I'm in the mood for a prank...

The Economist is running a contest:

"to nominate their contender for the finest prank in history, explaining in 750
words why it deserves the title, to reach us by January 20th. The three best
entries will be announced in February and published on Economist.com. Entries,
please, to pranks@economist.com."

I'm quite a fan of the esoteric prank; lately, I've been participating in the Ministry of Reshelving Project at several local bookstores (but I never do this when I'm with anybody, so relax, friends.)

But I was thinking the other day that the imaginitive prank has really gone by the wayside here in Wisconsin. We don't have any practitioners over 30 at all, it seems. Cheeseheads don't seem to appreciate pranks so much; they're too enamoured by the reality of the beerglass. However, I'd love to see something as creative as the photo below...


According to the Economist, pranks are encouraged at MIT, and
"Students at Yale scored a big victory during last year's football match against Harvard when they passed out pieces of paper to thousands of fans on the Harvard side of the stadium. The fans were told that, when held up, the bits would spell “Go Harvard”. In fact they spelled something else (photo by Mike Kai)."

For some reason, I'm in the mood for a prank today. Wicked of me, isn't it?