Pranks, 1994 - 2000
Comment from Mark Dery
File contains articles on pranks to play in your local supermarket;
“philosophical” signs covertly posted in New York subway cars;
Christmas pranks; anti-telemarketer telephone pranks;
prank involving fake state stationery for California governor Pete Wilson;
prank involving covert insertion of naked Jessica Rabbit into laser disks of Disney’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit?;
profile of pie-throwing Belgian prankster-protestor Noel Godin;
“rogue computer programmer” who secretly added images of men kissing men to a computer game;
prankster who critiqued Jonathan Borovsky’s public sculpture, “Hammering Man,” by adding a ball and chain to it;
“The Fine Art of Pranking” by Reverend Ivan Stang, founder of the Church of the Subgenius;
The Jerky Boys, who parlayed their phone pranks into a career;
publisher’s catalogue page for Wicked Acts of Sacrilege: The Book of College Pranks.
Dates
- Creation: 1994 - 2000
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 3.36 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository
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