Word: pranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
...women staffers describe Letterman's program as a boys' club, it is not just because only one of the show's 12 writers is female; it is also because the off-camera Letterman is much like the on-camera, prank-playing fraternity boy. Staffers recall the chaos that ensued during an office celebration several years ago, when he set off a flare in Morton's office and triggered the building's smoke alarms. A couple of weeks ago, Letterman challenged head writer Burnett to an oyster-eating contest: $150 if he consumed 50, $10 for each one thereafter. (Burnett wolfed...
...prank apparently fooled Utah-based Sun International Pictures, which produced the show and sold it to CBS. But Jammal's tall tale was not the only misleading part of the special. Sun filled the two hours with a mixture of fact, conjecture, fantasy and arrant nonsense, while offering no clues as to which was which. "Eyewitnesses" who claimed to have seen or even touched the ark paraded in front of the camera. Unfortunately, the audience was told, an earthquake, attacks by terrorists, the Russian Revolution and other inopportune events had frustrated various attempts over the years to bring back clear...
...Seagal similarity here. Both are adept at high- wire innuendo -- Spy as a key to its satirical japery, Seagal as a spur to his myth. If he did make these remarks, he may have intended them as macho provocations, as sick jokes or as acid tests -- the ultimate Spy prank...