Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...write a homily on the fourth-grade blackboard (e.g., "The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with 'Hail, Satan'"). In a family of noisy eaters, he is perhaps the loudest, at least in decibel-to-kilogram ratio. He has a few weaknesses: exposing his buttocks, sassing his father, making prank calls to Moe's Tavern ("Is Oliver there? Oliver Clothesoff?") and speaking like a Cockney chimney sweep. One of the few trophies on his bedroom shelf is labeled EVERYBODY GETS A TROPHY...
...years, since the day Truman was born. Everyone else in town, including Meryl (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich), is an actor, improvising from a loose scenario devised by the project's creator, Christof (Ed Harris). The Truman Show, as the program is called, is TV's most elaborate prank: Candid Camera on an epochal scale and at a muted pitch. Christof has created the largest man-made structure in history (the huge domed studio that is Seahaven), with a working town, a roiling sea and hundreds of extras, simply to convince one person that his life is real...
...next call is a hang-up; perhaps it is a prank, more likely it is someone who got tired of waiting. As part of KISS 108's ongoing commitment to keep up with its listener's interests. David must record each call, keeping track of the caller's approximate age and gender: "We want to know what songs people want to listen to at what time." he explains...
...resident of Cambridge Court reported that she has been receiving 20 prank phone calls per day for the last two years. She said most of the callers have been children...
...posters are, thus far, the most salient feature of this month's gay pride celebration. If we assume that the posters are not a Lampoon prank, and are actually the consciously constructed public image that the queer community on campus wishes to project, let us analyze that image based on the content of the posters...