Word: prank
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chief counsel for Wikipedia, shrugs off the inaccuracies, some of them defamatory, on his website. "In another 25 years," he told The New York Times last week, "all of our children will have grown up in a world in which media like these are mutable and changeable and people prank each other, and it will seem less important." By "it" Godwin means facts - what we used to know as the truth...
...banner was a joke, a prank that embarrassed the school and cost Frederick a few days of forced vacation. It did not raise politically weighty issues like drug policy or whether students should wear black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War, the issue in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the 1969 case establishing students' right to free speech. And making a Supreme Court case out of it was all but frivolous, a move emblematic of how students and their parents are rushing to court to vent their smallest grievances with schools...
...These people know how to make the camera love them; they've been doing it for years, in some cases decades. So I have to think what I saw today was a prank of the emulsion, or the director. The big Palais screen, as longtime festivalgoers can vouch, is supposed to lend an extra radiance to Hollywood stars. Soderbergh makes them look like Nick Nolte in that mug shot...
...about dressing up in dresses and going out to clubs in Boston, while the second one’s about renting “The Notebook,” doing makeovers on each other, singing “ridiculous 80s songs into your hairbrushes” and prank calling “ALL your crushes.” These articles are an interesting pair because they so neatly straddle the main anxiety running through the rest of the magazine—are we big girls or little girls? Do we want to grow up or do we want...
...fuzzier since the Internet blossomed. In December 2005 Justin Layshock, a senior at Hickory High School in Hermitage, Pa., used his grandmother's computer after school to create a parody profile of his principal on MySpace.com When the school found out, it suspended Layshock, citing evidence that Layshock's prank made the school temporarily shut down its website. Although Layshock eventually returned to his school, the lawsuit continues...