Topic drift: Chad confetti prank

[Guy Werry]

When I started working for my present corporation, we were phasing out the
punch-cards & moving to HPs.  The following spring, one of my co-workers was
getting married.  Better yet, he was a semi-crazed Frenchman whom I had gone
to university with.  

A couple of weeks prior to the wedding I found the old punch-card punches
being stored in the hallway outside of my office.  I managed to scrounge
about half a pound of the "chads", which I then used instead of confetti.

And, once again proving that God has a sense of humour ... I had stationed
myself right beside the get-away car: the groom knew me and the look in my
eyes well enough to know that something was up ... the best man had
thoughtfully forgotten to unlock the rear doors, giving me adequate time to
distribute the entire contents of the bag of chads all over the newlyweds!

Upon returning to work, my co-worker somewhat colourfully expressed his
opinion on how funny the episode had been for them!  Apparantly they were
still digging chads out of their hair and/or clothing 3 days later!

Ah yes, the good old days.

	Guy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vaughn (Home) [mailto:vaughn@sewardconsulting.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:52 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: Topic drift: Chad confetti prank


Those little chads really could create quite a mess...

I remember one time when a co-worker went on vacation that the office 
prankster filled his trash can full of the chads, covered it with a 
large piece of cardboard, turned it upside down,  placed it on the 
fellow's desk, and slipped out the cardboard. When the co-worker 
returned from vacation...well, you can imagine what happened next.

~Vaughn

Walter Murray wrote:

>2005-04-25T21:09-07:00
>
>Someone mentioned dumping the contents of the chad bin on people.  We
>discouraged using the chad as confetti, because the small pieces of card
>had sharp edges and could supposedly be dangerous if one got in a
>person's eye.
>
>Walter  
>

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