I had a pretty dim neighbor in school that was fun to prank. He asked me one day about what I did in biochemistry and I got a serious look on my face, looked around, and told him we were making life. Every time I saw him after that I would act like I was hiding something in my pocket or hug my notebook close to my chest as I scurried off. Toward the end of the semester I got a small jar and put a dead bee in it and corked it. I then put a label on it that something like "#43-possible amino acid complex- November, 1999" to make it look like it was one of a number of failures. I left it out in the open and let him find it. Once he did I acted mad and upset that he found it and swore him to secrecy on it since I was "working on something for DARPA to bring things back to life."
I kept this up the next semester until spring rolled around with its obligatory bee activity. I got another jar and put a label on it with "Synth March 9- No.114- coAMp + gCNA” and put a living bee in it. I heard my neighbor out I the hallway and I yelled "YES!" and then ran out the door leaving it open. Naturally, he entered my room and saw the living bee in the jar and thought I had actually synthesized a bee.
I also left out a notepad with drawings and scribbles to make it look like I was attaching a small camera and microphone on Frankenbee114 and had notes about working with Kyle in the EE department.
He was so flipped out that he wouldn’t talk to me anymore and I heard he was telling people he was nervous about his neighbor (me) and what he (I) was working on. I kept this up until the end of the school year when I came clean with him. It took me two weeks to convince him that Frankenbee114 was really 5 or 6 bees I kept catching and putting in the same jar to prank him.
I kept this up the next semester until spring rolled around with its obligatory bee activity. I got another jar and put a label on it with "Synth March 9- No.114- coAMp + gCNA” and put a living bee in it. I heard my neighbor out I the hallway and I yelled "YES!" and then ran out the door leaving it open. Naturally, he entered my room and saw the living bee in the jar and thought I had actually synthesized a bee.
I also left out a notepad with drawings and scribbles to make it look like I was attaching a small camera and microphone on Frankenbee114 and had notes about working with Kyle in the EE department.
He was so flipped out that he wouldn’t talk to me anymore and I heard he was telling people he was nervous about his neighbor (me) and what he (I) was working on. I kept this up until the end of the school year when I came clean with him. It took me two weeks to convince him that Frankenbee114 was really 5 or 6 bees I kept catching and putting in the same jar to prank him.