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...read though all the entrance questions and wanted to add a few, knowing that if anyone, you guys could surely handle a good prank, or in this case a mediocre...

Author: By Suzanne M. Pomey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hacker Pranks 'Poon Web Site | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

...smattering of physics students defied scientific law last winter. They created a professor out of thin air--in a prank that CUE Guide Editor-in-Chief Ona M. Hahs '99 says "hoodwinked the entire University administration...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Physicists Invent New Nutty Professor | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Similarly, a birthday party prank that included a busting balloon or exploding box would not go over well--professors who don't pause for helicopters flying low overhead will pause after a truck backfires and listen for sirens to make sure it wasn't something unexpected...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Living With the Terrorist Threat | 9/15/1998 | See Source »

...write a homily on the fourth-grade blackboard (e.g., "The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with 'Hail, Satan'"). In a family of noisy eaters, he is perhaps the loudest, at least in decibel-to-kilogram ratio. He has a few weaknesses: exposing his buttocks, sassing his father, making prank calls to Moe's Tavern ("Is Oliver there? Oliver Clothesoff?") and speaking like a Cockney chimney sweep. One of the few trophies on his bedroom shelf is labeled EVERYBODY GETS A TROPHY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cartoon Character BART SIMPSON | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...years, since the day Truman was born. Everyone else in town, including Meryl (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich), is an actor, improvising from a loose scenario devised by the project's creator, Christof (Ed Harris). The Truman Show, as the program is called, is TV's most elaborate prank: Candid Camera on an epochal scale and at a muted pitch. Christof has created the largest man-made structure in history (the huge domed studio that is Seahaven), with a working town, a roiling sea and hundreds of extras, simply to convince one person that his life is real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smile! Your Life's On TV | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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