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A practical joke is "practical" because it consists of someone doing something that is physical, in contrast to a verbal or written joke. For example, the joker who is setting up and conducting the practical joke might hang a bucket of water above a doorway and rig the bucket using pulleys so when the door opens the bucket dumps the water. The ...
A toilet papered residence in Deerfield, Michigan. This is a list of practical joke topics (also known as a prank, gag, jape, or shenanigan) which are mischievous tricks or jokes played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.
Being familiar with the back-and-forth pattern of the joke is crucial. In an episode of the TV detective series Monk, Adrian Monk is feeling sad. His assistant, Natalie, tries to cheer him up. She says she has thought of something funny, and asks if he wants to hear it. "Yes," he answers. She begins, using the standard formula, "Knock knock."
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Image credits: pplazzz #2. Norm told this best: A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich. The bartender looks at him and says, "Hang on!
A joke can be reused in different joke cycles; an example of this is the same Head & Shoulders joke refitted to the tragedies of Vic Morrow, Admiral Mountbatten and the crew of the Challenger space shuttle. [note 4] [47] These cycles seem to appear spontaneously, spread rapidly across countries and borders only to dissipate after some time ...
Dark jokes about illness may seem like bitter pills, but they are comically contagious, and the resulting laughter makes for good medicine.Be sure to use them sparingly! 1. “The good thing about ...
A Pythagorean Cup (also known as a Pythagoras Cup, Greedy Cup, Cup of Justice, Anti Greedy Goblet or Tantalus Cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos. When it is filled beyond a certain point, a siphoning effect causes the cup to drain its entire contents through the base.