Have you ever pulled an Owen phone rib?

[Nr1Humanoid]

You know the one, calling someone, pretending to be someone else, trying to piss the ones on the other end off?

[Mozenrath]

I thought this was going to be some cruel falling joke, or having a rivalry with an older sibling.

Yeah, I've pretended to be people on the phone.

[@TenaciousBe]

If I see "pulling an Owen" I immediately think about being the "sole survivor," the "I am not a nugget" business. Turning heel on your family after they've deserted you, that kind of thing.

[Hiroshi Hase]

Hard to know what you mean when you say "Pull an Owen" exactly in the title there.

I'm sure a few other guys in the biz did that also.

[Red Lion]

Haha, I like it how this thread has turned into a poll.

Did you think the title of this thread was about falling?
Yes
No



In relation to the thread, I've done it, many many times, I always find it hilarious, even though I can never make it work.

[The Scuba Guy]

I have never done that, but thinking about it....it sounds so fun.
I'd love to get one of my friends phones and just call someone randomly

[alanguitar1]

I thought it was going to be the "your leg out of your leg" thing, although I've long loved the slammy acceptance speech "I did it all by myself! wooo!" and plan to do that when I win something

[Evilution E5150]

im terrible at it, i never fool anyone

[default]

Not really to piss people off. When I was at my friend's, I'd answer his phone if he wasn't readily available. If I knew who it was, I'd just start making noises until I found him. The best was the day I checked the caller ID, knew the kid alittle from him stopping by and from summer school. I started panting like a dog on the phone, held it away some and yelled "Teal'c (his dog's name), bring me the phone!" and then continued breathing heavily into the phone as I carried it upstairs.

[Maniac Mitch]

Here's one of my favorite prank calls stories from Billy Connolly.

Warning: Language

[DiBiase is Good]

When I used to work at a Cinema I used to do it all the time a few years back. Always when the same poor guy was working on the Box Office.
I used to look through the upcoming films list and find the longest titled Bollywood film and ask if the cinema would be showing it. When we never showed Bollywood films at all.

There was another time we had a thing called National Cinema Day. It was to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first cinema opening and for that day only all tickets were £1. Which although it was 10 years ago, it was a massive price cut. So I rang the Box Office pretending to be a student asking what discount I could get. It was the same guy working on the Box Office. I basically start giving him s*** down the phone because I should be getting a nice discount. Eventually, he calls the office and speaks to one of the Managers about it. The manager (who was in on the joke) says "Tell him to F*** Off". Of course, he doesn't do this and tries to remain polite. After another minute of giving him s***, the Manager grabbed the phone from me and says "I told you to tell him to f*** off". The guy then realised what happened and ran to the Office to try and kill me.