School Pranks

Prank call much?

'Hi. This is Mike Loew - I'm calling from Los Angeles...' Mike Loew terrorises innocent phone victims in this hilarious collection of phone pranks. Outrageous but true, these transcripts of real phone conversations follow Mike taking on various verbal disguises to torment his befuddled victims.

Targets vary from the Council on Drug Abuse which he rings for advice on how to deal with his pot-smoking eight-year-old, to NASA, whom he rings up posing as a 900-pound man in need of a zero-gravity system for his home. Mike even did a few user request calls in England especially for this edition of the book.

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"Devilishly creative....Sir John Hargrave's exploits have given 'balls' a new meaning." -- Alan Abel (legendary prankster)

"John Hargrave has taken pranking to the next level....It's safe to say that I have become a blubbering fanboy." -- Maddox, author of The Alphabet of Manliness

"The CIA and FBI should get a hold of Hargrave, not to arrest him but to have him run things." -- Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!

"The ulitmate prankster." -- Ze Frank, creator of zefrank.com
Seriously,... No, Seriously... This shit is FUNNY!

The legendary internet Humorist Sir John Hargrave just wrote Prank The Monkey... A Unique and too-funny-to-be-legal prank book that will make you think about pranking on a whole new level.

Each month, over 1.5 million people tune into Sir John Hargrave's unique brand of comedy that chronicles his cleverly crafted pranks on such high-profile targets as Michael Jackson, Ashton Kutcher, and the entire U.S. Senate.

Born on April Fool's Day, Sir John secretly began his site on a company computer in 1995, making it the world's oldest comedy site. Co-workers loved reading about his hilarious, real-life stories such as subsisting on a diet of Olestra-laden potato chips for a solid week, or trying to kiss Microsoft CEO Bill Gates at a technology Industry party.

That kind of establishment-tweaking stunt became Sir John's specialty. But it was a 2001 piece called "The Credit Card Prank" that turned the Internet humorist into an Internet Celebrity. "I was tired of being asked to sign my name every time I used my credit card," he explains,"So I started signing every wacky name I could think of, just to see if anyone would notice."

No one did. But the photos of his credit card receipts--forged with names from "Mariah Carey" to "Zeus"--did get noticed by bloggers, who passed around the article nearly 20 million times.

In his new book, Prank The Monkey, Sir John goes after targets like Wal-Mart, Starbucks, e-mail spammers, Madonna, and even the British Royal Family, skewering each target with a cleverly orchestrated prank. He challenges the IRS by filling out his tax returns in Roman numerals; he tricks Elizabeth Hurley into signing a will the bequeaths all her assets to Hargrave estate.

Despite its bad-boy stylings, Prank The Monkey is a wickedly funny book, proving that one man armed with nothing but a cell phone and a computer can take on the world's most powerful institutions. And in the process, he might just become an Internet institution himself.

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