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Okay, my brother has a post on his blog about practical jokes, so I feel licensed or something to put my own post here about your favorite practical jokes. Even things you haven’t done yet but would like to do.

Me? Okay, here’s what I would like to do. I’d like to pack up all my Barbies, the ones I use for art projects, and dress them all up and take them out to dinner at, oh, let’s see: The Olde Richmond Inn. We’d get a table for six, and I’d get booster seats for all my Barbies, plus some telephone books, and we’d sit around the table having really interesting conversations about shoes, whether shoes should be surgically attached (as they are in some Barbie cases), the merits of plastic versus real hair, our views on religion (Barbies, it is well known are Unitarian. It’s true.), and what we think of Hillary’s outfits. Okay, Barack’s too.

I’d have to do all the Barbie voices for them, because even though I can read their thoughts they can’t speak. Not yet anyway. Right now their voices are really high, really squeaky. So, I think this would be an appropriate outing on the day that Earlham College is wining and dining new faculty members. I’d wave happily at the new assistant professors and say, “HI! I’M AN ALUM!!” They’d pretend not to notice, of course, so the Barbies would chime in: “OVER HERE! WE’RE OVER HERE!” And then I’d help all the Barbies talk about their Earlham experience: “We are alumni TOO!” “I Majored in FRENCH!” “I was on the SWIM team!” “I SLEPT with the SWIM team!!”

Ah. What a lovely evening.

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Now add YOUR fantasy practical joke. Have at it, kids.

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