I used to be with a
Discordian Cabal and we pulled a lot of pranks. Some were silly and/or more like live surrealist art (sometimes we flattered ourselves by calling it
culture jamming) and others were intricate pranks with a moral. We called our group the CFR ("Conspiracies For Rent") based on the CFR of the USA which is a bogeyman of many conspiracy theorists on both the Left and Right.
Perhaps my favorite that was a bit of both was when we took to calling people asking them to consider getting their kids, grandchildren, and any kids they know to join up with our new chapters of the
Young Pioneers now opening in America and such children would learn activities and make connections that would help them succeed via the CFR ("America's
nomenklatura!"). To the bemused we'd explain that we were forced out of Russia with the collapse of the Soviet Union but since George Bush passed the PATRIOT Act we took a look at America and saw it was so much like our beloved USSR with the most laws of any nation and the most people in prison than any other nation in the world ("even before the Supreme Soviet betrayed our beloved
Rodina-mat!") and we knew our time had come. "Aren't you tired of the politically correct trying to force acceptance of gays and feminism upon your youth? That won't be a worry in the Young Pioneers, WE embrace traditional values necessary for the smooth running of the state and country, especially respect for authority and proper places for all!"). One of our members was a Russian American who could speak it fairly well (and thus fool Americans into thinking she was Russian though actual Russians would know it wasn't her native language). When it was our turn she'd shout Russian at us and whichever one of us was on the phone would say, "Just a moment, please...Nyet,
T'varish Khruscheva!" (More Russian follows.)
Most were just confused, some wondered if it was a prank, a surprising number (perhaps responding to the traditional values of being against gays & feminism, the value of "being part of a team," and for a stronger sense of law & order) actually sounded interested in learning more and/or volunteering or sending kids (we gave them the phone number of the John Birch Society "to learn more"), but plenty who supported Bush and the PATRIOT Act (this was a few months after it passed and a popular bumper sticker was "Don't Mess with America" with a drawing of Bush's head on it), especially the more right wing, got furious as we both promoted the right wing and traditional values as part of the YP (which is accurate, btw) almost as much as they hated their "freest nation on Earth" being called one of the least free and insinuating that right wing authoritarianism was actually closer to Communism than Democrats (though in most ways they are).
I've done plenty of weird or silly things outside of that, too, but nothing as surreal (at least not that I recall offhand). Lots of things about me can be said to be weird, and some of them I don't consider strange but others do. I've dressed weird at times, too.
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