Word: pranking
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...invent Malley, a working-class genius, and fabricate his verse. Then they hoodwinked the editors of an Australian literary journal--called Angry Penguins, no less--into publishing the poems and proclaiming him an unsung master along the lines of T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas. But even after the prank was exposed, the poems outfoxed the pranksters. In-tended as satire of 20th century verse, they were taken up by readers as exemplary modernist beauties. Today you can find them in the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, duly credited to Ern Malley, who everyone now knows was imaginary...
Upon inspection, police determined that the package was in fact the product of a prank by as-yet-unidentified perpetrators, conjuring images of the black balloon that rose from below the field at Harvard Stadium 21 years ago emblazoned with the letters...
...nothing more than a prank,” Dubois-Walton said. “If it had gone off, it would have set off fireworks and a banner would have unfurled and the wording on the banner said, ‘No school on Monday.’ So it looks like it was some reference to the fact that Yale students are going home for break and Harvard students are going back to school...
...School on Monday” chant is a perennial Yale Band favorite, fueling speculation that the band was responsible for the prank...
Despite the ultimately harmless nature of the device, Dubois-Walton said the city was taking it seriously and could file charges if police determine who was responsible for the failed prank...