Using their e-mail address, post a request for penpals to the alt.prison.bodypiercing newsgroup.

Three words: electric mouse buzzer.

"Look, Bill Gates!! Ha! Made ya look!"

Put them in the same room with a member of the opposite sex.

"Have you got Prince Albert in a LAN?"

Tell them that "everyone knows Star Trek transporter technology is bogus."

Swap their monitor for a large cardboard box with handpuppets. Watch the fur fly!

Intercept their daily Top 10 List, then remove #8 and re-insert it between #5 and #6.

Pretend to "discover" a Fox TV website with a now-out-of-date "Win a Weekend with Gillian Anderson of X-Files" contest.

Every hour, on the hour, forward them a warning about the "Good Times" virus.

Call him up and ask if his program is running, and when he says "yes," tell him, "Well you better go catch it!"

Replace all the Jolt in the soda machine with Perrier and V8.

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