sleeve under the door, and of course "surfs up!" (trash can 3/4 full of water, propped against someone's door). I can still hear the screams. By the time we were sophomores, we just got drunk and lazy with Sharpie pens whenever one of our buddies passed out. Liquor and permanent marker don't mix -- especially when used on exposed areas (e.g. one's forehead) and/or on weekday nights.

The fun continued... When my manager at Apple turned 30, we covered her entire cubicle with reams of printouts with the numbers "30" printed on them. We left 30 voicemails wishing her a happy 30th, probably 300 emails, etc. etc. She retaliated on my 30th with a donut tidal-wave in my cube. Sounds great if you're a donut fan, but the grease starts to get pretty rank by the first afternoon. By the 4th day, you realize you just can't eat all the donuts...

But these are all the work of a "prank-amateur". Like all great works, serious pranks take significant planning and dedication. Lots of colleges are famous for their pranks - Dartmouth and CalTech to name a couple. And the Stanford-Cal Big Game has generated quite a few good ones.

But this video below took serious cajones. These guys from Columbia are Artistes.

There's a nice collection here of 5 of the best college pranks currently on YouTube.