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Ever short sheet a bed? Put salt in the sugar bowl? Glue a silver dollar to the sidewalk? All common in the world of the PRACTICAL JOKE By Jane Greig Saturday, October 4, 2003 Some practical jokers load a sleeping bunkmate's hands with shaving cream, then tickle him. Others slap a "Kiss Me" sign on a friend (junior high school, anyone?) or write an incriminating memo ("Thanks for last night!") on a check. The more devious replace a news-hound neighbor's newspaper with yesterday's edition or loosen the top on a salt shaker. Targets, masterminds — all enjoy a good laugh....

It was a foolhardy stunt. But you’ve got to hand it to Nate Moquin: It took a lot of guts. Nate dared to make a joke out of a ritual that the female of our species holds sacred: the wedding. He pulled it off too. And after cooling off for a few weeks, his bride-to-be, Sarah Palmer, even is starting to laugh about it. Nate and Sarah still are planning to get married May 10 in Chippewa Falls, where they live. That’s assuming Nate is able to refrain from pulling pranks for a few more weeks. The whole thing started...

President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac may not be phone pals anymore, but that didn't stop Chirac from discussing Saddam Hussein, the war in Iraq, and other serious issues with another famous American: Jerry Lewis. Except it turns out that the man who had a five-minute phone conversation with Chirac last week wasn't Lewis, but rather a Los Angeles DJ impersonating the comedian. A source at KROQ 106.7 confirms that ''Kevin and Bean Show'' entertainment reporter Ralph Garman got through to Chirac by claiming to be France's most loved American funnyman -- a prank that has the real Lewis...

Two Miami radio-show hosts known for playing outrageous pranks on the air scored perhaps the most outlandish one of them all Monday: They called Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and got him to believe he was talking to Fidel Castro.''We still can't believe it,'' said Enrique Santos, co-host of El Vacilón de la Mañana, (The Morning Hijinks), on WXDJ-FM El Zol 95.7, a Spanish-language salsa station. ``He fell for it.''The joke was part of a segment called Fidel Te Llama or ''Fidel's Calling You,'' in which Santos and co-host, Joe Ferrero, call various people and play snippets of a controversial...