Pranks!

[StartOrien]

Are the worst. Stop.

Ugh, pranks. They’re the worst! For one thing, they are rude and mean-spirited and they play on people’s natural tendencies towards decency and trust, not to mention the innate human desire for connection. “Oh, you want so badly to believe that you are not alone in this absurd world full of pain and suffering that you’re actually willing to believe something that I told you just because we have established years of friendship? Well now there is a bucket on your head, or whatever.” Pranks. The only thing worse than a straight-up prank is a covert, top secret prank that is so cloaked in dishonesty that it won’t even admit it is a prank. I’m talking, of course, about Improv Everywhere. Those guys. “>This year’s April Fool’s prank is one of the worst yet! Hey, you know what, some people LIKE pranks. Chet Haze’s dad, Tom Pranks, for example, huge prankhead. (See also: Brad Pitt, who is a well-known Prankosaurus.) It’s OK to like pranks. I mean, you are a child if you do? Because the only people who like pranks are children? Because children’s skulls haven’t fused, so they’re very susceptible to being into terrible things, and also children are cruel. They have no reason not to be, they live in a world where consequences are, like, “no dessert,” so not real consequences*. But if you like pranks, at least admit that you like pranks. And that everything you do is actually a prank, even if you call it something pretentious. We have been over all of this before. But since today is their big day, it seemed worth remembering.

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[fairweatherfan]

Are the worst. Stop.

Did you write this on a telegraph?   

[StartOrien]

Are the worst. Stop.

Did you write this on a telegraph?   

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[StartOrien]

buuuuump to remind everyone that pranks are the worst

[Spilling Green Dye]

Actually, I texted the following to my neighbor (who is a Bulls fan and from Chicago):

"Derrick Rose sprained his knee in practice yesterday.  He is out indefinitely."  ouch

It took him 15 minutes to respond, and later admitted to having searched twitter for updates (in a panic) before realizing the prank.  So see, some pranks are good!

[StartOrien]

[fairweatherfan]

Just earlier today I sent a co-worker an email with a link to what I represented as important job-related information.

Imagine his surprise when the link instead led to a YouTube video of singer Rick Astley's 1987 hit single "Never Gonna Give You Up".  It wasn't really work-related at all!  I can't believe nobody's thought of this before, but I really recommend it as a fun, surprising "zinger" among friends.

[StartOrien]

Just earlier today I sent a co-worker an email with a link to what I represented as important job-related information.

Imagine his surprise when the link instead led to a YouTube video of singer Rick Astley's 1987 hit single "Never Gonna Give You Up".  It wasn't really work-related at all!  I can't believe nobody's thought of this before, but I really recommend it as a fun, surprising "zinger" among friends.

DO YOU HAVE A NAME FOR THIS PRANK?!

[fairweatherfan]

Just earlier today I sent a co-worker an email with a link to what I represented as important job-related information.

Imagine his surprise when the link instead led to a YouTube video of singer Rick Astley's 1987 hit single "Never Gonna Give You Up".  It wasn't really work-related at all!  I can't believe nobody's thought of this before, but I really recommend it as a fun, surprising "zinger" among friends.

DO YOU HAVE A NAME FOR THIS PRANK?!

Well, it's still pretty new, but I'm thinking of calling it "The Great Alaskan Fakeout", assuming that name's not already taken.

[StartOrien]

I just thought about doing a prank, and then I was like "Wait a minute? aren't pranks the worst?" So I didn't do it.

In other news, for the love of god can people stop responding to the Delonte West thread. It was kind of the point of this thread.

[Eja117]

I like the pranks. I like the efforts. It's just that today's were kind of the Celtics equivalent of "Another major tsunami in Japan. Thousands missing"  HA! Gotcha!   

They should have been more like Big Baby and Lady Gaga spotted out at dinner together, then again later at a baby clothes store.

Or Austin Rivers crossed over Rondo and dunked on Pierce at practice today.



See the difference folks?

[StartOrien]

I'll say I'm pretty anti-pranks at all levels.