She seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.

Camouflage is a form of visual deception ; the term probably comes from camouflet, a French term meaning smoke blown in someone's face as a practical joke.

This is the world of the midnight feast, the practical joke, and the social interaction of the various types of character.

* Dutch oven ( practical joke )

* MIT hack, a clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day ; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis, until their father came back from the hospital ( the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair ).

Though it was rumoured at the time that the former Prime Minister had been with a prostitute, his wife stated that Fraser had no recollection of the events and that she believes it more likely that he was the victim of a practical joke by his fellow delegates.

Similar to The New York Zoo hoax of 1874, several newspapers propagated the very successful practical joke by printing stories containing false sightings of Tom Collins.

According to college tradition, Thomas Gray left Peterhouse for Pembroke College after being the victim of a practical joke played by undergraduates.

As for the closely related terms practical joke and prank, Brunvand states that although there are instances where they overlap, hoax tends to indicate " relatively complex and large-scale fabrications " and includes deceptions that go beyond the merely playful and " cause material loss or harm to the victim ".

A hoax is often intended as a practical joke or to cause embarrassment, or to provoke social or political change by raising people's awareness of something.

He probably created and posted the card to himself as a practical joke on the postal service, since the image is a caricature of workers in the post office.

The Sly frame, with the Lord's spiteful practical joke, is seen to prepare the audience for a play willing to treat cruelty as a comedic matter.

In July 1952, as a practical joke on Wilkins ( who frequently expressed his view that DNA was helical ), Franklin and Gosling produced a death notice regretting the ' death ' of helical crystalline DNA ( A-DNA ).

After suffering a humiliating practical joke and being condemned to prison, Benjamin escapes with Manette, who realizes she prefers happiness to a marriage contract after all.

Skeptical and thinking someone is playing a practical joke on him, he wishes that she stay with him forever.

The " monster " was the creation of Harry Watrous, and was part of a practical joke.

This was later revealed to be a collection of body parts, the property of a doctor, found and used in a macabre practical joke by a notorious confidence trickster, the late Ashleigh Sellors ( known in the Push as ' Flash Ash ').

I, Libertine was a literary hoax that began as a practical joke by late-night radio raconteur Jean Shepherd.

" Traffic " in the corridor can be quite heavy at times, and in fact one legendary " hack " ( practical joke ) in 1985 involved placing traffic signals, lane markings, and highway-like signs along its length.

Tony Lumpkin, Kate's half-brother and cousin to Constance, comes across the two strangers at the alehouse and, realising their identity, plays a practical joke by telling them that they are a long way from their destination and will have to stay overnight at an inn.

Ratner was seen on MTV series Punk'd when Hugh Jackman, who portrays Wolverine in the X-Men films, was the subject of a practical joke that made it appear Ratner's $ 3. 6 million home in Beverly Hills was destroyed by a BBQ grill explosion.

That same year, he appeared in the series premiere of Ashton Kutcher's MTV practical joke series Punk'd.

For example, lying to someone, or not informing them it will rain is considered a practical joke ( called " splinking ") on Ork.

This work shows how Alan saw theological education as being a fundamental preliminary step in preaching and strove to give clergyman a manuscript to be “ used as a practical manual ” when it came to the formation of sermons and art of preaching.

Although the Norwegian council never recognized the declaration formally, and Norway kept some separate institutions and its legal system, this had the practical effect that the Norwegian possessions of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands came under direct control of the crown.

Yet another impetus of both RISC and other designs came from practical measurements on real-world programs.

The practical application of Roman law and the era of the European Ius Commune came to an end, when national codifications were made.

In 1853 the case of the patent came before the U. S. Supreme Court where, after very lengthy investigation, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Morse had been the first to combine the battery, electromagnetism, the electromagnet and the correct battery configuration into a workable practical telegraph.

As an everyday word, theoria,, meant " a looking at, viewing, beholding ", but in more technical contexts it came to refer to contemplative or speculative understandings of natural things, such as those of natural philosophers, as opposed to more practical ways of knowing things, like that of skilled orators or artisans.

Owing largely to the influence of Plato and Aristotle, philosophy came to be regarded as distinct from sophistry, the latter being regarded as specious and rhetorical, a practical discipline.

The master patent for the Photophone ( Apparatus for Signalling and Communicating, called Photophone ), was issued in December 1880, many decades before its principles came to have practical applications.

Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who claimed almost full sovereignty in practical terms ( i. e., the lack of dependence on any higher ruler ), without claiming the overall caliphate, or to refer to a powerful governor of a province within the caliphate.

Opposition came from fishermen along the Zuiderzee who would lose their livelihood, and from others in coastal areas along the more northerly Wadden Sea who feared higher water levels as a result of the closure, and others who doubted whether it was financially practical.

Its first practical use came in military communication systems many decades later.

One of the first practical and successful proposals for European cooperation came in 1951 with the European Coal and Steel Community.

To be of practical use in a historical and prehistorical context, some argue further that the term " Native American " should be applied so that it spans the entire range from the Clovis culture ( which cannot be positively assigned to any contemporary tribal group ) to the Métis, a group of mixed ancestry who only came into being as a consequence of European contact, yet constitute a distinct cultural entity.

Vigeland came to the attention of sculptor Brynjulf Bergslien, who supported him and gave him practical training.

In 1974 East Grand Rapids came to national attention as the legal domicile of Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States, although, as a serving Congressman and Vice-President, Ford had, for all practical purposes, resided in the District of Columbia area for the previous twenty-five years.

E. H. Johnson, residing at Rulo, was the first practical surveyor and engineer who came to the County.

Unlike his contemporary Avicenna's scientific method where " general and universal questions came first and led to experimental work ", al-Biruni developed scientific methods where " universals came out of practical, experimental work " and " theories are formulated after discoveries.

The idea of the hydrogen bomb first came to public attention in 1949, when prominent scientists openly recommended against building nuclear bombs more powerful than the standard pure-fission model, on both moral and practical grounds.

For the most part, researchers came to the conclusion that any single substance that contained enough energy to compete with bipropellants would be too unstable to handle safely under practical conditions.

In the modern Christian tradition this approach achieved expression with Dietrich Bonhoeffer who stated during his imprisonment by the Nazis in World War II that conscience for him was more than practical reason, indeed it came from a " depth which lies beyond a man's own will and his own reason and it makes itself heard as the call of human existence to unity with itself.

The design he came up with bears his name: the " Gregorian telescope "; but according to his own confession, Gregory had no practical skill and he could find no optician capable of actually constructing one.

Over time, however, the written notation of the composer came to be treated as strict instructions from which performers should not deviate without good practical or artistic reason.