Word: prank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this some kind of a prank? Bruno...
...These are everywhere," Dave told me. "This means war." I told him to calm down, that it was a harmless prank, that no one would come...
Several first-year males decide to play a prank on the female president of a college newspaper by taking her chair and putting it in the men's bathroom. In the middle of executing their joke, the president encounters them and asks them to return the chair. They refuse. She becomes angry, perhaps irrationally angry, and tries physically to retrieve the chair. As a compromise, the men agree to return the chair if she removes her shirt. She refuses, and frustrated and angry, storms off, muttering "fucking dicks." The men maintain it was simply a joke and that her reaction...
...would be found guilty of sexual harassment in this case? The men, of course! Regardless of whether it was a prank, the men should have stopped when they saw how upset she was. That is merely showing respect for another human being's feelings, which is essential in the workplace. The request for the president to remove her shirt was completely inappropriate and clearly sexual harassment; no woman should be subject to such humiliation by male co-workers...
...year women, took thepresident's antique chair, engraved with the namesof past Crimson presidents, from the second floorof the building to the first-floor women'sbathroom. Some editors were bruised in atug-of-war that ensued between Stoll and thefirst-years over the chair as the theft, begun asa prank, turned serious...