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...blond named Patty (not Peppermint) and cruel Violet, a winsome brunet who gets a lot of semifunny gags involving mud pies. Charlie Brown is more into golf than baseball, and he says, "Great Scott!", not "Good Grief!" His personality is different too. He's more of a mischievous prankster; he can often be seen scampering off in the last frame with a punk'd victim in hot pursuit. Once or twice Schulz even breaks one of the cardinal rules of Peanuts: he lets us hear the voice of an adult...
...Minister. Veteran politicians sneered when Stronach, president and CEO of Magna International, North America's fifth largest auto-parts company, entered the race this year to become leader of Canada's newly renovated Conservative Party. The battle wasn't pretty. Near the end of the 57-day campaign, a prankster handed the glamorous but politically inexperienced Stronach a sweatshirt emblazoned with the words BETTER THAN VIAGRA. Stronach soldiered through to a respectable second-place finish--and made clear that a new Canadian star was on the horizon...
...There’s a little bit of a prankster...
...workers played hard, all in a fuchsia-colored office turned Disneyland with all the caramel lattes you could swallow. There was oodles of money to be earned, even if the company didn't make a dime, and the best part was that you could have fun--real adolescent, prankster, thumb-your-nose-at-the-principal kind of junior high school fun. "Hey, we're working, and it's a party!" is how an employee, laid off when his video-services group was axed, remembers the dominant workplace ethos...
George A. Plimpton ’48, the literary critic and legendary prankster whose career as a humorist began at the Harvard Lampoon, died Thursday at his Manhattan apartment...