Our pagan ancestors had a wild and boozy time presided over by the Lord of Misrule, who got up to rude and mischievous pranks.
Whether old-fashioned pranks, such as knocking on doors and running away, are still popular, it is hard to tell.
As a matter of fact, his screw-ups would make ours look like schoolboy pranks.
They tend to dress them up in a ball and chain, these sort of schoolboy pranks.
No pranks, no unfriendly friends, no having to sit with the adults at the kitchen table, just me and my best friend.
When most people think of April Fool's Day, tricks, pranks or even bad jokes come to mind.
The actor adores pranks, especially the ones that require a straight face and his familiar lugubrious delivery.
I can't think of any April Fools pranks or jokes, so instead, I'll post a photo which is part of a larger picture.
The fact that Griffin's pranks occur during Whit Monday adds a humorous irony to a day of celebration and gaiety.
Old and new gossip circulated, pranks were played by students on professors, and classes went as scheduled while winter finals approached.
It would play pranks and tricks on you over and over again until you would get annoyed and irritated.
Born among those who tend cattle, the cowherd Krishna indulged in endless pranks.
Malicia used to make me laugh when she told me of the harmless jokes and pranks she played earlier that day.
Dad had a great sense of humor and enjoyed pranks and joking around with friends and family.
She enjoys working with directors who make her laugh, and her sense of humour involves ludicrous situations rather than jokes or pranks.
Of course, teachers responded to his pranks and high jinks with wrath and hours of detention.
Somehow, it exists in the netherworld between these two points, an amorphous mixture of intellectualism and juvenile pranks.
The mysterious and loosely knit movement has since spiralled and the group has played a series of hoaxes and pranks on the Italian media.
The night before Bonfire Night was once known as Mischief Night, when children would blacken their faces and play pranks.
The local mischiefmakers played numerous pranks, leading to hilarious consequences.
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The game starts out innocently, with the usual childhood pranks and mayhem.
Since I do not spend my time with childish pranks and games, they don't see me as one of them.
There was only one thing that my two brothers could ever specialize in, and that was in pranks and practical jokes.
Being the younger child, she had always been pampered and now was always up to some pranks and tricks.
As well as his normal boyish pursuits of guddling for trout, playing pranks on PC Murdoch, and avoiding maths tests, Wullie has a love interest.
They have gulled municipalities around the world into letting them stage their pranks, and the result is celebrity and riches.
The second element, designed to keep the crowd smiling through the serious bits, is a series of pranks.
She loved pranks, but they had to be carefully planned out, step by step, whereas he just did it.
Witches, black cats, death's head cut from a pumpkin, candles, masks, parties and pranks were used.
Engineers responsible for the pranks may also be facing academic discipline from the university.
There followed some schoolboy pranks up and down the corridors and, to cut a long story short, I ended up being locked out starkers.
Still these biker boys made out such things were mere pranks, a witty jape for a Sunday afternoon.
He loved to tease, and numerous times his friends were the victims of his practical pranks.
If this is one of your pranks again, then you will find yourself in deep trouble, buster.
Ron suspected that she knew that he and Alan would be off for schoolboy japes and wizard pranks at any opportunity.
He has played many quips and pranks, as if to assure me he is no old sobersides.
So you would think that I would have learned from being the subject of all these little pranks.
I am appealing to all mums and dads, please sit your children down and explain what distress and anguish they cause with their pranks.
After these pranks, the second volume, covering the war years and their aftermath, was rather a let-down.
Most of the dares consisted of kissing or stupid stunts and pranks.
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The principal is also worried that pranks or problems involving other students will draw an inordinate amount of attention while the prince attends the university.
That's the origin of our annual day of pranks and practical jokes.
Knowing that the end is near, he and his gang let loose with a torrent of pranks and practical jokes designed to drive the association and the local cops crazy.
They were childhood enemies that pulled practical pranks on each other.
Presumably, they will never be allowed to broadcast this as a part of their show and it raises the issue of how far you can go with pranks on celebrities.
Lucy was a leprechaun, born to laugh and dance, play pranks and sing.
Some Google bombs are carried off in the spirit of political pranks.
But among the disapprovers, withering glances and artfully worded comments have given way to pranks and other creative kinds of revenge.
Not so Dzengis: He does not mind little pranks and remains calm and collected whatever happens.
Still a daredevil, a glutton and... a scaredy-cat, he and his pal PETUNIA have returned for some new adventures? and some pranks!
The pantheon of Sediuk pranks ranges from sneakily clever to blatantly rude.
As Britons lost their patient obsequiousness, Mr Routh's pranks played less well.
Their boyish bonhomie, sing-songs, constant kidding and ritual pranks are seen as irredeemably corny by urban sophisticates.
I will suggest a few pranks backbenchers can play on cabinet to bring it back to reality, the rookies.
Together with her racoon Piuh she's constantly coming up with new pranks, inventing funny magic tricks and most enjoys eating blueberry pie.
Some pranks include: Virus shutdown, Multiple pop-ups, Computer screen bug and others.
And while liquid nitrogen works exceedingly well for pranks, it simply isn't cold enough for atomic clocks.
Activities range from creative pranks and subversive performance art to outright property damage.
But if you're planning an April Fools' Day gag, be sure to browse through the galleries of the Museum of Hoaxes, a Hall of Fame for history's greatest pranks.
The real heroes of the piece are the overthinking absurdists whose apparently humorous pranks stemmed from an eternally uncompromising absolutism.
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In Greece, they sneak into homes to scare children, and in Scandinavia, the gnomes play pranks.
Students at the local school always pull a series of pranks during rag week, and Raymond makes plans with his officers to keep these rites in check.
In these earnest years, April Fool pranks have gone out of style.
In the Netherlands, St. Nick has Zwarte Piet, a type of servant who hands out pranks as well as candy.
They were constantly flying airplanes over his house, and playing pranks like boiling water in his teakettle when he was away, trying to drive him insane.
We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind.
He spoke on pranks, frauds, and hoaxes from around the world.
The pranks one schoolboy plays on Halloween.
Ontario's livestock farmers were on high alert last week for animal activist pranks after news of break-ins at a poultry farm near Guelph in June.
We'd love to expand the pranks and incorporate other Beano characters.
With, on the place des Terreaux, the stage setting of the pranks of a small giant who puts spectators in a toy box and stretches, mixes monuments, makes the turrets of the City hall twirl like spinning tops.
His pranks continue when he is sent away to a seminary school: he vandalizes a car belonging to one of the priests and defaces the boat of another school official.
So far, that has included a TV show, a photo-sharing app and the launch of a YouTube channel that, besides hosting the demo video of the Minecraft mod, also features live-action pranks and animation.
Ibrahim, a Yemeni political activist and writer, surprised endlessly — with his brilliance, encyclopedic knowledge, eloquent arguments, generous spirit, tirelessness, and elaborate pranks.
One of Chris Morris's more legendary pranks – and one that got his The Chris Morris Music Show on Radio 1 suspended for two weeks by the BBC – was his prank involving reporting the death of Michael Heseltine.
An unquenchable spark, Vette is older than her years but far from mature, delighting in silly pranks and always ready to laugh at people who think too much of themselves.
The little sailors will have to be fit because the new team will have to prove their bravery to go with the treasure seeker, an old coot with plenty of jokes, pranks and stories, in his quest.
Young men, beware of the consequences of teen pranks such as squeezing your pal's testicles.
While he's curbed the pranks now, Silky still has a crime sheet as long as his arm when it comes to stitching up other players.
It would not be the first time street sign pranks caught the public and councillors unawares.
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The old, old maps which the navigators of the sixteenth century framed from the discoveries of Cabot and Castier, of Varrazanno and Hudson, played strange pranks with the geography of the New World.
A succession of chases, pranks, punches follow up one after the other.
Dennis the Menace and his dog Gnasher have been playing pranks in print form since 1951, but now they've found a new, entirely digital playground: Minecraft.
We played a lot of pranks and practical jokes to ease the tension.
April Fools' Day, also known as All Fools' Day, is here and we have gathered some of the top pranks to play with your colleagues.
They made me laugh with their pranks, and not always against my will.
Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebor, which an Antieyrian administered unto him.
If he was to get the bit between his teeth after he had got ordained and bought his living, he would play more pranks than ever he, Theobald, had done.
The major characters would relate tales of Father Christmas's battles against goblins who rode on bats and the various pranks committed by the North Polar Bear.

The ingenuity of these sons of Belial in their pranks was beyond description.
On the second table lay a twisted, distorted thing, an apelike body with which fate had played grotesque pranks.
How can we guess that our teachers laugh at our pranks after they have caned us for them?
If the figure be painted with oil-colors, the tombola can be made to perform his pranks in a basin of water.
Gude speed ye gif ye gang for guid, quoth I, for I dreed our auld carline was casting some o her pranks.
Sam, with Wenonah and Roderick, played all sorts of pranks all over the house.
And when was ever a mood so out of sorts, a heart so imbittered as not to thaw out and laugh if leb Narr played one of his pranks.
To this we may ascribe many of their whimsical pranks and absurd propositions, and, above all, their mysterious colloquies in Gaelic.
The absurd stories of the pranks of the Succubi and incubi are well known.
Witty, roguishly handsome and given to all manner of pranks, Jack was a lively companion and conversationalist.
All my life I have had an impulse to play such pranks, so that in the end I could not control it in myself.
He was loved by everybody and was always making people laugh with his bad jokes and pranks around the house.
I shall sift the matter to the bottom, and put a stop to such pranks at once.
Sallie Gardiner was absorbed in keeping her white pique dress clean and chattering with the ubiquitous Fred, who kept Beth in constant terror by his pranks.

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