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The Pranks of Horace de Vere Cole
Status: Prankster
The Daily Mail offers a short biography of Horace de Vere Cole (1881-1936), a man who made pranks his life work. His most famous prank was the Dreadnought Hoax of 1910. Here are a few of his others:- He "once stood in the street handing out free theatre tickets to a series of extremely bald passers-by with the result that, when viewed from the dress circle, the assembly of shiny bald heads in the carefully chosen seats clearly spelt out an expletive - complete with a dot over the 'i'."
- He used to "wander the streets with a cow's udder poking through his flies. At the moment of optimum outrage, he would then produce a pair of scissors and snip off the offending protrusion."
- "More adolescent pranks ranged from organising a large party where all the guests were called Ramsbottom or Winterbottom to driving around London in a taxi with a naked tailor's dummy. Whenever he saw a policeman, he would stop the cab, open the door and beat the dummy's head on the ground, shouting: 'Ungrateful hussy!'"
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Categories: Pranks Posted by Alex on Wed Nov 26, 2008 |
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If this guy interests you at all, see what you can find about Hugh Troy, who was kind of the American Horace deVere Cole.
Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Thu Nov 27, 2008 at 04:41 AM
Actually got a page on the site about Hugh Troy. I think that a lot of the info about Troy comes from Smith's Compleat Practical Joker.
Posted by Alex in San Diego on Thu Nov 27, 2008 at 09:20 AM
What would he have done if some of the bald guys hadn't shown up?
Posted by Sakano in Ohio on Thu Nov 27, 2008 at 05:34 PM
I used to own a copy of H. Allen Smith's Compleat Practical Joker but I have no idea what became of it. :(
Posted by Cranky Media Guy on Fri Nov 28, 2008 at 04:39 AM
Horace sounds like a man born way before his time. What could he have done with modern instantaneous media?
Posted by KDP in Madill, OK on Mon Dec 01, 2008 at 11:49 AM
KDP, the very thought of old Horace with a flashmob at his disposal is too terrifying to contemplate . . . It's worse than the idea of old Askew with modern prosthetics at his disposal.
Posted by D F Stuckey in Auckland New Zealand on Mon Dec 01, 2008 at 09:52 PM
If you want to know about Horace de Vere Cole there is a biography of him just out, called The Sultan of Zanzibar and written by Martyn Downer. It covers all the things commented on here and a lot more.
Posted by A Funny Thing Happened in London on Wed Mar 31, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Sounds like a really fun guy. Too bad he isn't still around.
Posted by Meringue on Thu May 10, 2012 at 06:47 PM
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