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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...incident in question involved two very drunk young college males who seemingly decided to play a prank on one of their girlfriends by adorning her suite with swastikas and ludicrously incoherent statements such as “I love Adolf because he is king.” Realizing their tasteless mistake, they attempted to paint over the graffiti the next morning, only to be caught by police before they could complete their cleanup...

Author: By John Hastrup | Title: Lovin’ ‘Hate Crimes’ | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

Depending on your long-distance provider, that stranger with the thick accent may not be a telemarketer or a prank caller. Skype, whose software lets users make free phone calls over the Internet, has become the hot download among young Asians--with 45,000 new Chinese users signing on each day. And many of them are practicing their English by making random calls to fellow Skype users in the U.S. The company, which has 66 million registered subscribers in more than 200 countries, includes language preferences in every user's profile, and last year started offering a "Skype Me" mode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead--Reach Out and Gab to Someone | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

...Yalies’ prank attempt at The Game was but a pale, failed echo of last year’s epoch in prank history. After a wholesome afternoon visiting tailgates, Barrett B. Jackson ’06 and her gaggle of friends received two suspicious text messages from an unidentified number. “Remember: SCHOOL ON MONDAY!!! -John Harvard” read the first message, and “Hi [personalized names]! At the THIRD QUARTER KICKOFF, chant “We Suck” to prove to Yale (forever a safety school) that we don?...

Author: By Dan R. Rasmussen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who Sucks Now? | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. Others, of course, might argue that it completes what the Pistols' estranged ex-manager-creator Malcolm McLaren dubbed the "Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle"-he maintains that the iconoclastic band he devised from his King's Road boutique was really just an elaborate prank on the music industry. Indeed, there is more than a measure of irony in the Pistols' being anointed to the iconic pantheon of a genre they had decried as fatuously boring and had aimed to destroy. Still, the actual band-drummer Paul Cook, guitarist Steve Jones, original bass player Glen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Rotten in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame? | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...Korean nuclear issue, was so intent on asking a question that he accepted the microphone when it was handed to Bohan. "You can go ahead and grab the mike if you want to," Bush joshed. "But I didn't know you were called "Caren.' " On the contrary, among his prank-happy fellow reporters, Sanger is likely to be called "Caren" from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Stay on Script in South Korea | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

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