From
an article in the Economist:
Quote:
AS A pupil at a minor English boarding school, one of the rituals your correspondent dreaded most was morning chapel: 600 boys and a dozen berobed “masters” crammed into a cold, dim chamber for ten minutes of dreary hymns and prayers. Until, that is, one morning, the solemn atmosphere was shattered by an unforgettable act of comic bravado. Seconds after the headmaster—known as the Head Horse on account of his equine features—took his seat, a giant white sheet rolled down over the arched entrance. On it was a caricature of a grinning horse wearing a mortar-board. Lord, how we laughed.
The perpetrators' identities did not stay secret for long—what schoolboy could resist boasting of such a jape? The rolled-up sheet had been held in place by thread that was tied to the switch for the headmaster's reading light so tautly that when he turned it on, the thread snapped and the caricature was unfurled. The Head Horse had been forced to humiliate himself. Even he had to admit it was ingenious.
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Many more prank examples there, and some pictures as well. Nothing inappropriate... but quite entertaining. And the Economist is now having a contest for the best prank...
So, even though I think we've done it before, what's your best prank?
While not necessarily my best, my daughter and I recently pulled one over on my wife. My wife gets up first in the morning, and while she was in the shower, I woke up my daughter who got out of bed and hid underneath it. We then stuffed some pillows under the blanket and put one of her American Girl dolls on the pillow, with the hair spread back. We covered it up so all you could see was the hair, and it looked like my daughter was still sleeping.
When my wife went to wake her up... Gotcha!
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