Sentences with phrase «practical joke of»

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.

Some scenes feel like rather a waste of time, like Skeeter's relationship with some bland pretty boy, or her practical joke of the commodes on the lawn.

(This is an April Fool's Day - free Ether: There are no practical jokes of the day in this column.

Join us as we explore the French Fête des Lumières, the all - night Spanish celebration of Christmas Eve, and the practical jokes of the Day of Innocent Saints — Spain's version of April Fools» Day.

Not exact matches

A 2,000 year and running practical joke (at least since the start of the Zombie Jesus part of the story).

There is a dramatic word in Colossians that Christ «disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it [the cross]» (Col. 2:15).15 The astounding paradox, or we might even call it, reverently, God's practical joke, is that it is precisely in offering himself as Victim that Christ becomes Victor.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am the God of practical jokes and mass destruction, and Rick Perry's my man.

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.

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

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.

Once, while teeing off, Jordan swung so hard that he exploded the shaft of Love's favorite driver, a traumatic occurrence that, to this day, Jordan believes was a practical joke.

Lyle delights in practical jokes, the grosser the better, and the wildest parts of the book are his descriptions of the outrages that various Yankees have perpetrated against each other.

If you feel great about one particular horse, here are the Triple Crown odds for each: Classic Empire +1850 Always Dreaming +2300 McCraken +3050 Irish War Cry +3050 Gunnevera +6000 Hence +8500 Girvin +8500 Lookin at Lee +10500 J Boys Echo +11400 Practical Joke +11400 Gormley +11400 Thunder Snow +13300 Tapwrit +13800 Irap +15200 Battle of Midway +17300 Patch +30000 Untrapped +33500 Sonneteer +36000 State of Honor +42000 Fast and Accurate +70000

Newcastle's Moussa Sissoko the object of genius practical joke Arsenal rumours

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

Where Gazza was limited to sometimes crude practical jokes, and Rooney has none of Best's charm and fluency.

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

Is this some sort of practical joke?

Starting on 1 April, the day traditionally devoted to clowning and practical jokes, many holders of federal fellowships find themselves caught between two conflicting governmental definitions of their professional status — and suffering the disadvantages of both.

A Taxing Question on Postdoc Pay 1 April 2005 Starting on 1 April, the day traditionally devoted to clowning and practical jokes, many holders of federal fellowships find themselves caught between two conflicting governmental definitions of their professional status — and suffering the disadvantages of both.

Starting on the day traditionally devoted to clowning and practical jokes, many holders of federal fellowships will find themselves caught between two conflicting governmental definitions of their professional status — and suffering the disadvantages of both.

With a commanding officer who is slightly off the wall to begin with, when the crew of the South Pacific cargo freighter decide to alleviate their boredom with practical jokes, usually at their captain's expense, tit for tat becomes the watchword as the captain decides to get even.

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

They have a good laugh over practical jokes and sign digs at each other — their brand of sign language includes rude gestures, which of course George thinks are hilarious.

In fact, he did everything he could to fit in and earn the respect of tough jock Rex Reavis and his friends, including dismissing all their cruel practical jokes with a shrug and a laugh.

When one of them (Christian Cooke) takes a job selling life insurance, his under - achieving buddies (angry young troublemaker Tom Hughes and doofus Jack Doolan) see this as some sort of betrayal, which apparently justifies their continued campaign of petty vandalism, practical jokes and bar fights.

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.

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.

The sequel is obvious, weak and scattered and seems more like a practical joke than a work of genuine passion.

Other features: the Fox special «Mutant Watch», a fairly routine making - of structured around a Kelly hearing; Hugh Jackman's screen test (notable for unused conversation between Logan and Rogue); brief clips of Bryan Singer on «Charlie Rose» (more, please); Animatics (or, X-Men meets «Reboot» — computer - generated storyboards for a couple of action sequences); a very extensive gallery of costume and production designs; two trailers and three TV spots (none of them, disappointingly, the mock - campaign ad that ran on late night cable); a promo for the soundtrack CD; and two easy - to - spot Easter eggs (in one, an outtake, we're made privy to a hilarious, Marvel - centric practical joke) within underimagined animated menus.

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.

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

But the noise only gets louder, and when Mac and Kelly call the cops in a moment of desperation, they spark a war that escalates into a series of crazy practical jokes.

Either Adam Pally's Tim Robbins live - blogging is an elaborate 8 - hour endurance practical joke at the expense of the Shawshank Redeption star, or it actually happened.

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.

We laugh as Mark pulls a practical joke on his friend by stealing his tape of him having sex with his girl.

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.

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!

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.

The tone is personable, with jokes and asides, plus lots of practical knowledge you don't see elsewhere — like when the winds pick up, what side of the plane to sit on when flying into Kona and Hilo, where to eat, how to access remote black beaches, etc..

Pyle's nineteenth - century retelling of the classic Robin Hood legends is full of fights, contests, practical jokes, and feasting.

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

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.

A slew of posts have hit the blogsphere following more of the anti-Amazon campaign coming out of the NY traditional media (which reached orgiastic levels this weekend with a Patterson ad and a NYT hatchet job), and volleyed by Amazon calling on indie authors to email Hachette's CEO in an emailed missive I first suspected might be a practical joke.

I think if you told me two years ago one of my books would be going on sale for a week for $ 0.99, on April First, and it would be erotica, I would have assumed the entire thing was a practical joke.

I suppose you could even use a practical joke as part of your marketing strategy.

Once the province only of marketing mavens, now simply to be effective on Twitter, you need a practical bio, not a joke; a good picture, not a greasy - faced party shot; a professional handle, not that silly thing you did in college.