Word: joker
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...team, I am the joker, the goon, the one who keeps everyone laughing," Schutt says...
...Less gruesome but just as vindictive was William Randolph Hearst, Class of 1886, known better in the annals of history as a yellow journalism trailblazer and newspaper magnate, but back in his Harvard days, just another troublemaker from the Lampoon staff. A practical joker at heart, stories of his antics, especially those aimed at his instructors, were legendary. For one particularly cheeky stunt, he bought a jackass and snuck it into a professor's room. When the donkey greeted the man on his arrival, hanging around the animal's neck was a card that read, "Now there...
Less gruesome but just as vindictive was William Randolph Hearst, Class of 1886, known better in the annals of history as a yellow journalism trailblazer and newspaper magnate, but back in his Harvard days, just another troublemaker from the Lampoon staff. A practical joker at heart, stories of his antics, especially those aimed at his instructors, were legendary. For one particularly cheeky stunt, he bought a jackass and snuck it into a professor's room...
...Pendleton College, spunky and independent student Natalie (Alicia Witt) realizes that a psychopath has decided to turn urban legends into reality. Her friends are all predictably skeptical, and consequently go on to die in ways corresponding to how nasty they have been. There is your slutty girl, your practical joker, your loyal best friend, not to mention the lone dean, soul security officer and only janitor--it's like a morality play, except without morals. Or charm...
...certainly did not understand what became apparent later, that Greg's real passion, his father's ghost mocking him cruelly, was to dress in women's clothes. And in middle age, sober, married, a mother and a novelist (Walking into the River), she still can't quite accept this joker in the hand life dealt her. She writes, "There are no greeting cards that read, 'Thinking of you fondly, transvestite...