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Filipino Monkey
Type: Rogue radio operator. Summary: For decades a mysterious prankster has interrupted ship-to-ship radio communications with obscenities and threats. The Filipino Monkey is the name of an infamous rogue radio operator who interjects lewd jokes, threats, obscenities, and animal noises into ship-to-ship radio communications conducted on VHF marine channel 16…


Great Rose Bowl Hoax
Type: College Prank. Summary: Caltech students succeeded in altering the University of Washington’s halftime flip-card routine during the 1961 Rose Bowl in order to read “CALTECH”. Rose Bowl tickets are now available for the Rose Bowl Parade and bowl game. Buy college bowl tickets and find NCAA football tickets throughout…


Lady Liberty on Lake Mendota
Type: College Prank. Summary: The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Pail and Shovel Party promised that, if elected to student government, they would move the Statue of Liberty to Lake Mendota, and they made good on their promise. Lady Liberty sinks into Lake Mendota. (Photograph by Ravi Kochhar). In February 1979 an…


Medieval Pranks and Tricks
Athanasius Kircher, a frequent victim of pranksPeople have always enjoyed playing tricks and practical jokes on each other, and the people of the middle ages were no different. Luckily, a number of texts have preserved the efforts of medieval pranksters. The notebook of Thomas Betson, a fifteenth-century monk at Syon…


Theft of the Sacred Cod
Type: College Prank. Summary: In 1933 Harvard students “codnapped” the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts. The Sacred Cod of Massachusetts. Theft is one of the classic and most-often-used tools in the toolbox of college pranksters. All manner of prized items are regularly spirited away at campuses throughout the world: statues, bells,…

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