Showing posts with label practical joke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label practical joke. Show all posts
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Great Dates in History: 1884 and the world's first prank phone call!
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made his famous "first" phone call. ("Watson, come here. I need you.") And now Paul Collins (aka, the Literary Detective) has found evidence of the first prank phone call, from 1884:
A GRAVE JOKE ON UNDERTAKERS -- Some malicious wag at Providence R.I. has been playing a grave practical joke on the undertakers there, by summoning them over the telephone to bring freezers, candlesticks and coffin for persons alleged to be dead. In each case the denoument was highly farcical, and the reputed corpses are now hunting in a lively manner for that telephonist.
December 15, 2013
November 24, 2013
November 23, 2013
"Spacemen" not needed.
A guy named Jamie Jones tried to sell NASA the idea for using Coke and Mentos to shoot rockets into space. He also applied for a job as a "spaceman." Neither worked out.
May 17, 2013
A practical joke, reversed!
I've written about this prank in Bart's King-Sized Book of Fun, so I was happy to see someone has morphed it into a REVERSE practical joke. (This looks a bit staged, but I can live with that.)
April 28, 2013
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