Word: pranking
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These days, the Dan & Scott Show, a polished but off-color tribute to goofy guys' prank calling from dorm rooms everywhere, airs to an audience of 100,000 on a talk-radio website called eYada.com The site is different from the hundreds of AM and FM stations that now simultaneously stream their programming onto the Web. Schulz and Wirkus describe their show as "a thumbing of the nose at anyone who smells of authority." Like all Net radio, they don't answer to the FCC, and they toss the F word liberally in segments like "Penis Talk" and "This...
...maybe Bush did something else to McCain. Perhaps he just kept on bothering him in his bus, making prank phone calls asking him where he could buy a ticket for the Straight Talk Express and then hanging up mischievously. Bush probably also kept on signing McCain up with different long distance companies, and maybe also invited him to really good movies he knew McCain wanted to see even though he knew McCain was campaigning that weekend. Frankly, I don't really know. Maybe they made plans to play laser tag but Bush cancelled at the last minute. At any rate...
...Lyndon B. Johnson loved the beverage Fresca so much that he had a dispenser installed in the Oval Office which could be operated at his desk. His Cabinet staged an ill-advised prank, spiking the dispenser with an experimental energy drink, resulting in the Vietnam...
Coming as it did after a week of distributed denial-of-service attacks against major commercial websites, the prank was reported as yet another example of the dangers of the electronic age. The original story on Foxnews.com described the attack as "the latest in a recent wave of cyber-vandalism that has already targeted cnn.com," and the New York Daily News said Clinton's chat had been "victimized by a cyberattack...
Confirming the incident was a prank, Ryan McKenna, a public relations specialist for the WWF, said he had no knowledge of any Rock appearance yesterday...