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Longmont Potion Castle (born 1972) [2] is the stage name of a musician and surrealist prank caller from Denver, Colorado who has been active since 1986. The name is also used for most of his prank call albums, and for the project in general. [3] Details about his personal life are scarce, and his real name is kept a secret.
Ownage has become a modern equivalent to "turkey shoot"; applicable when an experienced faction predictably annihilates a beginner or disadvantaged faction. In slang form, owned can be an adjective (He is owned), owning can be a verb (He is totally owning that guy.), and ownage can be a noun. [citation needed]
British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...
A gag name is a pseudonym intended to be humorous through its similarity to both a real name and a term or phrase that is funny, strange, or vulgar. The source of humor stems from the double meaning behind the phrase, although use of the name without prior knowledge of the joke could also be funny.
The name for his alter ego Captain Janks derived from the name of the real-life army captain of the same name. [3] In a 1996 interview, Cipriano claimed to have lost his former shipping clerk position at a medical laboratory not long ago. [7] In 1999, he revealed he was working "for a company that manufactures toilet seats and other plastics."
Unexpected John Cena was inspired by a series of telemarketing prank calls aired on the Z Morning Zoo show in 2012 in which the host repeatedly calls an increasingly aggravated woman to try to convince her to buy WWE "Superslam" (an erroneous name for WWE's annual August pay-per-view SummerSlam).
Vitaly Zdorovetskiy (/ v ɪ ˈ t æ l i z ə ˌ d ɒr ə ˈ v j ɛ t s k i / vih-TAL-ee zə-DORR-ə-VYET-skee; Russian: Вита́лий Здорове́цкий, IPA: [vʲɪˈtalʲɪj zdərɐˈvʲetskʲɪj]; born March 8, 1992), better known by his YouTube username VitalyzdTv, is a Russian-American [2] YouTuber and internet content creator. [3]
The Touch-Tone Terrorists are actually one man, Pete Dzoghi, [1] who also goes by the name RePete.He purchased a series of 1-800 numbers, including ones that were one digit different from actual customer service numbers for companies such as (apparently) UPS, an oil change business, an auto insurance "claims support line", a psychic hotline, a pen manufacturer, a bank, a department store, a ...