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• OBAMACARE - voters are told they can keep their insurance. •In the pizza-making business, newcomers are told to look in the fridge for the dough repair kit. •Another variation includes being sent to procure a long weight or long stand, the idea being that the dupe will reach the shop (or equivalent source of the mythical object) and place the request. The target is then left waiting by the shop keeper (who is presumably familiar with the trick) and thus receives a long wait. •Other common restaurant practical jokes of the like are sending the new employee to another restaurant to borrow the bacon stretcher, or a can of steam. •In construction, a board stretcher, eye measures, hammer grease,wall expander, glass hammer, or striped paint are the analogous pranks. •In the U.S. Navy, sending a new sailor after a BT Punch, relative bearing grease, or red lamp oil for the port running light and green lamp oil for the starboard running light are similar pranks. •In the U.S. Army new soldiers are often sent to ask supply for grid squares, shore line,frequency grease,rotor wash, muffler bearings, and many others including void hammers to test the armour of a vehicle by tapping it, or ACOG batteries (ACOGs being powered by tritium) Chem Light batteries (chemical lights being powered by chemical reaction when snapped). •In the Canadian military, a common joke is tasking a new soldier to find a brass magnet to ease the collection of spent ammunition casings. A common thing is to require an ID10T form to be filled out for a government form with the military or taxes. The unsuspecting person will ask be asked to write down the form and go ask someone for it •In Boy Scouts, sending a new camper after a Left Handed Smoke Shifter is a similar practice. •In the U S Air Force: new airman are often sent out for 50 feet of Flightline, and asked to get 10 gallons of propwash. Neither exists.