Category: Pranks
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RE/Search Pranksfests in SF and LA
Boing Boing: ARTY, SHOW AND SPECTACLE: Due to the “illegal” nature of Pranks, key speakers from the Billboard Liberation Front, etc, may be in disguise! Ex-hacker Marc Powell, Babalou and Karen Marcelo from SRL, Cacophony Society’s Chris Radcliffe, and Prankster-Godfather MAL SHARPE will show their real faces (we think). Rare and inspiring pranks video clips…
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The Halliburton SurvivaBall™
Yes Men, from the fake site Halliburton Contracts: Halliburton’s reputation as a disaster and conflict industry innovator will be cemented by the SurvivaBall™, a one-size-fits-all solution to global warming. Here.
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BANKSY: The Story Disneyland Doesn't Want You To Know
Wooster Collective: Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California. The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours…
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Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank – BANKSY
BBC, via Boing-Boing: Banksy has replaced Hilton’s CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog’s head. A spokeswoman…
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UK Serious Games Conference Pranked by Anti-McDonalds Activists
The Yes Men strike again! From Gamasutra, via boing-boing: According to online reports, the UK-based International Serious Games Event, which deals with games for educational, corporate training, and other uses, this week hosted its conference in Birmingham, England, complete with a session by Andrew Shimery-Wolf, Strategic Comm. Mgr at fast food giant McDonald’s, on “McChange:…
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Audio Hoaxes and Urban Legends, Part 3: Jud Jud
From WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Jud Jud was the band that was too straight edge for instruments. Every song (including their “tuning”) on their 1989 seven Inch The Demos consists of Steve Heritage (in the left stereo channel) and “B” (in the right channel) chanting their manifesto, which consists mostly of the word Jud,…
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Rebar pranksters
From SFWeekly: “My favorite reaction we get now and again is: ‘Why in the world would somebody do that? Why in God’s name would you do that?’ People are stunned that we would drive out to the desert to build a library or put a park in a parking space. I love that reaction. My…
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Basketball Prank
From some blog: On Saturday, at the game, when Pruitt was introduced in the starting lineup, the chants began: “Victoria, Victoria.” One of the fans held up a sign with her phone number. Here.
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The Web This Morning
Nothing worth posting from this morning. Here’s the greatest hoax of 2005: BBC News – Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight Cambodian Midget Fighting League is dead. Long live the Cambodian Midget Fighting League!