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Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... A practical joke or prank is a practice intended to be humorous (usually in action, not just in words) in which another person is fooled, annoyed, or embarrassed in what the perpetrator imagines to be a mild and light-hearted fashion. ... A school prank is a prank pulled on a student by another student. ... A popular practical joke is to completely block someones doorway while they are in the room. ... An example of advanced cow tipping Cow tipping is the supposed rural activity of sneaking up on an upright sleeping cow and pushing it over for amusement. ... April Fools Day or All Fools Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. ... April 1, 2002 was an April Fools Day. ... Candid Camera is a long-running television series, created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially appeared on radio as Candid Microphone in the 1940s, then screened in the United States in the 1950s, with local versions produced around the world. ... The Student Liberation Front (SLF), a secret group founded predominantly to cause mischief and humor, was first noticed during the late 1980s and early 1990s, generally at colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Mythology. ... A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader. ... Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. ...
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Pranks Online
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A prank call, also known as a crank call or hoax call, is a form of practical joke committed over the telephone.
Prank calls that waste the time of emergency services are a criminal offense in most countries.
Even very prominent people have fallen victim to prank callers, as for example Queen Elizabeth II, who was fooled by Canadian DJ Pierre Brassard posing as Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, asking her to record a speech in support of Canadian unity ahead of the 1995 Quebec referendum.
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