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An office cubicle with all the contents covered in aluminum foil. WikipediaManual of Style#National varieties of English --> Aluminium foil (known Practical jokes are a common workplace activity.
One example of a practical joke is to completely block someone's doorway while he/she is in the room.
One example of a practical joke is to completely block someone's doorway while he/she is in the room.

A practical joke or prank is a stunt or trick to purposely make someone feel foolish or victimized, usually for humor. The victim is called "the mark", "the target", and even "April Fool" if they were fooled on the day dedicated to pranks, April Fools' Day, which is held on the first day of April each year. This article is about the informal holiday For other uses see April Fool. Another day common for pranks and practical jokes is Halloween. Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a Holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. The pranks are pulled by "the prankster", "practical joker", "gagman", or "jokester". Practical jokes are different from cons in that the victim finds out, or is let in on, the joke rather than being fooled non-jokingly to retrieve money or other valuables. A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, scam, scheme Since pranks are made to make people feel foolish or victimized, there is an inherent strain of cruelty in most practical jokes. Cruelty can be described as indifference to Suffering, and even positive Pleasure in inflicting it There is a thin line between practical jokes and hooliganism, bullying, vandalism, or sadism. Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others through verbal Harassment, physical Assault, or other more subtle methods of Coercion Vandalism is the behaviour attributed to the Vandals in respect of Culture: ruthless Destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or Venerable Pranks can be pulled on a person or something that belongs to the person, like their house, pet, or mailbox, etc.

Practical jokes are usually done for amusement purposes, so when the perpetrator is discovered, they usually admit to it, as they are mostly done between friends and do not involve foul play. Although some practical jokes are pulled on enemies as a hatred remark or as some type of revenge.

The term "practical" refers to the fact that the joke consists of someone doing something (a practice), rather than a verbal or written joke. A practical joke can be caused by the victim falling for a prank, the victim stumbling into a prank, the prankster forcing a prank on the victim, the prankster causing others to do something to the victim, or even causing the victim to do something to others. Sometimes more than one mark is used.

Even practical jokers should be careful of "Fake Pranks" and "Reverse Pranks". A Fake Prank is where the mark is fooled into believing he is pulling a prank but is actually a victim. A Reverse Prank is when the intended victim becomes the prankster by turning the tables by either evading the prank and returning it or pulling a back-up prank of their own on their would-be pranksters.

The Trapezium of Xenophanes was cited by Aristotle as a notable compendium of practical jokes, but only a few fragments of this work have survived. Xenophanes of Colophon ( Greek ( 570 – 480 BC was a Greek Philosopher, Poet, and social and religious Critic. Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

The American humorist H. Allen Smith wrote a 320-page book in 1953 called The Compleat Practical Joker[1] that contains many examples of practical jokes. Harry Allen Smith, December 19, 1907 — February 24, 1976, was an American journalist and humorist whose books were popular in the 1940s A typical one, recalled as his favorite by the playwright Charles MacArthur, concerns the American painter and bohemian character Waldo Peirce. A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Charles Gordon MacArthur ( November 5 1895, Scranton Pennsylvania – April 21 1956, New York City) was an American The term bohemian, of French origin was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished Artists Waldo Peirce ( December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an American painter, born in Bangor Maine. Peirce was living in Paris in the 1920s and "made a gift of a very small turtle to the woman who was the concierge of his building". Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city A concierge (kɔ̃sjɛʁʒ ( French) is an employee who lives on the premises of Apartment buildings and serves as a general Property caretaker; while the The woman doted on the turtle and lavished it with care and affection. A few days later Peirce substituted a somewhat larger turtle for the original one. This continued for some time, with larger and larger turtles being surreptitiously introduced into the woman's apartment. The concierge was beside herself with happiness and displayed her miraculous turtle to the entire neighborhood. Peirce then began to sneak in and replace the turtle with smaller and smaller ones, to her bewildered distress. This was the storyline behind Esio Trot, by Roald Dahl. Esio Trot is a children's novel written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Roald Dahl ( 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British Novelist Short story Writer

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Practical Jokes

There are different kinds of practical jokes. All pranks/practical jokes fall into one or a combination of these categories:

Some classic pranks include:

Other classic pranks can include a practical joke device:

Some Resources

Television Shows

Movies

Radio Shows/Personalities

Books

Famous Practical Jokers

Real People

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Fictional Characters

Colleges/Universities

Prank Stores Online

Links with Pranks

See also

References

  1. ^ The compleat practical joker [WorldCat.org]
Hugh Charles Troy Jr (1906 - 1964 was a US painter who is noted for his pranks Jeremy James Anthony Gibson Beadle MBE ( 12 April 1948 &ndash 30 January 2008) was an English Television presenter James S "Jim" Moran ( January 1, 1908 &ndash October 18, 1999) was an imaginative Christopher Ashton Kutcher ( commonly known as Ashton Kutcher (born February 7 1978 is an American actor and former fashion model best known for playing Michael Michael Thomas "Tom" Green (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian Actor, Rapper, Writer, Comedian The Prankster ( Oswald Hubert Loomis) is a Fictional character, a Supervillain in the DC Comics universe and primarily a foe of See also School bullying, Senior prank A school prank is any of several common Pranks performed by children or young adults A computer prank is a prank related to either the software or the hardware of Computers Some are intended to humiliate while others are A senior prank is a type of organized prank pulled by the senior class of a school college or university to cause chaos throughout the institution A prank call also known as a hoax call, phone scam or phony phone call, is a form of Practical joke committed over the Telephone A gag name is a false name used to elicit humor through its simultaneous resemblance to a real name on the one hand and to a term or phrase that is funny strange or vulgar on the other This article is about the informal holiday For other uses see April Fool. The Dreadnought Hoax was a Practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910

Dictionary

practical joke

-noun

  1. Something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else.
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