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The explanation here is simple, and it’s a treasured story my family has passed down to our larvae for 48 generations: We were pranking Alex Jones because he sucks.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2020

So in January 1970, when I heard that RAT had been taken over by a group of women calling themselves W.I.T.C.H.—Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell—I thought my New York friends were pranking me.

From Salon • Mar. 2, 2019

They are perhaps more impressive in their beauty and loneliness than if they were pranking among their kin in the glorious galleries and perfect light of that enchanted palace of Charles III.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John