Sentences with phrase «from practical jokes»

Two of the most memorable include a letter to Robert Smithson, casually addressed «Hey Bob,» and a shattered glass Coca - Cola bottle, allegedly left over from a practical joke once played on Robert Irwin.

Not exact matches

Giving orders, and obeying them — Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements — Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)-- Reporting an event — Speculating about an event — Forming and resting a hypothesis — Presenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagrams — Making up a story; and reading it — Play - acting — Singing catches — Guessing riddles — Making a joke; telling it — Solving a problem in practical arithmetic — Translating from one language to another — Asking, thanking, cursing.

The triple World Champion from Brazil openly took the piss out of other drivers, played multiple practical jokes and even insulted his title rival's wife, Mrs Mansell.

Mister Cook (different from his previous titles, «Mr. Cooker», «Restaurant Man,» and «Farmer Cook» - the boy's inspired by food, clearly), a story in which a restaurateur prepares for a crowd, presents a feast, unleashes a giant spider on the crowd and then wonders why no one understood his practical joke.

MIXING stinging cells from sea anemones into skin cream sounds like a bad practical joke.

Tracing inspiration to a yarn from one of Giovanni Boccaccio's collected 14th century novellas in The Decameron, the new ensemble film from Jeff Baena wraps it religious habit up with wit, erotica, and practical jokes from Italian prose translated into a modern vernacular.

Equally - annoying, are the colorful supporting characters displaying an array of increasingly bizarre behaviors, ranging from Sheeni's uptight, Bible - thumping parents (M. Emmet Walsh and Mary Kay Place) to her rebellious big brother (Justin Long) whose idea of a practical joke is to lace Thanksgiving dinner with hallucinogenic mushrooms which cause their father to smear mashed potatoes on his own face.

However, if they do tag along, it is best to keep them on a very short leash and harness to keep them from fighting with other animals, eating the treats, becoming victims of practical jokes — as black cats often do — or biting strangers they encounter.

Accompanying this relic from the annals of art history is an artifact that has been transported to the museum from the New York of the future: a $ 25 coin, representing the inflated worth of a contemporary quarter by the year 2027, that has been glued to the floor in reference to a classic practical joke.

The first of April has long been a day for practical jokes and silly pranks — and there's no escape from April fools on the internet.