Word: prankster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...staff member from the state Democratic committee, which launched Buttman, says Dole adviser Ken Khachigian was overheard asking whether the prankster was in the vicinity. The answer was yes; in fact, Buttman is following Dole to New York. This cigarette, at least, appears to be habit forming...
...fluency he achieves in midair is present outside the stadium as well. He is funny, charming and, despite a reputation for tempestuous disputes with officials, utterly without arrogance. The day before the Atlanta meet, he is the merry prankster, full of jokes and wisecracks. When his Nike representative's cell phone beeps, Bubka snatches it up and informs the caller that the official is too tied up with girls to talk. While perusing socks at Macy's, he seizes a pool cue from a mannequin and declares, "This is my new pole!" Then he giggles over the fact that...
...reality check. The Finnish remailer could not have been used, since anon.penet.fi no longer transmits binary image files. Jerry Russell, who runs Florida Online and who looked into the case, says he figures the whole thing was a relatively simple prank called a sendmail spoof, in which the prankster posts a message with a phony return address. He says the Willowick police never produced a copy of the posting for him so that he could unravel the tangle for them. Indeed, when the policeman called, "he didn't really understand what he was trying to tell me," says Russell...
...cities all over the U.S., this gentle elegy was replicated. More than 4,000 people massed in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, passing out LONG LIVE THE DEAD bumper stickers in Merry Prankster green and creating a huge circle of drum players and mourner-celebrants. One sign read, "Fare thee well, fare thee well, we miss you more than words can tell." In Manhattan's Central Park, 700 Deadheads gathered under the full moon at the memorial to another fallen idol, John Lennon. In Washington, where more than 300 souls converged on the Lincoln Memorial, Rush Jones, 25, spoke his anxiety...
...front of dozens of astonished tourists who had quietly lined up for their White House tour, hoisted himself over the fence and was immediately and rather quietly handcuffed by officers who hustled him into a guard booth for questioning, believing for the moment that he was just a prankster. Funny? Perhaps in days gone by, when Eleanor Roosevelt could complain sweetly about couples parking on the untended White House drive for a little smooching. But no more...