Warning: Pictures in the gallery contain NSFW illustrations with nudity

According to its creators—the Centennial Society—the pamphlet is really designed to strike back against junk mail companies:

This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company.

Whatever. Here’s my idea: Let’s all follow the instructions and start a new world order. One in which I can go naked outside my office hours too. [Centennial Society via Boing Boing]

The casual office employee stalks his coworker with the intensity of a lion hunting a wildebeest on the African savanna. Never rushed, always contemplated, the average office prank is executed with all the razor precision found in a well-pressed shirt.

In part one of our examination of the office prank, we study the first of many techniques office workers use to triumph over co-adversaries. To those with soft stomachs, the gruesome techniques used to humiliate one’s peers with cardboard might be better left unseen.

For thousands of years, the office prankster has had to make due with his limited available resources. One such plentiful resource is cardboard. Don’t see any around? Look closer. Cardboard can be found in anything from packaging materials from shipments to old cereal boxes from the office kitchen. Just be careful of the fabled “cardboard paper cut.” Legend has it the that the victim could lose an entire finger.
Notice the attention to detail here, the Windows error messages and the “My Crappy Award for Something.”

Notice that there’s a good chance someone else has already pulled the exact same cardboard cubicle prank you once considered so original. Bonus points, however, for the cardboard headset.

Here it’s about not just the excellent craftsmanship but the ever-underestimated synchronised gloating.

This engineering firm did some work on the Extreme Home Makeover. We hoped it worked out better for the less privileged.

A vicious cardboard blow, notice the incorporation of a plastic bucket…a manoeuvre of some aptitude.

Now, humble student, you have seen the various attacks in the cardboard master’s arsenal. There are only two known defenses to this attack. Recycling and a pocket lighter. And one may get you fired.

Special thanks to Dustin Schirer, Brando, Ed Chaput, Chris Alleman and Randy Mumma.

And it’s in that spirit that we’d like to see your best office pranks.

We shouldn’t have to wait for 3M to sponsor office fun when it’s all around us already, copying its drunken rump, launching aeroplanes anonymously from cubicle bunkers and playing pick-up paper basketball on company trophies.

So if you’ve pulled a grand office prank and have the pictures, video and prose to back it up, let us know in an email labelled “Office Pranks” sent to our tips line. Of course we’d never condone mean-spirited attacks covered up as a joke, but we’d really like to bear witness to the little guy triumphing over the corporation, if only for a day.