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Originally Posted by dlavery
But if you want examples of how the professional leagues do it when it comes to institutional pranks, then there is only one place to go - to the great M.I.T. Hacks.
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Dave is right about this one! (not that he's not right about anything else) Last year for my folklore class, I did fieldwork in the area of pranks and one of the books I checked out of the school library was
Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT. I ended up not using it as a source because my paper switched from being about "geek" pranks to focusing on how a serial prankster operates, but the book was so much fun to read! It convinced me that being a geek is more fun than being anything else! Of course, after returning the book to the library, I was slightly disappointed with my school... either they are too dumb to realize what having a book like that in their school library could cause or they just don't think Mason students have it in them...
There was another interesting book, too:
If At All Possible, Involve a Cow that is about different pranks from different colleges (it has a whole chapter dedicated to MIT and Caltech's pranks).
Heidi (who again thanks Dave for the interview for her paper, I'm sure he's partially responsible for the A+
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