Sentences with phrase «playing practical jokes»

The issues to be addressed were listed as insubordination and unproductive work environment, and it listed several behavioral issues regarding leaving work without prior approval and playing practical jokes.

John Henry Twachtman was witty and irreverent, and he was known for playing practical jokes on unsuspecting friends.

As a child I had a huge marmalade cat called Nutkin who was always playing practical jokes, so I know how much happiness cats can bring to a family.

They have a great sense of humor and are not above playing practical jokes on their families.

My father was always laughing, and always playing practical jokes.

We next catch up with the culprits when they're on patrol in Iraq, ferreting out insurgents and passing their spare time playing practical jokes and watching porn movies.

For example, one called «nasty neighbours» depicted two men playing practical jokes on each other.

Listen carefully My office are quite keen on playing practical jokes.

One is left with the weird impression that quantum particles are playing practical jokes on quantum physicists, like a cabin full of second grade campers short - sheeting their counselor's bed.

You would probably not guess by her quiet demeanor, but Corie loves to play practical jokes on people!

But there is one thing I do grasp: when New Line Cinema puts Dwayne Johnson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in a movie where giant mutated apes who like to play practical jokes fight giant flying wolves and enormous armor - plated crocodiles, it is entitled to no less than three hundred million of your box office dollars.

Jonathan would play practical jokes on the actors.

It looks like vintage Hitchcock at first, with the socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) playing a practical joke of sorts on mysterious attorney Mitch (Rod Taylor) when she visits his home in Bodega Bay, but things soon turn strange when Melanie is attacked by a seagull, and then the children at Mitch's sister Cathy's birthday party (Cathy is played by Veronica Cartwright, of «Alien» and «L.A. Law» fame) are attacked as well.

Lloyd and Harry play practical jokes on the henchman.

I know my «near» students used to play practical jokes on my «far» students by putting signs up in front of the camera and making faces at them.

If you'd rather have the kind of friend that plays practical jokes on you, instead, then maybe opt for the limited - slip differential jointly made with Drexler for the 2, one of many M Performance parts available.

But he also loved to play practical jokes on his students and to buy large sacks of confetti which he would strew about liberally, with the slightest excuse.

I think Salby is playing a practical joke on the skeptics as his presentation is quite inscrutable to anyone except possibly himself.

Matt also has been known to play a practical joke or two.

I like to have fun and play practical jokes,» Alki says.

While April 1 is not considered a national holiday, it is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.

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.

But in the bullpen, pitchers, catchers and coaches are free to swap stories, play games and practical jokes, grow gardens, banter with fans.

He also had a wicked sense of humour and was not adversed to playing the odd practical joke on his colleagues.

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

Nothing is ever explained, at least not well enough, and we are just watching these bizarre scenes, unsure if a practical joke is being played.

Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd, at their peaks, star as the victims of an unfortunate practical joke played by Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy.

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.

Brandon Cole shares some of his own blind gaming anecdotes, like how gaming for him began as a practical joke, and how he blew the minds of friends and family alike playing a certain tricky bit of Metal Gear Solid.

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.