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A practical joke or prank is a situation set up usually to produce what the perpetrator imagines to be a humorous physical outcome at the expense of the target. Since the set-up or deception is generally eventually revealed to the victim, the butt of the joke is thereby made to feel foolish or victimized. It can be argued, therefore, that there is an inherent strain of cruelty in most practical jokes. However, some groups, such as the New York based Improv Everywhere merely aim to bring humour into the lives of strangers, without humiliating or hurting anyone. Practical jokes are also distinct from slapstick or knockabout, where the goal is to make physical events appear miscalculated, inept, or accidental. The term practical refers to the fact that the joke consists of someone doing something (a 'practise'), rather than the common sense of the word ('useful or sensible'). Well-known practical jokers include the illustrator Hugh Troy and the publicist Jim Moran.
Types of practical jokes include:
- False signalling, such as a 'kick me' note stuck on someone's back, an 'automatic door' sign on a normal swinging door, or dropping an empty carton on someone's foot after pretending it is heavy;
- Removing someone's clothing so that it exposes a private body part or their undergarments, particularly in public;
- Surprise disruption, employing (for example) trip-wires, whoopee cushions, peanut butter or fecal matter on the inside of a car door handle, punctured ketchup packets under the toilet seat, or a three-legged podium for a public speaker;
- Visual deception, such as water-filled balloons, plastic wrap on a toilet seat, 'apple-pie beds' which have had the top blanket artfully folded back so the victim cannot get all the way in, loosening the tops of salt shakers, causing its entire contents to spill on one's meal, fake flowers in the lapel which squirt water, rubber fruit and guns which unfurl a flag saying 'bang';
- Fool's errands such as sending someone to buy striped paint, water-proof towels, or read-only CD blanks (see also: snipe hunt);
- Hoax stories or situations perpetrated on or by the media such as fabricated UFO landings and fake celebrity interviews involving rude or ludicrous questions (see also: culture jamming);
- Spontaneous impersonations, such as taking an order for takeaway food from someone who has actually dialed a wrong number;
- Verbal and typographical pranks, such as printing a block of text so that the first letters of every line spell out an irreverent message (see also Acrostic), or teaching someone a purportedly useful phrase in another language which transpires to be an insult (such as "Tu es une vache", which means "You are a cow" in French.)
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Pranks in the digital age: "Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex" http://ur1.ca/i4u8
accessd (Jesse W Kline) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:47:41 -0000
Pranks in the digital age: "Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex" http://ur1.ca/i4u8
@corpus1 joy and happiness...is that what you think ure pranks spread?
eriktomas (Erik Batallones) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:28:37 -0000
@corpus1 joy and happiness...is that what you think ure pranks spread?
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ingrid_wien (ingrid gabriel) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:17:21 -0000
what a...holes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceronman/4194674390/ # Twitter Hacked. what do they think they achieve with such idiot pranks?
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combo3 (Angelica T) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:12:34 -0000
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Aladdin's Magic Genie Lamp - The Blue Screen of Death prank, disguised as an animation of a magic lamp.
Meta Description: [ The only web based Blue Screen of Death Prank nicely desguised as a magic genie lamp flash animation. send it to that special someone for April Fool's day or just as a friendly hello. enjoy! ]
Bartender Magic - Magic tricks and jokes to play on other people.
Meta Description: [ Tricks, stunts, pranks, scams and gags to help you increase your tips, make new friends (or enemies), or just have some fun. New Tricks Added Every Friday and Saturday. Blog updated several times a week. ]
Bluebottle Plus - Visitors can send prank emails to their friends with details of fake airline bookings, online shopping or pest control visitations.
Meta Description: [ Send anonymous prank emails to your friends. BluebottlePlus contains websites for a spoof airline, spoof pizza delivery company, spoof pest control firm and a spoof wine merchants, all of which allow you to send prank emails. There is also a growing section housing miscellaneous email templates. ]
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Bought Thought - Prank letters, angry record reviews and rants.
Celebrity Prank Calls - Audio files of prank phone calls, with the voices of various celebrities. Features Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Meta Description: [ Description ]
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Clifhanger Pranks - A collection of Internet jokes which will keep the victim busy for a while. Miscellaneous pranks.
Crush 007 - Trick a friend into detailing personal details and secret crushes.
Fizz Fun - Joke calls for pranks. Includes MP3 samples. Fee based service.
Funny Email Network - Humorous email generator covering love, hate and things in between.
Meta Description: [ Funny email is sent a variety of ways with the Funny Email Network! From pre-written love letters to revenge to advice, the Funny Email Network has several clever offerings. ]
Funny Practical Jokes - Gags to amuse or torment friends, family and coworkers.
Meta Description: [ Practical Jokes brings you twisted and humoruous gags, pranks, and practical jokes. ]
GetsNone.com - Features a customisable personals page to embarrass yourself or a friend.
Meta Description: [ Take our dating tip and get your own page at http://Name.GetsNone.com. It's also a great prank or funny joke to get this customized adulty novelty page for some nookie! ]
GuessWhosFamous.com - Enables visitors to get themselves or their friends in the news by creating a fake story as published in popular e-magazine.
Humor of Penn and Steven - Jokes, AIM conversations, and humorous pictures.
iGotLooks-Warped Pictures - Upload pictures of your friends and warp them into different shapes. Then, email them to people you know.
Meta Description: [ Am I Talented Or Not? Do you want to be discovered? Subm
it your picture, music or video and find out today, let millions of people vote on how tal
ented you are. Talent search. ]
IQ Test For Free - Spoof intelligence quiz, designed to be emailed to others.
Meta Description: [ The world's shortest Free IQ Test. ]
Loony Letters - Archive of prank letters written to UK companies, and their replies.
Lumpy Porridge - Send email pranks, computer pranks, or learn practical jokes.
Meta Description: [ Pranks. Send email pranks, download and send computer pranks and learn about really great practical jokes. ]
MailFool - Send e-mails which appear to be from someone else. A responsible prank e-mail system.
Meta Description: [ Send prank e-mails and make them appear to be from someone else! You can send to anyone and specify any 'From' details you like. ]
Monkey Doo - Assorted pranks and ideas.
Mooning of Amtrak Trains - Information on the annual Mooning of Amtrak Trains in Southern California.
Meta Description: [ Annual Mooning of Amtrak passenger trains
in Southern California USA ]
NervousRat - Features prank calls, funny original videos, nasty humor for download and to be sent as greeting cards.
Meta Description: [ Strange humor website with user interactive pages and the absolute best prank phone calls anywhere ]
Phonebashing - Movies of pranks involving destruction of mobile phones of randomly selected people. Requires Quicktime.
Practical Jokes - A small collection of pranks and practical jokes.
Meta Description: [ a new site about free practical jokes and april fool's day jokes ]
Prank Mail - Send a prank email to your friends, from the email address of your choice.
PrankBot - Choose a prank, enter details about your friends, and PrankBot will play a practical joke on them.
Meta Description: [ Play practical jokes from the comfort of your computer. Choose your prank, and we do the rest! ]
Prankified - Visitors can share and discuss pranks, arrange into categories and rated for effectiveness.
Meta Description: [ Prankified.com - Do you have what it takes to be the top prankified pranker? Come submit your pranks and let others decide. ]
Purity Trick - Send a purity test to a friend, and discover their answers.
ReachMe.us - Email rejection service to enable users to give annoying or irritating people the brush-off while avoiding embarrassment.
S.E.P Anonymous Email - Contains the option to send fake emails, hoaxes, anonymous emails, and receive replies to it.
Sign Stealers - Videos of a group of people who enjoy liberating street signs from their surroundings, plus a gallery of funny and disturbing signs.
Meta Description: [ videos and pictures of the sign stealing missions ]
Spooked - An innocent looking video that makes the viewer jump right at the very end.
Meta Description: [ View this video. It'll scare you, then let your friends see it and laugh at their reaction ]
StrangeReports.com - Play pranks on friends and coworkers with fake news reports.
Meta Description: [ Play practical jokes on your friends and family using our free online prank service. ]
T-ClassMates - Claims to be able to retrieve school photographs from all over the world.
The Center 2000 - Online pranks and funny pictures. Also includes a webring.
Meta Description: [ Free public records search provided to the public. All public and personal records are displayed as well as any misdemeanors etc. ]
The Farts - Offers stories, techniques, and sound files. Includes a message board. [English, Japanese]
Meta Description: [ farts, sounds of farts, farts hunter, farts stories, farts game, farts studies, the manager room, farts techniques, YANTO, farts BBS, Bulletine Board system ]
The Phreaky 4's IM Abuse Page - Random AOL Instant Messenger users get pranked by the creator of this site. Read the conversations and have a good laugh.
The Prank Institute - Ideas for pranks, practical jokes, and mischief.
Meta Description: [ The Prank Institute, dedicated to the pranking sciences. You will find school pranks, office pranks, april fools pranks and more . ]
The Trouble Makers Guide to School - A collection of one hundred pranks aimed at school pupils.
Meta Description: [ Over 100 pranks, how to annoy your teacher, and updates of new sites, pranks, or jokes, this is one of the best there is!! ]
ThePrank - Practical joke forum, where readers can share their ideas for revenge or pranks on other people.
Meta Description: [ The internets largest retailer of fun from PrankPlace.com for Gag Gifts, Pranks and bumper stickers! ]
Tin Foil Cubicle Office Prank - Detailed photographs of a prank involving a lot of tin foil.
Meta Description: [ A hilarious office prank, cubicle covered completely in Tin-Foil! Dont leave your office unattended! ]
Wally's Wide World of Pranks - A large collection of pranks for school, office, home, dorm or everyday life. Pranks are tested for usability. Samples and directions are included.
WebDemise.com - Visitors can send anonymous prank mails either written themselves or by using a template.
Meta Description: [ Send Free, Anonymous Funny Prank Emails As A Joke To Scare And Wind Up Anyone. ]
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