Category: Pranks
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How "Christ, What an Asshole!" is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest
Link: How “Christ, What an Asshole!” is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest via: Boing Boing
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Tangerinegate… by Robert Popper
So I switched on LBC (a London talk radio station) where the topic was Gordon Brown’s alleged bad temper. I called up and got through almost instantly. “What do you want to talk about?” asked the LBC operator. Without time to think I replied, “Gordon Brown visited my place of work and lost his temper…
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TrustoCorp Guerilla Signs
TrustoCorp Guerilla Signs These signs are spotted in the streets of Manhattan, Miami, Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia and Williamsburg USA. They are made by Trusto… Link: http://idealistpropaganda.blogspot.com/2010/02/trustocorp-guerilla-signs.html
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PDN: How To Create a Pop Star in Photoshop
This fall, Steven Kasher Gallery in New York exhibited Josh Gosfield’s collection of memorabilia relating to Gigi Gaston, the French singer/songwriter of the 1960s. His reproductions of album covers, posters, tabloid newspaper articles, fan magazines and scandal sheets tell the story of Gaston’s rise to pop stardom, the car crash that killed her stepbrother and…
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce | The Yes Men
Link: U.S. Chamber of Commerce | The Yes Men: In a dramatic announcement at the National Press Club today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reversed its position on climate change policy, and promised to immediately cease lobbying against the Kerry-Boxer bill. Not.
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Business Reply Mail
Link: Business Reply Mail: This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company. via BoingBoing
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Geoff Hargadon's "Cash For Your Warhol" Prank – Wooster
Wooster Collective: Shit We’re Diggin: Geoff Hargadon’s “Cash For Your Warhol” Prank via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2009/09/shit_were_diggin_geoff_hargadons_cash_fo.html The Examiner reports that the AP usually sends the same photographer to every transfer, but fails to mention his name. So we will: Steve Ruark. AP spokesperson Paul Colford tells us Ruark sometimes makes two trips in a single…
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The Yes Men – "Special Edition" New York Post
“SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo. Early this morning, nearly a million New Yorkers were stunned by the appearance of a “special edition” New York Post blaring headlines that their city could face deadly heat waves, extreme flooding, and other lethal effects of global warming within the next few decades.…
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Telephone Terrorist – Outing An Online Outlaw
Telephone Terrorist – The Smoking Gun: A TSG investigation unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone call criminality
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Las Vegas City Council Pranked
Michael Lehrer addresses Las Vegas City Council – watch more funny videos via Dangerous Minds | Las Vegas City Council Pranked
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Greenpeace Activists Vandalize HP Headquarters
Greenpeace Activists Vandalize HP Headquarters | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: HP employees at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto were in for a shock Tuesday morning as they found the message “Hazardous Products” painted on the roof of their office and Greenpeace activists squatting on top.
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Author of Torture Memos Pranked in Classroom
Author of Torture Memos Pranked in Classroom | Threat Level | Wired.com: After Yoo mentions the Constitution during his lecture, and asks the students if they have any questions, an Australian comedian from the show Chaser’s War on Everything is seen wearing a black-hooded robe and standing on top of his desk with his arms…
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False photos as a Statement about Photojournalism | dvafoto
False photos as a Statement about Photojournalism | dvafoto: John Vink over on this post on Lightstalkers brought up a very interesting case: two students, Guillaume Chauvin (23) and Rémi Hubert (22), upon winning a Paris Match photojournalism prize, announce that they have faked the pictures in their entry as an exercise and indictment of…
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TOP HEADLINE: WORLD LEADERS SIGN PACT TO AVERT CLIMATE DISASTER
Yes Men: In a front-page ad in today’s International Herald Tribune, the leaders of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference that will be held this December. “It was only thanks to your massive pressure over the past six months…
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The Future Shock
Kolin Pope says: My name is Kolin Pope. I am the savior of the future. Like most with the title of savior, I never went out looking for it. No, adventure found me. It began on a very unremarkable evening in August 2003. I was nineteen at the time and in my room, when the…
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The Fast Food Job Application Prank
From The Fast Food Job Application Prank: In the winter of 2008, I started noticing that all of the fast food places near work had these little acrylic application holders out in the open. So, I got to work designing a new job application, with much more entertaining questions. All I had to do was…