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Best practical joke ever???

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RightIsWrong

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I just wish that I could find the video to see that reaction!

Victoria, not Victorious

At last Saturday's Cal men's hoops season finale versus USC, Bears boosters pulled a prank that straddles the fuzzy gray line between "Crap-Yer-Pants Hilarious" and "Inexcusably Cruel."

When USC guard Gabe Pruitt took his first trip to the free throw line early in the game, the Cal student section hollered in unison: "VIC-TOR-IA, VIC-TOR-IA," and then yelled out a telephone number. Pruitt glanced back at the crowd in horror and bewilderment before clanking his free throws.

It turns out that a couple of mischeivous little bastards from the Cal student section had been IM'ing with Pruitt all week under the identity of "Victoria," a fictional UCLA hottie, and Pruitt was eagerly anticipating a date with this nubile co-ed back in Westwood after the game. In preparation for the date, Pruitt had handed over his digits, which the Cal student section recited back to him in unison.

Pruitt, a 79% free throw shooter this season, missed both shots after the "VIC-TOR-IA" chants began, and hit only three out of 13 shots the whole game. Cal beat USC by 11 for the season sweep, in part due to the Cal fans' devious psy-ops.
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That CalTech stunt linked above was truly a Hall of Fame effort.

But the one in the OP was far from cruel, and I feel many things done as "pranks" are truly mean. I think it was a great stunt.
 
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
This is funnier.
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Just reading your sig... It should read

"Protestors attacked the Danish embassy by jumping its moat. And you thought the guy who built a moat around the Danish embassy was just being paranoid." -Jon Stewart
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🙂

That's an awesome hoax though! I'd never heard of that before. When we were in college we thought we were clever for replacing the bell in the bell tower with a toilet.
 
Originally posted by: kranky
That CalTech stunt linked above was truly a Hall of Fame effort.

But the one in the OP was far from cruel, and I feel many things done as "pranks" are truly mean. I think it was a great stunt.
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I agree. Both pranks were great.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: kranky
That CalTech stunt linked above was truly a Hall of Fame effort.

But the one in the OP was far from cruel, and I feel many things done as "pranks" are truly mean. I think it was a great stunt.
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I agree. Both pranks were great.
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I disagree the Hall of Fame prank was awesome because it was a public prank everyone got pranked, and it didn't result in personal attack.

The new Vic-Tor-Ia one was a personal attack on one player, that also had the audacity to make his personal phone number public.
 
Best practical joke ever
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Uhhh... no....

That's not even funny, nor was it creative, nor did it involve any significant amount of effort.

If I were teaching a class on practical jokes, and they had submitted that for their final thesis, I would flunk them.
 
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