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...earth and terraced villages. The next morning - with a night's snowfall caking the red soil and pines - everything looked different again. As we hiked up a final ridge, muleteer Ali Baba (he assured us that was his name) used the opportunity to pelt everybody with snowballs, a prank I hadn't expected to experience in North Africa...
LARRY PAGE, Google co-founder and president, in a statement for an April Fool's Day prank in which a link posted on Google's home page connected to a site that supposedly offered consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems; Google called the program "Toilet Internet Service Provider...
...point. In Eliot, undergraduates are hired to sort the mail, so it wouldn’t be difficult for students (especially from other houses?) to sneak off with the clearly labeled Netflix envelopes. “This could be the work of an anti-Eliot prank, because it’s pretty lame,” says Eliot resident Maya E. Frommer ’07. Despite the odds, Eliot House Superintendent Francisco Medeiros has unwavering faith in his students. “I don’t believe the students take anything from the mailrooms...
...Prank call his mom repeatedly...
...anonymously returned several days later, legislators and police laughed off the thievery and no one was ever charged for the crime. As a result, the Lampoon’s members obtained an outlaw reputation that they felt obligated to refresh every so often by committing new, even more fiendish pranks. By contrast, if the police had obtained search warrants to invade the Lampoon Castle, carted off evidence, and arrested Lampoon staff, future members likely would have been too fearful to commit another prank for years...