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The Top 10 College Pranks of All Time

By Mike Durrett, About.com

Is there anything more amusing and satisfying than being in on a successful college prank?

Nope. Ahh, ha ha ha!

Oops. I should've kept that to myself.

I was involved in several, but if I told you, I would have to kill me.

Revive myself.

Repeat.

The Top 10 College Pranks of All Time: Here come some delicious reads. I can't help admiring and cackling at the bright pranksters who pulled these 10 classic stings, introduced by the Web site:
    The staff at the Museum of Hoaxes studied hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of the genre of the college prank to find the ten most worthy of immortal fame. The pranks were judged according to three criteria: creativity, fame, and shock value.
The Hit List:
    #1: The Great Rose Bowl Hoax (Caltech)
    #2: Veterans of Future Wars (Princeton)
    #3: The McDonald's Affair (Caltech)
    #4: Lady Liberty on Lake Mendota (U Wisconsin-Madison)
    #5: Theft of the Sacred Cod (Harvard)
    #6:The Olympic Underwear Relay (Sydney University)
    #7: Arm the Homeless (Ohio State)
    #8: Hugo N. Frye (Cornell)
    #9: The Ultimate Lie (Edinburgh College of Art)
    #10: Bonsai Kittens (MIT)

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