Sentences with phrase «with practical jokes»

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.

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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.

Barely two weeks ago, I used the following phrases to describe soup: «vegetables boiled to death,» «assaulted with too much cream,» «whatever healthy things in there can not be tasted,» and even «what must have been a practical joke» about an especially awful one I'd ordered recently.

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

With regard to the third question, participants were required to answer the question about Anne's emotional status after she completed the practical joke.

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.

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.

Mallrats mixes clever bits and an appealing quirkiness (which goes a long way) with gross - out practical jokes, needless repetition and obvious padding, since it has no real plot.

They got along famously, with a shared interest in elaborate practical jokes and model airplanes, among other things.

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.

She is short on free time to spend with him and practical joke - loving Winfried causes her much embarrassment when she brings him along to a work conference.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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..

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.

A cat leash is practical (and not a joke), allowing you to enjoy the fresh air with your favorite feline.

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.

ccpo (379), I hope I'm not falling for a practical joke or satire, but I'm a bit perplexed with your response to FurryCatHerder.

And, like them, many of us bully our friends and family with collegial insults and practical jokes.