Sentences with phrase «of practical jokes»

Unlike present - day viruses the Elk Cloner wasn't created to be destructive or criminal it was more of a practical joke.

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.

Meanwhile, in the cluttered back office, junior clerk Vladimir Girshkin - the immigrant's immigrant, the expatriate's expatriate, enduring victim of every practical joke the late twentieth century had to offer and an unlikely hero for our times - was going at it with the morning's first double - cured - spicy - soppressata - and - avocado sandwich.

He refused to become an altar boy, was fond of practical jokes and toyed with agnosticism before becoming a Jesuit.

Is this some sort of practical joke?

After Maggie plays a series of practical jokes, no one believes her story of a tree dying of soil erosion.

A natural leader, he questions every request made by Hundert, targets the man as the brunt of practical jokes and uses rude hand gestures in class to the amusement of his fellow students.

There is an Easter Egg on each of the two Special Features menus, the first revealing a letter written by Ted Hughes regarding the status of this project in pre-production, the second a ten - second animatic of a practical joke played on Mansley by, we assume, Hogarth.

Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the USA, spent the year 1784 in Salisbury studying law, but local lore says his love of practical jokes and card playing ran him out of town with an outstanding hotel bill.

Maybe you don't want to devise an elaborate hoax for April Fools» Day (see: Google as «Topeka»), but there is another way to get in the spirit of practical jokes — reading, of course!

A delightful, fully of practical jokes kind of fellow, I really enjoyed his stories of growing up in Wales.

This isn't the sort of thing artists kid about, not Don's idea of a practical joke; still, I clung to a small shred of doubt.

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.