List of practical joke topics
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A practical joke (also known as a prank, gag, jape or shenanigan) is a mischievous trick or joke played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.[1] Practical jokes differ from confidence tricks or hoaxes in that the victim finds out, or is let in on the joke, rather than being fooled into handing over money or other valuables. Practical jokes or pranks are generally lighthearted, reversible and non-permanent, and aim to make the victim feel foolish or victimised to a degree, but may also involve cruelty and become a form of bullying if performed without appropriate finesse.
Practical jokes
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File:The Berners Street Hoax.PNG
The Berners Street Hoax. Lithogaphy by Alfred Concanen
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An April Fools' Day prank marking the construction of the Copenhagen Metro in 2001
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- Caltech–MIT rivalry
- Capping stunt
- Josiah S. Carberry
- Chewing gum bug
- Chinese finger trap
- Chinese fire drill
- Culture jamming
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File:Exploding Cigar advert - Popular Mechanics 1917.png
An exploding cigar pellets advertisement from the January 1917 edition of Popular Mechanics[2]
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- Gag name
- Glitter bombing
- Googly eyes
- Golden rivet
- Great Rose Bowl Hoax
- Great Stork Derby
- Groan Tube
- Groucho glasses
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Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – a hack in progress in Lobby 7
- Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Harisen
- Head shaving sleepers
- Henryk Batuta hoax
- Hot foot
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File:Joke Buzzer Patent.png
A patent drawing for a joy buzzer, from Soren Adams' 1932 U.S. patent application
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A lace card from the early 1970s
- Lace card
- Latex mask
- List of frivolous political parties
- List of Google hoaxes and easter eggs
- List of school pranks
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File:Dustin.jpg
Non-human electoral candidates – Dustin the Turkey, a popular Irish television puppet, received thousands of votes in the Republic of Ireland's 1997 presidential election.
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File:Geschmolzenes Eis Scherzartikel.jpg
An imitation melted ice pop, a practical joke device
- Pigasus (politics)
- Plate lifter
- Practical joke device
- Prank call
- Pranknet
- Pull my finger
- Punk'd
- Pythagorean cup
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File:StinkBomb.JPG
A prank stink bomb
Bicycles hung in various areas as a student prank
- Saluting trap
- Senior prank
- Shaft passer
- Shanghai Fugu Agreement
- Shocking gum
- Skyhook (cable)
- Snake nut can
- Sneezing powder
- Snipe hunt
- Stink bomb
- Student prank
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File:2009phantomhit.JPG
A Valentine Phantom placed a heart banner at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library on Main Street in Montpelier, Vermont, February 14, 2009.
- Taro Tsujimoto hoax
- The Jerky Boys
- Toilet papering
- Travelling gnome prank
- Trick candles
- Tube Bar prank calls
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See also
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