Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone knows, the dead rat prank did not inflence the one female cadet's decision to leave ? "she just felt the system was not for her," said a VMI counsellor. Military misogynists should not cheer too soon, however: six male freshman have also quit since Monday...
...first assistant director had recently acquired a puppy, an adorable mutt, that came to set every day. A Polaroid was delivered to her, of Mickey (the dog) and scrawled on the photo were the disturbing words, "Mochas or the mutt dies!" Taking it as a prank, she ignored the missive. Soon a second Polaroid arrived; this time a gun pointed at poor Mickey's head, the message implicit. Despite the assistant director's rising panic, the producer refused to take action. She sternly responded, "Kill the mutt!" A third picture arrived: Mickey splayed on the ground, eyes closed...
Three young people in Florida, barely out of their teens, have just been sentenced to 15 years each for removing a stop sign from an intersection. The defendants sobbed, and even the judge evinced regret, but everyone seems to agree that stealing stop signs is a particularly heinous prank. In this case, three other young people were killed when they drove through the signless intersection into an eight-ton Mack truck...
...here's another tip for anyone contemplating the old stop-sign prank: don't do the sign removing yourself. Call yourself Superior Sign Relocation Inc., and hire others to do the manual labor so you can always point proudly to your contribution as a pillar of the economy and a creator of jobs. And if you wonder how you'll make the money to meet payroll, that's easy: you'll sell the purloined signs, of course, to the millions of homeowners who, like so many of my law-abiding, homeowning neighbors, favor them as decorations for their basement...
Lewis remembers a prank he and his fellow editors played during the 1947 Harvard football game: a parody of The Dartmouth distributed in Hanover the day of the game...